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I didn't put too much weight into what blizzard said before, but I have to tell ya they handled D3 very poorly. I'd almost have to go as far as say, lie.

Ya, this is what has me in a terrible mood with them. Look at FFxiv, worst launch of all time, ALL TIME! Yet, they still have my attention coming this fall because the producer has been completely open about the process and has provided constant updates, even on setbacks.

Having Bashtok troll the community is not the same. It leaves a feeling like there is something going on behind the scenes that is sinister or at least hidden from the public due to financial gain reasons. Like you said, it just feels like we are being lied to time after time with D3.

Im in beta, and I can tell you that I have canceled my pre-orders for D3. I might come back to the game if things dont keep getting chopped all the while the release date being pushed back time and time again. I could understand delays, if things were being added, but things are constantly being cut from the game, so I have no understanding of what the hell is going on other than conspiracy theory's.

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You'll have to wait untill they deliver it. For them to give you the key, they'd have to open your gamebox.

Well, looks like I wont be getting a CE then. Not a chance in hell Im waiting any longer than midnight to play.

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My impression is that the game should have been released years ago and if we didnt have to put up with the RMAH and battlenet crap with full time internet connection this game could have been epic. Instead, it will be solely based upon gathering items from the RMAH and any sense of accomplishment will be lost in the same way that accomplishment was destroyed in WoW with the release of Outland and beyond.

Every single person only months after the game releases will be walking around it the best of the best gear because it will too easy to acquire. Therefore, this game is already dumbed down and is already implementing the WoW platform of allowing every single person access to gear that before only those of us with dedication were able to acquire.

Its a sad state of affairs. Its basically World of Diablo. The death of the solo playing hack and slash RPG is almost here and the new age of pay to play has taken over because society simple cant wait for anything. Everyone wants everything, right now, for free and no work. The majority of you people make me sick. You have ruined MMO's and now your about to ruin RPG's.

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Do you even play games at all?

Oh dear. Please dont insult me.

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The difference is that Battlefield 3 is essentially the same game as Battlefield 2, with upgraded graphics. Blizzard did not reuse any of their assets from D2. The system is completely different, the engine, the graphics, everything. The graphics are not the focus, they may look out dated to you (whereas they look stylized to me) because the game was developed from scratch over a long period of time. This is why we have the quality that you see. The animations are smooth, all the skills are fully animated and look, feel, and are impeccably smooth.

You people need to go play some of the diablo clones out there that are just terrible when it comes to fluidity of gameplay (i.e. Mythos Global). There are so many little things behind the scenes that you don't see that are the result of countless hours of programming and system design. If you cannot appreciate the polish of combat in D3 then maybe you shouldn't bother wasting your time and money playing a game you've already decided is fail before even playing through the game.

Diablo 2 (or the genre) needed no work on the game play. The game play is the best and most addicting part of the game. The graphics are the part that always needed work.

How can anyone say the graphics are "impeccable, smooth and fully animated" when the Monk doesnt even use his staff to strike people?!? It just stays on his back the whole time while he throws punches. THIS IS GAME BREAKING IN MY IMMERSION. I just cant "get into it" when I see glaring mistakes on the graphical side like that. Its the year 2012 for god sake, let the monk swing the staff.

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I don't understand this thinking. This game looks great, I too have played through the beta as every class and I find the graphics to be excellent. What's the focus on the graphics anyway? This game has an isometric top-down view and everything looks very polished. There is no need for huge polygon counts and insanely realistic graphics. The focus is on the gameplay and the gameplay is fantastically satisfying. If your only complaint is graphics then you should just go play MW3 or Battlefield or some game like that with the graphics that you desire. Most of us are far more concerned with gameplay than how the game looks.

Why does the game have to be a "next-gen" style game to be successful? I have never been so addicted to a game from the first minute as I was with D3. And that is the most important thing in my opinion.

Its just as you said. More people flock to great looking games than games that looks old. (I keep making the compairison to Titan Quest. I dont see much graphical improvement in D3 to TQ, thats pathetic).

Would people flock to Battlefield if they never improved the graphics over that last generation?

You answered your own questions.

Terrible. Ive played the beta full through, all characters with the king kill and can confirm that this game feels old. It actively feels like your playing a game from 2000, titan quest like. Theres nothing that makes you feel like they've improved on the game play, but mostly its the way the game looks, even with maxed graphics the animations are just not what you would expect from a game to be released in the year 2012.

We all know that these delays are adding fail to this game, but the saddest part is that this game is a fail right out of the box because its not, nor is anywhere near being a next gen quality title.

The sad truth is that this game should have been released in this state at the very least 12-24 months ago with an expansion pack coming out at this time. A year or two from now we should have been hearing stuff about Diablo 4 starting but instead we are going to be stuck with a last gen game package for the next 3-4 years before we even start to hear anything about Diablo 4.

Lets just hope that they get Diablo 4 right, cause Im dissapointed as hell with D3.

Yep - And I played it and I can say I will play it more. WAY more testing needs to be done. For Science.

I GOT IN!

Whew! Time to test out this bad boy. This at least will keep me from bitching about the release date.

Its becoming more and more apparent that this game is going to be nothing more than a glorified D2 with RMAH added.

Seems to me this whole year delay has been nothing more that a delay to implement the RMAH system. One could say that the actual game of Diablo 3 is already a couple years old. Its certainly not "next gen", nothing apart from the RMAH that is.

Nope. No chance in hell. I canceled my pre-order in December because Im confident there will be another delay pushing it into a summer release.

I wouldnt expect them to announce a release date at the coming investors meeting. Just doesnt seem like a place to announce a release date to me. I bet they'll just also repeat the statement that they're trying for Q1 or maybe even just say early 2012, to reassure the investors a bit. It will all be in the wording to me. If they say Q1, they are still not sure but hopeful. If they say early, there will almost certainly be another small delay.

They're just reaching for the thesaurus now.... Nearing...

F***-OFF! Im nearing a meltdown hearing all the blizzard double speak.

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Given the new job posting to replace him, i'm guessing shit sin't finished and he walked out for whatever reason.

This is my impression too, combined with the "Bigger and Better things" comment which I'd bet was made in spite.