Able Gamers Interviews Blizzard, Leaves Us Puzzled

Able Gamers has scored an interview with Jay Wilson and Leonard Boyarsky with a few common questions to which we already know the answers and some weird ones like these:

Steve, AbleGamers: From what I'm getting so far. Generally speaking, Diablo III will be an entirely new concept in game. So you guys are not trying to pull any ideas from Diablo II, you will not be building on anything other than the world of Tristam

Jay, Blizzard: I wouldn't say and we would pull anything from Diablo two. It's just only look in different areas. We make decisions based on what from that area we want to bring back. For example, the items for Islam is not going to be the exact same as Diablo there are some changes, but the core of it is basically the same, or using the basically the same item generation mechanics backend systems, drop rates, data and information because that system work really really well. In the case of classes, we chose to try to create new classes, because he wanted to provide new gameplay in the area. So we really tried to handle this on a case-by-case basis we not trying to... we definitely don't want to rehash Diablo II, but we don't want to throw it away either.

Huh?

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oren88
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Posted Sep 16, 2008
lol.. wait for blizzcon.. all this old interviews are completely boring, waste of time and doesn't update or renew anything.. it's the same same as all the old interviews.. thx a lot anyway of course..

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
Well I hope that Steve Spohn asks them in the second part of the interview what the fuck were they smoking.

And what the hell are "the items for islam"

Seriously, it makes me doubt how well these guys will make the game.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
Theres a lot of typos simply because it was one of those things where it just writes down what it sounds like, so that was probably something along those lines considering the guys didn't even ask about it...

And typo/miscommunication and not making the game are quite different from each other lol...

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
I am pretty sure it was a verbal interview so a lot of it was based on them mishearing what Jay and Leonard said. That said, who the hell is that website's editor?

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
It reads like a bad, inaccurate translation from a foreign language.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
Not to nitpick, but they even used the fake Diablo III when introducing the game on the front page. Eeegh.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
The website at ablegamers.com contains elements from the site dns-stat.com, which appears to host malware –

P.S. The answer isn't too bad, but the question is just horrid.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
Looks like someone's really lazy and used an auto-transcribe tool or whatever. The inaccuracies seem very machine-made.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
If you read it really fast, it starts making sense.

Anyway, I'm kinda disappointed hearing that the item generation system will be exactly like in D2 - I think that was one of the most broken aspects of the game. Oh well...

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
Quote from "Dimebog" »
If you read it really fast, it starts making sense.

Anyway, I'm kinda disappointed hearing that the item generation system will be exactly like in D2 - I think that was one of the most broken aspects of the game. Oh well...

I think not.

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
that interview hurt my eyes

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Posted Sep 17, 2008
That was hilarious.

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Posted Sep 17, 2008
I think I know what they did! They tape recorded the interview and where too lazy to type it all up, so they probably just played it back and used the voice recognition thing that's available on almost all computers now instead of typing it themselves.
And they didn't even bother to edit it afterward.

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Quote from "Djinn_690" »
I think I know what they did! They tape recorded the interview and where too lazy to type it all up, so they probably just played it back and used the voice recognition thing that's available on almost all computers now instead of typing it themselves.
And they didn't even bother to edit it afterward.

Seems like logical conclusion... lazy bastards.

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Quote from "lights_warrior" »
And what the hell are "the items for islam"

I think these are the items based on Arabic culture. e.g. falchion, scimitar, etc.
Or just like "items for slam".

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Quote from "lights_warrior" »
Well I hope that Steve Spohn asks them in the second part of the interview what the fuck were they smoking.

And what the hell are "the items for islam"

Seriously, it makes me doubt how well these guys will make the game.

you are pathetic for doubting blizzard
you cannot even achieve 1% of what blizzard has even if you lived forever so who gives a shit what you doubt, it just shows how stupid you are. Moron. Quit flaming blizzard. Loser

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