gratz for SK. But for me the best news here is the "many" invites. If in the next week orso the forums will explode with people being invited its a good sign of one of stress testing and that they have something ready of importance. Stable bnet servers. Not that i had any problems so far really playing the beta but i guess i just viewed it trough pink glasses
I hope that it's stress test... If it's not, then it means that game won't be released for some time...
It's nice to see it finished, but to think that it was the main reason for the delay when we still don't know anything about the final rune mechanic rewriting, which is by far the most important mechanic of the game, is very misleading.
Game Rating Board(abbr. 'GRB', Pres. Lee Soo Kun) has decided 'Diablo3' to be rated M (Mature) on the 13th day [of the current month] of the year 2012 during the 4th judging.
Because Cash trade is not yet implemented (completed) it was declared that the system was not a target of this rating and the board decided to not evaluate it at the current time.
According to the laws regarding expiry dates and temporary clauses, in case the cash trade system is implemented via an update, instead of a review of the current content [the game] will be have to be resubmitted for a reevaluation of its rating.
Update from the same source, they contacted the Board and they confirmed that the game that they approved was in fact the one with the disabled RMAH and disabled Battle Coins.
Translated: After contacting the board we obtained a reply saying, "Trade through battle coins can be exchanged into any other currency at any time and due to Blizzard not providing an actual working form of this trade system we were unable to [evaluate it] in depth and had to pass the game version with the deleted RMAH"
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“배틀코인을 이용한 거래의 경우 언제든지 다른 형태로 환전이 가능하고, 실제 구현 모습을 블리자드에서 보여주지 않아 심도깊은 심의를 진행할 수 없어 현금 경매장을 삭제한 형태로 통과시켰다”
YES FINALLY!!! Now I can take my tin foil hat off for some time, well just until Jay give us that article! This is a really good day indeed for me, the fans, Blizzard and definitely for SK. They can at least play the game, but not make some ₩. YES!!!
excellent. now that it's okay'd for SKorea we won't have too much longer to go. they'll wait an appropriate amount of time to pretend SKorea had nothing to do with the delay then announce a release date.
Haha I agree, but in your manner. To striking and direct!! We'll just have to wait till Jay give us that article so we can continue out tin-foil-hattery.
I do find it amusing how many think korea has anything to do with the game being delayed. they obviously haven't played beta. Server's are not optimally stable, the client is buggy and unoptimized. then again there are those that are aware of how "beta" quality it is and say it's on purpose to hide korea delays, wtf? What utter nonsense.
Did you play the beta since day 1? The beta was flawless then, and NOW it's buggy cause they started adding stuff. And how long does server stability testing take?! I don't know the numbers and stuff, but with constantly adding beta players for more than 4 months, I would've figured that the server testing must be nearly complete; but of course there's gonna be 1 million times the players there are currently in the beta, but they should be able to calculate the needed server strength with the current numbers of beta players.
The last "contest" beta invites go out on Jan 23de right? Not talking about the random wave from Blizz.
Hydras won't stay like this (I would be very dissapointed if they would). Every rune change color of hydra and nothing else, I expect more from blizzard
Edit: This post i can edit
did you read what it said above the video? All the attacks where different but missing some of the effects... poison one adds clouds after.... arcane one blows up... big one shoots trails of fire (which does work..just not animatied) ...so how are they even close to the same thing?
Hydras won't stay like this (I would be very dissapointed if they would). Every rune change color of hydra and nothing else, I expect more from blizzard
YES FINALLY!!! Now I can take my tin foil hat off for some time, well just until Jay give us that article! This is a really good day indeed for me, the fans, Blizzard and definitely for SK. They can at least play the game, but not make some ₩. YES!!!
excellent. now that it's okay'd for SKorea we won't have too much longer to go. they'll wait an appropriate amount of time to pretend SKorea had nothing to do with the delay then announce a release date.
Haha I agree, but in your manner. To striking and direct!! We'll just have to wait till Jay give us that article so we can continue out tin-foil-hattery.
I do find it amusing how many think korea has anything to do with the game being delayed. they obviously haven't played beta. Server's are not optimally stable, the client is buggy and unoptimized. then again there are those that are aware of how "beta" quality it is and say it's on purpose to hide korea delays, wtf? What utter nonsense.
Did you play the beta since day 1? The beta was flawless then, and NOW it's buggy cause they started adding stuff. And how long does server stability testing take?! I don't know the numbers and stuff, but with constantly adding beta players for more than 4 months, I would've figured that the server testing must be nearly complete; but of course there's gonna be 1 million times the players there are currently in the beta, but they should be able to calculate the needed server strength with the current numbers of beta players.
The last "contest" beta invites go out on Jan 23de right? Not talking about the random wave from Blizz.
^no one reply to this guy about korea. he's one of the conspiracy nuts, you'll only fuel his nerd rage xD
<3 you bunny
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"once the pretty hardcore gamers we had testing inferno found it fairly difficult, we then we doubled it" -trolololol jay wilson
Of course NOW the game is not delayed by SK, but it may have been delayed at first, so developers started adding new new stuff into the game and now they need to test everything they made after the delay..
I think that's the case.
I hope it's not long before Diablo III launches.
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YES FINALLY!!! Now I can take my tin foil hat off for some time, well just until Jay give us that article! This is a really good day indeed for me, the fans, Blizzard and definitely for SK. They can at least play the game, but not make some ₩. YES!!!
excellent. now that it's okay'd for SKorea we won't have too much longer to go. they'll wait an appropriate amount of time to pretend SKorea had nothing to do with the delay then announce a release date.
Haha I agree, but in your manner. To striking and direct!! We'll just have to wait till Jay give us that article so we can continue out tin-foil-hattery.
I do find it amusing how many think korea has anything to do with the game being delayed. they obviously haven't played beta. Server's are not optimally stable, the client is buggy and unoptimized. then again there are those that are aware of how "beta" quality it is and say it's on purpose to hide korea delays, wtf? What utter nonsense.
Did you play the beta since day 1? The beta was flawless then, and NOW it's buggy cause they started adding stuff. And how long does server stability testing take?! I don't know the numbers and stuff, but with constantly adding beta players for more than 4 months, I would've figured that the server testing must be nearly complete; but of course there's gonna be 1 million times the players there are currently in the beta, but they should be able to calculate the needed server strength with the current numbers of beta players.
The last "contest" beta invites go out on Jan 23de right? Not talking about the random wave from Blizz.
^no one reply to this guy about korea. he's one of the conspiracy nuts, you'll only fuel his nerd rage xD
<3 you bunny
I hope that's a heart and not a penis...
And I don't want people to fuel my nerdrage either, it's tiring...
And just to add (don't want a reply if you're disagreeing ): Lets say the date Blizz have at the back of their head for the release is March 31ste, they can still leave a gap between today (GBR APPROVED!!! YEAH!!!) and their release date announcement, just so they can prove that the GBR had nothing to do with it (Jay & I think Bashiok also said something similar just to prove us wrong). So they can if they want to give us a release date tomorrow or in the middle of Feb and still release the game on March 31ste...YDG!!
If you want to know the reason for Diablo's delay, you really don't have to look much further than the 2011Q4 numbers across the video game industry. Down like 20% from 2010. Blizzard has already lost like 2 million subs from WoW, I imagine on their next call, they'll be down another 400-600k in subs simply based upon this (completely ignoring any SWTOR effect). So, if this is the case, imagine them putting extra resources into a known profit maker and taking a little away from one that can be put on hold for a few weeks/months. Also, look at all the other titles from other game companies that have been delayed already this year. Seems like there might be a little bit of soft panic in the industry with the poor showing. (I think the pandas in wow are a desperate gamble to rekindle interest in something they see as reaching the end of its life cycle)
If you remember the Blizzard release schedule that was leaked last year, they are already behind on like 2 or 3 other releases (SC2 expansion, most notably), so it's not hard to imagine that everything has fallen behind. Again. I'd possibly point to the big drop in WoW subscriptions as a contributing factor. They don't release a lot of games, so they rely on that constant revenue stream. If it dries up a little, imagine the impact it'd have.
You can also look at some of the blue posts. The follower system is being totally revamped (survivable after normal) - imagine the issues that creates with the latter difficulties. You'd have to reduce the player effectiveness and/or up the monster effectiveness to compensate. It's a decent sized change to make.
And the retooling of the socket system. That has to be a lenghty process. Some of the runestones make no sense or are just dumb. The demon hunter one that are all various on shadow beasts? Get a little creative would you. Some of the damage numbers seem way off on a few of them too.
The "balance" issue is a bunch of hooey. WoW has been out for, what, 6 years and it still isn't balanced in their eyes. Look at some of the previous builds of this game. Upping damage 1% here, lowering it 1% there - that's not balancing, that's just minor tinkering (ie wasting time). There will be tons of patches post release - there is no real need to hold up anything for a balance reason, when that is easily patched every tuesday until they are happy with it.
And I don't want people to fuel my nerdrage either, it's tiring...
And just to add (don't want a reply if you're disagreeing ): Lets say the date Blizz have at the back of their head for the release is March 31ste, they can still leave a gap between today (GBR APPROVED!!! YEAH!!!) and their release date announcement, just so they can prove that the GBR had nothing to do with it (Jay & I think Bashiok also said something similar just to prove us wrong). So they can if they want to give us a release date tomorrow or in the middle of Feb and still release the game on March 31ste...YDG!!
But I'll wait for that Jay article first.
no its definitely a huge penis in your general direction bunny. xD
look at it this way, regardless of what did or didnt delay the game its most likely coming out end of march or slightly after at this point so we'll all be knee deep in demon blood within the next few months xD
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"once the pretty hardcore gamers we had testing inferno found it fairly difficult, we then we doubled it" -trolololol jay wilson
look at it this way, regardless of what did or didnt delay the game its most likely coming out end of march or slightly after at this point so we'll all be knee deep in demon blood within the next few months xD
If Blizzard had any balls, if Korea doesn't want an RMAH, they don't get D3, period. They just gave the 3rd party sellers a giant, lucrative, EXCLUSIVE market to work in. This gives hackers/account thieves a great big income stream, which keeps them fed and working, which puts other people's accounts at risk. This whole thing smells suspicious. I wonder, who has authority over this Ratings Board? Direct voters? Executive branch equivalent? Parliment/Congress equivalent? I don't know much about South Korean government.
Not sure to understand what he is saying. Is he saying that S.K. will have real money AH without cashout options? But people can still put real money into their ebalance?
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I hope that it's stress test... If it's not, then it means that game won't be released for some time...
looking forward to trying out different specs with it in d3. if inferno is truly dangerous then having that kind of ranged damage will be invaluable.
Game Rating Board(abbr. 'GRB', Pres. Lee Soo Kun) has decided 'Diablo3' to be rated M (Mature) on the 13th day [of the current month] of the year 2012 during the 4th judging.
Because Cash trade is not yet implemented (completed) it was declared that the system was not a target of this rating and the board decided to not evaluate it at the current time.
According to the laws regarding expiry dates and temporary clauses, in case the cash trade system is implemented via an update, instead of a review of the current content [the game] will be have to be resubmitted for a reevaluation of its rating.
Translated: After contacting the board we obtained a reply saying, "Trade through battle coins can be exchanged into any other currency at any time and due to Blizzard not providing an actual working form of this trade system we were unable to [evaluate it] in depth and had to pass the game version with the deleted RMAH"
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http://www.inven.co.kr/webzine/news/?news=41583
Haha I agree, but in your manner. To striking and direct!! We'll just have to wait till Jay give us that article so we can continue out tin-foil-hattery.
Did you play the beta since day 1? The beta was flawless then, and NOW it's buggy cause they started adding stuff. And how long does server stability testing take?! I don't know the numbers and stuff, but with constantly adding beta players for more than 4 months, I would've figured that the server testing must be nearly complete; but of course there's gonna be 1 million times the players there are currently in the beta, but they should be able to calculate the needed server strength with the current numbers of beta players.
The last "contest" beta invites go out on Jan 23de right? Not talking about the random wave from Blizz.
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Administratordid you read what it said above the video? All the attacks where different but missing some of the effects... poison one adds clouds after.... arcane one blows up... big one shoots trails of fire (which does work..just not animatied) ...so how are they even close to the same thing?
yeah the other thousands of people think otherwise rofl. EX the article next week,
hydra's all do different effects and different damage buddy. READ the rune effects on the skill calc.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/wizard#R lol
^no one reply to this guy about korea. he's one of the conspiracy nuts, you'll only fuel his nerd rage xD
<3 you bunny
I hope it's not long before Diablo III launches.
I hope that's a heart and not a penis...
And I don't want people to fuel my nerdrage either, it's tiring...
And just to add (don't want a reply if you're disagreeing
But I'll wait for that Jay article first.
If you remember the Blizzard release schedule that was leaked last year, they are already behind on like 2 or 3 other releases (SC2 expansion, most notably), so it's not hard to imagine that everything has fallen behind. Again. I'd possibly point to the big drop in WoW subscriptions as a contributing factor. They don't release a lot of games, so they rely on that constant revenue stream. If it dries up a little, imagine the impact it'd have.
You can also look at some of the blue posts. The follower system is being totally revamped (survivable after normal) - imagine the issues that creates with the latter difficulties. You'd have to reduce the player effectiveness and/or up the monster effectiveness to compensate. It's a decent sized change to make.
And the retooling of the socket system. That has to be a lenghty process. Some of the runestones make no sense or are just dumb. The demon hunter one that are all various on shadow beasts? Get a little creative would you. Some of the damage numbers seem way off on a few of them too.
The "balance" issue is a bunch of hooey. WoW has been out for, what, 6 years and it still isn't balanced in their eyes. Look at some of the previous builds of this game. Upping damage 1% here, lowering it 1% there - that's not balancing, that's just minor tinkering (ie wasting time). There will be tons of patches post release - there is no real need to hold up anything for a balance reason, when that is easily patched every tuesday until they are happy with it.
no its definitely a huge penis in your general direction bunny. xD
look at it this way, regardless of what did or didnt delay the game its most likely coming out end of march or slightly after at this point so we'll all be knee deep in demon blood within the next few months xD
Fo sho!
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AdministratorNot sure to understand what he is saying. Is he saying that S.K. will have real money AH without cashout options? But people can still put real money into their ebalance?