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Dave called it like it is and has customer feedback to back it up. Jay couldn't be a man about it and instead acted like a 13 year old. You don't ever think anyone is awesome and a loser at the same time. If he just said "fuck that" then I'd understand but he made a personal remark about Dave with his "loser" addition and for that he's not getting a pass.
Should we dredge up people from this community's online comments and judge them the same way?
Because THAT would be far, FAR worse, don't ya think?
The community IS actually full of children (but not all, and you can certainly find plenty of adult comments that are respectful despite the generalization). Children are the largest demographic of gamers so, duh, most of them are going to be childish. Jay Wilson is obviously not a child but certainly acted like one. His facebook is going to be one of the very few ways to get a candid view of him and this is how he reveals himself when not behind PR like this letter. You don't get to be in a position of power like this where your position is owed to your customers when you can't handle yourself appropriately. There are plenty of Game Directors who don't have evidence of acting like this.
Sure he's allowed to say "fuck you" to someone. But if he's going to be dumb enough to say it to the creator of the franchise that gave him his fucking job, you better actually back your shit up (like Dave did). He didn't. Just a flippant statement like any kid would. Your job as a leader (and a Director is a leader of multiple leaders) is to set an example. When I get paid to do what he does and control huge franchises like that, you be sure to put me in my place if you catch me doing shit like that.
M rated game.
Average age every time a community poll comes up is 27-ish. (24-30 average demograph)
They aint children bud. They are sad, painfully obsessed, socially aberrant, keyboard warriors.
Case in point;
Lets take average Diablo 3 forum troll #45687 as an example.
Lets grab a weeks worth his of comments from the site.
Then show them publicly, to their family, their co workers, etc.
What do you think the reaction would be?
Yeah man, so Jay got pissed at his team getting slammed, thats NOTHING compared to the back and forth mudslinging several "un-named" companies practice on a weekly basis.
Its just something for the meme obsessed community to rant and rave about for weeks on end, they desperately cling to anything new to attempt (and fail) to spawn some form of wit.
I have literally lost respect for gamers as a whole due to the sheer quantity of morons that heaves and pupates under the thick and dank blanket of the inter-webs.
But hey, maybe its just me, amirite?
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I'm not trying to prove you wrong. If you'd like to know my personal opinion on this matter, I actually think that you are most likely right. Thing is, that's just a guess based on nothing more than my experience of how software bugs tend to occur. The fact is, all we have from Blizzard is that they are investigating the issue, and that as far as I know, nobody in the community has done the sort of independent investigation that would be needed to provide evidence one way or the other.
So once again, I'm not trying to prove you wrong. I'm just trying to get you to stop pretending that your personal guess - which, as I said, I think is probably correct - is an established fact. Because it isn't.
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http://www.diablofan...max-mf-dispute/
The Magic Find and Gold Find percentages for both follower contributions and Fortune Shrine bonuses are intended to respect the 300% MF/GF cap. Nephalem Valor bonuses will continue to stack beyond this cap, however.
That said, we’ve seen some posts that MF/GF contributions from followers may currently be stacking above the cap, and we’re looking into those reports.
(emphasis mine)
If anyone can find a post after they looked into the reports, which says whether it is a display error or whether the followers' MF is genuinely adding beyond 375%, please link it.
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This this this. Hell, I've seen level 3 white items on the AH for 100 million gold. Not sure what sort of mis-click they were fishing for there.
But, balanced against that - you ask "Does everybody have 100s of mil to blow?" - No, they don't. But they don't need to - if you find a rare and powerful legendary in the early days of 1.0.4, you only need one fantastically rich buyer to make you fantastically rich yourself. That why they always called Diablo-style games "loot lotteries".
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The point they've tuned it at now has some players virtually falling asleep playing through normal and nightmare and sometimes even hell, whilst others honestly find those difficulty levels too difficult. Hell, I even remember early after release a thread on the forums that started with one player who quite honestly declared that he was disappointed with D3 because normal-mode Belial was literally impossible for him to beat.
p.s. if you "don’t have time to obsess over [your] character build".. if it's any consolation, when I got to the point where I really felt that I'd hit the wall, it took no more than five minutes of forum browsing and a couple of skill changes to get me moving forward again. I guarantee you that you can make things a lot easier without having to get into Elitist Jerks levels of spreadsheet crunching.
Similarly, I would say that unless you are deliberately aiming for a challenge mode - and it doesn't sound like you are - just go to the AH and buy a few pieces. At your level, even a few thousand gold will buy you massive upgrades. I'm not telling you to bust out the credit card and buy your way to power, just go an buy a weapon with double the DPS of your current one. You'll probably find hundreds of them for sale for not much more than their vendor price.
I understand that some people aren't happy about this game design decision, but as Blizzard said, loot drops are tuned around the idea that the AH is there for trading, if you choose not to use it you are deliberately choosing to play a challenge mode. It's probably on par with playing hardcore rather than regular mode.
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That was my reaction too. I've said far, far worse about former co-workers in private conversations. And I'd be mortified if what I thought was private turned out to be public. I don't use Facebook, though, so it seems I'm a lot less at risk of that happening than most of the human race.
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I think that you could have raised the question "how will paragon levels interact with a potential level cap raise in an expansion?" without so much emotive language. Almost felt like reading the official forums for a moment there.
Having said that, why assume that an expansion will include a level cap increase? It didn't in Diablo 2. Obviously that doesn't mean it won't here, but it's something to consider.
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Good stuff. Few thousand more permabans and the official forums might potentially become a place where people who play Diablo III can gather to discuss Diablo III. Radical idea, I know.
Wordpress and blogger.com are over that way if people want to post spittle-flecked rants. That's why they were invented.
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Am I the only one that thinks that if I wanted to hear crybabies whining and throwing temper tantrums there's already a perfectly good set of official D3 forums where I can do that?