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One of the things I loved from Diablo games was the sense of ownership I got from all of my rare loot, I mean that after looting, hunting for gems and collecting everything Ï needed I would be able to craft one awesome piece of equipment, and then having a great feeling of achievement.

I would like that in Diablo III this customization of Items to be deepened, to see a more expanded crafting system that allows me to customize every aspect of the item, like how it looks, what type of benefits it gets, with also the ability to brand the Items with it's creator name.

With that item trading could get a different kick out of it, I can imagine seeing an item that I made and being able to say "hey I made that", also if there were any kind of player corpse looting, the champion of a duel would get something more as a trophy, a piece of equipment with his adversary name on it.

I loved the book too! and all its characters, now I'm trying to get a copy of Moon of the Spider as the events in that book happen after those of Kingdom of Shadow.

One thing tho..., I don't want to be too spoilerific, but all of us who already read the book know what happens to Ureh in the end, so in which way are we getting Ureh in Diablo III? Maybe this is a hit to time travel in D3, are we going back in time to see "The Light among Lights" in its former glory? Or just as a ruined city in the middle of a Jungle? Although in the pic it does not look ruined at all.

Meh I want answers!

This is great!

I actually went to read the book when it was suggested from the cinematic that this was Ureh, and gotta say I'm glad I read it, awesome book.

And now having Ureh in Diablo III we can be sure we will see some returning characters from Kingdom of Shadow, more so after reading this:

Quote from Jay Wilson »

"We also tried to focus a little more on bringing characters back, and not just from Diablo II but from Diablo I," he said. "We feel like a lot of the focus is on Diablo II but Diablo Istarted it all and has a lot of really good stuff on the gameplay side and on the character side. So people can expect to see characters from Diablo I, more characters from Diablo II, and characters from some of the books. We're definitely going to bring a few of them in."

I'm more than sure that we are going to see Zayl as an NPC with Humbart (Hopefully! :D) and it would be nice to have Kentril as well.

The guys at Xfire have begun updating their live blog

http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_wwi08/

I like some pc gamers said have started to do de pee-pee dance

Woot! It's all really close now!

Have fun MD!, and if you are bored and find yourself alone with nothing to do...., you can always break into the conference room before tomorrow and get some first hand information about Diablo III

Quote from "niceguyeddie" »

this has just been posted on the diabloii.nets news section

We have just recieved the press schedule for WWI and there is one interesting thing to note. After the main presenation which runs between 11:45 and 1PM, Blizzard will be holding a press conference. This raises the question, why hold a press conference straight after unless something rather psecial was going to be announced. We already know about StarCraft 2 and Wrath of the Lich King, and we know there will be developer Q&A sessions with those devs throughout the day. Could we be on the verge of a Diablo 3 announcement?

Next week four of us will be at the event reporting directly back to you here at Diabloii.Net so if something rather special does emerge, you'll be getting the scoop right here

sound promising even if i do say so myself

My heart just gave a jump, please Blizzard...OHHHHHH please don´t break it again :(.

The 28th will be a really slow day to come

Quote from "grotesquity" »

How is it a bad thing?

I can see it as a bad thing in the way that you don´t actually own anything, you do have the rights to play the game but physically you don't have anything like booklets box art etc...

But for those who want the commodity of getting the game in a couple of minutes from home without moving a finger it is a good thing, I guess it's a matter of choice

It stoped for me as well (GMT-4:30 Caracas) and I have the tab in auto refresh every 5 mins :P, everytime I check it I´m hoping to see something great

Quote from "Magistrate" »

Or WCIII. I believe it mentioned WCIII tourneys on the xFire page or the WWI page. Maybe I'm wrong?

I hope you are wrong because you are taking my hopes and stabbing me in the kidneys with them

Quote from "Veltras" »

Don't forget that WWI has been rated 16 and older, and that Diablo is the only Blizzard franchise rated mature.

I'm telling you people it's a conspiracy from Blizzard, they're just playing with our minds to make us go crazy before bludgeoning us with something even crazier. There's apparently no reason for them to announce D3, but still every evidence are pointing in that direction.

And the fact that they have 3 main hall rooms this year to "to accommodate" the fans, if one is for WoW WotLK, the other for SC2 the last one has got to be for Diablo III

Quote from "ZMDI" »

I'd say your wrong. I'd say that's a procedure for assuring that they're still legally using the Diablo trademark which must be filed 6 months from the notice of allowance. The fact that it's a *second* extension only means that there was another one before that, extending the trademark for more 6 months, and it's not necessarily related to Diablo 2 + expansion. Plus, that's a request from May 2007 so it doesn't prove much, other than blizzard not wanting anyone else using the name diablo.

Uhhm well you could be right I don´t understand most of this legal stuff, one thing tho´ the notice for the request is dated May 2007 but the date of the approval is dated 19 Apr, 2008...

Maybe I´m seeing too much into it because I really crossing my finger about all the recent news

Quote from "grotesquity" »

Anybody seen this info on Diablo from the USPTO?

http://tmportal.uspto.gov/external/portal/tow?SRCH=Y&isSubmitted=true&details=&SELECT=US+Serial+No&TEXT=78770575#

Has anybody paid any attention to this?

As I see it look really important

SERIAL NUMBER: 78/770575
MARK: DIABLO
OWNER: Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
EXTENSION REQUEST NUMBER: 2 NOTICE OF ALLOWANCE DATE: May 8, 2007

Extension request? and a second one, if the first one would be Diablo 2 with its expansion, then the second one would have to be Diablo III

Correct me if I´m wrong but this seem like a really important lead!

Nice job grotesquity :thumbsup:

Quote from "niceguyeddie" »

well were still wating for md's sources to enlighten us on the situation with any luck md will have some news soon (fingers crossed )

Update (3pm): The XFire WWI page has been edited, removing the Game Announcement part.

- If you are wondering, I contacted my XFire liaison around noon. No response as of 3pm.
- Also one of my Blizzard liaisons. Blizzard has not made any press releases concerning a Game Announcement.

He just updated the front page

I´m convinced that this was completely on purpose, the last couple of years even at the last conventions we never had the amount of "slip off" and rumors about an announcement as we do now, one and each of this slip off and rumors have the smell of sulfur about them.