What is everyone expecting / wanting to happen at Blizzcon for Diablo 3? I am putting a lot of weight on this blizzcon especially that it is the first blizzcon to happen after the RoS announcement and the launch of Diablo 3. This next month I will wait to receive news about Diablo 3 which will ultimately persuade my decision to purchase RoS.
Things I that would factor into my buying RoS would be three simple requests. (not simple by design but simple as in reasonable)
* chat channels
* open world
* ladder
If neither of these are announced then RoS can kiss my ass good bye :*)
There are so many unanswered questions - details about how loot runs and nephalem trials work, how paragon 1.0 scales to 2.0, what the adventure mode is exactly, the future of "monster power", what's that torment difficulty, and my main question - what's their vision of RoS game mechanics, as the insane skill damage increase (quadrupled for some skills) left me with a lot of questions. I don't need any new stuff, I'm fine if they just answer everything, elaborate on some details and announce the beta. More stuff means more delays, I want to see it getting close to the finish line, not blown up to infinity. But that's just me...
Regarding your "requests": Ladder has been implicitly confirmed since blueposters talked about them quite a few times. Chat channels would be a Battle.Net feature, not a RoS thing. Open world makes me wonder if you confuse D3 with an MMO. The D3 MMO was cancelled in 2007, and it ain't coming back for now, so no idea what you mean by open world, but if that's your main deciding factor for a purchase decision you can go ahead and buy something else for that money... for example, any MMO, as they have all these three features.
There are so many unanswered questions - details about how loot runs and nephalem trials work, how paragon 1.0 scales to 2.0, what the adventure mode is exactly, the future of "monster power", what's that torment difficulty, and my main question - what's their vision of RoS game mechanics, as the insane skill damage increase (quadrupled for some skills) left me with a lot of questions. I don't need any new stuff, I'm fine if they just answer everything, elaborate on some details and announce the beta. More stuff means more delays, I want to see it getting close to the finish line, not blown up to infinity. But that's just me...
Regarding your "requests": Ladder has been implicitly confirmed since blueposters talked about them quite a few times. Chat channels would be a Battle.Net feature, not a RoS thing. Open world makes me wonder if you confuse D3 with an MMO. The D3 MMO was cancelled in 2007, and it ain't coming back for now, so no idea what you mean by open world, but if that's your main deciding factor for a purchase decision you can go ahead and buy something else for that money... for example, any MMO, as they have all these three features.
D'oh! My bad. I have no idea why I couldn't make the connection between open world and travel between acts. Sorry.
Well, in that case I wouldn't mind that either, but afaik there was a clear "no" to travel across acts in one of Josh's interviews at Gamescom. It would make me happy if I'm wrong on that, though ;-)
but afaik there was a clear "no" to travel across acts in one of Josh's interviews at Gamescom. It would make me happy if I'm wrong on that, though ;-)
It was something that he discussed with ArchonTheWizard on one of the streams a while back. It was part of the "that's cool hush hush we can't say much else" group of topics.
I hope they show us a lot more completed legendary items. These affixes are nice, but I want the whole picture. Also more talk on how they're improving itemization. Actually, just tell us, once and for all, if there are caps on trifecta or not.
In regard to "open-world," there were a number of datamined instances of "world maps," and "adventure mode" is rumored to be a sort of non-story mode, where you can jump around Acts, with bosses potentially still in place. So even if it's called something different, it still might come to fruition.
Which I think would be great. I have no problem starting at various locations along the story, and just playing sections, I've been doing it since launch and it's fine...but having more freedom to jump around to different Acts at any time during a run would be very fun. Especially with the extra stuff, like Nephalem Rifts (formerly Loot Runs), Nephalem Trials (who knows if that's going to get a rename as well), and Bounties! That should be pretty fun.
I don't know...I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that don't want anything resembling MMOs in Diablo 3, but if it provides more activities to do, I'm all for it. D2 had a lot of stuff to do, but it was mainly "things people did," not so much formal activities. Whereas, D3 looks to be getting both.
I just cannot imagine how they are going to have no auction house, four player games and a tiny chat screen to manage and account for the build up of gold and items that people will collect through a non ladder system. This will be fun to listen to at blizzcon.
The only way that works in my mind is a Diablo 2 Ladder where people can create game titles with 7 other players and also have a way to buy and sell gold between players with Blizzard's security supervision. Just allow 3rd party sites to do the job of auction houses if people seriously need it. Players would just meet ingame to make the exchange after they item is sold. I've seen that work many times.
Nephalem Rifts
Nephalem Trials
Loot 2.0
Balanced item affixes
Balanced class skills
New class skills
Crusader
Gheed's Machine
Bounties
The Devil's Hand
Clans
Re-tooled trade chat
Removed AH's
Brand new legendaries
Brand new legendary affixes
World map with markers (probably for finding the devil's hand items)
Transmorgification
Dye-able legendaries
Reforging stats
New legendary / regular crafting mats
Torment difficulty
New BoA rules to pull items out of circulation
New monsters
New champion affixes
More engaging combat
(whatever else I forgot because holy shit there's a lot)
VANITY PETS!
New 'cow level'
Paragon 2.0!
How can an event prove your (subjective) experience of something you haven't experienced? O.o
Well ok, proof is a too strong word. But still, you get the point: I want to see real solutions to all the matters that made Diablo III disappointing in the long run.
You can't assess potential long-term motivation by watching any announcement. Even if they show you 5 hours of RoS footage you won't be able to tell if you would get bored after 300 hours of RoS or if you're still happy after 1000+ hours. D3 at Blizzcon, no matter how much they present, will and can only be a teaser - if it sparks your interest, buy the game and find out yourself.
You can't assess potential long-term motivation by watching any announcement. Even if they show you 5 hours of RoS footage you won't be able to tell if you would get bored after 300 hours of RoS or if you're still happy after 1000+ hours. D3 at Blizzcon, no matter how much they present, will and can only be a teaser - if it sparks your interest, buy the game and find out yourself.
That is exactly what I aim to do, even regardless of Blizzcon.
The point is: currently I've played over 400h in Diablo 3. That is a shitload of game time given how much I've paid for it. But given how much I paid for Diablo 2 and how much time I've spent in Diablo 2... Diablo 3 is bad by comparison. So I really do hope that Blizzcon will give me good reasons to believe that RoS will be to Diablo 3 what LoD was to Diablo 2... An expansion that made the whole game as good as we loved it.
So because you haven't spent as much time in D3 in less than 2 years as you have in D2 over 10+ years, D3 is bad by comparison?
You can't assess potential long-term motivation by watching any announcement. Even if they show you 5 hours of RoS footage you won't be able to tell if you would get bored after 300 hours of RoS or if you're still happy after 1000+ hours. D3 at Blizzcon, no matter how much they present, will and can only be a teaser - if it sparks your interest, buy the game and find out yourself.
That is exactly what I aim to do, even regardless of Blizzcon.
The point is: currently I've played over 400h in Diablo 3. That is a shitload of game time given how much I've paid for it. But given how much I paid for Diablo 2 and how much time I've spent in Diablo 2... Diablo 3 is bad by comparison. So I really do hope that Blizzcon will give me good reasons to believe that RoS will be to Diablo 3 what LoD was to Diablo 2... An expansion that made the whole game as good as we loved it.
So because you haven't spent as much time in D3 in less than 2 years as you have in D2 over 10+ years, D3 is bad by comparison?
Okay then.
I think that he obviously mans by time spent, playing time/real time.
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Things I that would factor into my buying RoS would be three simple requests. (not simple by design but simple as in reasonable)
* chat channels
* open world
* ladder
If neither of these are announced then RoS can kiss my ass good bye :*)
Regarding your "requests": Ladder has been implicitly confirmed since blueposters talked about them quite a few times. Chat channels would be a Battle.Net feature, not a RoS thing. Open world makes me wonder if you confuse D3 with an MMO. The D3 MMO was cancelled in 2007, and it ain't coming back for now, so no idea what you mean by open world, but if that's your main deciding factor for a purchase decision you can go ahead and buy something else for that money... for example, any MMO, as they have all these three features.
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I am not confusing D3 with an MMO.
Well, in that case I wouldn't mind that either, but afaik there was a clear "no" to travel across acts in one of Josh's interviews at Gamescom. It would make me happy if I'm wrong on that, though ;-)
Can't say I'll be reporting anything that weekend, though
It was something that he discussed with ArchonTheWizard on one of the streams a while back. It was part of the "that's cool hush hush we can't say much else" group of topics.
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Which I think would be great. I have no problem starting at various locations along the story, and just playing sections, I've been doing it since launch and it's fine...but having more freedom to jump around to different Acts at any time during a run would be very fun. Especially with the extra stuff, like Nephalem Rifts (formerly Loot Runs), Nephalem Trials (who knows if that's going to get a rename as well), and Bounties! That should be pretty fun.
I don't know...I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that don't want anything resembling MMOs in Diablo 3, but if it provides more activities to do, I'm all for it. D2 had a lot of stuff to do, but it was mainly "things people did," not so much formal activities. Whereas, D3 looks to be getting both.
The only way that works in my mind is a Diablo 2 Ladder where people can create game titles with 7 other players and also have a way to buy and sell gold between players with Blizzard's security supervision. Just allow 3rd party sites to do the job of auction houses if people seriously need it. Players would just meet ingame to make the exchange after they item is sold. I've seen that work many times.
Nephalem Trials
Loot 2.0
Balanced item affixes
Balanced class skills
New class skills
Crusader
Gheed's Machine
Bounties
The Devil's Hand
Clans
Re-tooled trade chat
Removed AH's
Brand new legendaries
Brand new legendary affixes
World map with markers (probably for finding the devil's hand items)
Transmorgification
Dye-able legendaries
Reforging stats
New legendary / regular crafting mats
Torment difficulty
New BoA rules to pull items out of circulation
New monsters
New champion affixes
More engaging combat
(whatever else I forgot because holy shit there's a lot)
VANITY PETS!
New 'cow level'
Paragon 2.0!
ROS IS BOUT TO BLOW OUR MINDSSSSSSSS
I want to know more about Jamella's return in RoS.
All I know about that chick is that she enabled a whole bunch of heroes to go around with hacked items
But really, the one thing I'd love to hear the most is a hint about a cow level...
How can an event prove your (subjective) experience of something you haven't experienced? O.o
You can't assess potential long-term motivation by watching any announcement. Even if they show you 5 hours of RoS footage you won't be able to tell if you would get bored after 300 hours of RoS or if you're still happy after 1000+ hours. D3 at Blizzcon, no matter how much they present, will and can only be a teaser - if it sparks your interest, buy the game and find out yourself.
So because you haven't spent as much time in D3 in less than 2 years as you have in D2 over 10+ years, D3 is bad by comparison?
Okay then.
I think that he obviously mans by time spent, playing time/real time.