About a possibility? Yes please! Let's stress about EVERY possibility of ANYTHING that might happen in D3. Except the one about waypoints, of course, since their implementation in D3 has been confirmed by the devs.
I was just pointing out that there's a thread of cryposts based on an uninformed assumption presented as a fact. But please, be my guest and make some more WoW references in a derogatory manner if that makes you 'happy' about the unexisting possibility of wps being 'nerfed'.
They nerfed the TPs, and now if they nerf WPs, what's next? Nerfing my 640x480 resolution and nerfing my baalrun-grindfests? Oh god!
I get what you're saying; that we only accept WPs and TPs as necessary because we're so used to them from Diablo II, and that if we had never played it in the first place, we'd have no feelings whatsoever on whether or not Tps and WPs were in the game.
But that mentality is silly, because we play games for enjoyment. Normal people will play a game and decide that it is "good" and that it makes them happy. People more interested in games, like us, and people interested profiting off us, try to break down the components of gaming into individual, observable parts so that we can better understand the exact qualities a "good" game inherently has, (that being any game that makes one happy) and furthermore to exploit them in order to interpret the actions as a positive stimulus in the brain and thus enjoy life more. Some people may have interpreted the fast-travel system in Diablo II as a component yielding positive stimuli, and look forward to it in Diablo III. With that said, whoever was complaining about Diablo III's possible removal of the fast-travel system was completely free to do so.
And yeah, I suppose it can be frustrating when people react so visibly to rumors, but that's part of the dramatic appeal of hyping a product and I can see why he'd do that, consciously or subconsciously.
The exact same thing happened to me about a week ago. I had D2 Loader installed and upon launching the game with it (no map hacks, no nothing, just clicked the shortcut I always clicked) I found myself banned within hours.
The Cult of Moar. It seems like devs ask themselves this less and less. "Do we actually need this? What does it contribute?" in favour of "This is an awesome feature we can market!", lens flaer and just plain moar. To me, gaming started dying when it became too alive. It's almost like it had it's childhood, with boundless potential and imagination, a playful child at a stream. Now it's grown up, disillusionised, working at choice-free McDonalds. All we have to look forward to now is retirement.
Wheter it's going to be one of those cool old people that jump from bridges and skydives, or stuck in a retirment home pooping itself - that's for the future to say.
Are you just trying to be mean? You know, someone shot up 13 people in New York after people made fun of his English. People take that kind of thing personally.
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But that mentality is silly, because we play games for enjoyment. Normal people will play a game and decide that it is "good" and that it makes them happy. People more interested in games, like us, and people interested profiting off us, try to break down the components of gaming into individual, observable parts so that we can better understand the exact qualities a "good" game inherently has, (that being any game that makes one happy) and furthermore to exploit them in order to interpret the actions as a positive stimulus in the brain and thus enjoy life more. Some people may have interpreted the fast-travel system in Diablo II as a component yielding positive stimuli, and look forward to it in Diablo III. With that said, whoever was complaining about Diablo III's possible removal of the fast-travel system was completely free to do so.
And yeah, I suppose it can be frustrating when people react so visibly to rumors, but that's part of the dramatic appeal of hyping a product and I can see why he'd do that, consciously or subconsciously.
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