Maybe Blizzard is waiting to announce Diablo III so that all the WoW junkies can become addicted and never leave.
we're already addicted thing is most will prolly play both games.
they should definatly keep d3 on the same engine
if it happened i wouldnt buy it. I'm waiting for a new game and i expect a NEW game. No old crap in order graphics/gameplay. I dont want it like WoW tho, i expect it faster and surely more "mature".
"Point and click style" is what made Diablo so fun. It was simple for people who only had a couple hours a week to play and deep enough for those with no life, much unlike WoW. WoW = 2 full time jobs or don't play at all. D3 will hopefully maintain its fun factor and ease of play factor as well as offering as much depth as the I-HAVE-NO-LIFE-GAMER could ask for. That's what made D2 great.
I wonder if it has been pushed back so far because Blizz wanted to release it during the 64-bit OS era or if they were holding out for DX10 or both? Or maybe WoW demanded too much attention for any other project to be developed for the moment? I hate WoW....
i know of around 7 million subscribers in WoW. Till now, most people i've seen to say they hated WoW were the ones that werent able to play it for some reason (too cheap/poor to pay the monthly subscription for example) - and they're way less than the 7 million (real numbers) i just mentioned. To hate it theres no reason. Not to like playing it, there is but its a completely different thing, no?
Anyway, its "The Final Diablo 3 is Coming argument". Why talk about WoW? ^^
"The only argument I disagree with is that they say "Diablo 3 is a license to print money". Unless you've been under a very large rock the past year, Blizzard already has a license to print money, it's called World of Warcraft and it pulls in almost as much cash in a month as Diablo 2 has pulled in overall. The only question now is, is it worth it to sacrifice programmer power for a game that is going to generate more publicity than revenue? I imagine Blizzard has discussed the possibility of making Diablo 3 a MMO considering the success of their last shot at it."
I read this comment from that page and I disagree with what this person is saying. Does Blizzard necessarily need to sacrifice programming power to make another Diablo game? Isn't that what Blizzard North was founded for? I'm not sure however how I feel about Diablo being an MMO. I actually feel like you're sacrificing some quality in graphics and in-depth content to make an MMO that is designed to appeal to a wide mainstream audience.
you do know that a very big chunk of the 7-8 million wow-players are goldfarmers, most of them chinese. (there are 3,5 million chinese players out there, not all of em are goldfarmers though).
if the half of the server population were chinese farmers none would be there to buy the gold.
There are some farmers, as in all MMOs, but its mainly players.
Know how many of the recorded sales of the overall Diablo+Diablo 2 were re-purchases? I got the game 4 times, most of my friends over 2. Start dividing ^^
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i dont believe that developing Diablo 3 or whichever new game would take programming power since its different development teams. If you notice on the job-ops its "The team behind Diablo and Diablo II" etc thats hiring. Thanks to some of the WoW income too.
I have reason to believe that D3 should be released late 2008... apparently they were making it the past four years but encountered a problem and then had to start again.. so either late 2008 or early to mid 2009
note: don't qoute me because this is just what I hear from anon. sources
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BTW: People are entitled to their opinions to like or dislike WoW... personally it was to cartoonish for me.
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ofcourse there would,..the other half maybe???? lol
btw you dont have to argue this, its just a plain fact
i have to argue statements without valid points.
there arent as many as you'd think that actually buy gold on each server. As there arent as many (chinese) farmers as you'd think. I know that cause i play WoW for about 2 years now. There are gold selling companies, yes, but 95% of each servers accounts (at least) are real players, not some gold farming bots.
and i dont see any "facts" on ur posts, dude. Just saying something doesnt make it a fact. Especially about a game you havent played.
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BTW: People are entitled to their opinions to like or dislike WoW... personally it was to cartoonish for me.
indeed, but trying to convince people that a game is bad/sux etc just because they dont like it is plain stupid at best. Everyone has a reason not to like something - but its completely up to everyone's personal taste, nothing objective.
WoW may be cartoonish, but it has to be to be able to fit the entire world and items and spells and stuff into it as well as making it run as smooth as it can for the majority of users. Graphics aren't important as long as the game has excellent gameplay - which WoW has.
WoW may be cartoonish, but it has to be to be able to fit the entire world and items and spells and stuff into it as well as making it run as smooth as it can for the majority of users. Graphics aren't important as long as the game has excellent gameplay - which WoW has.
That actually makes sense. Lower detail can allow more room for a bigger more expansive world.
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(only in november 2006 more then 100.000 accounts where banned because of this and about 12 million illigal gold removed from european, american and korean servers).
these accounts arent included in the 7 million subscribers. Anyway, there are gold farmers/sellers, but we, the normal players/raiders keep reporting them and getting them out of the game.
About the amount on second thought there might be more than i first thought since it cant be that the same account plays on 2 servers at the same time and most sites do have farmers on every server on both factions. Anyway, from a little research the gold prices are going really high, which means that they get banned far more than they'd like to
i hope Blizzard uses a "Bind when used" thing or "binds when picked up" on the items to make sure that only the ones that put effort to play the game get the most valuable items. In general there are loads of things i want to see in Diablo 3 from WoW (not the graphics though, hold ur fire - and also not another MMO yet).
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we're already addicted
if it happened i wouldnt buy it. I'm waiting for a new game and i expect a NEW game. No old crap in order graphics/gameplay. I dont want it like WoW tho, i expect it faster and surely more "mature".
But yeah its going to be for the older crowd for sure.
Waiting for Diablo 3
I wonder if it has been pushed back so far because Blizz wanted to release it during the 64-bit OS era or if they were holding out for DX10 or both? Or maybe WoW demanded too much attention for any other project to be developed for the moment? I hate WoW....
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i know of around 7 million subscribers in WoW. Till now, most people i've seen to say they hated WoW were the ones that werent able to play it for some reason (too cheap/poor to pay the monthly subscription for example) - and they're way less than the 7 million (real numbers) i just mentioned. To hate it theres no reason. Not to like playing it, there is but its a completely different thing, no?
Anyway, its "The Final Diablo 3 is Coming argument". Why talk about WoW? ^^
i have a dream my friends, diablo3 will yet grace this earth. i have seen the light of the promised diablo3 and let me tell you, its on its way
I read this comment from that page and I disagree with what this person is saying. Does Blizzard necessarily need to sacrifice programming power to make another Diablo game? Isn't that what Blizzard North was founded for? I'm not sure however how I feel about Diablo being an MMO. I actually feel like you're sacrificing some quality in graphics and in-depth content to make an MMO that is designed to appeal to a wide mainstream audience.
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if the half of the server population were chinese farmers none would be there to buy the gold.
There are some farmers, as in all MMOs, but its mainly players.
Know how many of the recorded sales of the overall Diablo+Diablo 2 were re-purchases? I got the game 4 times, most of my friends over 2. Start dividing ^^
and back on topic:
i dont believe that developing Diablo 3 or whichever new game would take programming power since its different development teams. If you notice on the job-ops its "The team behind Diablo and Diablo II" etc thats hiring. Thanks to some of the WoW income too.
note: don't qoute me because this is just what I hear from anon. sources
(off-topic)
BTW: People are entitled to their opinions to like or dislike WoW... personally it was to cartoonish for me.
i have to argue statements without valid points.
there arent as many as you'd think that actually buy gold on each server. As there arent as many (chinese) farmers as you'd think. I know that cause i play WoW for about 2 years now. There are gold selling companies, yes, but 95% of each servers accounts (at least) are real players, not some gold farming bots.
and i dont see any "facts" on ur posts, dude. Just saying something doesnt make it a fact. Especially about a game you havent played.
indeed, but trying to convince people that a game is bad/sux etc just because they dont like it is plain stupid at best. Everyone has a reason not to like something - but its completely up to everyone's personal taste, nothing objective.
That actually makes sense.
these accounts arent included in the 7 million subscribers. Anyway, there are gold farmers/sellers, but we, the normal players/raiders keep reporting them and getting them out of the game.
About the amount on second thought there might be more than i first thought since it cant be that the same account plays on 2 servers at the same time and most sites do have farmers on every server on both factions. Anyway, from a little research the gold prices are going really high, which means that they get banned far more than they'd like to
Yes, but how many are "many"? If many implies more then 50%, then no it's not a fact.
This may have been an exception, I don't know, but usuallly when they ban people it includes everything, from hacking to gold buying and selling.
Happens in Diablo, and it happens in WoW as well, though hopefully the smaller dungeon groups remedied this in TBC.