Well... Up until now this is the only decision that I am totally against.
I thought they were totally for making this game more coop-op.
I don't get why they would cut the player count to just half... that doesn't really make much sense to me...
-Easier to get a full game
-Makes balancing difficulties on no. of players easier
-limits spam/add bots effectiveness (hopefully remove them all together)
-Reduced Lag
-With the massive graphics upgrade on a lot of abilities it would make for some intense system requirements with 8 players.
Depends how it plays out, but atm it looks like win, win, win, WIN.
I do admit it might remove a little bit of the epicness feel of it.... but from what i've seen/heard the starting environment is very dark and feels like Diablo 1 with a massive graphics upgrade (<3 D1 forever)
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"If we're actually making the game worse with no other reason than to be different from WoW, then it's a bad choice." - Jay Wilson (D3 lead designer)
Ya... I just have a lot of friends that play... we were hoping to go through the game all eight of us... Damn I thought they were going to boost the player count too... something like 10-12
iv been away for a while.. please tell me this topic is a joke..:(
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We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive. Tupac Shakur
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-Easier to get a full game
-Makes balancing difficulties on no. of players easier
-limits spam/add bots effectiveness (hopefully remove them all together)
-Reduced Lag -With the massive graphics upgrade on a lot of abilities it would make for some intense system requirements with 8 players.
Depends how it plays out, but atm it looks like win, win, win, WIN.
I do admit it might remove a little bit of the epicness feel of it.... but from what i've seen/heard the starting environment is very dark and feels like Diablo 1 with a massive graphics upgrade (<3 D1 forever)
Yeah, I think this is one of the main reasons why the player count was reduced. I mean, remember in Diablo 2 when you had one or two Necros that had 900000 skeletons on Baal Runs along with 6 other different classes? MAJOR LAG.
And with all the explosive animations with these spells, the player reduction is a good idea!
Completely true. I'm willing to sacrifice it though. 4 players will allow for a more friendly environment and more team work.
i'm not...
that's fucking bull shiiiiit... horrible news to comeback to...
damn... how are me ferret Brett Winni magi suppose to it in a GAME?!?!? answer me that...
you guys need a crying smiley...
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We gotta make a change...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive. Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin) ~~us West Ladder~~
that's fucking bull shiiiiit... horrible news to comeback to...
damn... how are me ferret Brett Winni magi suppose to it in a GAME?!?!? answer me that...
you guys need a crying smiley...
I guess we'll all just have to play in separate games. Which kind of sucks because I was looking forward to playing with more people and new people, but meh, it won't kill me I guess. I'll have to try it first.
Hopefully the new battle.net chat will be a lot better and maker up for it.
I was thinking that 5 would be the perfect number but after reading the posts in this article - I agree that 4 does seem to be the perfect number and it will encourage people to play with each other more.
I'm now very happy with the choice of 4.
I would of been saddened to hear if it was 8 or higher - there would of been too many issues with that - mostly balancing.
Oh, thank god I was looking on another site I guess what they did say was this.
"The max player limit isn’t set yet, but they’re thinking it might be just 4. They can add more, and it’s actually less stress on b.net to have more players in fewer games, but as Jay pointed out, more than 4 turns into total chaos, or else players are off in different parts of the same game. So the upper limit will probably be more about fun and party play than technical capability."
i have more than 4 friends that means my other friends wont be able to play with me and my other friends.
I understand they did this to reduce the lag... but 4 players is way too low it should stick to 8.
if people were to lag on games.. then join a 4 game room easy as that.. you hve bad pc then join a room with 4 players or less you ahve good pc join the 8 player.. they should give us an option to limit player on rooms instead of this.
it's not our fault some people have crappy computers.
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Quote from name=" Diablo 3"s Lead Designer Jay Wilson" »
We're trying to balance satisfying the fans and also creating a game that feels like our own.
I agree with this for 3 reasons - It will give each player more loot because less people mean more monsters for you to destroy and 2- it will reduce the lag and 3 it will make it so that you kill more monsters
I agree with this for 3 reasons - It will give each player more loot because less people mean more monsters for you to destroy and 2- it will reduce the lag and 3 it will make it so that you kill more monsters
hey you can go play single player if you want to loot and kill all the monsters by yourself.
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Quote from name=" Diablo 3"s Lead Designer Jay Wilson" »
We're trying to balance satisfying the fans and also creating a game that feels like our own.
Get real, folks, the diablo you all knew is dead, a few years ago i said right here in this forum that D3 had a pretty good chance of being blizzard first bust (i was flamed to death ofc), and what you know, its not even beta and its already looking that way.
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I thought they were totally for making this game more coop-op.
I don't get why they would cut the player count to just half... that doesn't really make much sense to me...
anyone else care to comment?
I would of preferred 6 characters at least but maybe this won't be so bad with the new battle.net chat system. We'll still FEEL more of a community.
I guess that just means its going to be that much more bad ass.
I can't see any other reason they'd want to cut the number of players down.
It should still be a wild ride no matter what.
It's the decisions you make when you have no time to make them that define who you are.
-Easier to get a full game
-Makes balancing difficulties on no. of players easier
-limits spam/add bots effectiveness (hopefully remove them all together)
-Reduced Lag
-With the massive graphics upgrade on a lot of abilities it would make for some intense system requirements with 8 players.
Depends how it plays out, but atm it looks like win, win, win, WIN.
I do admit it might remove a little bit of the epicness feel of it.... but from what i've seen/heard the starting environment is very dark and feels like Diablo 1 with a massive graphics upgrade (<3 D1 forever)
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners
SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin)
~~us West Ladder~~
Yeah, I think this is one of the main reasons why the player count was reduced. I mean, remember in Diablo 2 when you had one or two Necros that had 900000 skeletons on Baal Runs along with 6 other different classes? MAJOR LAG.
And with all the explosive animations with these spells, the player reduction is a good idea!
Completely true. I'm willing to sacrifice it though. 4 players will allow for a more friendly environment and more team work.
i'm not...
that's fucking bull shiiiiit... horrible news to comeback to...
damn... how are me ferret Brett Winni magi suppose to it in a GAME?!?!? answer me that...
you guys need a crying smiley...
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes.
Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live
and let's change the way we treat each other.
You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do
what we gotta do, to survive.
Tupac Shakur
100% Legit baal runners
SICK_Bambi 93 Barb (46th barb)
SICK_Paladin 95 Necromancer (12th necro)
SICK_ferret 95 Assassin (10th sin)
~~us West Ladder~~
I guess we'll all just have to play in separate games. Which kind of sucks because I was looking forward to playing with more people and new people, but meh, it won't kill me I guess. I'll have to try it first.
Hopefully the new battle.net chat will be a lot better and maker up for it.
I'm now very happy with the choice of 4.
I would of been saddened to hear if it was 8 or higher - there would of been too many issues with that - mostly balancing.
"The max player limit isn’t set yet, but they’re thinking it might be just 4. They can add more, and it’s actually less stress on b.net to have more players in fewer games, but as Jay pointed out, more than 4 turns into total chaos, or else players are off in different parts of the same game. So the upper limit will probably be more about fun and party play than technical capability."
If that's true I'd like to see 5, or 6.
The fewer people the more you have to work together and get to know eachother.
i have more than 4 friends that means my other friends wont be able to play with me and my other friends.
I understand they did this to reduce the lag... but 4 players is way too low it should stick to 8.
if people were to lag on games.. then join a 4 game room easy as that.. you hve bad pc then join a room with 4 players or less you ahve good pc join the 8 player.. they should give us an option to limit player on rooms instead of this.
it's not our fault some people have crappy computers.
hey you can go play single player if you want to loot and kill all the monsters by yourself.