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Nobody talks about how getting good at LoL microing will make you a better pvper in D3

LoL is such garbage, I will be pissed off if D3 resembles it in any aspect besides the click to move.

If I sucked at my job like Bashiok sucks at being a Community Manager, I'd be homeless! Most people aren't asking for the world.. They are asking to not be misled by any trolling and just keep them in the loop with WTF is going on with the game's development. If Blizzard came out and said the game won't be ready until June, people would accept it, but the amount of traffic on these and other forums would drop off because there wouldn't be anything left to speculate. 100th post yay.

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Blizzard does not ENCOURAGE power leveling, they said they don't want to remove it as a viable way to play. This is definitely an abuse of game mechanics in a way not intended, just like when people were boosting in Battlefield 3 by doing the mechanic glitch. All the dumbasses who got in trouble for it said "it's EA's fault for not fixing it on release!" and essentially what's being said here "It's in the game so it's not cheating". It's juvenile. Even if Blizzard has 2k internal testers on the game when the game comes out there will be millions playing it, and some with the intention of finding glitches and exploits.

In summation, this is a glitch/exploit and should be removed.

Though I agree about this being an exploit, what games are you playing where Blizzard doesn't encourage power-leveling? Have you not seen Recruit-A-Friend in WoW? You can powerlevel with a friend up to 80 now in the matter of a day or 2. They didn't discourage power leveling in D2 and I doubt they will in D3, as long as you aren't abusing mechanics that shouldn't be abused.

I really don't understand people's gripe about the RMAH. If you get an awesome item you want to sell, it is your choice whether you value money or gold more when you do sell it. If you want to buy something, it'll be the same choice on method of payment. If the gold AH is empty because everyone's love for $$, then go work on getting the items yourself because that's what this game is about - killing millions of monsters and collecting loot. As long as Chinese botters don't ruin the economy like they do with so many games, I could care less on which auction house is more popular. I for one don't need the money, so I'll be keeping my items on the gold AH.

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Molster Edit: A new thread: http://www.diablofans.com/topic/41145-cinematic-screenshots-major-spoilers/

Quote from SFJake

"I think the fun is in playing the game, not working out how to play it".

Basically means to me, that there is no pleasure in learning. This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It basically nullifies skills and improvement in a single sentence.

Yes, thats out of context of his post, but I don't care. I don't really care for Blizzard's stupid gaming philosophies.

FFS you guys are taking this all wrong. You don't care it's out of context? So... why are you arguing? Jay is clearly talking about why they made the interface easy to use, even for newcomers; Because it's more fun to play the game than sit there and try to figure out an interface. This statement has NOTHING to do with theorycrafting, so I'm not even sure what the argument is about. Go rage somewhere else.

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Someone asked Jay:
Was anyone in the internal test team able to beat D3 Inferno difficulty?

Jay Wilson:
no

So really... it seems that this is gonna get, really... REALLY... hard
those in the testing team are no noobs i tell ya :I

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Hes got a point, everytime someone has a negative opinion on D3 or what they arn't pleased with you rush in there with your "I Heart Jay Wilson and Crew" t-shirt on and bash them ha.

Unless....you really are Jay Wilson. So Jay, hows that resume looking now that you have a real game on it?

No, the point is that people are sick of reading the same crap that isn't going to change. Just because I'm not whining for the heads of all the designers because of miniscule things doesn't make me a fanboy. It just means I'm manning up and accepting what the game is going to be, and tired of the trolls rehashing the same crap.

Everyone is going to have their own opinions about the game, both positive and negative. Disagreeing with what they are doing doesn't make you right, and doesn't make you the majority.

I was writing a huge long speech, but fuck it. This ^^^^^

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I'm not sure why 4 people gave this topic a 1-star rating. The man has a right to his opinion

And others have too?

When you downrate something it should be because the topic sucks. This topic does not suck.

Going to have to disagree with you Cherub, the thread title alone warrants the one star rating people are giving it. It's nothing but inflammatory and ignorant, of course it's going to incite some backlash from people, especially people like me who are sick and tired of idiotic (talking specifically about the title ansl, not the content of your post, even though I disagree with it I do agree you are entitled to an opinion) "Blizzard is dumbing Diablo down for the retards!!" posts that constantly come up.

I'm just so frustratingly sick and tired of all the non-constructive, ignorant flaming that happens within this community (yes, I understand it happens in all online communities). I come to this forum to escape a lot of that as most conversations here are constructive, even when people disagree with each other. The fans who are rife with angst and self-hatred that plague other forums either stay away from here or are removed before they can drag these forums down into their hateful shit hole.

Anyway, this post didn't really warrant that rant, but I just wanted to say that. Also, I did not give this post 1 star as I generally never rate posts except for accidental miss clicks. But I still have strong feelings about the title.

I want it to say "Not even death can save you from me!" whenever I click play.

Just FYI Doez is (mostly) right, minus the whole tree hugging part. If you want to say D3 will make WoW lose subscriptions, but point at Skyrim's development being so fantastic, why didn't Skyrim affect WoW's subscriptions, or SWTOR, or any of those other groundbreaking titles that came out? There's a few million people that have zero interest in Diablo, and there's a few million more that haven't played any PC game before WoW... so no interest there, either.

They wouldn't purposefully lose money by NOT releasing D3 and NOT getting all the RMAH fees during this period unless they had hard evidence that accurately showed they would lose more money by releasing it. That's not how business works.

I don’t know where to start and where to end there have been touched so many subjects in this thread from Diablo 3 art direction to skills stats and even SC2.

Art
From the graphics to the character development, Diablo 2 was not Diablo 1 and Diablo 3 is not Diablo 2 or 1. There are lease changes in graphics between Diablo 1 and 2 then Diablo 3 and 2 but that’s because they have been released closer to each other. The color scheme (that so many complain about) in Diablo 2 was limited by the game engine you couldn’t have more 256 color on the screen and to have a better light and shadow effect you had to limit your choice of colors. This doesn’t mean we should still use 256 colors for Diablo 3, does it? From the gameplay video I have seen the world of Diablo 3 is still a dark and grim place.

Lore
Lore wise I don’t see how some ppl discard Diablo 2 lore. Sure there isn’t much lore in the game but the first time I played the game I was rushing to then next chapter just so I could see the next video and learn what would happen next. My first char was a paladin and I killed Diablo at lvl 26.
So fare I haven’t been disappointed by Blizzard lore in their game and I put my faith on them that Diablo 3 will also have an epic ending.

Replay
I love RPG games and I have played so many of them from Diablo 1/2, to Fianal Fantasy 6/7/8/10/12, Gothic 2/3, Neverwinter Night, Skyrim, Fallout and so many other GBA and Play Station RPGs.

One of the things I love in Diablo and that I rarely find in other games is that you don’t need a walkthrough. I have restarted FF like 20 times and the first time I reached the last boss I decided not to kill hem and deleted my save and start over because I still have missed some items and game content.

Things like that don’t happen in Diablo. And the only thing you could do wrong in Diablo 2 they fixed it by adding skill and attribute reset and completely revamping the system in Diablo 3. Love it.

Many of you say this kill replay value, I disagree, and I don’t see why someone would want to start over because they put that skill point in the wrong place? I rather play with my current character and make him as powerful as I can rather than restart over, and after I have run Inferno a dozen times over, then I my want to make a new character.

For me restarting a game because you did something wrong the first time is not longevity of a game and there is no replay value in it.

Replay value is a game that you replay because you have fun playing it not because you made a mistake the first time you played.

I don’t see how the 10 character slot will limit you?
Unless you want 11 characters with 11 different name the 10 slot limit can’t limit you, because there are only 5 classes so you have 5 slots to spare. You can make a second barb, play with him as much as you want, then transfer all item to the barb you like most, delete one and make a new barb. So there is no limit on how many characters you can make.
Yes the current system promotes you to stay with your current character but it doesn’t prevent you from making a new one.

Skill system
For me the skill system in Diablo 3 is awesome sure it can be better http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3657285566?page=1#6 but still it’s just much better then Diablo 1 or 2. Given the amount of skill combination is no brain that they are giving us free respec and actually when ppl complained it was to free they heard us and added the shrine.
I’m not big fun of the shrine because to me it fill to much like a console thing and a bit out of place for the Diablo world, I would prefer limiting skill change to town only but I still can see why they added the shrine and didn’t just limit it to town.
That is because they don’t want you to go out of your way back in town whenever you get a new lvl they want you out in the field killing things and the shrine let you change skills without having to go back in town.

Unattuned Rune
Many didn’t like this system and again Blizzard heard us and scraped it, but I’m sure even if no one complained about it they would still scrap it for a simple reason. We have like 30 skill par class multiply by 5 classes then by 5 rune then by 7 rune levels you have 30x5x5x7 = 5250 runes, lol out there, there are RPG games that praise them self for having hundreds of items and here we have 5 thousand of just one type of item, also imagine how hard it would be to find in ah the rune you want it would be 1 in 5250.

I think I had some more things to say but now I forgot, maybe I come back later when I get home.

P.S. I’m actually enraged by the way some ppl hate a game they haven’t played yet and the way they throw out their subjective bullsh*t. But I will save my rage for the minions of Hell when the game gets released.

Quote from Doez

Blizzard had a timeline of their upcoming products, and I could have sworn that D3 will have 2 expansions, along with SC2 and WoW each having 2 more. So the end game will be discovered in approximately 2 years.