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Quote from Oskybut the thing is, she basically lied when she said "the release date is not known yet."
I'm quite certain she didn't lie to you. I'm also quite sure she doesn't religiously follow Diablofans.com, nor does she have an intimate knowledge of all of the products on all of Amazon which number in the millions. What she DOES have, is some sort of internal guide that did not get updated in the 2 day time span (over a weekend) between Blizzard's release date announcement and your conversation.
Give it a few days, and if it becomes available, you'll either be told or see it yourself. Shipping isn't a limited engagement, you could change it a week before and it would all be just fine.
so other customer reps can discuss the fact that they're able to offer release date shipping to other purchasers and is in their system for it(honestly by proxy this invalidates anything you're "quite certain" of)but for the simple fact that it has not been made available for me is the exact reason why I was wanting to contact them since I actually got an order in before they stopped making them. Never mind the fact that Amazon was able to update part of their systems to notify me that the PUBLISHER was updating the release date. but yet this unknown to a customer service rep.
So amazon updates their site by offering release date shipping to a few purchasers. Amazon updates their systems to actually send me an email that the publisher has updated the release date. other customer service reps offer this to specific purchasers EVEN TO PEOPLE WHO PLACED THE ORDER THE SAME DAY AS ME. but yet the sales rep who I spoke to is oblivious to all of this. obviously she's not following anything her company is doing. thanks for your insight.
I have to make a quick edit here.
Here is my problem with this* customer service rep. Nothing that I said reached any part of this persons brain.
My only question was "is this going to be available for me."
she responded "we don't have a release date."
I said. "yes you do, and the offer you're stating is contingent on a 'release date' has already been offered to other purchasers and you even sent me an email notifying me of the release date."
she said "yes we still don't have a release date because im a stupid bitch and didn't hear anything you said."
I said "I'll try to be polite here and simply restate my question of whether or not this option WIll become available to me"
she said "if it can ship to that date(which is most likely only contingent on being in the main states of the USA) or we make sure that we actually didn't make more promises than we can keep so that we can put you on back order and shove a big dick in your ass by denying you the opportunity to seek other venues to make a secure purchase for that date."
yep...that about sums it up.
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I agree completely. Motivation to achieve something is the best way to keep the game entertaining and definitely contribute to its longevity. Having the desire to play with a certain build will keep me coming back to find those specific items that will allow me to maximise the efficiency of that particular build. Another benefit, is that fact that I could potentially find some unusual drops that define a new build I could use that I would have never really thought of initially. Essentially, as long as the drops are interesting and consistent, it should keep you playing.
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But in reality, this does indeed suck! "Sooner than we expect" my arse!!! When we all had that little bit of hope left that Blizzard could maybe just be trusted for once, they shit on our faces like they always do... yet we struggle and we continue trying to maintain that little bit of hope we all hold, for we hang on every lie they tell us believing that it just might be true this time, even after the thousandth time of being mislead. It is a sad day when companies can get away with crapping on their fans again and again knowing that everyone will forget about it when the game is finally released. =(
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I can swear to you now - it will take me 4+ hours to just get through the beta for my first run-through. =)
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That may be, but honesty has a greater chance of gaining a positive response than being subtle about responses to questions and/or accusations like these ones. =)
Really, I'm indifferent about how Blizzard approaches there fan-base and market strategies, as long as I get the game I want. =)
Its just I would have more trust and faith in Blizzard rather than question everything new they let out as an instinctive reaction.
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with Blizzard wanting to make money. Its just the way they make it.
- Separating Starcraft 2 into 3 different games instead of 1
- Using the excuse of shady 3rd person websites for the RMAH (which btw I am a fan of) instead of plainly saying that they want to generate a consistent income from D3
- Using D3 as a means of making money on WoW and not admitting it.
Like you said, if Blizzard took an honest and clear approach to the way they say these things, there will be a lot less complaining. =)
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I want to know what you guys would like to see in any expansions of Diablo 3. It could be the first expansion, second expansion, one hundredth expansion or all of them together. =)
I'll start:
In first expansion of Diablo 3 I would love -
1. New act (bigger than any previous act)
2. New class or 2
3. Seeing as Blizzard want Diablo to be the last boss, it can be that he managed to survive in Act 4, acquires more powers and ends up at the end of Act 5. =)
4. Increased max level (possibly level 80) with more skills! =)
5. Additional changes to the first 4 acts; change their aesthetics and story here and there, to make them renewed in a way that would make people really want to play through them again even though it would have probably been done over a hundred times before the next expansion. I want the expansion to bring a real living dynamic feel with it, giving the world of Sanctuary new life in the new act and old ones (change in environments, new monsters, new npcs, new areas, new mini bosses, potentially a new big boss - all in the first 4 acts).
Your turn. =)
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http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3430934288
I don't know if it's true or not, i'm just sharing the info for everyone here to find out for themselves. =)
Have fun.
[Note: This is not my creation, it is a post by Gotapresent on the official Diablo 3 forums.]
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Source: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3424683612
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Now this post is all kinds of sexist. What your implying is that since this character isn't "attractive" in the modern sense that she needs to be "fixed up". That is utter BS... so whenever you see an ugly girl in life you immediately judge her for being not good enough. This is oppressing women to being that they all have to be hot, thin and basically like super-models to receive any recognition.
The point is, this female bard is NOT meant to look good... she is suppose to suit her environment, so by being a barbarian, her look is doing that nicely. You don't get hot looking girls fighting the demons of hell - you've watched to many movies.
(Sorry if this was not your intention, but you really need to think before you post this kind of garbage.)