Quote from Stephenk291
PvP was a big part of the game in D2 and it should have equal footing in D3 otherwise why even bother min maxing your character at all (yes you can save yourself 3 minutes clearing act 3..wooo!)
No, it wasn't.
PvP in the Diablo series has always been 'Yeah, we'll let you kill each other, but we're not going to try and balance it at all'. It's always been a gank fest. Nothing more.
This idea that PvP has ever been a primary gameplay element in Diablo is fiction.
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No.
In D2 you got gear, and traded it for what was useful.
In D3 you get gear, and sell it for gold OR salvage it for materials, then use those materials to buy/make better gear.
Again, what's the difference?
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In D3, you get a drop. You either use it, keep it for later, vendor it, salvage it, or if it is good (just not for you), you sell it on the AH.
What's the difference exactly?
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Gearing up isn't a chore. IT'S THE ENTIRE ESSENCE OF THE DIABLO FRANCHISE.
The series is : get gear to get more powerful to go find more gear by killing stuff to get more powerful to kill harder stuff and get more gear.
If you don't like dealing with gear, I'm not sure Diablo is the game for you.
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Stopped reading there. Want to change your stats? Find shit with sockets. Insert gems. Profit. Or go to the AH and buy gear with the stat allocations you desire.
D3 has WAY more control and customization that D2 did. D2 required you to roll a new character to make a change to ONE stat point. How is this good design?
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If you can't understand that the authenticator isn't a profit center for Blizzard, but simply a tool they provide for their customers because people who play Blizzard games are high value targets for account thieves, then there's no point in discussing anything about this with you.
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Exactly. Gotta keep those YouTube counters rolling! The mortgage still comes due every month.
And to you other whiners, yes, the guy does use his position to draw attention to charitable causes. He should be commended for that. That, however, does not give him a free pass to act like a shitbag to draw said attention, which he does.
I donate to charities that get my attention with people NOT acting like a moron. Even if it is just an act.
It's all an act to generate revenue from YouTube, and some of you guys eat it up hook, line, and sinker.
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However, that wasn't the original question.
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Nobody even knows if there will be PvP specific gear or not.
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Good for him.
Prizes like that are great tax decductions if you have a good accountant.
Honestly, his schtick was funny 4 years ago when Pure Pwnage did it WITHOUT making the character an arrogant douche. But hey, if that's what you like.
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Or course it doesn't. The more eyeballs on your videos, the more revenue you generate. The more subscribers you have, the higher your payout rates are. (Generally.)
His YouTube channel has 600k subscribers, and 334M video views. He's probably made well over $300k USD by acting like a shitbag on the internet.
Good work if you can get it.
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Every dollar of his YouTube earnings goes straight to him.
Keep it coming.
His charitable works are good. But that money isn't coming out of his pocket. People are donating it, and DC Entertainment matches the donation amounts.
Athene is simply doing a poor knockoff of the Pure Pwnage series. He's a character, and all you sycophants are just lining his pockets with YouTube money every time you repost one of his videos.
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All good man. It's just Athene, which I equate to the opposite of fun.
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What exactly are you pissing about? It's broke. They acknowledged that it's broke, and will give an update when they have something.
If you want minute by minute updates, you take resources away from fixing the actual problem. So stop begging for them.
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They are. I didn't really form my point well.
Greedy would have been Blizzard opening the RMAH at launch just to get their transaction fees even though the game and AH were not stable.
As it is, it's mid June at earliest. They're not being greedy at all.