i like how the joy bursts out of him due to this achievement (haven't watched without audio since i'm on work). very moving! 
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Hmmm, it really looks like yang is running tubohud .. Like any reasonable adult would.
how can you tell? due to the suspicious cropping of the image or do i miss something?
and here i thought, texture changes would mean an update for the awful armor textures this game has.
[/p][p]Are you paying a subscription-fee to play Diablo 3, to keep the cost of development down as time goes by? No? Okay, then stop bringing that argument to the table.[/p]Quote from Coldhatez1
[p]And they call this a major content patch? It's been almost a year since the RoS release, only big thing they added are greater rifts, in one year?[/p]
[p]When RoS was released, that was all the content you, as a single-purchase consumer, was ever entitled to. Any time they spend on the game after that should by you, the single-purchase consumer, be considered a gesture of great service. After all, any time the developers spend developing after the initial release of the product you purchase, could potentially create a deficit - but of course this is Blizzard, so that will never happen, but that still doesn't warrant you any further entitlement.[/p]
[p]Too many people fail to realize where they stand in this mayhem of spending/consuming, and sometimes you folks need to be bashed a time or two as a wake-up call.
I always talked about the fact, how the shutting down of the RMAH was an unwise decision and one I cannot ever grasp. it was a steady income for them (I sold one item for 250€ and received.. phew, i think it was 213€) and the sales of the boxes cannot do that. you sell one license and that's it. only way is releasing addons and maybe one or two content patches every cycle and keeping the brand alive with that.Quote from ActionJunkie
Every new patch seriously makes me think that there is a real correlation between the Real Money Auction House shutting down and speed of updates... maybe RMAH funding really did pay the salaries of the patch developers....Quote from Emwe
I say it again and again, the speed balancing is going is something 1 intern could do in his break.Quote from Benegesserit
wow all this time from the last patch and this is all they have for class changes?
I'm not asking for new content or really anything new that requires a lot of development time, just more dial tweaks (element types, damage output, duration...you know, numbers).
Seasons is basically over from the relevant competitive standpoint as the questing exploit has been fixed and you can't even come remotely close to beating those times w/o them. So there's no excuse for them to be light on class changes just because there isn't a new season coming tomorrow. GRifts aren't taken seriously due to pylons and the insane variance in mob RNG so shaking up the leaderboard there is more welcome than not.
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but hey, they still don't communicate enough with the community, they can't see what is wrong with the game, they don't care about our opinions about the direction of the game and are mostly clueless. you can see that when you attend a blizzcon for the 20th birthday of a great franchise and get the top 3 new features: anniversary dungeon, necromancer and two new maps. no fan wanted that, the micropaymancer is a fan service and literally used to fan the flames from the community and some dungeon once a year won't help to ever make this game great again.
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yeah, no. extremely small booth, a bit of grey spaces which don't promise anything really big.
kick me in the groins if i'm wrong, but i think we won't get anything besides some sort of nostalgic remake stuff.
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but how will the new director influence that project they are going to show that will let us lose our collective shit?
or do we get a new director who then starts the new project and which gets the first announcements two years from now?
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This could not be further from the truth. Similar games can easily hold a market, especially from the same company.
Further, a game such as "world of diablo" would not really be like WoW in terms of raids etc.... All it would really be is what we have now, with towns to trade in, reputations to earn, etc.... but it would not be this massively dynamic world like WoW is.
since the "world of" turned warcraft into something which could be explored via third person with an avatar in a persistent landscape, one would expect the same from diablo when they say "world of diablo". you lose the fixed iso perspective and move freely like in WoW, you make a massive persistent world and drop some meaningful content in it. after you reach some max level, you always want to kill something bigger. that would be where bosses come into play and where you would need a few more people.
but you want none of that. you want the grindy part (reputations), trade (which would be interesting in a mmo environment) and obviously the setting. you won't like raids or a massive dynamic world. so basically, you want a smaller diablo and still qualify for the mmo moniker. yeah, that won't happen.
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you can rule out diablo GO. pokemon was a major success due to its novelty, how would another game with a much smaller fanbase fare?
you can rule out world of diablo. why threaten the big wave legion is swimming on top now?
you can rule out diablo 2 hd as a serious game from which they expect that you sink many hours into it. they might brush it up a bit, but they won't compete with their own rpg game. also: no d2 hd without some major gameplay changes. i cannot tolerate that archaic gameplay in this day and age.
you can rule out anything with the name diablo, unless it is a 4 or an expansion. the name just doesn't have a big ring to it right now.
what does that leave us with? expansion, 4. announcing the 4 while the 3 is still hot (it is not that old nor is it fair to abort it in such a manner) seems impossible, if 4 is an arpg too. but why make a 4 then? it can only be an expansion, which should overhaul every mechanic in this game. loot 3.0, fleshed out follower system, complete revamp of that awful paragon system, meaningful seasons, randomness in this dull grind game (can't bring myself to grind three 65 gems for the journey while legion is installed. really.) and finally some high-res textures for the player characters. it isn't 2005 anymore.
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sure, they aren't a charity. but you can't tell me, that the whole workforce is working on an expansion / successor while only a handful of 2d artists and some programmers resemble a skeleton crew for the new "content" we got.
and yeah, i may sound like a spoiled brat demanding content. but blizzard killed the only source of income with the RMAH and didn't come up with another revenue stream, therefore nobody will be paid to generate content. reintroducing scrapped areas / enemies is not enough content.
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most optimistic i could think of:
- announcement of the second expansion
- panels for revamped game mechanics
- d2 hd as a gimmick in the future
most pessimistic i could think of:
- announcement of the next "big" patch with a new set for each class (which means that you are crap right until you unlock the third bonus, at which point you begin to utterly destroy everything. like it was the last few years in d3.), a few new enemies and a scrapped zone
- minor revamps to quell the loudest negative voices
- cross promotions with the other games because of 20 years diablo
- general ignorance of the fact that the franchise turns 20
most realistic i could think of:
- announcement and talk about the immediate future in patches and maybe a hint at an expansion
- d2 touch-up to natively support bigger resolutions and modern operating systems
- some celebrations for the franchise, a long look at the history of the games and lots of artwork and anecdotes
we have to face one thing. yes, diablo as a franchise turns 20. and diablo 3 is still a moneymaker in the eyes of blizzard. do you kill your cash cow for another successor after the last eagerly awaited successor wasn't met with as much joy as you'd like? no. they will "maintain" the game with a new season every three months, where they up the playey power again and add a few cosmetics. that will go on for this year and maybe 2017 and after that we can hope for something fresh.
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As I was visiting London the last few days, the 7.1 ptr for wow came up on the 14th. and with it three items:
On the 15th, it was made official that diablo would be an ingame pet for attendees of the BlizzCon:
http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2016/september/bcongoodies03.jpg
Since we get almost no real news about this game, I thought that I would read everything about it here. But nothing. No one did a news or a topic. Why? It is the atleast something to speculate about for BlizzCon. Or did I miss that in another thread?
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they simply stopped to care.
we have to be an unpleasant community..
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i'd really like a 2.5 mini-expansion patch, laying some groundwork for x2 and patch 3.0.
a bit of content map-wise, revamps to existing systems and addition of new systems and COMMUNICATION. after maybe nine to twelve months the release of x2 and the franchise is saved if the expansion is good.
but we need changes. something. anything. QoL changes for example. something like transmog for d3 and wow did wonders to do something other than just romping through rifts. jeez, do something with the interface. incorporate elements from turbo hud or something. get creative! d3 looks and feels the same it did back when they released vanilla.
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i will play the whole journey in season 7 like i did in the previous seasons. i will try to stick to barb like i did in the previous seasons and end up with another wizard, dh etc. like in the previous seasons.
i will reach about 300-500 paragon like in the previous seasons and let droves of items expire in the mail because diablo 3 has the worst item management. like in the previous seasons.
this season-thingy prolongs the life lease of this game and you all know it. i like the style and atmosphere of the game, but in the end it didn't really change much from the first days. sure, someone will pop up and say "but RoS happened with another act and rifts and grifts and seasons and so on!!1". but the classes never really changed. or the gameplay. there are tweaks here and there, you use the newest cookie cutter builds (which are already ready to implement once the patch comes off the ptr) and in the end you just do the same like you did 2012.
i really hope they mix things up with another expansion or diablo 4. otherwise i will see myself in the season 56 treadmill doing the same stuff i did 2012.
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i know, hence i said i knew what you aimed for.
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then again, that season 4 / era 5 debacle shows us that messing around isn't that far away.
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hey everyone.
apparently diablo 3 turned four years on may 15th. no news, no thread? there was a blue post ( http://www.diablofans.com/blizz-tracker/topic/62374-happy-birthday-diablo-iii ), but nothing else like an event or something.
why the radio silence about this birthday?
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i think he wants to use a 25 gem of ease to equip it at lvl 1.