I'm not sure if this was in an interview with David Brevik or the Schaefer Brothers but one of them said that they would love to buy the Diablo I.P. if they could and had the money.
I feel that the current Blizzard only sees the Diablo series as nothing more than a product to exploit and make money out of, as well as just experiment and take big risks on (such as with the inclusion of a RMAH as well as porting their first ever console game in years).
Now I'm not against companies making money off of their I.P. but I would like them to make money off of games the right way, I want them to really put their hearts and souls into it and treat franchise as a work of art that set the precedent for all modern ARPGS rather than simply a generic money maker.
The only way I can see this happening, is if people actually don't buy the Diablo 3 expansion, and just let it slowly die off, maybe in 10 years or so later when the franchise have become nothing but a shell of it's former self. The I.P. can be bought by true Diablo fans and be recreated into a true successor to Diablo 2, until then we are left with what we have in Diablo 3, love it or hate it.
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Apr 8, 2013
Oranite posted a message on Whimsyshire Also to Benefit From Density Changes, Idea For the Treasure Goblin Alert, Community Commentary: Public Enemy #1, TokPosted in: News -
Mar 27, 2013
Oranite posted a message on Rollback Policy Updated for the US and EU, Legendary Revamp Might Bring New Items, Diablo 3 on Xbox?, Itemization Could Bring ChLike any other AAA title development team, Diablo 3's team is slow to implement simply because they are very bureaucratic and have to spend a lot of time on things such as localization that arent as prominent for indie companies.Posted in: News
So even though all these changes sound good, its going to take six months to a year for some of these itemization changes to be implemented. -
Mar 22, 2013
Oranite posted a message on Blizzard Announces "HearthStone: Heroes of WarCraft"Posted in: News
I've been in denial for awhile, but I think I'm ready to accept that Blizzard much like Bioware is just a shadow of it's former self. -
Mar 7, 2013
Oranite posted a message on Wyatt Cheng and Travis Day on 1.0.8, Next Patch to Feature Co-op Improvements, Who Is Travis Day?Talk is cheap. I'll save my praise for after the patch hits. Judging from their statements, a lot of truly game changing tweaks won't come until way later on, but if that means we get to have a smaller 1.0.8 with just those 3 main areas of tweaks plus some small class balance I wouldn't mind it come out sooner.Posted in: News
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Mar 5, 2013
Oranite posted a message on Developer Journal: Itemization UpdateBlog sounds promising, but will still keep my skepticism until I see the patch notes when 1.0.8 PTR comes out.Posted in: News
Also let's not forget we also need a CRAFT ALL button in addition to the IDENTIFY ALL for the Jeweler and the BS, but all in all even if only some of these changes come into play, it looks to be a very promising. -
Feb 18, 2013
Oranite posted a message on Scheduled Game Maintenance - 2/19/2013, Fan Creation of the Week: The 3D Character Art of Marie-Michelle Pepin, Curse Weekly RouLong maintenance due to the upcoming 2.0.4 SC2 patch.Posted in: News
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Feb 12, 2013
Oranite posted a message on 1.0.7 Is Live, 1.0.7 Patch NotesIs Diablofans working on a list of undocumented changes?Posted in: News
The I/31 PTR patches notes are Patch 1.0.7 v. 1.0.7.14456
While the Live patches notes are for Patch 1.0.7 v. 1.0.7.14463 -
Oct 10, 2012
Oranite posted a message on PTR Patch 1.0.5 UpdatedHopefully with mainly bug fixes being addressed, this is a good indication that 1.0.5 is about to be released on live and we can get on to 1.0.6 and beyond.Posted in: News
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Oct 10, 2012
Oranite posted a message on Game Guide Not Up to Date, More on Legendaries, Blizzard at Comic Con 2012Posted in: NewsQuote from Zeyk23
If players could create themselves uber characters in the PTR, they would use that to satisfy all their curiosity and it would kill the satisfaction of accomplishing that in the real game.
Isn't the point of playing a game to have satisfaction though? Originally why do people play games? Aren't games suppose to be for fun, satisfaction and an enjoyable experience while you are playing it?
Diablo 2 had a dual system wherein you could play single-player/open battle.net and server side multi-player.
In the single-player/open battle net I could spawn items/stats on my various characters of varying degree to test different builds as well as armor composition. I did gain satisfaction from this and it did satisfy some of my curiosity, but by no means did it quench it's thirst.
I had the ability to test all types of items from weak rares with specific attributes to godly rune words. While having access to these items in singleplayer/open battle net did create a lot of enjoyment it did not discourage me from attempting to gain said items on server side multi-player.
It is because of that system that I had played Diablo 2 on again off again for last decade. There is no other game on the market that had such a nice combination of fluid systems.
I know that this dream of having the ability to spawn items much like my dream of having a single player/open battle.net system will probably never come into fruition, but that is not to say I agree with the current system.
I do not agree with the current system and firmly believe that computers/video games are meant for ENJOYMENT/SATISFACTION. -
Oct 10, 2012
Oranite posted a message on Game Guide Not Up to Date, More on Legendaries, Blizzard at Comic Con 2012Posted in: NewsQuote from t0luene
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Interesting stuff from the blues. Apparent it's now officially confirmed that blues can spawn any items they want and whatever quantity they want. I wonder if this applies to live.
Not trying to rock the boat or anything but I wonder if the harm is really that bad in letting players be able to do this at least in PTR, so we can test items/builds.
I'm not strictly posting this for you but just in general for everyone.
PTR - means public test realm, you TEST stuff in it. and hes not just any blue poster, hes a QA analyst meaning its his job to able to re-produce any bugs that either are found by devs or players.
This is a very wrong assumption that all blue posters are the same, and quiet a lot of people don't understand it very well. being blue doesn't mean:
-they developed the game
-they designed the game
-they have access to player infos
Also they do let players sometimes to try out certain dungeons or specific weapon, but since diablo's loot is not set and its always in RNG it wouldnt make sense to give players the best quality for testing, it doesnt help anyone. They want to test RNG and gameplay usually, because ur experience and gameplay will be a lot diff than the next guy.
In most PTRs in wow they provide you with premade characters with full gear and full profs and supplies so you can actully test ur spec, talents, gameplay. Since there is an "endgame" gear it works in that case to give test gear.
I think your post kind of deviated from my point.
Firstly, I never stated that all blues are the same, there are many types of Blizzard employees such as QA analyst, Community Managers, Developers, Support Forum Agents, etc which all fall into the category defined as "Blues".
You are correct in that there are people who do not know this but don't assume that someone doesn't know this just because they mention "blue".
Secondly, there is no harm in sending out a post indicating that it would be nice to have the ability to spawn items. To further my point against to comment.
I never indicate that said items have to be "best quality" as indicated in your posting. Items dropped in D3 are indeed governed by the RNG, but it does not hurt to be able to test items of Legendary or Set quality since if you have read from the Vasaden's posting,
Items can be spawn subject to the RNG equivalent to as if it were to have been dropped from a monster, thus having properties derived from the in game RNG as you would on live.
The point of PTR a Public Test Realm, is itself to test for a variety of things. Blizzard's internal testing team is limited in that it would not have the extended abilities of a large testing pubic community and to say that testing the ability to spawn items, including but not limited to Legendaries and Sets and that "it doesn't help anyone" is a flawed argument,
Being able to test a large range of items including but not limited to Legendaries and Sets will expose a lot bugs that Blizzard's own internal testing team will never have the ability to do on their own. -
Oct 10, 2012
Oranite posted a message on Game Guide Not Up to Date, More on Legendaries, Blizzard at Comic Con 2012Interesting stuff from the blues. Apparent it's now officially confirmed that blues can spawn any items they want and whatever quantity they want. I wonder if this applies to live.Posted in: News
Not trying to rock the boat or anything but I wonder if the harm is really that bad in letting players be able to do this at least in PTR, so we can test items/builds. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Allowing end game items to potentially drop in a new consolidated NM-Hell probably would help a lot. I always thought Jay's model of having end game items only being able to be dropped in inferno really made people feel like they had to play inferno rather than it just have been a harder difficulty just for kicks or people who wanted to "challenge" themselves.
At the very least the removing of Hell would help a lot, though I think if they are to release these changes with expansion they might as well just remove both NM and Hell altogether (assuming there will be at least one new act added to the game). and make it so the first playthrough will be from 1-60 on normal and then followed by inferno (but inferno would be more open or perhaps have randomized acts/levels as opposed to the current linear story mode.
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I don't think itemization or improved character skills alone would improve the tedious feeling of going through NM and Hell, there definitely needs to be quite a lot of changes to the journey (NM, HELL specifically).
Perhaps we are looking at it wrong, Inferno is not the destination but only another step in our journey.
Our destination is more like reaching Paragon 100 and doing other stuff afterwards like PvP, possibly achievements for some people if they can make them more meaningful like from Mr. Monstrocity's Loot 2.0 suggestions.
To that end, I personally think it would better if they just consolidated Normal, NM, and Hell into the 1-60 framework, I think Diablo historically has been always been about end game (other that low level dueling and at least in D2). For example, all the available skills you can have are unlocked once you reached level 30, and that is accomplished just a little while afterwards past entry into NM as I recall (correct me if I'm wrong).
I think another two issues in regards to the early/mid-game issue is that the story is just too tied into the game and the linearity of the maps.
Even though D2 essentially only had large square regions of maps randomized in one of several directions it still felt more "open" than the current D3. I think if anything besides itemization and skill improvements they should really consider reworking a lot of the maps similar to what D2 and Grim Dawn are doing with map randomization, and also generally create a free roam mode detached from the story.
I know there are a ton of other issues and more specific detail to go into but this is at least a start.
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There is also possible but highly unlikely chance for the announcement of the D3 expansion, I expect it for Blizzcon 2013 in Nov, but who knows, definitely not gonna hold my breath on it though.
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The last streamer that I actually respect who plays D3.
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All-in-all it's just another band-aid solution, it'll reach 10 mil @ 25 cents AKA as 1 mil for 2.5 cents soon enough.
They probably should have raised it even higher and just let the math work itself out. Its not that hard to convert... or for those mathematically challenged I'm sure someone would create a conversion tool or have it real time in some RMAH tracker somewhere.
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These seem to be the only changes that I see which are different from the previous PTR patch notes.
Speaking of changes Overneathe, is there a way to find out more about the Anniversary change, specifically what the bonus to MF/GF I'm guessing it will work similar to a MF/GF shrine and just give a standard 25+ MF/GF and hopefully this can go beyond the cap as well or else seems pretty pointless for those at P100 or have max Mf/Gf
As for loot drop rates, I'm not really sure if there are just generally nerfs or a combination or buffs and nerfs to drop rates to the different monsters. Some of these monsters can have quite a bit of HP especially in terms of MP scaling... Probably need to test.
I'm surprised(?) they didn't try to squeeze in more maps for brawling, the scorched chapel must seems pretty bland by now. As I wonder if the PvP patch will still be set to 1.1.0 or just thrown out altogether, perhaps the main focus will be itemization in 1.1 now...
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Where are the Act 4 density changes? Low time for gem crafting? More class changes?
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2 Patches to PTR in the same week.
It must be a record! 1.0.6 had just 3 lines of change that took several months to implement.
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Man people have been asking for forever, glad it's finally changed months later.
Small change, but huge QOL improvement IMO.
I was expecting it to go up to at least 10 for good measure, but I guess +3 is better than the horrible 5 only clutter.
Overall, I feel the changes are good. We still haven't seen the specifics of the changes for monster density, but this is a pretty good patch in terms of QOL and generally not that much stuff that people really disagree with other than the scorpion nerf.
The most surprising thing was that the only class balance change was to the wizard, I was expecting at least some more slight changes to the rest of the classes.
Is this a complete datamined patch note? or will the official notes reflect more?
EDIT: I guess since they are notes directly from the launcher. It's the official notes?
The patch actually seems very small at face value, but it probably does have great ramifications.
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I feel that the current Blizzard only sees the Diablo series as nothing more than a product to exploit and make money out of, as well as just experiment and take big risks on (such as with the inclusion of a RMAH as well as porting their first ever console game in years).
Now I'm not against companies making money off of their I.P. but I would like them to make money off of games the right way, I want them to really put their hearts and souls into it and treat franchise as a work of art that set the precedent for all modern ARPGS rather than simply a generic money maker.
The only way I can see this happening, is if people actually don't buy the Diablo 3 expansion, and just let it slowly die off, maybe in 10 years or so later when the franchise have become nothing but a shell of it's former self. The I.P. can be bought by true Diablo fans and be recreated into a true successor to Diablo 2, until then we are left with what we have in Diablo 3, love it or hate it.
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So even though all these changes sound good, its going to take six months to a year for some of these itemization changes to be implemented.
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I've been in denial for awhile, but I think I'm ready to accept that Blizzard much like Bioware is just a shadow of it's former self.