Not likely, since they're both owned by the same parent company, and have been rolled together in the same subsidiary by that parent company.Quote from CataleptInteresting, though, that Activision made an operating loss this quarter, while Blizzard is still chugging along in the black. Wouldn't surprise me if they cut themselves loose soon... they've got their own distribution channel now, they can't be getting much benefit from the relationship.
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Aug 8, 2014mavfin posted a message on Furnace and Rimeheart Changes, New Crusader Set, Amazonian Parma Affix, PTR Disabled Mechanics, D3 and Reaper of Souls SalesPosted in: News
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Jun 16, 2012mavfin posted a message on Patch 1.0.3 Unofficial ChangesPosted in: NewsQuote from Daemaro
I don't care if there are panda sigils. I would care though if they made me buy MoP CE to get D3 wings. It's a relief to hear they're probably not related.
There's stuff in WoW from SC2 that you had to go to Blizzcon for, so...it's just marketing. -
Apr 23, 2012mavfin posted a message on Open Beta, Leveling, Blue Posts, Diablo Art, and Curse RoundupPosted in: NewsQuote from silent.knife.speaks.
This is just reminding you that there are going to be heaps of people who do struggle with Normal difficulty. Don't assume that everyone is in their mid 20-30s and has played all kinds of games for the last 10-20 years of their life. There will be people who breeze through normal in 30 minutes (maybe?), then people who will literally take weeks. Nothing contradictory there.
There will be people who find Skeleton King challenging. I didn't, but, I played D1 and D2 a LOT, not to mention the last 7 years of MMO raiding. I can move and react, though I'm no twitch FPS player. I think about what skills will work best in a situation etc.
Some people here react to the fact that it's made for people other than themselves by saying "Well, those people need to get better or not play, because I want difficulty set for ME!!" That's not an answer Blizzard is going to listen to. They want to sell the game to everyone, not just *you*, whoever you and your friends are. It just varies how far into the game you'll go before finding it difficult. Some in Normal, some in Inferno, lots in between somewhere.
Also, some don't find 'horribly difficult' fun, and may play for years in Normal. I know people who almost never left Normal in D2. They found it fun. You might not, but that's ok. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Just let go of it, go play something else, and check every few hours, or go to bed when it's time, and check it tomorrow.
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(Didn't have any patch trouble. I already had the pre-download long done, so it went fast. The servers will come up...when they come up. I'll play when that happens. )
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Of course, if you take your level 60 to PTR that has all the 'best' gear from trading/AH, no wonder you don't like the new loot. Hard to get upgrades when you already bought or traded for the best. Seems to me you just want to do that again, and start the bitching about not getting upgrades all over again, when the real problem is that your 'free trade' already gave you 'the best' of everything you wanted. No, I think the PTR/RoS setup is much better, BoAs included. Self-found is actually viable now, not a pipe-dream killed by the AH and its drop adjustments. I'm entitled to my opinion as much as you are, and just from what I've seen in chat on PTR/beta, I see a lot more people happy with loot 2.0 than unhappy. All trading does in this context is shorten up the time to 'fully-geared'. YMMV.
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If all the black marketeers can find a market for is whole accounts, then, I find that's a good thing. Only the desperate will buy them, and it's a risky proposition anyway.
Removing legendaries from being able to be sold cross-account, and having good rares be not too hard to find, as it is on PTR, is a huge step toward making the black marketeers irrelevant. Bravo, Blizzard.
As far as bots, I'm sure some will still self-bot for their own legendaries, but, they're only messing up their own gameplay, not everyone else's. And, Blizzard can ban them when they wish. Less bots overall = easier to pin down the ones left.
Without items to sell, the 3rd-party RMT will be a shadow of what it is even now. I'm sure they'll still have a stockpile of legacy legendaries for a while, but even those will be low demand once people are headed for level 70.
I think it's a great move.
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Play hardcore if you want death punishable. Otherwise, repairs, and losing back to checkpoint are enough penalty for normal mode.
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