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Brevik doesn't work on Torchlight.

He did Hellgate, Mythos and... not really sure passed that. Obviously Diablo 1 and 2.

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Please note how Brevik was the ONLY one left out of Schaefer and Co.s new studio.............. (when they were all together for Flagship)

Pretty sure Bill Roper was also? After Hellgate not doing well and Mythos being sold off before it was even finished that's when Schaefer branched out more by himself I think with Matt Uelmen on board to do music.

There's no real reason to take this personal guys, lets not forget these are just strangers on the internet, i doubt any of us are personal friends.

The interview definitely seems like it was aimed at coaxing negative feedback out of Brevik.

In my opinion though you can't take the all of the positives of D1 and D2 and attribute them to Brevik, just like you can't take all the negatives of D3 and attribute them to Wilson. If Brevik had worked on the game alone who knows if we would have ever gotten a D2 at all. Whole teams worked on all games. Some of the team from Blizzard North went on to become more successful like Max Schaefer and his team, they've shown they have a good grasp at what it takes to make a good ARPG.

I do think Blizzard wants to keep Diablo alive, they don't want the game to feel like its bad and they want the franchise to continue so they'll continue to patch and work on it. Don't expect WoW typed patches, they'll probably be months and months apart but they'll be there.

I've said plenty of things in anger, not usually in public though. They thought that conversation was private for some reason.

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Question to the community about this quote:

"There was talk, back during the Reddit AMA, about bosses dropping rares on the first kill past normal difficulty. Did this make it into 1.0.4?"
"That did not make it into 1.0.4, but it is still something we want to add to the game."


I could swear patch notes said this change was made. Did Jay Wilson misspeak or am I having a senior moment?

You know I'm remembering something really similar being said but I can't remember what either. I remember seeing it in the patch shortly after AMAA and thought at first it was that change but it was just worded really similar.

You're not completely off your rocker. It's not in the game but I remember thinking for a moment it was in some patch notes too.

If I had to point out one single thing and say "This is what's wrong with the game" without adding anything new, I'd say it's the auction house BUT not like everyone else has been seeing it.

I don't think it's a bad system but it's chaos right now. It has been given NO time to level out. It's just been adding one system after another to it. First they open it, then they open the commodities part, then they change attack speed, then they add the RMAH auctions, then they finally open commodity auctions on RMAH but not selling gold, then they open the selling of gold, now there's a change coming to how MF is gonna work. Then legendaries are going to be revamped.

All of that throws the auction house into constant flux and chaos so you have ridiculous prices on items and people desperate enough to buy them because they just want to actually progress, but when you pay one million gold for the next .3% protection and +150dps upgrade of course it doesn't end up feeling worth it, because it really wasn't.

I'll be happy when the auction house is allowed to finally settle and prices can even out.

I don't think this is an indicator the game is a "disappointment". It's saying, look we know there are some flaws, and we're working on them and taking it serious.

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"improved Legendary items .. epic in ways you probably won’t be expecting."
let me guess, legendarys get a % proc chance to increase dmg for xx seconds just like in wow, yea I'm totally not expecting that

You do realize that's all the procs in D2 boiled down to also right?

I don't think we'll actually see one that says "20% damage to increase all damage by 10% for 10 seconds" They'll be more interesting like runewords in D2 that added skills but the outcome is the same, a proc to increase damage.

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Meanwhile, forget about pvp in 2012.

Oh I dunno, we might see it in December if we're lucky.

It's a mixture of a lot of things for me. I think more drops would be nice, not necessarily BETTER drops but just that feeling of getting legendaries seems to be a lot less than uniques/sets in D2. That for me would help a lot, more legendaries all around.

Besides that PvP coming is nice and Pandemonium type events aren't bad.

What I don't want is some sort of "raid" or "dungeon" system where it basically is so hard you can't solo it and is going to require more people and then the loot that drops is exclusive to that boss at least nothing more than an item or two.

We had the Standard of Heroes and the Annihilus Charm and that was basically it. I'm fine with earning achievements from it, or banner sigils or patterns, but I don't want it to get out of hand like raiding in WoW.

Glad you necro'd a year old thread to vindicate your own perceptions about the game.

I've never understand the need for everything to be exclusive. I bought the D3 CE but I'd be fine if people could buy the wings for 10$. It's just cosmetic and I don't need to feel like a unique and special snowflake by being the only person in my four player game to have them.

If I have to buy the MoP CE just to get them, that's another 80$ down the drain.

I'd rather spend 80$ on D3 items than on a WoW CE I won't play.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with putting things cosmetic in the blizz store for people to buy. It's fairly easy to make a few bucks here and there on the RMAH. There is a lot wrong with putting something really enticing in a CE. If I choose to support the game I'm playing by paying for cosmetic items, I don't see that as a bad thing.

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If they start selling items like this in blizz store i would probably stop playing diablo 3 faster than i thought. I hope it's part of MoP CE.

So you'd rather people have to pay a ridiculous amount for MoP CE just to get the wings rather than pay 10$ for something cosmetic in the Blizz store?