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middle eastern-ish artworks looks sweet.

No matter how I look at it, auto stat's cons far outweigh its pros*.
in the end, each class will have a certain set of "best gear for that build" instead of Diablo II's "best stats AND gear" and in the end Gear was still far more important than stats stats anyways in Diablo II.
I just don't see what the problem is with keeping stats customization. It just adds more depth to character customization and that was never a bad thing.


*thank you for pointing that out SNowfreak.

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The video game industry is going better than ever. I suppose we might see some effects, but it doesn't seem like it'll be anything major.

with all due respect, I'd like to tell you that you're far from right PhrozenDragon.
Blizzard, like all gaming companies (& 90% of businesses), has been greatly affected by this financial crisis.
If you had any stocks in ActivisionBlizzard, or have been keeping an eye out on their stock prices you'd know that they went down from around $34 USD from when they first joined, all the way down to $8 USD today... that's a pretty harsh fall for a giant like Blizzard, and even the release of WoW: WotLK wasn't able to save them.

The gaming industry is just as threatened by the financial crisis as any industry if not more so than the others. People aren't able to dish out $60 for every game they want any more. Also investors are pulling out and running with as much, or as little as they can right now, and I bet you if you look at the figures of WoW subscribers you'll see that Blizzard will loose at least 2 million subscribers within this quarter.

My worries about Diablo III aren't based on nothing my friend, they're legitimate, very legitimate.

... the lack of real Diablo III updates is killing me slowly

I just hope the development speed doesn't slow down because of the financial crisis.

its not what I had in mind for a Diablo III related Xmas gift, but I'll take it

They will wait for a big gaming even to release something.
whether we like it or not, that's how they're gonna do it.
they wont make any big announcement like a class announcement via site updates. That's pretty much a fact.
They're going to wait for either one of their own events, or a big gaming event, and make sure they have all eyes on them when they make a big announcement like that.
It's all marketing and advertisement.

I wouldn't say that act 1 is completely finished.
It's mainly done, but Blizzard will keep going back and revising it, adding new things if they need to. Update certain areas, etc.

But yes, the main part is done. and they're probably 3/4 done with the main part of act 2 as well.

From what I understand Blizzard is working on the game in an act to act basis, so they finish with one act then they go on to the next. That being said, "finishing" the act probably just means finishing the terrain part of it for Blizzard and that probably includes the terrain for the Adventure mode as well.

Awesome stuff!!
Had to clear cache a couple of times before I got it to work, but it looks amazing.
Unfortunately though I don't consider this a real update I hope they come up with a real update soon.
or at least a new wallpaper with the female wizard.

Quote from name="Elfen Lied" »

Damn I've been away to long, there was a guy here and I can't for the life of me remember who he is nut hehas informed us the date of release is 09/09/09. Not sure if it's at 9am though. I never asked. I do hope he is right though.

That was the Dol rune theory I believe.
I still don't understand why people still believe in that, even though by the time it was posted here on Diablofans the author of that theory had already said it was all just a big joke he felt like playing on the Diablo community.
Also, all the numbers behind his theory where made up.

this isn't a new game, its a sequel.
A huge delay like that will only do harm to it.

nice we finally get avatars

cool Ideas.

What I want is a Boss that will actually come at you with all he's got. Most RPG bosses hold back or have predictable attack patterns. I think Diablo III should move away from that formula and make a more spontaneous boss that wont hold back and will actually make chase after you if you try to escape.

My biggest fear of all is that Diablo III will have those button pressing sequences that appear a lot in GoW games.

My interest in Diablo III is quickly dying because of the lack of real updates.

The color just doesn't cut it for me.

I do want to see a plain black shirt with the three stripes on it and Diablo's skull face sort of showing through the stripes.

I wish blizzard would put something on their site to measure their progress on the game percentage-wise, but I doubt that will ever happen in my lifetime