I like that he acknowledges Bnet 2.0 is crap and needs fixing.
Wilson: "Our plan for Battle.net has always been to turn it into something more of a social network than just a platform for starting games. I don’t think it’s there yet, I don’t think it’s even close".
"I think there are some things that we could be better at. We could be better at getting players into chat channels together, we could be better at allowing people to show gear off to one another. So those are problems that I do think we need to look at and continue to solve"
Omg this is exciting. Can't wait to see what they have for us in patches.
I could only imagined that they pulled in some kind of "Internet-economy-gold-in-online-RPG-games-expert" i mean, there is potentially gonna be alot of money floating around the RM AH's so i would think that some sort of expert knowledge has been used in designing this. I mean, it is just to big a thing for Blizzard to just say: "Let's release it and see how it goes". I dont think they would ever do that. I think they try to plan everything as much as possible (as should they i almost every aspects of the game).
As long as he didn't come from making Popcap stuff and Xbox-Live I'm happy.
Ugh. I couldn't disagree more on what they said regarding the Skill UI changes.
After we made the changes and we played it we said 'Wow, this feels so much better. I'm really glad we made the changes.'
Nope. Old one was much better. Doesn't take up your whole screen and make you flip through 4 pages to find the skill you want.
Before you could open your skills, click a skill without flipping 4 pages, and be done.
He was referring to itemized runes vs new system. I think at the end they conceded about how people complained about the skills UI, so I'm hopeful we'll see improvements to it. Perhaps they just rushed it to get it out so fast... but hey, they said they look at the trends... and there's been 2 big trends: Skills UI fails, and Battle.net fails. So we'll see eh?
No, the talk of the itemized runes vs. rune UI comes immediately after. What I quoted was Jason Regier talking about the new skill UI vs. the old skill UI.
And I hope you're right about them actually watching the trends of what we don't like. I really want the old skill UI back.
Hmm; well I think they can do better than the new and old one. The old one didn't make sense with how it mapped hotbars slots to skill UI slots... but some simple hotkey indications would help... community has made lots of mockups!
Ugh. I couldn't disagree more on what they said regarding the Skill UI changes.
After we made the changes and we played it we said 'Wow, this feels so much better. I'm really glad we made the changes.'
Nope. Old one was much better. Doesn't take up your whole screen and make you flip through 4 pages to find the skill you want.
Before you could open your skills, click a skill without flipping 4 pages, and be done.
He was referring to itemized runes vs new system. I think at the end they conceded about how people complained about the skills UI, so I'm hopeful we'll see improvements to it. Perhaps they just rushed it to get it out so fast... but hey, they said they look at the trends... and there's been 2 big trends: Skills UI fails, and Battle.net fails. So we'll see eh?
I think the beta doesn't have Warden so you can expect hacks/bots in it?
Blizzard also probably does hot-spotting or pattern detection on your movements... and investigate fishy ones. You'd be amazed at some of the data games/apps collect now.
From what I've seen, there's a segment of the community that just refuses to like or encourage anything PvP. I personally love it, even just fun dueling is amazing. It keeps a games life longer and is super fun to watch clips of! I don't think people should hate on PvP so much; let the people who like it enjoy it... but I concede that Blizz shouldn't try and build/balance around PvP.
And I'm not even considering all of the AMAZING things you could do with PvP like a dota style setup or a gladiator arena tournament with betting etc...
Bashiok himself said the item list on the website is a 'small fraction' of how many items will be in game. I personally believe there are hundreds of more legendaries that aren't listed, and a lot more sets as well. They said they will put up an actual list after release, which is awesome because I know I won't be able to handle myself and I'll look at each and every one, and I'd rather be surprised at release with drops and whatnot =D
Meh I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't much more. I remember getting excited over Bashiok saying public chat is coming to the game, and we all know how that ended up lol. But I could be wrong.
I was about 50/50 on this, but I've been thinking... if my MF or GF is even 5% lower in a group dynamic, then it's likely this will factor into my decision to do group runs. Now granted, I did mostly solo MF runs in D2... but D3 should be looking to improve upon that and it has in many ways (individual loot).
I see a possible system as one which perhaps gives everyone (in the group) below the average, the average... and for anyone above the average, they keep their original amount... but who knows...
Did I just read 63,000 in Public Games? That's insane! I mean think about it, when Blizz invited 275,000 people, there was about 1k-3k in public games... if we extrapolate then holy **** I think there's like 6 million people who are going to play LOL.
Yo can you guys who are new to Diablofans please figure out how to embed it properly (or at all). It's fun reading through them all I just wish I didn't have to click through on half of them.
The arguments in this thread remind me of the ones we had on sc2mapster about the map marketplace.
There's a large group of people really not happy about money getting involved in Blizz games (after the initial purchase or subscription). But to me, it's Blizz staying in the 'game' and pleasing investors while still being very good to its fan base (WE can make money on the RMAH and WE can make money on the map marketplace).
"if Blizzard doesn’t provide it someone else will."
I was talking with Sixen how these could have been leaked... here's one theory I had:
Blizz probably was uploading them privately, but then because of maintenance on youtube, couldn't set them to private until maintenance was done and somebody ripped them during this time.
... I had this happen to me with a mapping tutorial.
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Omg this is exciting. Can't wait to see what they have for us in patches.
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As long as he didn't come from making Popcap stuff and Xbox-Live I'm happy.
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Hmm; well I think they can do better than the new and old one. The old one didn't make sense with how it mapped hotbars slots to skill UI slots... but some simple hotkey indications would help... community has made lots of mockups!
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He was referring to itemized runes vs new system. I think at the end they conceded about how people complained about the skills UI, so I'm hopeful we'll see improvements to it. Perhaps they just rushed it to get it out so fast... but hey, they said they look at the trends... and there's been 2 big trends: Skills UI fails, and Battle.net fails. So we'll see eh?
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Blizzard also probably does hot-spotting or pattern detection on your movements... and investigate fishy ones. You'd be amazed at some of the data games/apps collect now.
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And I'm not even considering all of the AMAZING things you could do with PvP like a dota style setup or a gladiator arena tournament with betting etc...
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Meh I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't much more. I remember getting excited over Bashiok saying public chat is coming to the game, and we all know how that ended up lol. But I could be wrong.
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I see a possible system as one which perhaps gives everyone (in the group) below the average, the average... and for anyone above the average, they keep their original amount... but who knows...
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Does he remind anyone else of WoW style monsters? For some reason he does for me.
Video was great though, enjoyed seeing more scenery and items
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He or she obviously didn't look at your profile picture then lol.