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Cool story bro, I'm going to walk away before I get pulled into the midst of your troll-nest.

You mad because he quoted the poll result?

This is the first sign of madness. Poor OP. I hope gets better

http://us.battle.net...-1_19_2012#blog

Enjoy

It is indeed a good news. People finally know what early 2012 means (thus cutting the summer release idea). It's not a set in stone quarter release, but it tells us that it didn't got delayed any further and tells us that at this moment it's still Q1.

Pretty sure before the next conference call we will hear something very very interesting!

I finally got an answer from Bashiok on the official forum of Diablo 3 if the early 2012 meant a Q1 :

Are far are you guys (generally) from being able to ship a game that is polished? In other words is it still an early 2012 planned release? (which quarter is planned would be most appreciated, not month, but quarter).

Because the way it sounds, it's like if there's still a lot of job left and that can scare a bit the people eh!

It's not much but I am happy he answered me

Link : http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3871117694?page=4#69

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so regardless of blizz officially stating multiple times the delay has NOTHING to do with south korea you still have your tin foil hat on and think conspiracy? lol

People will never believe Blizzard. They cannot believe it's a coincidence or a sum of things.... S. Korea + Delay in design + Delay in developing, etc = D3 pushed back. But because people only see the S. Korea issue, they think it's the cause....

Leave them be, if they are ignorant enough to take in considerations the other factors in the formula, well too bad

From the official Diablo 3 Beta F.A.Q. : http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/events/diablo3-announcement/index.html#beta:d3-faq

Will the progress I make during the beta test carry over when the game launches?
No, the purpose of the beta test is to ensure that the game and hardware infrastructure are ready to go as soon as possible. The main benefit of participating is being able to be among the first to play the game extensively prior to release. However, everyone will start on equal footing once the game is launched.

*cries*

Please tell me this is a nightmare... I don't want that type of AH. Do they know the type of problem it will create?

1- Most people will try to sell items for real money instead of ingame currency, so if you want an item, you won't be able to trade without the implication of real money

2- Bots : There will be even more bots now because the botters will be able to make money... in a "legit way"

3- Country tax income : How will Blizzard handle the fact that players makes money out of it and thus must pay tax to their country of residence for doing so.... Transaction even on the internet where you make "profit" is taxable.

4- "Hey dude, can I trade item X for item Y ?" "No, I'm going to sell it for money!" I bet you that will happen way more than you think.

450+ hours huh? Are you sure you're not just, I dunno... Bored of the game after spending most of the past couple months on it? With a release date of May 15th, that means there has been 66 days between the release of D3 and now.

66 * 24 = 1584 hours total
Minus 8 * 66 = 528 hours for sleep, gives us 1584 - 528 = 1056

1056 - 450 = 606

450 hours spent on the game, 606 not... I hate to break it to you, but you've spent almost half of your waking hours on D3 since release. I'm pretty sure anyone would call that a resounding success.

Surely if the game was so horrible, you'd have stopped playing about 400 hours ago maybe? Then your argument wouldn't seem so ridiculously flawed.

Oddly enough, I don't believe this topic has been addressed, and if it has, please let me know.

I've been doing some research about how dps works, and I think I have (sortof) figured it out. Most of this info is based on actual in-game numbers.

I'd like to start this off by saying damage is not DPS. This may seem obvious to most, but it's important to distinguish the two.

According to Jay Wilson, your damage is based on your weapon. Simple enough:


You can figure out your actual weapon DPS by

(W_lower+W_higher)*(W_speed_factor)/2

where W_lower is the lowest dmg your weapon can do, W_higher is the highest, and W_speed_factor is your weapon speed.

Or you can figure it out by simply looking at that giant number the game throws at you :). That settles damage and weapon DPS, but what about overall DPS? According to the game,




Interestingly, Blizzard has decided to include your crit factor and crit chance into your overall DPS. So I decided to try to figure out a formula for the whole thing, and this is what I've come up with:

(W_dps)+(W_dps * dmg_increase_factor) + (W_dps) * (crit_factor) * (crit_chance)

where W_dps is your weapon's dps, dmg_increase_factor is the factor by which your damage is increased (based on your primary attribute), crit_factor is your crit damage increase, and crit_chance is obviously your chance to crit.

My calculation isn't perfect unfortunately. It's about 0.2 off and I'm not exactly sure why. If anyone can figure it out, I'd love to know what I've got wrong.


As for equipping two weapons (duel wielding), there's a thread here on the matter and the formula is quite simple:

1.15*(W1_dps + W2_dps)/2

The output of this formula can be replaced by the W_dps in the previous formula. (Thanks chippydip and romique for the correction and clarification) The 15% increase is an incentive to use 2-handed weapons.

Hey everyone,

I'm not sure how reliable or trustworthy this website is, but I thought some people on the board might like to see this little bit of info.This site claims that a logistics guy confirmed that Blizzard has booked a holding area for a bunch of Diablo 3 boxes.

http://diablo3.gamona.de/2012/01/09/hot-news-diablo-3-release-vermutlich-ende-februaranfang-marz/

Google Translated
"Even though many fans think that Diablo 3 in this country certainly strike a meteor in the Cologne Cathedral is, we can present you first insure even realize that the daemon is traveling quite conventional - what we regard even at our source and the latest news the release date would be

As we learned today afternoon by a reliable person to be in the 7th and 8 Calendar week (yep, this year), tens, expect several meters high pallets packed with the Diablo 3 standard versions and collector's editions in a major international hub. The destination: the big German store chains like Media Markt, Saturn and how it all hot.

The shipping date could not disclose the source for understandable reasons, but if you take from 10-14 days, starting from large warehouse, it could be Diablo 3 end of February or early March in the stores. The so-called "gold" version and the manuals should therefore be straight in the press. Incidentally, we were also told that Diablo 3 was registered in November 2011 and was ever canceled again. KW 7 / 8 have also been booked under the reservation, but we go out assume that it works this time. As far as our current information. Once more we know about, of course, now there's an update.

Many thanks go to the bearer of good news!"