Diablo 3 release date: May 15th - Page 24

On March 18 2012 09:44 Gescom wrote:

Who actually goes to orientation? trolololo

On March 18 2012 14:11 GodZo wrote:
With your reasoning, nobody should judge Diablo3, since it is not released yet. But there are forums, feedbacks, videos, messages from the developers, and many who have already played sc2 know what is BNet 2.0, that is the same for sc2 and d3. Thanks to all of these things a person gets an idea, and it would be right to respect it, mainly considering opinions of persons with twenty years of experience about games like me, I played also all the Blizzard games since warcraft 1. But this is a thread for fanboys, sorry if I disturbed, now you can continue to piss on ur pants, as many of you have written.

On March 18 2012 12:53 NotSorry wrote:

While I completely agree that this guy judging games he's never played is foolish and makes his opinion completely irrelevant, I'm gonna have to agree to disagree with your statement, going off of my alpha and beta experience of both games I see D3 as the challenger looking to prove something against POE here. No doubt D3 will out sell POE no questions asked, you could put the Blizzard and Diablo title on an empty box and it's pre-orders alone would out sell nearly every other game on the planet that doesn't have a COD sticker on it, but will it last? Will D3 be able to keep the fanbois playing for more than a month or two after the next random popular title game comes out? Will POE completely fold under their marketing strategy and never be heard from again, we don't know. So making arguments over things we don't know is pointless.

Comparing the two betas I see the game appealing to two different extremes while of course there will be some overlap and like myself many people will simply play both to satisfy their needs. I see D3 as the causal time killer, from the second you press create character you are an unstoppable killing machine, a god in the world. You can do the beta naked hc without ever dropping below 90% hp, who knows maybe there is some massively steep slop coming up that just throws everyone off the deep end and the game ends up relatively challenging before wasting too much time, but probably not. In all likelihood it will be a slowly ramping up of difficulty that doesn't get to relatively easy before the end of normal. No worries of having to build a character, everything is done for you, stats, skills, talents, all you have to worry about is picking up shiny loot and kicking the shit out of demons. PvP is still "Soon TM" so hard to really count it into the mix cause it could be a normal soon or a blizzard soon aka we'll throw it in the next expan to get people to come back to the game. A pvp that resides only in arenas.

On the other you have POE which aims towards the more hardcore crowd and focus on the point of character customization to an extreme, to a level that can be seen as alienating to causal gamers, literally hundreds of choices to tweak a character to your play style. A game that throws you into the not so shallow water from the start, today there was a beta HC ladder race and chat was full of people dying before ever getting to lvl 6 and forums full of vet players giving stories of how they lost their top characters and theory crafting on ways to tweak them so they can hopefully make it further next time. A sample of PvP is already in the game and is quiet entertaining, with more in the works. If I've never played this game before and you told me it was D3 from Blizzard I wouldn't even bother to think twice about it and would just continue enjoying an amazing game. A pvp system planned to include everything from dueling, instanced war grounds to all out world pvp in which you can hunt down your enemy, kill the bastard and loot his gear.


Would go into more detail but the wife is rushing me out the door to go drink green beer...

On March 18 2012 14:11 GodZo wrote:
With your reasoning, nobody should judge Diablo3, since it is not released yet. But there are forums, feedbacks, videos, messages from the developers, and many who have already played sc2 know what is BNet 2.0, that is the same for sc2 and d3. Thanks to all of these things a person gets an idea, and it would be right to respect it, mainly considering opinions of persons with twenty years of experience about games like me, I played also all the Blizzard games since warcraft 1. But this is a thread for fanboys, sorry if I disturbed, now you can continue to piss on ur pants, as many of you have written.

On March 18 2012 12:53 NotSorry wrote:
Comparing the two betas I see the game appealing to two different extremes while of course there will be some overlap and like myself many people will simply play both to satisfy their needs. I see D3 as the causal time killer, from the second you press create character you are an unstoppable killing machine, a god in the world. You can do the beta naked hc without ever dropping below 90% hp, who knows maybe there is some massively steep slop coming up that just throws everyone off the deep end and the game ends up relatively challenging before wasting too much time, but probably not. In all likelihood it will be a slowly ramping up of difficulty that doesn't get to relatively easy before the end of normal. No worries of having to build a character, everything is done for you, stats, skills, talents, all you have to worry about is picking up shiny loot and kicking the shit out of demons. PvP is still "Soon TM" so hard to really count it into the mix cause it could be a normal soon or a blizzard soon aka we'll throw it in the next expan to get people to come back to the game. A pvp that resides only in arenas.

On March 18 2012 23:29 dmfg wrote:


Well it depends on the philosophy Blizzard takes with their "end game content" here, which AFAIK noone outside the developers actually know.

Are they gonna follow the "everyone should see all the content there is to see" model, where Inferno is tuned so that even casual play will get you through with minimal frustration?

Or are they gonna follow the "everyone should be able to finish the game.. but for the hardcore players, there's are exponentially more difficult options" model, where normal is tuned so that casual play will get you through, but higher difficulties will be tuned for completely different audiences?

All the signs point to their plan being the second one. But we don't know yet, and even if we did know, we can't tell if they've executed correctly.

On March 19 2012 02:55 kuresuti wrote:


They already said that the endgame content will be for hardcore players.

On March 18 2012 14:24 GodZo wrote:
gogo with insults, only fans here?

User was warned for this post

On March 19 2012 07:29 NaZa wrote:
I personally never played D1 or D2 so i wont be getting it,it's not just because of that.There's a lot of things that are putting me off buying like being always online to play etc.Also 60 euro is really steep for me :/ .

On March 19 2012 07:09 Tictock wrote:


Just ignore the silly troll guys.

OT: I haven't been all that pumped for D3 last few months (after I got to try Beta the initial hype wore off) !

On March 19 2012 07:38 Angryhorse wrote:


So glad I havent tried the Beta and I've also kept the stream watching to the bare minimum .It's gonna make the first login and character creation so much better, ooooooooh the sweeet tears I will shed when I slaughter my way through demons,twisted beasts,skeletons and wicked wizards! Hyped like a mother fu....-

Then you have to question what is blizzard's definition of "hardcore" players?