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Quote from "hyde" »

Have you all seen the post "Y'all best be trollin'"?? That guy completely destroys the patch, and Bashiok does agree with him. Its in the latest blue-tracker, i suggest y'all have a gander

Bashiok responds with "I hear ya". That's just his way of saying he acknowledges the opinion, not that he's in agreeance. I believe you misinterpreted it.

The patch definitely doesn't meet my expectations. I didn't even have that high of expectations. I was hoping for more balancing of the characters. Though, Respec'ing adds quite a bit of game play variety. Now you can splurge your points into low level skills instead of strategizing your skill tree for the later levels. The first 30 levels should be more interesting.

Still not enough changes to get me playing again.

Quote from "USNSEALs" »

Whoa, Equinox... lot of hostility from you lately and short answers.
What happened to the Equinox I originally saw post?

OK, 1200 was all the bills + ISP. Whoa, buddy... 1200 for ISP?
I come from Chicago - the neighborhood I grew up in you ate every few days, and it wasn't something enjoyable either. $400 goes a long ass way for 4 people.

1,600 between 4 = 400 = 240 left for each person at the end of every month
Not bad when you're 16
Put %ages in if you want. I'm not on CNN in a life or death argument.
Either way, we were saving a nice amount of money for 20 hour work weeks doing retail.

Quote from "USNSEALs" »

ISP costing 1200

I figured that was insanely high. Then I thought, well I don't know his age, so maybe that pricing was a decade ago when internet wasn't as accessible. It makes more sense now.

I don't really believe the eat every few days, oh well. I know the exact amount isn't really important. Though, you're still not calculating taxes. As that immediately steals %20 of your gross. Which actually places your combined profits of $2080. Whatever though. I believe you had some spare change.

Quote from "Equinox" »

How bad or not the lag is subjective, but I always hear Hardcore players saying that surviving the lag is a part of Hardcore. If lag is so bad that it affects Hardcore gameplay, there is a problem, and it also accepts the majority of players.

Another example is StarCraft. It lags in a different way, it doesn't "black out" like Diablo does, leaving you totally clueless of what's going on. Or make it so that you have to wait 5 minutes before selling something. And that's in solo multiplayer games.

I played Lan Diablo II games, the lag is nowhere near as comparable. It's not me, it's the server. I don't know where it comes from or why people get it or not get it, but it's there, and, because of it, you cannot say that SP DII = MP DII in a private game.

OT: and why did you stop replying to my PM's?

Well as I stated before, maybe things have changed dramatically in the last year. I've never had such issues. I could see hardcore being a problem, for there are problems where the lag could potentially kill you. I guess I didn't think of it from a HC aspect. The laggiest part in the game is with Baal's minions from what I remember.

OT (what's OT?) Sorry, I will get right on the PMs. It just takes so much concetration for me to type e-mails or PMs to people. I sort of stress myself out typing them. You know me, always trying to figure out what to say. Expect 8 pages tomorrow

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Quote from "USNSEALs" »

Vladdracul, what's 640 x 4?

You still don't add up very well.

$400 on food for 4 people? I highly highly doubt everyone lived off of $3.33 for food everyday.

20hrs
X $8/hr
X 4 weeks in a month
%20 in taxes
$520 that you earn in 30 days.

300 for ISP(1,200/4)
+150 AT least for food
450

$520 your earnings
-450 your costs
$70

70$ left over not including any of your rent/utilities/extra activities?

Still doesn't add up very well. You spend more than you earn. I'm not sure where your math is.

Quote from "Equinox" »

Can we please cut it out with this idiocy?

The lag is Bnet-based. It's Blizzard's Lag. It's the server lag. IT'S NOT THE GODDAMN ISP ALREADY.

I havn't played Diablo II for several months. I don't remember there being much lag, if any. That was just from my experience. Maybe they've lessened their support for the game. The way you talk about the lag though, it sounds like it's much more of a burden for you than most people. Maybe you should be a little more acceptive of the possibility that it's a network thing on your side. I think that's a reasonable thing to suggest.

Quote from "Choad_Sac" »

I cant believe, and am quite impressed truthfully, that blizzard still pays for WC, SC, and D2 servers to operate when those games havent delivered any real revenue in years.

You do realize Diablo II and Starcraft are still one of the top selling retail games? That is REAL revenue. As of Jan 2006 Starcraft is the #3rd best selling PC game EVER selling 8 million units. As of May 2007, Starcraft has sold 9.5 million copies globally. That's 1.5 million units sold in a year and a half or so. So.. yeah.. wrong. Sources:
http://www.playnoevil.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1252-Starcraft-Total-Sales-How-long-is-the-Long-Tail.html
http://www.gamefactsheet.com/home.php?id=bestselling_pc_games_ever
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarCraft

For me, multiplayer is one of the most addictive aspects of Diablo II. If I actually look at the game as a whole, it's really not that great of a game. It's a very simplistic limited experience. Multiplayer opens up an entire realm of possibilities. Co-Op is one of the only things that has kept me playing Diablo II for as long as I did. Single player would bore the hell out of me. The length of the game is very very short.

I'm sort of confused about the relationship between the question and the response. Araya was discussing the flaws of multiplayer and the quests. The creator of a game limiting the joiners experience by doing the quests. Bashiok sort of went in a different direction.

Edit: I guess more that I read it the more I see the relevance. I just originally interpreted it as a online quest question, than asking about the appeal of battle.net.

The very first game I've ever seen introduce these wounded states was Final Fantasy Mystic Quest for the SNES. Ever since then I've always really liked the idea. Once you got them down to a certain health, they'd have bandages and scratches all over their face. It's an interesting concept. I'm really curious to see how it plays out. I could see it being really immersing.

A bit of a flamer aren't you. You could have argued about the pre-order, instead you chose to flame me with empty irrelevant insults. That sort of concludes this little conversation. Anytime you'd like to make a confession about your pathological behavior, I'll be waiting.

Quote from "Dimebog" »

Can you be any more immature. :rolleyes: You make the WoW community look like a summit of intellectuals in comparison.

You know, just because you didn't have the money to pay for the subscription and switched to D2 instead because it was free doesn't mean that you are a 'fan' in the true sense of the word. And you are one of those, I can tell it from here.

Would you like to post your receipt of the pre-order? You're welcome to mspaint and cross out any personal information. That's what I thought. What I said was correct, you didn't preorder the game. You're just another e-kid with an obsession to lie frequently.

You didn't preorder a game a year or more in advance. That'd be just stupid. And if you want to defend something stupid, go for it. What is this nonsense about WoW you keep spewing. That's a completely irrelevant flame. I'm calling you out on a lie. You're lying. Get it? Got it? Good.

He didn't actually pre-order the game. He pretended to pre-order it because he felt like it would be some kind of contribution to the thread. All kiddies lie on the internet.

Quote from "Jordan_L" »

I always wondered why FSS divided the teams and split the focus amongst Hellgate and Mythos, when at the time, Hellgate should have had all of the attention, especially in the state it was in.

They didn't divide the teams genius. The developer site in seattle came along after production of Hellgate London started. It's a completely seperate studio led by Travis Baldree of "Fate" fame.

Quote from "Blaten13" »

i like how the majority of the people that are bitching are the just registered people.
Im glad that the real fans and long time members of this community understand what is going on and are not being asshats like the new people.

i have checked in on this community just about every day for the past 2 or 3 years. though i never registered cause there was nothing i could say that everybody else hadnt said already. but now i felt the need to say. stop yelling at the folks who run this. they did good.

"dont bite the hand that feeds you"

they constantly give you information and insider views of blizzard and the diablo story and all that. and every single time they do, someone complains....i say just stfu. if you dont want to hear it then you dont have to read any of their posts.

so thank you to the entire crew here for hosting this community and giving your time and effort to keep us all informed of the latest news. you guys rock.

I slightly agree. I don't think it's necessary to try and demean any of the administration. These are people who've invested alot of time and effort to keep this website alive. I think it's extremely cowardly for a 1 poster to jump in, throw some insults at the admins, and leave. It just proves how masked the internet world is, very little integrity these kids have. Don't lose focus on what people are complaining about. It's disappointment in the announcement, it has very little to do with administration. So you can't defend point A by an irrelevant point B.

For those of you who are upset about the announcement, give one good reason why you should be?

Because this information is not entirely new or refreshing. That is a reasonble point to make.

Quote from "Robiwan" »

Hmmm, june? Why june? June 29th? This is the start of a tormented rumor-mill.
After 10yrs and only now they want the domain!? HA HA HA

Btw: all you ppl shouting: “Overhype!”: shut up! MD never lied and actually pointed us straight to the
Truth.
Oh and my theory on WoW? So sorry, I owe all u guys a beer. So that’s 24000 beers. K.

P.S I sleep better now, knowing that somewhere right nowa blizzard employee is workin on diablo3!

I still use speedvision for my skin. Your letters are very blendy.

Blizzard has been working on diablo3 for awhile no doubt. If you can NOW only sleep better. You lack quite a bit of common sense. It was overhyped, it's a honest opinion with honest reasoning. We aren't saying MD lied, he cleverly held us in suspense.