Well its obvious that Blizzard really are messing with things that shouldnt be messing with. I also think that Blizzard all along knew they didn't want to release this game anytime soon. So what they did is made a release date, then eventually delay it (keep the hype going) then came out with a way to keep customers paying by coming out with this annual plan. This then gets people to keep paying for WoW which will allow them to release the expansion before Diablo 3, then finally d3 will come out where you paid your year worth for WoW and you get Diablo 3 for free! They obviously planned this out from the beginning. They need to show they were making money some how, so the annual plan helped them show investors that they will still bring in cash while trying to make diablo 3 perfect.
^^^ I think thats all true, and real, and maybe even hard for many to believe. I also think that now Blizzard has chose to keep the game in development they are now messing with the overall game. Its done, and I think they are making changes that shouldn't be done. I think that these changes shouldn't be happening considering these all came from the drawing board, which went through very long thinking to see if they will last. I wonder how much money they threw in the air since they totally just cut the Mystic astian outta the game. That had to be worth... at least $5,000 at least worth of work? I honestly have no idea but, id just throw it right there.
Another reason I wanted to support my educated guess, is that in the beginning Jay Wilson said so many times they do not want you going into town, or taking you away from the combat or action. They are totally going against what they always been saying and now, I just don't get what they are doing. I think they are getting to the point were you can only edited a game so much, eventually after so long your going to over think and start messing things up. Will I ever know if the game is messed up? Probably not, since I haven't played the full game. But to me, it seems like Blizzard is getting a bit psycho over some things within the game.
Anyways, in short words, I dont like the update. You messin with the game, THAT IS DONE.I don't know I've heard of games going back and changing things, or scraping things and from what I can remember in the past. Its doesn't work out that well. Star Wars Galaxies is a perfect example.
"Scrolls of Identification are no longer in the game" - I think this is the worst of all the things they messed up. Why would you even go half way about it. The fact you have the fucking scroll there makes it more real, realistic. Like no, its awesome that we must spend our ingame gold to buy scrolls to identify are items. Blizzard obviously never understood how life works. This just BUILDS TO THE BIG BANG! If you ever gotten high in your life, you will realize that the whole drive to your dealer, grab your drugs, drive back to your house, and then finally doing the drugs is the BIGGEST RUSH, maybe even closes to EVEN DOING THE DRUG. Why would you take out something that even players love. Yes, it could save inventory. But its the fact that you need something to indentify the item with. Like jeeze, whatever happen to the Open World MMOs like Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online, where it was actually cool to plant trees in front of your house. Shit like this, its just stuff people like. Its makes it more life-like. If you just take that item away, then its like 'oh I just have to right click to identify my items now'. Well fuck it, might as well scrap the whole system then. EITHER GO IN, OR DONT!
This deff. needs to be fixed. For all the number nerds out there, they would go crazy about this. I, myself care a lot about numbers and get really into the game because of this. Hopefully Blizzard fixes this.
I finally was able to play the beta through a friend's account. But I found out after playing a bit, that there is currently a stutters problem while playing the game. This stutters happens on beast ass computers and shitty ones. So its obvious that its the game itself. But it sorta worries me that Blizzard still hasn't fixed this yet? I thought this would be something already fixed, but maybe it isn't within their list of things to do first. How many other people playing the beta also have this issue? I know not everyone is experiencing this issue but some people are. When I playing and talking to people their computer would range from intel to nvidia, amd to nvidia, etc. I currently have a amd quad core 3.4ghz, 4gb memory, and running a Radeon 5770 and have this issue. I just currently bought a new video card which I get on the 4th, but in till then, I dunno if that will fix it, but doubt it. Its funny though, cause my friend doesn't have this issue at all, and when I told him, he was surprised since it really does run like butter, but for some reason it stutters sometimes. The reason why I'm posting this, is to ask people if they (who officaly have beta access) heard anything from Blizzard about this issue, or now anything about this?
I'm looking to find out if anyone has any experience attempting to play Diablo 3 using a 3 or 4G cellular broadband. How well does the game play with it? I may be moving to a place with out a wireless hot spot and want to know if Ill still be able to play. I have an unlimited 4G data plan with Verizon and a Thunderbolt smart phone. Thanks
In many videos already jay wilson already said the game can run on 56k easily. so im sure that answers ur question.
Sad that they are taking almost every enchantment name from WoW.
Why would you rename an enchant when theres a game that Blizzard made and more like 10million people played it before? Why make your users relearn stuff? Once they played one game, at least they will understand some things about the game. Pulls people in easiler once they are related to the "old stuff". People hate change, you should know this, everyone complained about Diablo 3 art style at one point. Sounds like they are going backwards doing that. Just dumb thing to do though.
I haven't been keeping up with the D3 news lately and was wondering if anyone from Blizzard has said what the exclusive banner from the collector's edition would be like. Is it just the actual design of the banner that will be different or some kind of representation like hardcore players get or what?
na, dont think so, they only said the ingame items will be the dyes and wings.
I rather buy my collector's edition from an GameStop store, or any store near me instead of online. Mainly because all you people that ordered on Amazon won't be playing it at 12am the day of release like some of us. Which is probably going to suck, considering your gunna probably hear so much about it as soon as its out. But I never buy collector's editions for games. I totally think they are a waste of money by SOOO MUCH. But honestly, why wouldn't you buy a Blizzard game that isn't CE? Considering they make the TOP NOTCHED games (seriously, I think Blizzard really comes out with games that barely have any bugs. There are companys like Ubisoft, EA, Bethesda, SO MANY that would release their game with bugs and issues) its terrible how the gaming developers are now.
It just blows my mind how some of these companies would release a game full of bugs, and ALSO put THEIR NAMES ON IT. Like, shit, if I was that company, that would be embarrassing, seriously!! I mean, the internet rips like another asshole in a company that totally has a bugged filled game. In Skyrim, horses can go up mountains at 90 degrees angle. You know how funny that is? You know how many players are gunna joke about that? Obviously the devs knew about it, but still they released the game, and even THREW THEIR NAMES ON THE PRODUCT!!
What ever happen to people releasing things when they were done. Back in the day no games had bugs.(well barely) Like, how often did you see a bug in like Super Mario games, Zelda, etc. I know they are old games, and things were maybe easier, but they still had to program their games, and because of that, they could have easily had bugs within their games.
Blizzard SERIOUSLY puts their blood, tears, and pride into their games. They know when to release and what to do. Honestly, I never seen such a professional company in the gaming business. These guys will go far with their company, I dunno where the fuck this type of motivation came from though considering NO COMPANY DOES IT. BUT IT WORKS!! It blows my mind that Blizzard still acts as if it were a small group of developers trying to make a living building games, when in reality the company has a SHITLOAD of employees, that make detail, polished games.
But back to pre-ordering, I do realize that there probably will be expansions for Diablo 3. But how often is there going to be a sequel to another Diablo series? This type of thing doesn't happen that often with Blizzard. They actually make collector edition actually worth buying, unlike EA GAMES were just about every game has one. For me, this is a HUGE release for the gaming community, and myself, I think buying the CE will prove that I support Blizzard 100 percent, and the fact that they deserve every penny from me!!
I hope you guys seriously think about buying the CE version. This company has done so much for the gaming community, I honestly don't know what I'd be playing if some of the several games didn't come out. They have improved gaming in so many different ways. They totally care about the community a shitload too, and it shows. It blows my mind, how the most played game was once made through the Warcraft 3 Map editor, DOTA! I cannot stress how much I apperate the things Blizzard has done for not just myself, but for the gaming community. Ever since Warcraft 3 came out, I been such a big fan. To be honest, I'm actually excited for Blizzard DOTA also. Blizzard always is improving games, and this could possibly be another big title coming out.
But once again guys, I hope you think of this collector's edition a bit different. This is really exciting stuff this is happening at the moment. We are living through history, and people in the future will be looking back at this game, and what Blizzard has made.
Im deff gunna try getting a lot of the achievements in diablo 3 also. From the list of achievements that were posted that are from the beta... are gunna be like that at release.... it shouldnt be that hard to get. hopefully we do get awarded for getting the achievements also at release. Im guessing you will, but still I hope so. That would be cool if you would get a special title for doing all the achievements in beta, that would carry over too release but i doubt that.
Followers were added to be placeholder fighters when players played single-player, but moreso to add more depth and responses to quests. The followers were designed with specific responses to all of the quests you undergo.
Oh, well heres my next question.... I'm pretty sure Blizzard is still promoting "Heroism" in Diablo 3. Doesn't adding followers take that away? Like that goes against their whole "hero" idea. Like having your character kill 8 enemies at once!
I dunno, but thats all I'm gunna say to go "back and forth" with this conversion, because now it would just be getting into a "what if" conversion.
The follower isn't a supplement for a poor character/player. Your strategy--indeed, the essence of a good hero--is seen in your follower's skills and equipment, and your choice of follower. Was Stonewall Jackson less of a hero for the South because he relegated most of the action--the killing--to lower-ranked men? No. His choices are what we remember him by, not how many enemies he shot.
But besides that, there's also the fact that we had mercenaries in Diablo II. I didn't see a problem with it then. Your mercenary didn't necessarily share your all-consuming desire to rid the world of the Primes--he/she came with you because you had the coin to hire him/her.
Followers were added to be placeholder fighters when players played single-player, but moreso to add more depth and responses to quests. The followers were designed with specific responses to all of the quests you undergo.
Oh, well heres my next question.... I'm pretty sure Blizzard is still promoting "Heroism" in Diablo 3. Doesn't adding followers take that away? Like that goes against their whole "hero" idea. Like having your character kill 8 enemies at once!
I dunno, but thats all I'm gunna say to go "back and forth" with this conversion, because now it would just be getting into a "what if" conversion.
I just thought about some thing when I was looking at the new follower page at the official website. Now I've played d2 before of course, but since this is the new Diablo 3, can someone kinda explain why Blizzard decided to bring these guys back into the game? Did they explained like why we need followers? Like did Blizzard prove that it will be a hard journal to get through the game if we don't have a follower. When I say hard, I mean, similar to Diablo 2, and the way their followers work within the game.
Honestly, I really don't understand why this is being brought into the game. I'm not thinking its a bad idea AT ALL. I'm just wondering what is their 'math' behind these guys. Like is there statics proving that players don't like to play alone? I probably would rather play with a follower, even if the game is too easy because of them.
Also, I was looking at the skill calculator on the d3 site, and I don't really understand it yet. What does it mean when a skill is "grayed" out? Are you only allowed to pick one skill each level? Its sorta weird how they setup this page, when your really not "calculating" anything, if you get what I mean.
Anyways, yeah, maybe someone can explain this concept to me. Like I don't have a problem with it, but just like as far as I know, they will just make the game easiler for you. Do they even hold items for you?
^^^ I think thats all true, and real, and maybe even hard for many to believe. I also think that now Blizzard has chose to keep the game in development they are now messing with the overall game. Its done, and I think they are making changes that shouldn't be done. I think that these changes shouldn't be happening considering these all came from the drawing board, which went through very long thinking to see if they will last. I wonder how much money they threw in the air since they totally just cut the Mystic astian outta the game. That had to be worth... at least $5,000 at least worth of work? I honestly have no idea but, id just throw it right there.
Another reason I wanted to support my educated guess, is that in the beginning Jay Wilson said so many times they do not want you going into town, or taking you away from the combat or action. They are totally going against what they always been saying and now, I just don't get what they are doing. I think they are getting to the point were you can only edited a game so much, eventually after so long your going to over think and start messing things up. Will I ever know if the game is messed up? Probably not, since I haven't played the full game. But to me, it seems like Blizzard is getting a bit psycho over some things within the game.
Anyways, in short words, I dont like the update. You messin with the game, THAT IS DONE. I don't know I've heard of games going back and changing things, or scraping things and from what I can remember in the past. Its doesn't work out that well. Star Wars Galaxies is a perfect example.
"Scrolls of Identification are no longer in the game" - I think this is the worst of all the things they messed up. Why would you even go half way about it. The fact you have the fucking scroll there makes it more real, realistic. Like no, its awesome that we must spend our ingame gold to buy scrolls to identify are items. Blizzard obviously never understood how life works. This just BUILDS TO THE BIG BANG! If you ever gotten high in your life, you will realize that the whole drive to your dealer, grab your drugs, drive back to your house, and then finally doing the drugs is the BIGGEST RUSH, maybe even closes to EVEN DOING THE DRUG. Why would you take out something that even players love. Yes, it could save inventory. But its the fact that you need something to indentify the item with. Like jeeze, whatever happen to the Open World MMOs like Star Wars Galaxies and Ultima Online, where it was actually cool to plant trees in front of your house. Shit like this, its just stuff people like. Its makes it more life-like. If you just take that item away, then its like 'oh I just have to right click to identify my items now'. Well fuck it, might as well scrap the whole system then. EITHER GO IN, OR DONT!
edit: well if thats what the video is saying which is true (which im guessing is) id just keep on playing then
at least this makes me feel a bit better!
I finally was able to play the beta through a friend's account. But I found out after playing a bit, that there is currently a stutters problem while playing the game. This stutters happens on beast ass computers and shitty ones. So its obvious that its the game itself. But it sorta worries me that Blizzard still hasn't fixed this yet? I thought this would be something already fixed, but maybe it isn't within their list of things to do first. How many other people playing the beta also have this issue? I know not everyone is experiencing this issue but some people are. When I playing and talking to people their computer would range from intel to nvidia, amd to nvidia, etc. I currently have a amd quad core 3.4ghz, 4gb memory, and running a Radeon 5770 and have this issue. I just currently bought a new video card which I get on the 4th, but in till then, I dunno if that will fix it, but doubt it. Its funny though, cause my friend doesn't have this issue at all, and when I told him, he was surprised since it really does run like butter, but for some reason it stutters sometimes. The reason why I'm posting this, is to ask people if they (who officaly have beta access) heard anything from Blizzard about this issue, or now anything about this?
In many videos already jay wilson already said the game can run on 56k easily. so im sure that answers ur question.
Why would you rename an enchant when theres a game that Blizzard made and more like 10million people played it before? Why make your users relearn stuff? Once they played one game, at least they will understand some things about the game. Pulls people in easiler once they are related to the "old stuff". People hate change, you should know this, everyone complained about Diablo 3 art style at one point. Sounds like they are going backwards doing that. Just dumb thing to do though.
na, dont think so, they only said the ingame items will be the dyes and wings.
It just blows my mind how some of these companies would release a game full of bugs, and ALSO put THEIR NAMES ON IT. Like, shit, if I was that company, that would be embarrassing, seriously!! I mean, the internet rips like another asshole in a company that totally has a bugged filled game. In Skyrim, horses can go up mountains at 90 degrees angle. You know how funny that is? You know how many players are gunna joke about that? Obviously the devs knew about it, but still they released the game, and even THREW THEIR NAMES ON THE PRODUCT!!
What ever happen to people releasing things when they were done. Back in the day no games had bugs.(well barely) Like, how often did you see a bug in like Super Mario games, Zelda, etc. I know they are old games, and things were maybe easier, but they still had to program their games, and because of that, they could have easily had bugs within their games.
Blizzard SERIOUSLY puts their blood, tears, and pride into their games. They know when to release and what to do. Honestly, I never seen such a professional company in the gaming business. These guys will go far with their company, I dunno where the fuck this type of motivation came from though considering NO COMPANY DOES IT. BUT IT WORKS!! It blows my mind that Blizzard still acts as if it were a small group of developers trying to make a living building games, when in reality the company has a SHITLOAD of employees, that make detail, polished games.
But back to pre-ordering, I do realize that there probably will be expansions for Diablo 3. But how often is there going to be a sequel to another Diablo series? This type of thing doesn't happen that often with Blizzard. They actually make collector edition actually worth buying, unlike EA GAMES were just about every game has one. For me, this is a HUGE release for the gaming community, and myself, I think buying the CE will prove that I support Blizzard 100 percent, and the fact that they deserve every penny from me!!
I hope you guys seriously think about buying the CE version. This company has done so much for the gaming community, I honestly don't know what I'd be playing if some of the several games didn't come out. They have improved gaming in so many different ways. They totally care about the community a shitload too, and it shows. It blows my mind, how the most played game was once made through the Warcraft 3 Map editor, DOTA! I cannot stress how much I apperate the things Blizzard has done for not just myself, but for the gaming community. Ever since Warcraft 3 came out, I been such a big fan. To be honest, I'm actually excited for Blizzard DOTA also. Blizzard always is improving games, and this could possibly be another big title coming out.
But once again guys, I hope you think of this collector's edition a bit different. This is really exciting stuff this is happening at the moment. We are living through history, and people in the future will be looking back at this game, and what Blizzard has made.
BUY THE DAMN COLLECTOR'S EDITION!
Yeah... true..
Oh, well heres my next question.... I'm pretty sure Blizzard is still promoting "Heroism" in Diablo 3. Doesn't adding followers take that away? Like that goes against their whole "hero" idea. Like having your character kill 8 enemies at once!
I dunno, but thats all I'm gunna say to go "back and forth" with this conversion, because now it would just be getting into a "what if" conversion.
I just thought about some thing when I was looking at the new follower page at the official website. Now I've played d2 before of course, but since this is the new Diablo 3, can someone kinda explain why Blizzard decided to bring these guys back into the game? Did they explained like why we need followers? Like did Blizzard prove that it will be a hard journal to get through the game if we don't have a follower. When I say hard, I mean, similar to Diablo 2, and the way their followers work within the game.
Honestly, I really don't understand why this is being brought into the game. I'm not thinking its a bad idea AT ALL. I'm just wondering what is their 'math' behind these guys. Like is there statics proving that players don't like to play alone? I probably would rather play with a follower, even if the game is too easy because of them.
Also, I was looking at the skill calculator on the d3 site, and I don't really understand it yet. What does it mean when a skill is "grayed" out? Are you only allowed to pick one skill each level? Its sorta weird how they setup this page, when your really not "calculating" anything, if you get what I mean.
Anyways, yeah, maybe someone can explain this concept to me. Like I don't have a problem with it, but just like as far as I know, they will just make the game easiler for you. Do they even hold items for you?