I didn't read through all the posts so I don't know if this has already been mentioned, so sorry if it has. But honestly I hope Blizzard doesn't use the pay-for ingame features for Diablo 3 like they do for WoW. I just don't feel like that would be appropriate for the audience Diablo is targetting, as well as just the 'feel' that Diablo has. I play WoW, and I use the pay-for ingame features every once and awhile, but for Diablo, when paying fees isn't normally part of the game, Blizzard shouldn't try to implement it anywhere else in the game.
What would be the best sense of direction for Diablo 3 would be to have ingame events/quests that offered access to features that would and have been considered worthy of paying cash for. Like Resurrecting a hardcore character for instance. It would be so sweet if you could resurrect a hardcore character by: Creating another hardcore character, advance him to a certain point (that Blizzard would expertly decide, and go on this epic adventure/quest to resurrect a fallen hardcore hero. There could be a lot of dynamic kinds of quests/events you could do with that I think. Like having to seek vengeance on the monster or boss that killed your hero, obviously that could be tricky or not interesting enough if you happened to die to a simple Carver or something =p But I hope the main message of this gets across. With Diablo 3, where Story and Lore are a main focus on it, it would be so much more engaging, immersive and just FUN to have to interact with the game world to access features like this. I would just feel so much more accomplished. I really hope a Blue gets a chance to look at this =)
Well the depth and the validity of all you said was drained instantly with your comment for North Korea, which is regretful.
I don't question or challenge your viewpoints and everything, which I respect as much as anyones. You order your priorities in different ways, which is yours to make... I see you kind of... contradict yourself if I presume correct. By first saying you can't compare SC and Diablo, and anyone can log on and play a quick game of SC for 15 minutes. But you also said it would be worth it if you could play Diablo in a 'quick' game and kill stuff. So, if you had but 20 minutes a day to have fun and kill stuff, wouldn't that work perfectly? And I believe we are all prepared to level and queset a character, I think that is expected from everyone. I may have gotten everything wrong, but whatever =P. I know that is indeed what I do for now, I get on, I do some MF runs, or what have you, and its quick and great. I can do the same on SC. I was comparing them by how highly faithful the lot of the fanbase is. Koreas got a bunch of SC fans, yet the relevancy is lost on me. I see quite a fanbase waiting for the ressurection of the Diablo franchise, this website/forum proves it.
btw, you overused the word time, it made the statement a bit monotonous and redundant. However that doesn't really mean anything, cause I can't really criticize opinions. But, come ooon, 'Time is what controls your life'? 'When there is not enough time for something in your life, there is simply just not enough time... And you cannot fight it'? Incredibly off topic, but time is what you make of it, it only controls you if you let it...
A word. If you are thinking Diablo 3 is coming anytime soon, and will not have time otherwise, best forget about it now, cause that'd be quite a waste of *time* =)
Diablo II still has a huge fan base but Blizzard does not have the luxury of taking 6 more years to announce it or release it. Taking that amount of time would alienate most of the Diablo series fan base. In 3 more years most people will get bored with Diablo II and move on with their lives, children will buy the newer and better games not even knowing that a game named Diablo exists.
I SAY IT IS NOW OR NEVER!!!
If its going to take you 12 years to produce a sequel to a series, then you might as well abandon it.
I actually find that assumption is incredibly invalid, and you should have used a brain before making that statement. As you may have realized, Starcraft 2 has been released to the publics knowledge. Starcraft (1) was released 10 years ago. ... ... ... Shortly, the world is PUMPED (myself included), even after 10 years of waiting and going through the I-hope-Blizzards-next-game-is-SC2 syndrome that is very common with Blizzard franchises. I find this would be no different with the majority of the Diablo community. However I may be completely wrong by saying this, and maybe more think like you do and will completely lose interest in a game they love(d) just because of a mere thing called 'Time.' This however surely is not the case with their most recent game announcement.
My thoughts on Team 3. I'm still wondering if now is the perfect time for Blizzard to make another massively multiplayer game, though I would love nothing more than for them to announce Diablo 3 naturally =P. So I'm skeptical if this would be the game they making with Team 3, seeing as how they have an MMO that raked them in over a billion dollars last year. But seeing as after announcing a games development, It's a good few years before it's actually released, which might work out perfectally, as WoW becomes a bit more outdated and such. Though they are still making Expansions probably with the same size as The Burning Crusade, I doubt the numbers of subscribers will fall drastically any time. I hope and pray Team 3 = Diablo 3, the fans are always ready =)
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What would be the best sense of direction for Diablo 3 would be to have ingame events/quests that offered access to features that would and have been considered worthy of paying cash for. Like Resurrecting a hardcore character for instance. It would be so sweet if you could resurrect a hardcore character by: Creating another hardcore character, advance him to a certain point (that Blizzard would expertly decide, and go on this epic adventure/quest to resurrect a fallen hardcore hero. There could be a lot of dynamic kinds of quests/events you could do with that I think. Like having to seek vengeance on the monster or boss that killed your hero, obviously that could be tricky or not interesting enough if you happened to die to a simple Carver or something =p But I hope the main message of this gets across. With Diablo 3, where Story and Lore are a main focus on it, it would be so much more engaging, immersive and just FUN to have to interact with the game world to access features like this. I would just feel so much more accomplished. I really hope a Blue gets a chance to look at this =)
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I don't question or challenge your viewpoints and everything, which I respect as much as anyones. You order your priorities in different ways, which is yours to make... I see you kind of... contradict yourself if I presume correct. By first saying you can't compare SC and Diablo, and anyone can log on and play a quick game of SC for 15 minutes. But you also said it would be worth it if you could play Diablo in a 'quick' game and kill stuff. So, if you had but 20 minutes a day to have fun and kill stuff, wouldn't that work perfectly? And I believe we are all prepared to level and queset a character, I think that is expected from everyone. I may have gotten everything wrong, but whatever =P. I know that is indeed what I do for now, I get on, I do some MF runs, or what have you, and its quick and great. I can do the same on SC. I was comparing them by how highly faithful the lot of the fanbase is. Koreas got a bunch of SC fans, yet the relevancy is lost on me. I see quite a fanbase waiting for the ressurection of the Diablo franchise, this website/forum proves it.
btw, you overused the word time, it made the statement a bit monotonous and redundant. However that doesn't really mean anything, cause I can't really criticize opinions. But, come ooon, 'Time is what controls your life'? 'When there is not enough time for something in your life, there is simply just not enough time... And you cannot fight it'? Incredibly off topic, but time is what you make of it, it only controls you if you let it...
A word. If you are thinking Diablo 3 is coming anytime soon, and will not have time otherwise, best forget about it now, cause that'd be quite a waste of *time* =)
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I actually find that assumption is incredibly invalid, and you should have used a brain before making that statement. As you may have realized, Starcraft 2 has been released to the publics knowledge. Starcraft (1) was released 10 years ago. ... ... ... Shortly, the world is PUMPED (myself included), even after 10 years of waiting and going through the I-hope-Blizzards-next-game-is-SC2 syndrome that is very common with Blizzard franchises. I find this would be no different with the majority of the Diablo community. However I may be completely wrong by saying this, and maybe more think like you do and will completely lose interest in a game they love(d) just because of a mere thing called 'Time.' This however surely is not the case with their most recent game announcement.
My thoughts on Team 3. I'm still wondering if now is the perfect time for Blizzard to make another massively multiplayer game, though I would love nothing more than for them to announce Diablo 3 naturally =P. So I'm skeptical if this would be the game they making with Team 3, seeing as how they have an MMO that raked them in over a billion dollars last year. But seeing as after announcing a games development, It's a good few years before it's actually released, which might work out perfectally, as WoW becomes a bit more outdated and such. Though they are still making Expansions probably with the same size as The Burning Crusade, I doubt the numbers of subscribers will fall drastically any time. I hope and pray Team 3 = Diablo 3, the fans are always ready =)