Console Version of Diablo 3: Offline Play, No RMAH, Not Exclusive to Sony
An interview with game designer Joshua Mosqueira popped up on Penny Arcade in which he explains that Diablo 3 is "not necessarily exclusive to Sony". Here's an excerpt from the interview, or you can view it in its entirety here.
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There was some question about the offline play of the game, something that’s impossible in the PC version of Diablo 3. It was confirmed to me that the game will be playable offline on the PlayStation 3.
Which leads to some other changes, namely the removal of the real money auction house. “The ecosystems on the PC and console are very different,” Mosqueira explained. “There were some technical reasons we had to go with offline, but again once you have an offline experience, even if we wanted to bring in the auction house, it just becomes problematic. How do you validate? How do you make sure there is no duping or any of that stuff?”
Hands On Console Gameplay
IGN posted a video where Senior Designer Mathew Berger shows how the game plays on the PS3. Here's also a quick summary of what has changed:
- The camera is more zoomed in.
- Boss battles have been changed up a bit to make for a more console feel.
- All classes appear to have a new dodge button.
- Fewer items drop but they're of greater quality.
- A small overall statistic of the item you loot shows up on the left of the screen, comparing it to what you currently have equipped and letting you equip the new item straight away if you so desire.
- Everything up to patch 1.0.7 is already in the game.
There is one more video that almost overlaps the one we posted earlier, but also shows a bit more of the game's UI.
And finally here is a picture of the controls posted on Facebook.
Agreed with this.
Wow, I can't believe he actually said that.
So then you know how to dupe items?
NOOOOoo body!!!!!
No No No, Overneathe is a Console hater too???
#Salute
Back on the computer I go. I shall not be swayed.
This is exactly the issue. People forget that PSN (the Playstation Network for online gaming) has been hacked several times alone in itself, so any sort of security on it isn't going to be reliable enough to have online accounts for D3.
There appears to be some new mechanic where some globes give you shrine buffs. There's nothing official or detailed about it yet so I haven't listed it as an official change. Info will come soon enough I gather.
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I've never seen anything regarding NA and EU servers getting the BoA-hammer upon rollbacks other than the Asia servers.
Console players now get the same diablo game but with the pc-version improvements, no rmah, and offline capabilities?
The same offline capabilities which would have allowed to play the game when I could hardly get online during initial release?...
You sure know how to treat your customers blizzard.