I just think their hp+defense should scale with gear too in addition to damage... Like make them have "20% of your maximum hp and 50% of your defense/resistances" for example. Since Blizz tend to make all skills dependable on current characters stats, that would be nice.
Yeah, it actually sucks that dogs aren't viable "minions" anymore... Though i still have them in my HC build for 10% dmg reduction on char (those 50% earlier were so great... ol' good times :D), and added sacrifice as a big part of a build.
Don’t say anything about release, reveal your changes keep us informed but don’t prat-on about releases until you know for a fact the release date..
Do you have any idea what's been going on? The community itself asked for any info, they tried to please us, but those *cough*...fellas still rage.
It was like:
Communtity: Please tell us, how's the work on D3 going?
Blizzard at 2008: Here it is, u can see what we've got atm.
Community: But Blizz, ffs, we wanna know, when it's gonna be ready?
Blizzard: when it's done.
Community:But when, when it's gonna be done???? We are freaking exhausted of waiting, tell us anything!!!!
Blizzard: We are not done yet, we don't know....
Community: Hey, how can you don't know? Tell us something for eff sake!!!
Blizzard: Well, atm we are aiming for the end of 2011... But nothing is set in stone.
Community at the end of 2011: FOR F*UCK SAKE!!! You lied!!! You PROMISED it will be released in 2011! I have logs! Jay, you son of a b**ch! TELL US WHEN!
Blizzard: Well, we had to push the release, coz it's not as good as we want it to be.... But it's kinda almost done, we are expecting to release in early 2012. But that's just expectations, don't get too excited guys...
Community in the mid Jan 2012: FU*K YOU BLIZZARD! It's early 2012 already, you promised you'd release the game by now! You freaking liars!!! When??? We've been waiting 10 years!!
Blizzard on Feb, 7: ohh... Soon...
Community on 7: Hm, ok.
Community on Feb, 8: SO??? When's the release date??? You said "soon"! It's already "soon"!!! Give us release!!! Give us any info!!
Blizzard: Ok, all in all, we can now give you more specific info - we are going to release in Q2.
Community: WHAT???? Q2? It's not "early" at all!!! We hate you Blizzard!!! You don't tell us anything!!!
<few weeks later>
Community in the March: SOOO? It's almost Q2!! When's the release?? How soon your "soon" is gonna be? How long do we have to wait???
Blizzard: Come on, guys, chill a bit. We are working hardest on it. We will make an anoucement about release date in few weeks.
Community in a week: What the hell is going on Blizzard? The week is passed already! When is the game gonna be in our hands? We wanna play!!!! Tell us! Now!
Blizzard: Come on guys... just wait, we can count days now...
Community in 2 days: So! Days are passed! You promised the release date! When, Blizz? Jay! Tell us, how close we are to release?
Jay: 9/10.
Community: Woah! 9/10!!!! We are in the last 10% of 5 years of development! That means release date is gonna be TOMORROW!
Community tommorow: WHAAAAAAAT!!!! Jay, i'll kill you! And your family! You are freaking liar! Where's release date?!!!! We just wanna know WHEN! Tell us anything so we can rest in peace! Oh, i'm still gonna kill you, you peace of grease!
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//And it's still in the first half of march.... Which is still Q1.... Those who rage are just childish and have no sense whatsoever.
I have no idea why people consider 9/10 as somewhat "soon". They've been developing this game for about 5-6 years, so 9/10 could mean anything up to 6-7 months.
not really because a release date announcement wouldnt happen at the start of development
So? They asked how close we are to that announcement. Obviously at the beginning we were at 0/10, 5/10 on the halfway, and 9/10 all the way in last 10% of development time.
man i will be extremly angry at blizz if they dont announce d3 this week, they cuted half the game they claimed thats cuz of rush to release it, they counted weeks they counted days they said 9/10 to announce my patience is gonna end this week ill cut off all my billing to wow and ill go bomb some blizz office i damn swear
I have no idea why people consider 9/10 as somewhat "soon". They've been developing this game for about 5-6 years, so 9/10 could mean anything up to 6-7 months.
if you want to play an online game without real money exchanges happening then you won't be playing any online games. the question is whether or not you want it to be safer and if you want blizzard to get the money instead of 3rd party sites
those are the choices
i'd like for the rmah to be present on hardcore as well. that would make the thrill of doing hc that much higher. not only would you be trying to accomplish something difficult and potentially getting a satisfying reward (not dying), but without a doubt the items have the potential to be worth more. so, you get the high risk/reward of cash on top of everything else.
the biggest thrill in d3 possible is not only clearing the game on hc, but finding that $50 item to sell on top of it
Dude, are u trolling or smth?
1) ofc, no1 denies that there will be real money trading anyway. but w/o rmah only 1-5% will use 3rd party sites for that purpose, with RMAH - prolly 10-50%. due to your logic they just better allow bots too, coz anyway there will be those using them... gtfo with those ideas
2) those people from 3rd party sites will get their money anyway. just with RMAH they won't need any sites, and will sell much more items via global RMAH
3) the point about the thrill with getting an expensive item is the only one semi-valid. but i think it's still better to separate money-making stuff from such games. for a decent person with brains and consequently decent job 50$ isn't that big of a deal anyway.
Post is ridiculous. Rmah provides GREAT market (hundreds times bigger than any third-party sites) which stimulates dupes and bots even more. Also yeah, goldAH is better than RMAH for game experience, therefore i'm glad there's only first one for HC. Most of those who used services like d2jsp did it because there wasn't decent trade system in D2 (gold didn't mean anything, no comfortable auction-like system), mostly we needed stable currency (like fg) and we will most likely have it in D3HC.
They just move content further to lvl 60. With no replayability there no need for tons of low/mid-lvl gear, including those from BS. Untill now we had too much possible to craft, we wouldn't even need half of that during normal leveling... So it's perfectly understandable and makes sense.
""Official Blizzard Quote:
We're testing client and server stability. We want to make sure the game is running, and running well, on a wide range of systems..."
Bull S#!t. the beta will not be able to run on my mac OSX 10.4. As far as i know, the wide range they refer to is confined to windows 7, and 3 versions of mac OSX (10.5, .6 and .7)
By "system" they didn't mean just OS. As Mac user u may not know, but there are tons of differnet hardware.
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It was like:
Communtity: Please tell us, how's the work on D3 going?
Blizzard at 2008: Here it is, u can see what we've got atm.
Community: But Blizz, ffs, we wanna know, when it's gonna be ready?
Blizzard: when it's done.
Community:But when, when it's gonna be done???? We are freaking exhausted of waiting, tell us anything!!!!
Blizzard: We are not done yet, we don't know....
Community: Hey, how can you don't know? Tell us something for eff sake!!!
Blizzard: Well, atm we are aiming for the end of 2011... But nothing is set in stone.
Community at the end of 2011: FOR F*UCK SAKE!!! You lied!!! You PROMISED it will be released in 2011! I have logs! Jay, you son of a b**ch! TELL US WHEN!
Blizzard: Well, we had to push the release, coz it's not as good as we want it to be.... But it's kinda almost done, we are expecting to release in early 2012. But that's just expectations, don't get too excited guys...
Community in the mid Jan 2012: FU*K YOU BLIZZARD! It's early 2012 already, you promised you'd release the game by now! You freaking liars!!! When??? We've been waiting 10 years!!
Blizzard on Feb, 7: ohh... Soon...
Community on 7: Hm, ok.
Community on Feb, 8: SO??? When's the release date??? You said "soon"! It's already "soon"!!! Give us release!!! Give us any info!!
Blizzard: Ok, all in all, we can now give you more specific info - we are going to release in Q2.
Community: WHAT???? Q2? It's not "early" at all!!! We hate you Blizzard!!! You don't tell us anything!!!
<few weeks later>
Community in the March: SOOO? It's almost Q2!! When's the release?? How soon your "soon" is gonna be? How long do we have to wait???
Blizzard: Come on, guys, chill a bit. We are working hardest on it. We will make an anoucement about release date in few weeks.
Community in a week: What the hell is going on Blizzard? The week is passed already! When is the game gonna be in our hands? We wanna play!!!! Tell us! Now!
Blizzard: Come on guys... just wait, we can count days now...
Community in 2 days: So! Days are passed! You promised the release date! When, Blizz? Jay! Tell us, how close we are to release?
Jay: 9/10.
Community: Woah! 9/10!!!! We are in the last 10% of 5 years of development! That means release date is gonna be TOMORROW!
Community tommorow: WHAAAAAAAT!!!! Jay, i'll kill you! And your family! You are freaking liar! Where's release date?!!!! We just wanna know WHEN! Tell us anything so we can rest in peace! Oh, i'm still gonna kill you, you peace of grease!
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//And it's still in the first half of march.... Which is still Q1.... Those who rage are just childish and have no sense whatsoever.
TL;DR: nevermind
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So? They asked how close we are to that announcement. Obviously at the beginning we were at 0/10, 5/10 on the halfway, and 9/10 all the way in last 10% of development time.
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1) ofc, no1 denies that there will be real money trading anyway. but w/o rmah only 1-5% will use 3rd party sites for that purpose, with RMAH - prolly 10-50%. due to your logic they just better allow bots too, coz anyway there will be those using them... gtfo with those ideas
2) those people from 3rd party sites will get their money anyway. just with RMAH they won't need any sites, and will sell much more items via global RMAH
3) the point about the thrill with getting an expensive item is the only one semi-valid. but i think it's still better to separate money-making stuff from such games. for a decent person with brains and consequently decent job 50$ isn't that big of a deal anyway.
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ZOMG!!! I couldn't imagine it will still be the same after release. That's one GREAT news! No need to go through whole normal now, thank gods...
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