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This is a toilet thread now!

Drop rates affected by burrito consumption.

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Has anyone written an in depth article exploring exactly what Blizzard has missed in DIII that made DII so much more fun?

I'm actually having trouble figuring out why anyone who played D2 a lot would find D3 fun... if you've spent 1000 hours doing something, why would spending another 1000 hours doing something only slightly different be fun?

I spent 7 years playing WoW... when MoP was announced and left me feeling lukewarm, my conclusion wasn't that MoP was rubbish, it was that after 7 years I'd actually had enough of MMOs in general, and no matter what they put in MoP, it wasn't going to be enough.

Fake. They only spawn that many sentries in caves.

THIS IS HOW I DIE.

I flipped a coin 4 times in a row and got 4 heads. Coins have changed!

... I also have anger-management issues when confronted with low-level innumeracy.

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Dude relax. By the way. They were making diablo 3 an action rpg still playing like a hack n slash but with mmo features. i'm quite sure it wouldn't be anything like WoW. More Diablo 2 LoD with more players. Actually sounds pretty darn awesome to me.

Umm, no. This is from a recent interview:

"You know, when I was working at Blizzard a million years ago we were working on Diablo 3 and it was an MMO. We were going to do the Diablo version of World of Warcraft. Blizzard obviously changed that pretty quickly, so we left to start Flagship Studios and we brought in a lot of the guys, so they rebooted with their own team."

Let me rephrase the critical part "We were going to do the Diablo version of World of Warcraft." Blizzard North was effectively turning Diablo into World of Diablo, they were making it an MMO. I always laugh when people start praising the North team as this infallible pillar of gaming excellence. In effect, they were destroying Diablo behind the scenes, and most people didn't even know about it. The D3 we have today is far closer to the Diablo franchise than the World of Diablo they were making, and Shaefer even applauded the current effort Blizzard has put into the game. I think that says a lot.

This is the internet. Your facts are not welcome here.

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Good long post with nothing inside.
This CM must have been a political student.

In france we call it "langue de bois" the fine art of saying nothing but beeing sure to take 30 minutes to say it

Indeed. I mean, apart from telling us that:

They have no intention of restoring bosses to the top of the loot-chain

They're committed to the current NV model, and the only relevant change will be the announced locking feature

The IAS change was a damned if you do, damned if you don't thing, but they're sticking with the across-the-board nerf

The pots nerf was done reluctantly, but their hand was forced by an unnamed influence (i.e. bots)

They're aware that RA-stacking is current best-practice, but that's not by design and they want to make sure that other options remain viable

The IAS nerf was specifically because of how melee classes benefitted from haste-based builds

The next patch is not 1.1, but will be a tuning patch


... actually... you know what... I think you might actually be wrong... which has never stopped a good forum-snark before, so kudos I guess.

If you're farming gear (i.e. gear progression), you should be doing it in an act that is already mostly/completely unlocked, in which case you can always skip forward to the next waypoint... that doesn't cost NV stacks. The only downside is that you'll miss out on boss kills, but that's no longer a big deal.

If the Act you're in hasn't been mostly cleared, your focus should be on quest progression, so losing NV stacks isn't as much of a problem.

If you're trying to do quest progression and gear progression at the same time... well... don't be suprised if you end up having to pick one over the other.

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All those words and nothing said. The information to content ratio of your post is abysmally low. It doesn't read is if you have formed (and are presenting) clear, well thought-out ideas, but merely have some nebulous haze of feelings you are trying to convey.

I'd probably agree with you, if I knew what you were trying to say.

The gist is that, particularly with an iterative product, the customer's best response is to provide constructive feedback, not make demands and threats, and the companies best response is to use that feedback wisely, and communicate clearly about their goals and reasoning, and that the nature of this interaction is completely lost on the vocal minority in the Blizzard forums.

But yeah... wall of text

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The best thing ever. 1.03.

I full cleared act 1 a total of three times today and amassed the following

1 BS Recipy
4 Legenderies
76 Rares of ilvl61 to ilvl63

Just like the old item hunting days back in LOD. This is fun.

STOP! HAVING! FUN! You and your kind are ruining everything

Hell yes. Blizzard knows how to do expansions.

Given that Diablo3 was an unspeakably terrible bug-ridden unplayable broken train-wreck of failure*, I'm expecting the expansion to completely destroy the PC gaming industry!


* Personally, I'm enjoying the hell out of D3, but I'm wrong, so I have to go on what I read on the forums.

This community has, at best, 10K active users. 44% are on the fence or dislike the patch. Making it 4.4k people complaining. (I know the community itself is larger, only shooting for members who *own* the game - if someone has more valid numbers, let me know).

Even if you extrapolate that there are at least 10 fansites with 10k active posters, and Battle.net with 50k (being way generous), and extending that by accepting those users mentioned actually *own* Diablo 3 (since any other comments are opinions are worthless), you come up with 69K users complaining.

Again 7MIL+ purchases. At least that many, since we haven't had any news of additional sales since 1 week in. But again, being generous, as smaller total sales inflates the percentage.

Making it .0098% of active users vocally throwing a fit. Otherwise - a vocal minority.

Being fair, .0098% will translate into some larger % of the userbase being happy, that's how surveying a valid sample size works. Be very clear, however - the number of people playing the game is *far* larger than the number of people trolling these forums running on about how terrible the game is. Far to many entitled crybabies who, instead of accepting that not every game satisfies every need and moving on, think that they have to get back at Blizzard, and drive as many people as possible from the game.

It makes me sad that this is the state of gaming. Used to be, we looked at the box and if the features sounded like they would be fun we would try it. If it sucked, we tried again. If it was broke we returned it.

Now, thanks to mindless repetition of game series like CoD and Halo and MWx, people are so used to always getting exactly what they expect (because the games never truly change) that anytime a game comes out they don't like, they go running off raging. EA made it that much worse when they caved regarding the end of ME3. Players didn't make they game, they play it. EA screwed developers by setting the precedent that developers are just slaves to players now, and meant only to generate profit. And thanks to them and players like the ones that overpopulate these forums, you can expect the quality and uniqueness of games to deteriorate going forward. Because only the independently wealthy studios will continue to be able to make games as they want. The rest will be relegated to spamming out clones for the mindless drones this new generation of gamers has become.

For every person who does this - I hope life takes something away from you unfairly, to teach you some perspective. And maybe make you mature a bit.

EDIT: clarity, maths