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This is old news. I remember hearing of this within a week or two of the game anouncement.

I would suggest the tweaking of item banking in Diablo 3. If not enabling some way to transfer between characters then a definate need for a 'bank' type deal. Somewhere with plenty of storage for items.

Another key improvement I think would be improving boss fights. While I like that the fight they showed in the trailer has a finishing move when he kills a character and I'd like to see that for all and they also make mention of visual damage to bosses as you fight them there is more that can make it a interesting fight.

For example I'd love to see if they added a bit of strategy to boss fights in D3. Make it a little tougher then hack and slash. Make the players perhaps perform actions during a boss fight to maybe deal with something. Knocking things over, destroying things, doing something to 'weaken' the boss or finish them. Or, perhaps leave something like this as an option to weaken a boss soley and, if you want, you could ignore it and accept a much tougher fight.

There is no average. This is the third year and it grows every year. The original number this year was 12000 tickets, last year it was 8000. So now this year its 15000 total tickets, almost twice the number of last year. HUGE growth.

They aren't using the /entire/ complex. They rent 'halls'. If you check the convention center, theres also some scrapbooking convention going on at the same time. So while its bigger, they can't use all the space.

Also, something to keep in mind. Last year it took three days to sell 8000 tickets. This year it took a total of ten minutes sale time (Or there abouts) To sell 12000 tickets. Thats a /crazy/ increase in demand in just one years time. Thats probably why it was so not ready for the load on the first day.


Would you really expect such a increase? If your first two didn't indicate it would get so crazy?

As for scalping. You can't really /scalp/ a blizzcon ticket. Its not a physical thing. You have to show up at blizzcon with the credit card to get your ID badge. It really would make scalping /extremely/ difficult.

Also, where did you get anything saying people got 10+ tickets? Tickets were limited to 5 per account/credit card. So they would have had to have had at least two accounts and two credit cards to get it, and managed to get through the whole process /extremely/ quickly.

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"The contrast and use of color really works well for an Action-RPG, where there are hordes of monsters and spells, and separation of individual entities is required for satisfying play"

Ah, he wrote that it looks fantastic before. Well, it might but i think for people who thinks it's fantastic and colours (less important for me) and textures are genius, well they are just fans of H&S and RPG generally. This game LOOKS great, but it looks great as some other title. The title is DIABLO and bullshit is saying that it looks fantastic. But ok, they are diablo fans who played diablo and didn't like the graphics. So they can like it now. But are they true diablo fans if they didn't like the graphics in previous games? Fans loved everything
I'm tired of explaining it all over again. Nobody is fighting with me when i write some longer post in some topic. It means everybody agree.

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I'd like to point something out here.

Theres being a fan and theres being a fanboy. You see, a fan isn't blind, deaf and stupid to everything around them. A fan can accept faults in a game, or whatever their a fan of, and still enjjoy it, like it, and want more.

A fanboy beleives everything is perfect and that anyone who found any fault in what they love isn't a fan and, infact, is just some poser or hater.

So yes, I do beleive true fans could have loved the previous games and still not have liked their graphics.


Oh, and on another note. Its not diablo? Again, did no one play the first two damn games? Cause seriously. I keep hearing this bitching and whining about how its not dark like the first two. Then I think back and wonder. . why do they say this? DId they skip act 2? What about the numerous outdoor areas where sure, it was overcast, but it wasn't pitch black? What about the dungeons? They weren't pitch black either. Light changed between 1and 2 as new technology came out, making it more realistic. Thats all tahts happened between 2 and 3.

Oh, and also, I know blizzard has stated this and none of you forum monkeys seem to give a damn and are ignoring it, but uh, the game is supposed to get darker and grittier in appearence as it goes on. You know, as the demonic influence returns to the world after 20 years of silence.

For those of you keeping track, this is the /same/ shit that happened in d2. You started off in a place that had been influenced for a /long/ time by Diablo. Then you moved on, following Diablo and his brothers path. It wasn't so influenced, things slowly changed as you followed them. Things got worse as their influence took hold until act 5 when it all culminated in the final battle and it was heavily influenced in many ways.


In short, please, QQ more. Your delicious tears of imagined suffering really make the day go by much quicker.

Oh, and as for cloaks or capes for guilds? Why? You can probably get a tag section that you can alter that will go before all your names with battlenet 2. Capes for clans or guilds or whatever you want to call them? How does that fit into diablo?

Thats in big MMO's because its thematic to have these groups band together. Especially guildwars. In diablo you don't have some guild coming together. You have a barbarian from the highlands, a witch doctor from the jungle and the like. They aren't exactly matching pairs. They are fighting and end up coming upon eachother and stick tgether out of necessity. They don't take the time to charter up a guild and its name and go out, embroidering cloaks so they can all match and show to the world their part of some clique.

You know, Skin Color isn't even going to be customizeable. Super pale witch doctor? dark, dark barbarian? Doesn't fit with the lore or the characters. Especially since the barbarian is supposed to be a returning character.

No, there isn't going to be big customization. I don't even think color coding armor or adding symbols. That would require the armor to be simplified so that you could do this. Flat areas for symbols to go, simple, two or one tone color schemes.

I like the crap blizzard makes. I don't need to see a bunch of people doign things just to be obnoxious. People are bitching so hard right now that it isn't dark enough. I say instead make sure that things like this never get implimented. Its this stuff that will screw up the theme and feel.

Its not a MMO. Its not a super social RPG of some kind. Its a hack and slash based around small parties. It doesn't fit in the theme. Why would you go through all the trouble then add a bunch of dancing and random, odd emotes? Its not a game that needs them, especially since a large portion of the game is singleplayer.

No, I don't think there will be emotes in Diablo 3. No, I don't think there should be emotes in Diablo 3. Its not that style of game, and by style I don't meen dark and gothic, I meen its not the large, social based game where you hang out in towns and hang around waiting for someone/something. You run, you kill, you repeat.

Customization is in the gear. It covers you from head to toe. No choices would be visible most likely.

Besides, as freely as WoW? It had very little customization overall. Very basic stuff. A couple face choices, a couple hair choices, maybe some markings or jewelry. To the extent that if a character was fully geared you couldn't tell them apart anyways.

It wouldn't do anything as it would all be covered. No one would look different due to customization of the face or something. I'd rather the focus be on the game, not making mohawks, getting the right pink tones for the pig tails or letting me choose if I'm a black norse man or a suepr pale norseman. None of it matters, none of it will be seen, all that will distinguish you is what gear your wearing and thats always been enough for me. I could always tell people apart at a glance in d2 unless they were exactly geared. And even if they were exactly geared. . I couldn't see anything else about them for it to matter.

Also of note, even if you, say, have the helmet off? the top down perspective isn't going to let much of that tattoo face be seen as people run past you. Where as in games like WoW your literally much closer to people most of the time, and its mre a social, build your own unique character. These characters in Diablo are going to be someqhat unique, but its also to the point where its not a hugely detailed RPG where you design everything of your character.

We already know something about them, who they are. They ahve voices, they speak, we are playing them ,we are not creating them from scratch.

Goodguy may just be my hero with a very, very good point. He indeed wins, and the interwebz are now his.

I think the point is that why would Charsi suddenly take on the intense training of the barbarian to /be/ the class? Oh hey look. Its peace time, oh and the barbarians are super depressed and their entire purpose shattered because the worldstone is gone. Now they don't know what to do.

I know, this blacksmith will, for some reason, take this time of peace to go to her horribly depressed and aimless people who will, for some reason, intensely train her to do a job that doesn't exist for twenty years until something comes along they can send her after.

Yeah. . good logic going there. Only theres not.

Why would she leave her 'sisters' and all shes known when everything points at there being no reason for it?

I think the extent of customization is likely to be male or female.

No. It wont arrive before lich king because lich king is in beta and just about ready for release come december. Diablo 3 is still heavily in development.

Also, the listings don't have much to do with eachother. WoW is a huge game that has teams constantly working on new content for patches and for expansions, they need a much larger team thendiablo 3 would need.

His true form may just be that of a 'demon' instead of a corrupted human, Roland.

Yes, blood all over the character. Interesting. Sounds like fun.

Asfor the bosses getting real messed up? Thats pretty cool. it should be fun to play.