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To the 4 people who voted for "Blizzard-Hosted Store", if I ever saw you in real life, I would slap you in the face so hard. Dumb at its finest. <_<

Quote from Sixen

Blizzard-Hosted Store: Instead of having Blizzard attempt to crack down, or ignore item stores, they could simply open up their own "official" store, where everyone could potentially purchase items from. If item selling is going to be going on, Blizzard could use the money from this store to put into the game, to help make the game better for us. So in a sense, you'd be paying extra for some possible cool future things in D3.

Sixen, I'm disappointed. This has got to be the most braindead idea/suggestion ever. An official Blizzard item store... really?

Diablo is all about playing the game for what it is, and slowly working your way towards better gear. What would be the point of playing the game at all if Blizzard themselves already had an item store that sold every single item that could be found in the game?

In other words, why would you buy a game in order to spend even more money on made-up pixels just to be good in a made-up world? It's like saying if I hosted a basketball tournament, and I told all of the contestants that they could pay me $50 each to add 7 points to their final score. No one would want to play in my tournament for the mere fact that there is an uneven playing field for those who don't want to pay $50 to "win" at a trivial game. They'll just go find another "free" basketball tournament that is fair for everyone. The point of playing a game is to have fun and relax. If you "cheat" your way to winning (AKA by paying $$$), then it's not fun for anyone, including yourself.

Observe: Congratulations! You won the basketball game! But not because you worked hard at mastering your basketball skills. It's because you paid money to win! Not only do you lose your pride of "winning" because now everyone knows that you paid to win, which involved absolutely no skills at all, but now you're down $50 in the real world. There's absolutely 0 benefit. You won at a made-up game. So what? Again, congratulations!

Same thing for Blizzard games. If Blizzard started opening up official item stores, people will be discouraged to play their games, as no one will care if they are godly in a made-up world with made-up pixels. Anything that involves money for pixels in a "free-to-play" game, is just a stupid implementation. You'll have one population who spends money and has the godliest gear; then you'll have another population who refuses to spend money for pixels and thus are at a clear disadvantage. Eventually everyone will realize how stupid the game is, and they'll all quit the game.

The topic title is kind of misleading. I read the title and my first reaction was something along the lines of, "wtf, Blizzcon already started?". Even though most Blizzard fans know that Blizzcon starts in 2 days, I think the title should be rephrased to something like:

"Diablo III's PvP System to be Revealed at Blizzcon"

Anyways, I'm pretty glad that the Diablo team is actually putting substantial effort into making the PvP system work, and not just have PvP be tacked on to the final product. People love their co-op just as much as they love their PvP.

Thank God lol..

This feature should have been added in the many patches of D2 ages ago.

Quote from paroxysm2010

also, I dont know how well they rush proofed the game, but what if a level 24 gets to hell with help, can max certain skills to 15, go back and do what he needs to do in normal/nightmare

Blizzard's already mentioned (can't remember where) that "rushing" is an acceptable form of play. They have no problem with people helping their friends through the game. However, that's not saying that they possibly won't implement quest/skill bonuses that you lose out on if you get "rushed" instead of playing through normally.

Quote from "DesmondTiny" »

Well you can see your own hammers on your screen. Other people cannot though.

Yep, correct!

Quote from "CrazyCapnMorgan" »

Maybe it's me or mabye it's something to do with my comp, but when I used Magic Hammer in conjuction with those skills, my Hammers were never invisible. Though, I've not played on-line D2 so, just because I haven't seen it doesn't mean it hasn't happened. My solution to this - maximum speed cap. Make it so at some point, all characters, regardless of speed increases, travel at a certain max speed and fix Charges to a point where they travel at a certain speed.

The whole point of the charge glitch (aka desynching) is that you know where your own position is. But you are going so fast that other people can't keep up, so they are essentially attacking the position that they perceive, but you are long gone by then. =P

Quote from "Ivaron" »

I figured the female barb would look like a dyke, but she looks pretty hot actually - and that without making her unrealistic.

As for the graphics.. seriously, who cares? You still play D2 don't you?

Not entirely..

I play D2 for the trading aspect.
Trade on forums, login to do a quick trade, log back off.

The actual game is pretty worn out by now.

Quote from "maka" »

everybody keeps talking about how shiny new computers are expensive, and blizzard is making mid-level graphics to appeal to a large spectrum, etc etc....

let's be serious for a minute....until last month, i still had a Pentium4, and was able to play all the newest games (settings on 'medium', not even on 'low'), including Dragon Age: Origins and Modern Warfare 2. granted, i have a 9600GT graphics card, which is allright, but not spectacular. but even that wasn't expensive when i bought it, and it's even less now. so, to be honest, to me, that whole argument of "we're going easy on the graphics so you don't need a new PC to play it" sounds like a bit of a cop-out. any low-to-medium-range PC would most probably run D3 if it came out now....since we have at least another year to wait, maybe more, i think they're setting the bar a bit too low on this one. but that's just me....

so, no excuses, blizzard.

VOUCH

Blizzard take note of what this guy said,
we are not all running windows 95 with 128MB RAM and integrated graphics.

This is 2010, take a look at DiRT 2. Now that's a beautiful game.

Quote from "Hans" »

I think she looks sexy. I am afraid saying otherwise or she will beat me up :rolleyes:

The looks can still change. They may decide to tweak it later on. They may still want to limit some of the processes for the time being.

Besides we are likely not going to see them up close since most of the time well will be zoomed out in the regular game view.

I just hope the character selection screen doesn't show such low-res textured characters. D=

Quote from "Deltidsninja" »

As stated from blizzard many times , the characters are not meant to be seen from that close up angle. It still looks great from a in game angle.

I'm sure of it, and make no mistake, I'm as much of a D3 fan as anyone else on here.

The fact is, though, that even with games that were already released in 2009, the in-game close-up renders for those games are absolutely visually stunning, as opposed to the in-game renders of D3 that were shown so far.

Clothes/armor have contours, and it should be that way. Having one layer of texture represent a detailed piece of texture-filled article is just plain out unattractive. I'm sure it doesn't take too much extra processing power to make those fine adjustments, but it makes all the difference.

Compare the in-game render vs the concept art piece of the female barbarian, and you will see what I'm getting at.

DirectX 11.0 support please Blizzard.. -__-

I appreciate the effort, but the character details (polygon-ish shoulder pads/single-layer clothing designs) look cheap and of low-production value.