- afkalmighty
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Jun 11, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Hotfix, Treasure Goblin Analysis, Barbarian Guide, Wizard DPS Calculator, and Machinima Contestgood to see some real theory crafting going on, too bad I haven't able to play for over a week due to customer service screwing up and getting all my characters and gold wipedPosted in: News
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May 28, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Diablo III - Game Design Updategood to see the majority of my issues with the game is being looked at, especially inferno spikiness and blacksmith.Posted in: News
though I am disappointed, considering previous blizzard standard, that so much which were obvious and should have been taken cared of before release are being fixed post release. -
Apr 10, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Patch 16 Information and Official Patch NotesPosted in: NewsQuote from Benegesserit
. It seems to suck at targeting...appears to have a weak vision radius...and now has weak DPS. I'll take more DPS for higher AP over this change (unless they dramatically improved the targeting AI and vision radius). There's a lot of competition for slots and I'd easily just replace this with Magic Weapon or Familiar if I wanted "essentially free damage".
why would you want increased cost for increased damage if you think the aiming is so horrible that the essentially free cost for lower damage doesn't warrant a skill slot? so you can miss a bigger damage for more AP? -
Mar 31, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Diablo III is Coming to the WiiPosted in: News
Duh it's May 15 today, you know, the release date for Diablo 3?Quote from Duckintheriver
What's the date today.... i can't remember but i think there's something special about it.......
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Mar 30, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Inferno Monster Levels No Longer Linear, More Fansite Q&A, Bashiok on Runes, Blizzard FacebookUgh, this is kinda disappointing but if it's the same level of difficulty/drops for act 1,2 the same for act 3,4, and if inferno overall is as insanely hard as they claim it to be then I could see that a distinction between 'somewhat bearable' inferno and 'hardcore elite e-peen' inferno is needed.Posted in: News
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Mar 28, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Diablo 3 - From a modders perspective, Interview with a Fan Artist - Tepes, Curse Gaming BracketThat can't be Diablo3.Posted in: News
I don't see the 'outdated rainbow sunshine cartoony WoW-like' graphics I've heard so much about. -
Mar 18, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Moderator Recruitment, Hardcore RMAH, Pre-Order Info and Blue Posts, Diablo: The OrderGreat, another overpriced book that I will eventualy be compelled to buy :\Posted in: News
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Mar 15, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Diablo III Launching May 15 – Digital Pre-Sales NOW OPENSystem : [comment has been removed due to excessive profanity]Posted in: News
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Mar 4, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Diablo 3 - Release Date RumorPosted in: NewsQuote from justmots
"Expect the worst, hope for the best", is the motto I've been clutching when it comes to blizzard release dates.
when it comes to blizzard release dates, 'expect the worst, hope for something not so worse' seems to work better -
Mar 4, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Diablo 3 - Release Date Rumorwhen it came to release dates they were adamant about debunking it with the 'they don't know either' line. but the fact that they didn't outright debunk it this time does say somethingPosted in: News
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Feb 17, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Beta Auction House Changes IncomingThe listing fee was messy anyways, good to hear it's gone.Posted in: News
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Feb 8, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on Public Chat Is In, Diablo 3 Map, Investor Call, Poll Recap, Diabolesquesand yet people complain about blizzard giving the 'choice' to stick with one set of skills or change between them freely.Posted in: News
goes to show that you can't satisfy everyone -
Jan 19, 2012afkalmighty posted a message on System Changeswhile I normally support blizzard's stance in taking their time for perfection, at this point, it just seems that they're doing a lot of unnecessary nit-pickingPosted in: News
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Anyway, heres what little I know about the situation.
Before the current GRB came to place, the VRB[video rating board] has been in charge of the rating of games, movies, music etc. The reason the VRB was scrapped was because it was respondible for passing the game 'Seastory' http://cfs15.tistory...7/498acd1ccc62d
yeah, I know, most of the Korean populace was thinking the same thing. 'WTF?'
When the game became controversial due to illegal modifications investigations were put into place and.. as it turns out, there were bribes and manipulations of rules behind the passing of this 'legal slot machine' [which was responsible for wrecking several families] and thus the GRB was born and we can see here why it would be sensitive about issues that concern real money.
But this organization has also brought up some controversies of it's own.
First, the rating progress is overly complicated and the fees attached are unreasonably high, there is no clear guidlines in how a game is rated so there's no way for game companies to know if they have been rated fairly. And there's also the problem that this board is not really up to date on the fast paced change of the gaming industry.
Second, the board had promised to rate game only up to last year and transfer the rights to rate games to the public but they backed out of that promise and applied for a new budget last year and the national assembly approved it.
Furthermore, Blizzard could not have chosen a worse timing to bring up the RMAH in Korea [not that there's anything they could have done about the situation]
Last november, a new law was proposed that would illegalize any real money trade in games that underages are able to play. And yes, the [legal] real money trading sites are doing all they can to fight against this but things don't look bright for them. There was also an incident of a middle school student suicide to which games were somewhat related to during July.
So we pretty much have a really screwed up situation here, and the GRB isn't doing any help to make things less complicated.
You see Blizzard, being aware of the new law against underage real money trade, had applied for a mature rating for Diablo 3. And yet the GRB held the 'anti-gambling'stance claiming that those of underage 'might' still play the game.
Yeah, what kind of phail-logic is that? Why the f- do they rate games anyway if they're going to consider the possibility of someone underage playing despite the mature rating?
But nonetheless Diablo 3 has been dragged into the 'real money in games' issue and the GRB is in a tricky situation to try to prove the need of their existance through this issue.'
Some think that this is all because of bribes to protect the domestic game industry, some people think it's because of the lack of bribes on Blizzard's part.
But if the reason is the latter, I [a Korean if you haven't figured that out yet] personally hope that Blizzard will give the GRB a good ol middle finger and pass Korea. The worthless low-end bureaucracy here is really f'd up and it would be bad if they're spoiled more than they already are [sheesh, at least the high-end works their ass's off]
As for me.. don't know. IF that is to happen I guess I'll just have to get a US copy and proxy or something