It's not offtopic. Sixen felt it necessary to bring up other games they have created and we were merely commenting on that fact.
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The fact of the matter is the B:North started production on Diablo 3. That is not a joke, it is what it is. I don't doubt that a lot of concepts were taken and placed into Blizzard's D3, as you can see, both games are extremely similar.
As true as that may be it is also true that they produced great games like Diablo and Diablo2. But Blizz north does not exist so whats your point?
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There won't be any more ad space than what is already given. The background has been there longer than the ads have been as far as i'm aware.
If you aren't going to play Diablo3, then how can you rightfully call yourself a Diablo Fan? You do realize that D3 started production in 2004 if I recall correctly, by Blizzard North?
On the first comment: It was hypothetical to illustrate that the background should not be add space as it is a large portion of the homepage...
2nd note: If your trying to be clever I don't think it worked very well, leave the jokes to Bashiok. K thx bud
Diablo3 is not a Blizzard North production. I am playing Diablo2 right now but I will never play a game made in the future (i.e. torchlight) from a former Blizzard North. And we all know what happened to the original Diablo3. It was scrapped. Even if D3 was started by Blizz north it was in their prime because since they left, all of their games have failed.
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On a side note. I will never play a game from those Blizz north guys again. Every single one of them has failed. Hellgate failed, Fate was a total failure. It was Diablo-fun(minus fun). Did mythos ever even get off the ground?
I feel bad for the Diii.net guys. That sucks. If that ever happens here you will not see me come here anymore. I don't have time for adds to be forced on me. I'll get my news from Blizzard.com if thats the case.
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So your problem is that they bought all the add space on the front page?
Sorry, I'm not seeing the issue, if a certain entity wants to buy all the space, and they pay for it, what's wrong with it? If I were to buy all the add space and put a huge triforce, would you have an issue about this not being a Nintendo website, even though the add space was paid for?
Ok lets take this a step further shall we? Lets say they buy MORE add space and took our banner. The background is not just add space. It's a major portion of the page!
As far as I'm concerned this is no longer Diablofans.com it's now .5Diablo.5torchlightfans.com
Lets say somebody comes to the page for the first time...What is the biggest in their face thing? An add for another game completely unrelated to Diablo.
And equinox, as I posted in a previous thread, just because it was made by some people that made Diablo doesn't mean that it is anything like Diablo. Artists from Starcraft work on Diablo, it doesn't mean those 2 games are the same now does it..
That is the really stupid logic. Was Hellgate london Diablo3? No, nor will this game be. Granted it looks like a Diablo style game, but it is a farcry from actually being Diablo by any means. It's not just another version of Diablo. Diablo is made by Blizzard. That is not Blizzard. It may have former Blizz staff but that means absolutely nothing. It is just a former title that implies they have worked on Diablo.
Lets say the add was for a World of Warcraft Custom game from WC3 that wants a lot of publicity to get off the ground on a WOW site. I don't care what similarities there are, I'm not going to stop playing WOW for a silly custom game that is basically on the same engine. Nor would it quinch my thirst for WOW news. Likewise, this game looks similar, but it is not Diablo3, it's not evern from the same company so I don't care about it at ALL when I come to a site dedicated to Diablo, not Torchlight.
And to be completely honest, Torchlight is a FATE clone which is a Diablo clone as somebody pointed out in another thread. Torchlight is nowhere near a real Diablo clone. Even if it was I still wouldn't want to see more of it than actual Diablo stuff on the front page.
Justify it all you want, but everybody here knows the truth of the matter.
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Well, we could go without ads but we really wouldn't last long, basically reverting to a geocities type website.
Unless you guys want to pay to be members of the site. And if thats the case you can just put it in my bank account, I'll be sure to get it to the right people.
Once again, a few adds are not a problem, its the GIANT background one. It's overkill....
Oh, and I don't know what some of you are smoking but Torchlight looks like D3 the way a WOW custom game in wc3 looks like WOW. And thats being nice because with that, at least the engine is basically the same. You might be anticipating Torchlight but IM not! What am I anticipating?? The new Diablo2 patch! Because I am a DiabloFan, not a Torchlight fan.
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I understand why this happened but it doesn't make it any nicer. You said someone has to pay for all the nice graphics and what not. Well, I don't know how the rest of the community feels but I would rather have no graphics with a nice black background than a giant torchlight background. It's the fact that it is then ENTIRE background. I guess only a few of us see why this is frustrating. that space should not have been for sale.
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You are right. Sixen said he put it up there to help the folks that designed Diablo 1+2, who now happen to design Torchlight. No reason to be angry, since it's not your website and you can easily ignore it.
Like I said, justify a sellout however you want.Yes I can repeat it a few more times if you would like.
This has nothing to do with "helping" anybody. If that were the case you would have seen a big Hellgate London Banner on our site BEFORE it was owned by curse, or sponsored or whatever you want to call it.
For the record, fans make up this community, don't forget it.
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Selling out is the opposite of what you're angry about. Torchlight is a low budget, small game.
That we covered our whole freakin front page with. Like I said, justify it however you want. That was not charity work.
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The problem is, torchlight is NOT Diablo 3 and Blizzard North has nothing to do with Blizzard anymore and does not exist. We are the fans of the DIABLO franchise. I don't care if the artists of the game made wow, this is not a WOW fansite.
Its definitely way too much. ya'll should be ashamed, sellouts. A billboard is fine. But the whole damn background? Justify it however you want you still know its a sellout move.
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How is it getting off topic?
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As true as that may be it is also true that they produced great games like Diablo and Diablo2. But Blizz north does not exist so whats your point?
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On the first comment: It was hypothetical to illustrate that the background should not be add space as it is a large portion of the homepage...
2nd note: If your trying to be clever I don't think it worked very well, leave the jokes to Bashiok. K thx bud
Diablo3 is not a Blizzard North production. I am playing Diablo2 right now but I will never play a game made in the future (i.e. torchlight) from a former Blizzard North. And we all know what happened to the original Diablo3. It was scrapped. Even if D3 was started by Blizz north it was in their prime because since they left, all of their games have failed.
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I feel bad for the Diii.net guys. That sucks. If that ever happens here you will not see me come here anymore. I don't have time for adds to be forced on me. I'll get my news from Blizzard.com if thats the case.
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"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
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Ok lets take this a step further shall we? Lets say they buy MORE add space and took our banner. The background is not just add space. It's a major portion of the page!
As far as I'm concerned this is no longer Diablofans.com it's now .5Diablo.5torchlightfans.com
Lets say somebody comes to the page for the first time...What is the biggest in their face thing? An add for another game completely unrelated to Diablo.
And equinox, as I posted in a previous thread, just because it was made by some people that made Diablo doesn't mean that it is anything like Diablo. Artists from Starcraft work on Diablo, it doesn't mean those 2 games are the same now does it..
That is the really stupid logic. Was Hellgate london Diablo3? No, nor will this game be. Granted it looks like a Diablo style game, but it is a farcry from actually being Diablo by any means. It's not just another version of Diablo. Diablo is made by Blizzard. That is not Blizzard. It may have former Blizz staff but that means absolutely nothing. It is just a former title that implies they have worked on Diablo.
Lets say the add was for a World of Warcraft Custom game from WC3 that wants a lot of publicity to get off the ground on a WOW site. I don't care what similarities there are, I'm not going to stop playing WOW for a silly custom game that is basically on the same engine. Nor would it quinch my thirst for WOW news. Likewise, this game looks similar, but it is not Diablo3, it's not evern from the same company so I don't care about it at ALL when I come to a site dedicated to Diablo, not Torchlight.
And to be completely honest, Torchlight is a FATE clone which is a Diablo clone as somebody pointed out in another thread. Torchlight is nowhere near a real Diablo clone. Even if it was I still wouldn't want to see more of it than actual Diablo stuff on the front page.
Justify it all you want, but everybody here knows the truth of the matter.
-Equinox
"We're like the downtown of the Diablo related internet lol"
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Once again, a few adds are not a problem, its the GIANT background one. It's overkill....
Oh, and I don't know what some of you are smoking but Torchlight looks like D3 the way a WOW custom game in wc3 looks like WOW. And thats being nice because with that, at least the engine is basically the same. You might be anticipating Torchlight but IM not! What am I anticipating?? The new Diablo2 patch! Because I am a DiabloFan, not a Torchlight fan.
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Like I said, justify a sellout however you want.Yes I can repeat it a few more times if you would like.
This has nothing to do with "helping" anybody. If that were the case you would have seen a big Hellgate London Banner on our site BEFORE it was owned by curse, or sponsored or whatever you want to call it.
For the record, fans make up this community, don't forget it.
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That we covered our whole freakin front page with. Like I said, justify it however you want. That was not charity work.
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I think its FU$%ING BULLSH%T!!! Number 1!
The problem is, torchlight is NOT Diablo 3 and Blizzard North has nothing to do with Blizzard anymore and does not exist. We are the fans of the DIABLO franchise. I don't care if the artists of the game made wow, this is not a WOW fansite.
Its definitely way too much. ya'll should be ashamed, sellouts. A billboard is fine. But the whole damn background? Justify it however you want you still know its a sellout move.
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