Welcome to the new Diablofans!
By now you probably noticed that we're almost done deploying the new version of Diablofans, this is still very much a work in progress and we'll keep going around the site and fixing things left and right for the rest of the week. This design has 3 main goals:
Giving more space to news posts, because tiny tiny news frames don't make anyone happy.
Allowing users to reach the important parts of the website more easily. News + Forums + Blue Posts can all be easily accessed from the front page without scrolling.
Cleaning up everything, because the old design was kind of a mess.
We're not completely done yet but we reached a stage where it's good enough to go live and gather feedback and work with the community to make everything nice and pretty, feel free to point out anything missing or stupid we might have did in comments!
Blue Posts
Official Blizzard Quote:
Casters and weapon damage
We have no plans to make it so that Wizard and Witch Doctor spells will scale off of anything but weapon damage at this current point. Previously we did not have a very strong synergy between weapons and the caster classes.
We want everyone to get an awesome feeling whenever they upgrade their weapons. That is why we went in this direction; to ensure that Wizards and Witch Doctors would be greatly pleased about weapon drops, as it was not that exciting in the previous Diablo games for casters. (Official Forums)
RMAH Fees
I don't mind the sensationalism in an article but that graphic is just devoid of any attempt at being truthful. Also they don't seem to understand how percentages work.
In any case, the listing and transaction fees, which are flat fees, are being kept as low as we possibly can keep them. Right now in beta it's 0.80 'Beta Bucks' total if you list and sell an item, and it's possible it'll be around that in USD for North America at launch. We still don't know yet, though, but we're trying to keep it as low as possible. And of course keep in mind that we still intend to offer a number of free listings per week. If someone wants to just use their free listings every week, they're more than welcome to. We anticipate a lot of people will go this route as it's a no-risk situation and no fees are taken if the item doesn't sell.
People selling items beyond those free listing will indeed want to make sure their items are of a quality the market deems is worth more than the flat posting and transaction fees, and in fact the game just won't allow you to post under a certain amount. Otherwise they may want to go the gold route, build up some gold, and then sell that through the currency-based auction house.
If you do decide that your sale is something you want to cash out, a percentage will indeed be taken, but we haven't announced any details regarding what the PayPal cash out fees will be yet. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Companions
Well, I like to see great discussion and feedback on our forums here, lets provoke to you all a question since I want to see what you all think.
If you had to choose one critter-type creature to have as your companion that only has the purpose of picking up gold in a short area around you, what would you want it to be?
Lets see what you can all come up with! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Need logs for DC on Channel Spells
Hey all, Please use this thread to report disconnects caused by channeled spells post-Beta Patch 8. What I would like you all to please do is reproduce this bug and immediately copy your D3Debug.txt file to your Desktop (it is located in the main Diablo III folder). Then edit out your e-mail address and upload the D3Debug.txt file to pastebin.com. Finally, link your file back to this thread.Thank you! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Blizzard Art
Blizzard has put out four pieces of new art!
Diablofans looks too much like MMO-Champion now. I miss the old look. At least then it had some uniqueness to it. Oh well. Function over form, I suppose.
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When I grow up, I want to be a frill-necked lizard.
Whats with those huge signatures by the way? Why does everybody have to make them bigger and bigger >
Ugh. Is there an option to not seeing them somewhere?
Big improvement. Old layout was very messy, this is much better.
Having the ranking on top of the avatar is a bit awkward, would much rather have usernames there, and not on the red bar.
I don't like it. Avatars too small, GIFs don't animate, TOO MUCH LIKE MMO-CHAMPION. I knew this was going to happen the second Boub took over. The only real reason Curse took over this website is because Blizzard cut a deal with the previous admin for exclusive Diablo 3 content since he willingly gave the Diablo3.com domain name to them.
It's frustrating too see our community handed over to someone who doesn't bother to answer his messages. Makes me feel like my voice is just being ignored.
Oh, and I don't see "Member Since: ..." under the avatar and I think something else is missing under there
@Sinister Demon - I'm sure .gif support will be fixed and will work properly, just give it time. People seems are not liking changes at whole.
I think the design is fresh and comes right before the release, so I like it, but in other hand, the veteran posters might not like this.
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thats because your viewing a news post, all those fields are removed to make it faster/smoother loading, in the forums that information is there.
edit: it seems it does not show along with the more infomration in the forum, however, it is top and center in a users profile.
I can't tell which topics have been read by me, and which not. Also no button, to open topic at the latest unread post. Instead we have topic preview. Not bad, but still doesnt help in the matter. Hope this will get fixed, because in it's current form, I really hate the new design.
I can't tell which topics have been read by me, and which not. Also no button, to open topic at the latest unread post. Instead we have topic preview. Not bad, but still doesnt help in the matter. Hope this will get fixed, because in it's current form, I really hate the new design.
if you look very very very close, there is a black line in front of every thread that as unread post by you, and a very very faint star in ones you have posted... http://i.imgur.com/tr46g.gif
Looks a lot like mmo-champion but i like that layout. Works nice on my mobile device aswell.
The site itselfs looks a lot less messy with the new background and looks more a whole.
But what Rebound said is sort of right. For some reason its not as easy to read as on MMO-champion.
That can be a "getting used to issue" or perhaps finding the right colour scheme / font issue not sure yet
Note: This is not specifically aimed at you...
I've never been on MMO-Champion before, so I went there and had a look for myself. Yes this new layout does look almost exactly like MMO-C's, but that's not the issue here. Most people either complain that it looks to much like MMO-Champion or that they like this new layout cause it looks a lot like MMO-Champion. Leave MMO-Champion out of this, this is DiabloFans (even though as I understand Bibi also is/was mmo-c's administrator, hence the mmo-c layout). Give constructive criticism for the new DiabloFans layout so that it can be improved, not blablabla mmo-c this and that.
I prefer it this way actually. And for those of you that don't like it, you better get used to it, cause they're not changing it.
By now you probably noticed that we're almost done deploying the new version of Diablofans, this is still very much a work in progress and we'll keep going around the site and fixing things left and right for the rest of the week. This design has 3 main goals:
We're not completely done yet but we reached a stage where it's good enough to go live and gather feedback and work with the community to make everything nice and pretty, feel free to point out anything missing or stupid we might have did in comments!
Blue Posts
Official Blizzard Quote:
Casters and weapon damage
We have no plans to make it so that Wizard and Witch Doctor spells will scale off of anything but weapon damage at this current point. Previously we did not have a very strong synergy between weapons and the caster classes.
We want everyone to get an awesome feeling whenever they upgrade their weapons. That is why we went in this direction; to ensure that Wizards and Witch Doctors would be greatly pleased about weapon drops, as it was not that exciting in the previous Diablo games for casters. (Official Forums)
RMAH Fees
I don't mind the sensationalism in an article but that graphic is just devoid of any attempt at being truthful. Also they don't seem to understand how percentages work.
In any case, the listing and transaction fees, which are flat fees, are being kept as low as we possibly can keep them. Right now in beta it's 0.80 'Beta Bucks' total if you list and sell an item, and it's possible it'll be around that in USD for North America at launch. We still don't know yet, though, but we're trying to keep it as low as possible. And of course keep in mind that we still intend to offer a number of free listings per week. If someone wants to just use their free listings every week, they're more than welcome to. We anticipate a lot of people will go this route as it's a no-risk situation and no fees are taken if the item doesn't sell.
People selling items beyond those free listing will indeed want to make sure their items are of a quality the market deems is worth more than the flat posting and transaction fees, and in fact the game just won't allow you to post under a certain amount. Otherwise they may want to go the gold route, build up some gold, and then sell that through the currency-based auction house.
If you do decide that your sale is something you want to cash out, a percentage will indeed be taken, but we haven't announced any details regarding what the PayPal cash out fees will be yet. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Companions
Well, I like to see great discussion and feedback on our forums here, lets provoke to you all a question since I want to see what you all think.
If you had to choose one critter-type creature to have as your companion that only has the purpose of picking up gold in a short area around you, what would you want it to be?
Lets see what you can all come up with! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Need logs for DC on Channel Spells
Hey all, Please use this thread to report disconnects caused by channeled spells post-Beta Patch 8. What I would like you all to please do is reproduce this bug and immediately copy your D3Debug.txt file to your Desktop (it is located in the main Diablo III folder). Then edit out your e-mail address and upload the D3Debug.txt file to pastebin.com. Finally, link your file back to this thread.Thank you! (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Blizzard Art
Blizzard has put out four pieces of new art!
I do. Hopefully next up are obnoxiously large signatures (no offense lol)
Site looks good, though I'm not sure if the color scheme works quite as well as mmo-champs does (since the layouts are very similar).
Ugh. Is there an option to not seeing them somewhere?
And yes there is an option in your settings to hide signatures.
Having the ranking on top of the avatar is a bit awkward, would much rather have usernames there, and not on the red bar.
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It's frustrating too see our community handed over to someone who doesn't bother to answer his messages. Makes me feel like my voice is just being ignored.
thats because your viewing a news post, all those fields are removed to make it faster/smoother loading, in the forums that information is there.
edit: it seems it does not show along with the more infomration in the forum, however, it is top and center in a users profile.
Edit: Numbering fixed!
if you look very very very close, there is a black line in front of every thread that as unread post by you, and a very very faint star in ones you have posted...
http://i.imgur.com/tr46g.gif
its on the list im sure =P
Yeah also noticed this (also chrome). Just go to the top bar "Blue Tracker"
goodexactly like mmoNote: This is not specifically aimed at you...
I've never been on MMO-Champion before, so I went there and had a look for myself. Yes this new layout does look almost exactly like MMO-C's, but that's not the issue here. Most people either complain that it looks to much like MMO-Champion or that they like this new layout cause it looks a lot like MMO-Champion. Leave MMO-Champion out of this, this is DiabloFans (even though as I understand Bibi also is/was mmo-c's administrator, hence the mmo-c layout). Give constructive criticism for the new DiabloFans layout so that it can be improved, not blablabla mmo-c this and that.
I prefer it this way actually. And for those of you that don't like it, you better get used to it, cause they're not changing it.