Diablo III release date April 17th?

[austin316]

I'de rather put my money on an end of the world prediction than a D3 rumored release date. When its officially announced by Blizzard, I'll believe it then.

exactly. plus, for one of the biggest releases of the year, ATVI is going to want longer than a month to market this game.

once Blizzard does announce a release, I think you're looking at 90 days. so if they announce tomorrow, that is a June release.

 

[Pantlegz]

This is why I won't touch the game. If my network suddenly goes down or I get a bad storm and am on a laptop I cannot even play. Lame.

Yeah but you might say everyone is online all the time anyway...not really.

You know more and more games are going this way, in the next year or 2 you might have to give up pc gaming.

 

[Beev]

When did they announce the Starcraft 2 release date and when did it come out? Cataclysm was given a release date less than two months away when it was announced.

 

[thespyder]

You know more and more games are going this way, in the next year or 2 you might have to give up pc gaming.

I agree that this is a (disturbing) trend in the industry. And I put as much blame on us as consumers as on the production companies. If we don't stop buying games that are "Online only", they won't stop making them.

 

[Beev]

I agree that this is a (disturbing) trend in the industry. And I put as much blame on us as consumers as on the production companies. If we don't stop buying games that are "Online only", they won't stop making them.

My internet is always on. I have no reason to care. If I lose my internet I have bigger problems.

 

[isekii]

if it comes out with the shit version of the skill tree and locked out buttons they pushed in the last beta patch i wont be buying it

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3123246179#14



Diablo III Beta Patch 14 – v. 0.8.0.8815
Released 3/8/2012
General

Hardcore mode is now available, and can be unlocked by reaching level 10 with at least one character

Cast time to resurrect a fallen ally has been increased from 1 second to 3 seconds

Player created games now default to Invite Only. Check "Allow Quick Join" in the Social tab of the Options menu to allow your friends to join

Magic Find and Gold Find are now shared amongst party members. The average combined value of the entire party's Magic and Gold Find applies to all players regardless of location in the game world. The averaged values will not display in the UI

Skill UI In Elective mode, skills can now be dragged and dropped from the skill interface into hot-key slots

Right-clicking a skill hot-key will now open the skill interface

Auction House The Sell interface has been updated to better match the in-game inventory and stash

Combined the advanced and basic search features

The Active auctions tab now allows users to see all active auctions

Searches for recipes and tomes have been added




Your request is answered ?

 

[CottonRabbit]

Your request is answered ?

It's still a big step down from the old version, no visibility. Just forcing the mode to be a toggle hidden in a menu is UI fail.

Biggest change in new patch was a flat 30% damage reduction bonus to monks and barbs. I guess they got tired of balancing. Also kills the viability of melee variants of the other classes.

 

[Anonemous]

Can't make HC characters... I keep getting some Error 30000006 or something.

They made it a bit harder for melee chars. I remember busting through the cathedral at lvl 8-9. Now the enemies can actually dmg you as you journey to the Skelly King.

 

[bigaug]

I can't believe that I'm probably not going to get this game.

Nice job Blizzard.

 

[TidusZ]

The amount of qq in regards to D3 makes me sick. The game will be amazing and the people who say they wont buy it will be the ones playing 12 hours a day 3 years from now.

 

[Harabec]

I'm waiting for it
Got burned out with WoW after a few years but When I played D2 is was a lot more fun - I only quit due to army/RL catching up.

 

[Anubis]

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/3123246179#14



Diablo III Beta Patch 14 – v. 0.8.0.8815
Released 3/8/2012
General

Hardcore mode is now available, and can be unlocked by reaching level 10 with at least one character

Cast time to resurrect a fallen ally has been increased from 1 second to 3 seconds

Player created games now default to Invite Only. Check "Allow Quick Join" in the Social tab of the Options menu to allow your friends to join

Magic Find and Gold Find are now shared amongst party members. The average combined value of the entire party's Magic and Gold Find applies to all players regardless of location in the game world. The averaged values will not display in the UI

Skill UI In Elective mode, skills can now be dragged and dropped from the skill interface into hot-key slots

Right-clicking a skill hot-key will now open the skill interface

Auction House The Sell interface has been updated to better match the in-game inventory and stash

Combined the advanced and basic search features

The Active auctions tab now allows users to see all active auctions

Searches for recipes and tomes have been added




Your request is answered ?

close, but it should be lvl 1 not 10
but thats progress
skill window still sucks however

 

[bigaug]

The amount of qq in regards to D3 makes me sick. The game will be amazing and the people who say they wont buy it will be the ones playing 12 hours a day 3 years from now.

If you say so pal.

I was EXCITED about Diablo 3 last year. It was the entire reason that I ditched my laptop and built a new rig. That was when the game was supposed to be out DEFINITELY before 2012. Then delay after delay and change after change came. I actually kept up with what was going on and the changes and all that for a while. Then one day, I thought to myself, "I don't even give a crap about this game. I'm not even looking forward to it."

I WOULD have been one of those people playing it for 12 hours a day three years from now. I won't buy it for a very long time after release. I've got plenty of other games to play.

I'm not even whining about it "not being D2." I don't like the way they did the game, but I was willing to overlook all the things I disagreed with for the simple fact that I was so excited about it. I'm just saying that Blizzard did an excellent job killing the hype and any excitement I had about the game. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

I'll vote with my wallet on this one and avoid it for 5 years or so until its 19.99.

 

[darkewaffle]

If you actually thought D3 was going to be released in 2011 you clearly haven't been paying that much attention

 

[Aikouka]

close, but it should be lvl 1 not 10

I'm guessing that's just a beta thing though. Although, I'm not sure why they care if you (almost) play through the entire thing on normal first.

 

[thespyder]

My internet is always on. I have no reason to care. If I lose my internet I have bigger problems.

My internet is always on as well (except on my laptop). That isn't really my issue. My concern is that games are now shackled to bandwidth and traffic. Games are now tied to having to be connected to a host server, even if there is no logical reason to be. And if I want to play on, oh say my laptop, in the airplane. Guess what? No game.

And if something horrible were to happen to Blizzard on their end, game functionality goes away entirely. So your system and connection might be 100% with no issues, but if their server goes down, no game.... They take it down for maintenance, no game. If they go off line for any reason what so ever. No game. And gods forbid if they go out of business.... No game.

Plus it is getting to be the whole premise. if i don't want to play internet games, and the game has a solo player mode, why force me into a mode that I don't want to use, and for absolutely no benefit?

 

[Pantlegz]

My internet is always on as well (except on my laptop). That isn't really my issue. My concern is that games are now shackled to bandwidth and traffic. Games are now tied to having to be connected to a host server, even if there is no logical reason to be. And if I want to play on, oh say my laptop, in the airplane. Guess what? No game.

And if something horrible were to happen to Blizzard on their end, game functionality goes away entirely. So your system and connection might be 100% with no issues, but if their server goes down, no game.... They take it down for maintenance, no game. If they go off line for any reason what so ever. No game. And gods forbid if they go out of business.... No game.

Plus it is getting to be the whole premise. if i don't want to play internet games, and the game has a solo player mode, why force me into a mode that I don't want to use, and for absolutely no benefit?

I would be willing to bet their response would be something similar to "thank the pirates". This is a measure put in to make it more difficult for people to steal their hard work, I know they can make it work other ways but it's more difficult for the common thief to just do download whatever game they want. Companies can also patch it out of the game if they're going out of business for whatever reason, I don't see that happening with Blizzard/Activision.

 

[darkewaffle]

Well I think the 'always online' thing is also in part to give people that MMO/'competitive' feel which was a huge part of the lasting appeal of D2 - the endless quest to find that most perfect gear set possible so that you could show it off or do the most damage or PvP or whatever. The unifying idea being that it 'mattered' because it was online and anything offline 'didn't matter' so to speak.

I think that by making single player online, they're trying to plant the seeds to create that mindset again.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Can't wait for release. Will be a fun game.

 

[Aikouka]

My internet is always on as well (except on my laptop). That isn't really my issue. My concern is that games are now shackled to bandwidth and traffic. Games are now tied to having to be connected to a host server, even if there is no logical reason to be. And if I want to play on, oh say my laptop, in the airplane. Guess what? No game.

Why is it that I keep seeing people state that there's "no reason to be connected" when it's been stated many times that EVERYTHING IN DIABLO III IS GENERATED ON THE SERVER... YOU ARE EFFECTIVELY PLAYING AN ONLINE GAME ALL THE TIME.

This isn't like UbiSoft who requires you to connect to their server as a sort of authentication mechanism. While Blizzard's online requirement may help in that way too, it isn't only for that purpose. I would suggest that having heavier server control over things is necessary if Blizzard wants to let users sell items for money. If people could dupe items, that would utterly destroy the monetary value of said items.

 

[thespyder]

Why is it that I keep seeing people state that there's "no reason to be connected" when it's been stated many times that EVERYTHING IN DIABLO III IS GENERATED ON THE SERVER... YOU ARE EFFECTIVELY PLAYING AN ONLINE GAME ALL THE TIME.

This isn't like UbiSoft who requires you to connect to their server as a sort of authentication mechanism. While Blizzard's online requirement may help in that way too, it isn't only for that purpose. I would suggest that having heavier server control over things is necessary if Blizzard wants to let users sell items for money. If people could dupe items, that would utterly destroy the monetary value of said items.

I am sorry, but you completely missed my point. when I said there was no reason to be online, I meant it. It is possible and reasonable that the entire game be run on individual computers. Therefore there is no reason to be online when playing solo. If the game didn't have a solo game component, you would be right. But there is.

and I DON'T WANT TO PLAY ONLINE ALL THE TIME which was my point. please read the rest of my post. If I am playing single player only, regardless of if I CAN be online connected to a Blizzard server, I might not WISH to be connected to a Blizzard server.

and again, what happens if I want to play (solo) on a plane? or somewhere else where I have no internet connection? Or during high volume and I have to sit for an hour or more in a queue to get on. Or what happens in 5 years when Blizzard no longer sees it as financially viable to maintain those servers and abandons the game? or what happens in two weeks when they have a hardware failure that disables their servers? I paid good money. I gain NO functionality from it being server based in the single player mode.

I am not saying that everyone is/should feel this way. Merely that if there is a single player component to the game, where is the cause/reason for server based? Where is the benefit to the consumers?

 

[HardcoreRobot]

shared magic and gold find is ghetto. i like it as an OPTION, esp if you are trying to help out lower level friends in your party. but as a default, i dont want to share any of my goodies with anyone else. also, why not display it... (unless its a typo and means will NOW display...) dont get the logic there. ill see all my %'s, then its just a black box of what is actually in effect?

 

[Aikouka]

I am not saying that everyone is/should feel this way. Merely that if there is a single player component to the game, where is the cause/reason for server based? Where is the benefit to the consumers?

I'm pretty certain that I expressed the reasons for this in my previous post, but I will reiterate it:

The reason you play online all the time is because you are playing on a server all the time. You do this, because there is absolutely no difference between starting a character by yourself or in co-op. This also cuts down on duping of items, which was a common problem in Diablo II. Cutting down on duping is necessary for the real money auction house.

I'm not saying this is the nicest way to handle it and will work well for everyone, but there is a staunch difference between the reason why Blizzard requires you to be online for Diablo III and why Ubisoft requires you to be online with Anno 2070.

Honestly, if you don't like all of that, just wait for Torchlight II. It will be everything that you want (no online required, mod-able, etc.) and only cost $20.

EDIT:

To kind of make it simpler, you're really playing a "lite MMO". Instead of seeing other players in the world by default, you join instanced versions of the world with them.

 

[bigaug]

shared magic and gold find is ghetto. i like it as an OPTION, esp if you are trying to help out lower level friends in your party. but as a default, i dont want to share any of my goodies with anyone else. also, why not display it... (unless its a typo and means will NOW display...) dont get the logic there. ill see all my %'s, then its just a black box of what is actually in effect?

Agreed. This alone makes me not want to get the game.

 

[Anonemous]

With the new patch, it's actually slightly more challenging.