Entertainment, maybe, but youtube is not comedy central and this is not the news, so making that comparison is nonsensical. A lot of diablo players are following the beta at present and many of those people are basing what they see on the beta videos to decide whether they should or shouldn't buy this game.Quote from Leonx66
But its on a channel made for entertainment with a made up character. Do you take the "news" shows on comedy central like informative/serious news too?
So, some people who played diablo 2 would want to know if they'd wish to purchase 3, thus they go onto youtube to watch an informed video by a competent player. They'd run into this crap and this might throw them off. Yes, his incompetence is offensive to fans and harmful to the game.
Support this idiot if you like, but don't delude yourself. He is supposed to use the beta for the betterment of the game, not to do it needless harm.
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That or its unsupported as they have had no testing with it... might increase your chances... who knows I guess.
But the end case, all that matters is, you can stil "play". How well you can play is the question =P
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lo, its kinda sad when people are happy to watch someone play with a menu
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to be honest, im almost positive they dont care. We have downloaded the beta client without being in the beta for almost every blizzard beta...if they didnt like it, they would simply require you to have an active account to even run the launcher.
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Cow level is old... bring on the ponie level people found.
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anyway I agree with D... at least a year...if not longer. They have to emulate the Diablo 3 server in full before there is an offline mode.
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Yeah I say that post myself! (edit: ok not that post it seems) im chroming/trasnlating over there myself, Keep up the goodwork deventh
your the only reason today has had any good news. the Diablo community owes you a lot today
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Im going to have to disagree with you. (as I know people will disagree with me). I love those kind of things in these types of games. Reminds me of bounds in sc1.
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They want everything to be run from their servers to prevent any for of hacking/gltiching..ect even in singleplayer.
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DiabloAuctions.net will hopefully be one of your ‘go to’ sites for anything to do with the Diablo Auction House. Though (at this time) the site does not aim to give you the “what to do” to become rich in-game. It will link you to the top rated Diablo Economics blogs around. The point of this site is to give the information you need in order to make decisions in the first place. A list of basic and “fun” features will be listed below.
The Basics
At its core, the site will track both the gold and Real money auctions. It will store the date of the recorded auction, the item, its current bid, its set buyout, and its time till expire from recorded date. It will track this for all “high end” items, Building mats, Characters, and gold, runes, gems. [Note: I say only high end items, as of this time, we will not have a way to datamine the AH, this means items will need to be entered by hand, more info below].
Looking up items
- When looking up an item, you will see the following information.
- Most recent Buyout Gold price
- Most recent Bid Gold price (closest to ending, if no already ended found)
- Most recent Buyout Real Money Price
- Most recent Bid Real Money Price (closest to ending, if no already ended found)
- DiabloAuctions.net’s Interactive graph & statistics app (more info below)
- The items Salvageable mats, with the Recent buyout/bid information on each. (to help see if you should sell the mats instead, or if a crafted item, buy the mats instead)
You will also be able to look up “character sets”. BiS gear for your class, its current and avg prices.DiabloAuctions.net’s Interactive graph app
This is were some of the best information will come from, and what people will be able to post on their sites/blogs. This flash widgets will pull all the information for one item and give you the following information.
- Both a Gold and Real Money graph over the last month of an items value. (Note: Gold will be graphed at a real money value on the graph. EX: lets say $1 = 100g, if the item is selling for 300 gold, it will be graphed at the $3 mark).
Interactive data points for each set of information on the add
- When you mouse over, it will give you the Highest and Lowest of both the bid, and buyout, along with the avg of all auctions in that data point.
- Clicking the data point will pull up a chart showing all information on the auctions that was used to plot that point on the graph. (Date recorded, its Bid, buyout, time left..ect)
This Widget will be the perfect way to display Auction data in a easy to read way on your site or blog. Embed is as simple as embedding any flash item. Simply passing it which item id or name you want it to show.Signatures.
I do plan on haven item sigs... neat little sigs that show a mini graph of an items value over X amount of time, just for fun. However, depending on how long before we have (or if we ever have) some form of character API. I plan to make a Dynamic sig that takes the gear from your character (along with your characters class and level) and will output its current value in gold and Real money.
API
Hopefully, if all goes well, I will hope to have some form of API other sites can use to easily get any item information they may want. Though the DiabloAuctions.net’s widget should be more than enough for most people, I think it would be a good idea to allow this kind of information to other developers.. time will tell on this one.
Other goodies
Adding this in here real fast. I also want to list the current "best way" to get gold -> cash or cash -> gold by checking items gold and cash AH. will able to see what gives the best rate, could be very useful for people.
Site Ads
I hate ads, I think we all do. I plan to keep ads down to almost nothing. However this is not set in stone. I will be switching hosts (as my current host is full from my other sites) The cost of the host will determine if/how many ads I will be placing on the site. But do keep in mind, it will not be a ugly ad infested site like others love to do.
Site Layout
The first thing you see when you enter a site is its layout, not its content. The layout should strike you as visually appealing and easy to navigate. Though the site will be easy to navigate, I will warn that the layout will not be “pretty” when it finaly opens. I am going to use one of the “diablo fan kit” layouts (with modifications of course) when the site first opens. After debating for a bit, I figured its best to get to work on the back-end first...and can change css around at a later time.
Entering Auction Data
This is the most important part of the site now isnt it. The biggest issue is we will not have a form of AH API..and without addns we have no way to datamine the information. So then we come into two major issues.
1) Whats the easiest way to get such VASTS amounts of information entered in without much work?
2) Do you let anyone enter the data? though this would allow for more information, thus more accurate data. You will start to have the people who enter fake data.
Obviously, we can enter a check, if information is added that differs from the rest by to great of a percent it will be flagged.. but this still does not seem perfect... so ill be thinking on this matter.
However, for how to make it easy, I am designing a very simple page, that is quick and easy for entering information. it will allow mass entering of data for a single item. or multiple items on one page. its the best we can do till we get some form AH API, or a way to datamine the AH.
Why make this site.
To be honest, 100% fun. I love programming, its what I do for relaxing. There are some things ive always wanted to work on, and have never had a reason to. Now, I do. This site will be worked on in my free time. Though it will be ready for launch (and hopefully during beta as well) how long it is kept up is 100% based on how well we can keep track of auctions. Theres a lot of sites trying to do what im doing here, we will all have the same issue, but, if we are able to get information enter, Diabloauctions.net will be the best.
Is there anything you would like to see thats not listed here? by all means posts, im posting this for your thoughts after all. Also, i've seen a good amount of people on this site talking about working on a gold guide blog/site. Id love to link to it from my site if you wish, let me know.