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Quote from Kisho

450+ hours huh? Are you sure you're not just, I dunno... Bored of the game after spending most of the past couple months on it? With a release date of May 15th, that means there has been 66 days between the release of D3 and now.

66 * 24 = 1584 hours total
Minus 8 * 66 = 528 hours for sleep, gives us 1584 - 528 = 1056

1056 - 450 = 606

450 hours spent on the game, 606 not... I hate to break it to you, but you've spent almost half of your waking hours on D3 since release. I'm pretty sure anyone would call that a resounding success.

Surely if the game was so horrible, you'd have stopped playing about 400 hours ago maybe? Then your argument wouldn't seem so ridiculously flawed.

Don't use math on trolls. You'll just confuse them.

WASD will never and should never happen. Google to read many developer statements as to why it will never happen in this game.

As for dying because you tried to walk away but kept attacking instead, as somebody above said, bind a key to force movement. It's in your options and it's unbound by start. I use "x" since it's where my thumb naturally rests when my ring finger is on tab for the map and middle and index finger are on 1 and 2 for most-used spells. If you bind shift to force attack your thumb can very easily between the two.

But that's just what I use - find something that works and these sorts of deaths will be a thing of the past.

Quote from Scare

Far more likely than any of these, is that Imperius will descend to the burning hells for revenge, and become the new Prime Evil of Wrath, as hinted in the cinematic, and in the game. He's becoming more and more irrational and bloodthirsty, and the Wrath short shows that his short temper is in part something Diablo desired.

He blames humanity for what happened to the heavens with Diablo, and wants to wipe them out. He also wants to destroy the burning hells. Its not unlikely he may make use of the black soulstone to do so.

This. Adria and Leah may or may not tie in, but I think we will have to defeat Imperius eventually.

It seems like 80% of the threads started on this or any other message board are full of endless whining about various features and bugs, 15% are more rational posts that are still all about the things people don't like, and 5% are about random other stuff.

I would like to go against the trend by starting a thread about how much I love Diablo 3. Sure the servers have been unstable, the AH has been buggy as hell, the RMAH keeps getting pushed back, and many things are different from both Diablo 2 and WoW. But you know what? I am still enjoying the shit out of this game, and expect I will be for a long time to come.

Flame away, haters.

EDIT: Fail math corrected.

A question (possibly a dumb question that is common knowledge and I'm just too stupid to know it):

What does "bonus affixes" mean?

EDIT: I might have figured it out - does it just mean the number of random affixes you get after counting the guaranteed ones?

This sort of thing is nothing new. Back in late 2008, shortly after the WotLK expansion for WoW was released, I remember being up late working on the level 70 -> 80 grind. Suddenly, at the exact moment the server time hit midnight, a feat of strength achievement notice popped up rewarding me for being logged in on WoW's 4th anniversary. If I remember correctly I was rewarded a pet for earning this feat of strength.

It's not like Blizzard had told us ahead of time that this feat of strength was coming, so if somebody happened to not log in at all that day, they missed out on earning it and the pet that came with it. It was a random award for something people had very little control over seeing as how they didn't know about it in advance. No, the comparison between that and this beta feat of strength is not 100% valid, but it's a similar idea. Feats of strength and rewards that come with them often have a random element that can't be avoided.

Deal with it.

I must be in the extreme minority here, but I actually LIKED the story in Starcraft 2.

I still don't buy the immersion argument.

If your character speaks to an NPC, the character's name shows up in the dialog box. That is fully consistent with being immersed in the RPG, since the CHARACTER is the one speaking, so the CHARACTER name shows up.

If you type "Hold on, afk one sec" in party chat, it is not your character that says that. YOU are saying that. So it makes sense that your battletag shows up in the text box.

I'm going to stop posting in this thread now, because obviously those that are super pissed off about something as insignificant as this are not going to be convinced by me or anybody else that it's not a big deal. Haters are going to hate, whiners are going to whine, and crybabies are going to cry. By all means, continue working yourselves up and convincing yourself Blizzard is full of a bunch of lying assholes because they have implemented a system that improves over a lot of the problems earlier games like D2 had regarding character and account names.

The real objection here is that it breaks the immersion of the RPG, right?

Having friends not in the game start whispering you doesn't break it? Having small little quill fiends drop giant shields, two-handed swords, armor plates, etc. doesn't break it? Giant yellow question marks appearing above the heads of people who want to talk to you doesn't break it? Giant flashes of yellow light each time you gain a level doesn't break it? The whole concept of "gaining a level" doesn't break it?

Why is it that, every single time somebody comes in and posts something about their need for a party member on the "hardcore" side of normal, other people have to come in and get all preachy about having no life and the negative health effects of spending too much time playing video games? Of course getting too little sleep, eating junk food, and sitting for long periods of time is bad for your health. I doubt there is anybody here that doesn't actually know that. But so is smoking, excessive drinking, sitting and watching tv rather than running around outside, and 500 million other things we do. And no matter what you say, the OP (in this thread and all others) is not going to change their release plans because you made them see the light with your wonderful wisdom. They are going to do whatever the hell they want in order to enjoy a game that many have been waiting a decade, give or take to be released.

It's the OP's life, not yours. Stop judging others.

Quote from ruksak

You don't know that.

If you read the incgamers article you would not be saying that.

A guy who does news on a fansite and who just got done visiting Blizzard HQ reported that the console version is "all but done."

Dare I say that he has far better knowledge of this than you do? Because, frankly, he does. Unless you have some inside sources or something, I'm going to take his word at face value that the console version is winding up the development cycle and NOT diverting PC resources.

I'm not asking you to love Blizzard. I'm asking you to stop being ********** and throwing FACTS the fuck out the window because they're inconvenient to your "THE CONSOLE IS TAKING OVER" position.

Quote from Zero(pS)

But it might just make some sense considering they're probably not giving us anything at all (!!!) for the next 6+ months (link).

No, it doesn't make sense. They very clearly elaborated on what the D3 PC team is working on. It's not the console version. This whole "the console version is taking time away from my precious PC version and I AM A FUCKIN SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE GODDAMNIT" attitude is really, really, rubbing me the wrong way.

Console players are not secondary to you, and PC players are not secondary to console players. If you can't live with that fact without getting jealous every time the console game gets something before the PC game (or the PC game gets something before the console game) then you're just lying to yourself about how life works.

If you really believe that every update has to go to the PC version first, otherwise they're betraying you, then you're being far too self-important and egomaniacal for your own good.

As a moderator on this site I do not expect you to perpetuate untruths about them devoting the PC team to the console version. That's completely irresponsible.

I'd also quote from your link:

Although the developers are working on a large amount of content right now that will end up in a patch down the road, there is not a specific patch in current development.

So they're working on a lot of things... it's just that those things haven't been formalized into a patch rollout. "Not working on itemization" is simply a misnomer, at least as far as the link you provided. As always patience is a virtue, and this crowd seems to be going the SimCity route when it comes to virtues.

http://diablo.incgam...mit-mega-report

Under the "Why No Content Patch Soon?" heading, I point you to the following:

I bring this up since we knew the Diablo dev team was having a similar meeting at the same time, and that they’re all hard at work on some Diablo thing. And we know it’s not the console since that’s all but finished, and we know it’s not Diablo 3 patches… so it’s not real hard to figure that it’s the expansion.

The console version is all but finished and they're not diverting resources to that. What they *are* doing is attempting to get some kind of expansion teaser stuff for BlizzCon. You can be outraged that they're doing that, but claiming that the PC team is "working on the console" is just wildly irresponsible. It's clear from your link that they're working on a ton of content for "a future patch" and that they're trying to get some kind of preview stuff up for the D3X for BlizzCon.

Being that BlizzCon is only once-per-year and that the expansion will likely hit the shelves before next BlizzCon this is the ONLY big opportunity to preview to us what they're thinking and that is historically what BlizzCon has been used for. It shouldn't be that shocking that they temporarily delayed patches to get that done.

If other fansites can deliver accurate perspectives on these things I expect that from this one too. It's funny because incgamers, of late, hasn't been full of anti-Blizzard rhetoric and such. I'm not saying anything other than feeding the trolls will cause DFans to become a troll haven.

There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with what Blizzard does, but keep it within the realm of being informed. If we're just going to do away with the "informed" part of the discussion then this place is going to quickly turn into the official forums. Is that really what we want? Not I.

Quote from Cyberwaste

I've actually really been wanting to use a shield for something offensive.

You could paint rude words on the front of it?

OMG!

I can't believe my suggestions are on the first page of Diablofans!

Thanks so much everyone and thanks overneathe!

I don't know what to say.. really..

Quote from locoenough2

we should be unhappy with THE game which gave them the oportunity to exploit it in such a fassion in the first place.

Everyone IS unhappy that bug made it live. That doesn't justify anyone doing something that's obviously an exploit to gain a massive advantage (in this case, their significantly larger gold pile) and NOT reporting it immediately to Blizzard so that they could fix it before it got out of control.

No, the streaming douchebags sat there, showing everyone how to do it, making it a more widespread problem, and laughing the whole time about it. Blizzard allowed the bug to go live, but that is not justification for anything that anyone did in terms of duping.

If you truly think that it's OK for people to dupe hundreds of billions of gold just because Blizzard didn't pick up every single bug then I have no words. It's obvious that duping is not OK. There is no question that duping items is not, and never has been, OK, no matter what the circumstances are.

Sticking up for people who broke one of the most basic rules is disgusting. The bottom line is that, if these people were so innocent and not interested in breaking the rules, they would have reported it immediately instead of continuing to abuse it to the point that we're now two days into this with no ETA. Instead of teaching people how to do it via streams, it should have been kept silent, shared with Blizzard so they could fix it immediately, and NOT done ad nauseum.

But it was and that's exactly why these people deserve every ounce of the bans they get. They took a bad situation (a bug) and, instead of doing the right thing, they did the wrong thing and turned something small into a major fiasco.

I don't know how old you are, but based on your attitude I'm going to guess you're at least younger than I am in some capacity, and frankly I'm always shocked at how fast generations beyond mine are to pass the blame onto everyone else instead of taking responsibility for their own choices.