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Something made me laugh about all these early pre-orders.

I went to a EBGames(Gamestop) last summer(at the start of june) to buy an Xbox360 game, and the salesman offered me to pre-order Diablo3. I laughed a bit at him, saying "Shouldn't you offer me a pre-order for SC2, since it'll be released a lot earlier than Diablo3?" and his answer was: "I wouldn't be that sure of it, Vivendi sent us a notice that D3 should be released in January or February 2010".

So, I only said no thanks, as I understood that this salesman was simply REALLY poorly informed. Anyone following D3 news even just a little bit would already know it if Vivendi sent a notice for a D3 release date, even if it's just an estimation.

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Anyway, I told him that I'll take Diablo3 pre-order offers seriously only when Blizzard will announce Collector's Edition, and that I'll buy the Collector's.

We should'n't take any of these pre-orders seriously, except if you don't mind not being 100% sure to get your game... Of course it's "safe" but nobody knows what'll happen in this "at least" 1 year... I know it's not likely, but what if GameStop or the place where you pre-ordered it was to close because of financial problems, within the next year? Or if the list of pre-order is destroyed within this 1+ year?

I think it's really too early. Why would you pay that early for a game you'll only play in a year? To make sure to have the money when it's released? I'm sorry but there are a lot more(and safer) ways to make sure of that.

Well, I guess it's better that way than having some servers blowing up when it's released...

Or worst, laggy servers... :rolleyes:

And I would sleep with a peace in mind if every single interview with Blizzard wouldn't turn into a 'D3 is too cartoonish' or 'D3 is too WoWish' debate.

You see, not everyone can have peace in mind, eh?

Anyway, good read, keep on working on it to make a great game, and stop playing, so we can play faster!

Really great the new design, seriously. It looks more 'clean' and also I'm glad the forum toolbar is still there, looking at the screenshot I wasn't sure it would make the new design, and I often use the 'Quick Links' menu

The only "cons" I'd say, is that the width of the content frame doesn't adjust anymore with the screen resolution, that's a point that I really loved from the old design, but it really isn't important, just a personal opinion.

Good job, keep it going! :thumbsup:

hehe awesome

I wonder what the Ozzy's lineup will look like ^^

Damn, I knew the atmosphere at Blizzard's HQ was great, but now I know it's awesome!

Thanks for the insider, mockery. I wish you a lot of fun, and a lot of time on the booths tomorrow! Good luck!

And to Seth: Don't worry, I can't wait either!

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Just so you know, we WILL be holding live chats once again this year for ALL of the Diablo-related panels at BlizzCon. It was a huge success last year and everybody had fun getting the live up-to-the-minute updates, so we had to do it again. Make sure you're here on Diablofans at the appropriate times so you can join in the chatroom discussion with us!

Yeah, I went back on the post to see if I missed something, but he only said to come on Diablofans at the appropriate time, so I was almost worried

Damn, I knew the atmosphere at Blizzard's HQ was great, but now I know it's awesome!

Thanks for the insider, mockery. I wish you a lot of fun, and a lot of time on the booths tomorrow! Good luck!

And to Seth: Don't worry, I can't wait either!

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Ugh! I hate that there's all this news before BlizzCon. It's making me feel like there's going to be nothing new when I've been waiting so long. I've literally been blocking all the pictures, screenshots, and videos with my hand. I wanted it to be news with BlizzCon..

Dont worry, people only played a new version of the demo, and we're getting all excited over every little bit of news that we can extract from analyzing the videos. But at BlizzCon, we'll have the real announcements!

I dont know if you've seen any new announcement made by any developer during GamesCon, but Blizzard's staff seems to keep all their precious infos for their own conference, 2 days later!

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And for the MF, if it's coming back only in the form of shrines, or random buffs, I'll be really happy, I dont really want MF to be on gear anymore... It can be additionnal to some unique items, but I dont really want a 'Modifier' on items for MF...

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It seems we will not have pairs of gloves, but every glove/gauntlet by itself! Just my guess!

Awesome! With half the stats bonuses of the pair, when you wear only 1 glove!:confused:

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Is he going to perform his music and NOT WoW music?

If by 'WoW music' you mean the songs played by Level 80 Elite Tauren Chieftain, like "I am a murloc", "Rogues do it from behind", etc... They are played by a real band, formed of some members of Blizzard's staff. I'd be REALLY surprised to see Ozzy singing L80ETC songs at all...

http://www.wowwiki.com/L80ETC
(Go take a look at the 'Members' section, you'll have a surprise seeing the band members ^_^)

If there is any kind of God, IT'S TIME TO STRIKE!!! Both worlds'(Real world, and the other world they call 'Reality') super evil will be together! Just send a nuke or something, but they HAVE to blow up!

Seriously though, it's a good marketing, I'm just wondering how will Ozzy reach the BlizzCon site? The last time I saw him he wasn't able to move/walk/think, I think the only last thing working with this legend of rock, is his voice. Singing? No problem, you'll feel the energy from the debths of hell in the whole stadium. Walking? Standing? Not enough strength anymore... Please bring me a Frozen Throne or anything so I can sit on while singing.

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In WoW your weapon was more for stats to boost your spells more than the weapons itself. You would almost never auto attack it was spell after spell after spell.

I guess you played only a caster in WoW, because for any melee class, a weapon was a HUGE upgrade when you got a new one. Yes the stats were important, but the high end dmg/attack speed of the weapon was REALLY important for your auto-attack AND your skills in WoW.

And for a caster, it was less important, it was more for the stats, but they balanced it so caster weapons had less stats budget in the dmg, and instead it was giving tons of Spell Power, to increase the spells dmg, so the significance of a weapon is still there.

So you're right saying that it was more the spells doing the dmg, and obviously the auto-attacks are less important(except for rogues, where it's almost 50% of their dmg), but even in WoW, the weapons were a huge part of the dmg done by most classes.

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Very Lame if you ask me.

Its almost their trying to force you to play as a pure caster but bringing in skill runes to diversify things but the only thing is its going to create is there will be 1 rune that goes with a skill that is OP and every build will use it.

Blizzard needs to change their way of thinking.

So, you decided, without even trying 1 rune, that it would be extremely unbalanced, and in no way it would make your character different from others of the same class?

I'm sorry, I'm not buying this. The way you're speaking, Blizzard has no idea how to develop a game, and anybody who played any blizz game even 1 day could do a better job and balance everything better...

Playing some kind of skill-based rpg(like Ultima Online, where you dont have a class but hundreds of skills and you choose your 'class' only by using the skills you trained) it would make some sense, but in a class-based game, it's normal for some classes to have weapons limitations...

Of course it's good to have some customization possibilities, to try some unexpected builds... But IMO a wizard able to wear a 2hands sword/maul is completely BS and doesn't fit in any respected RPG... That's one of the thing that was totally nonsensical in Diablo2.

Very lame, if you ask me.