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Quote from Rogaul_6620511

Are we talking throughout the leveling process, or just end game?

We will be working together from day 1 of beta/release. But ultimately, PvP is an endgame activity.

Quote from AlexanderZero

“i was just too honest and said things they didn’t like.” What where you saying that they didn’t like?
as a tester, my job is finding bugs and doing what they call 100% coverage run test. but they called us in meetings that asked us our opinions about a lot of things. i said the game was boring and doomed to be a failure.

100% coverage run test before the game is finished?

100% test coverage just means testing EVERYTHING that is currently implemented in the software.

The more you know!

Wait, this was posted on 4chan? I smell a troll.

Quote from EscapB89

Haha same thing happened to me. Graduated from high school and few years ago and bought my first Dell laptop. Super excited. Problem #1 Windows Vista. Problem #2 with textbooks and campus hikes, WAY too heavy. Problem #3 screen stopped staying up. Problem #4 battery is effed. Needs to be plugged in and if the cable comes lose the whole thing shuts down. Problem #5 it gets friggin' hot!

I'm lucky enough to be able to afford the 15" Macbook models, I just wish I knew more about the graphics in relation to playing Blizzard games because they're all I play at this point.

Thanks for the post.

Any MacBook Pro should be able to run D3. Just choose the price range your willing to spend. I prefer smaller screens and faster hardware because they are lighter and I also have an HD TV which I will be playing on.

ITT: people that never seriously used a mac.

TL;DR - Windows is good, but as someone who has used both OSX and Windows extensively for programming, Adobe CS, and gaming... I would choose OSX everytime. Laptops are built much more solid and UNIX based OS is hot. Buy the high end 13inch if you have the money. Desktops are a waist of space and between my girlfriend and myself we both went though 5 laptops. Be both have MacBook Pro's now and love it.

My background: software engineering student, gamer, enjoy working with adobe CS, been on windows most of my life, and i've built my own windows desktop.

When I see people dismiss OSX so easily, I laugh.

So heres my story. Built my desktop a few years ago, was super pumped about it and got some pretty decent hardware. It was very useful at the time but after a few years things started to get funny. Parts started overheating and graphics cards started to work incorrectly (artifacts appeared on screen). Around this time I was heading off to university so I decided to get a laptop. This way I could bring my computer around campus with me. My first instinct an a PC gamer was to get the most powerful laptop I could find. I wanted a huge screen, awesome graphics cards, and a fast processor. "I'm going into software engineering, I NEED a fast computer" I told myself.

I ended up buying a decent Dell. 15inch screen. It was awesome, payed some decent games on medium graphics, which was fine for me. Right after I bought my laptop I was convinced that is was 10x better than a clunky desktop. But first problem I noticed was that carrying a 15 laptop was very tiring. Next thing that started happening (within 5 months) was that my battery was dieing fast. Unplug my laptop it would die in 10 minutes. Soon after the laptop started to get extremely hot. Eventually, I think it just fried itself and would no longer turn on. Dell replaced the battery issue but wouldn't replace the overheating because it was out of warranty. Even though soon after I found out that was a manufacture defect and a lot of the same model computers had the same issue.

Since I had an xbox and couldn't really afford another gaming laptop I decided to get a netbook. I though, I'll just program on this and do small stuff. Turned out that I could run photoshop. I just couldn't play games, which was fine. Netbook was super light and I could carry it around with me everywhere. Eventually that laptops screen broke. Somehow I had wore it out by reopening it countless times.

FUCK. Time to get a new laptop. By this time my girlfriend had gone through 3 laptops herself. 2 HP's and 1 Sony. HP's had serious HDD crashes and Sony had battery issues, overheating, and shut down randomly (probably due to overheating).

I decided to buy a MacBook Pro (cheapest model 13 inch about 2 generations old now). I've been using windows my entire life so this was a pretty big change. I'd be starting from scratching with what I know about the OS. I love this computer. The aluminum case gives the computer a much more sturdy feel. Since Apple only makes 6 different types of laptops ever, they are always working on perfecting the product. I run most games on low/mid graphics which is alright for me. If I had the money I would have bought the higher performance 13 inch. Screen size is overrated on a laptop. Get a HD LCD screen instead, and a small screen laptop.

Apple has converted me to a permanent customer.

Quote from skubaben

I don't think they will lose any profit on delaying it. Only delay the income

Thats what I ment.

While it would be nice to hear a beta coming up soon, I don't think I would be to disappointed if it didn't. It's not every day that a game developer will choose to hold off profits (which isn't looked highly upon by stockholders), for their customers. If they need another 6 months to get to beta quality, thats fine with me.

It will also give me time to finish school without any major distractions ^.^

Quote from ScyberDragon

Since wow and diablo are both made by Blizzard, I would safely assume it will be like wow.

I'm gonna have to disagree with you on that.

In WoW, a player is a continuous revenue source. If someone lost their gear because of phishing, they might quit and thats a lost customer for next month. Also, since that person is paying monthly, Blizzard can afford to offer that kind of security service.

Diablo 3 isn't monthly, so I doubt they will have the monetary resources to deal with small claims like that. It would be awesome if they did, but I can't see this happening.

Quote from bigtimmy

I don't think you can stop cookie cutters completely, there is always going to be a better way of doing things, however i do hope there is a larger variety in d3 and it does look like it will be the case.

Cookie cutter builds aren't horrible. They provide a starting point for most beginners who don't understand the underlying mechanics in a game. The big problem is when the game is designed around MAKING other builds useless. i.e. When the amazon lost her effective piercing guided arrow (this is me talking about D2 Classic). When the game designers hamper specific skills or stats so severly, it turns cookie cutter builds into the standard with no room for any real creativity.

D3 seems to have a good approach. The amount of variety we are going to see with traits, gems, etc is going to making it highly likely that there is bound to be more than 2-3 different effective builds per class.

What a nice wall.



Of text.

Common people! We need more information about PvP. PEEE VEE PEEE!

Any game mechanic that can make or break a fight ALONE should not be included. I remember getting 95% fire resistance. This pretty much was a guarenteed loss for any fire sorceress. Also, changing gear just to face 1 class is pretty lame too. Oh your a cold sorceress? I'll just wear my cold resistance shield and you lose.

Don't have time to read this thread right now. Currently studying for exams. But I thought I'd leave this video/channel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXNRzI64L9Q

Watch it with an open mind.

I'll be back to discuss!

All I know is when they open up beta, I'm marking my calendar for 6 months. That the amount of time they said they would probably have a beta for. Then on each day I will have my chocolate from my Diablo advent calendar.