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TBH I think RoS is coming out earlier than it should be because of the much needed overhaul of vanilla. :/
I was honestly surprised with the expansions announcement.
Same here, and I'm happy as shit about what I'm hearing. I'll be the first to give them a round of applause for this effort.
The xpac isn't an issue in my eyes. When it comes, it comes and I'll be glad to pay for it. Love what I'm hearing and we've only been teased with cursory info.
I'm a little upset, and I feel rightfully so, that the main focus of the Diablo franchise at Blizz HQ hasn't been getting itemization in a better place. Rather, per the lead devs own words, the main focus for some time has been launching a console version.
I swear, I quit SC mode because if I found 1 more damn Zuni chest with STR, DEX and +XXX thorns damage .....I was about to bash my head to bits. I play SF HC exclusively now because even a contorted Zuni chest would be a great find.
Anyhwho......I'll drop it because this thread should be about the community getting excited and I'm being a bit of a wet blanket. I apologize, it got under my skin when I heard that comment by Josh.
The console and PC have separate teams with minimal crossover. Looking at your other posts it's evident you choose not to believe this and that's fine, but there's no way they developed the console version in the few short months since the last patch. Likewise there's no way this expansion (which looks to be very developed already) has only had a month or so of work put into it since the console went gold.
It's quite obvious they both have separate teams. Josh may have been heading up the console version for the better part of the last year, but that doesn't mean the PC team wasn't hard at work under the guidance of Travis and Wyatt. The expansion and these new "2.0" systems are looking very polished and they have clearly been the PC teams focus for quite a while now.
As for "patch 1.0.9", that was never a real thing. It's just the logical next step in patching so everyone assumes it was coming at some point. It's likely not. I think these 2.0 systems will make the minor re-visionary leap to 1.1.0 or even 2.0.0, so it's unlikely we will ever see a 1.0.9 and that's no surprise as a 1.0.9 was never actually mentioned by devs.
All the system 2.0 changes are way too far reaching to be a simple "patch" denotation of 1.0.X, not to mention the new retroactive content in Nephalem Trials and Loot Runs.
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