HC: Region Firsts -Looking for More People - Page 9

On April 27 2012 19:48 tetrismaan wrote:
This thread makes me wonder how many deaths (in real life) there will be after a week from launch of the game. Seriously.

Also, imagine dying (ingame) after you've spent 1-2 weeks playing and nothing else. Those 2 weeks were just wasted. Oh em geeee.. I would quit the game instantly.

Are the builds and planning top secret? Would love to see what the plans are like. I haven't even planned out a build from 0-60, just mucked around with possible lv60 builds.

Skype.. confirmed casuals!

On April 28 2012 01:55 KalWarkov wrote:


i so much hope they will all rip in inferno and some1 who slept more will be servers first :D
just go for 36 / sleep / 24 / sleep etc... sessions, should be enough.

On April 27 2012 19:48 tetrismaan wrote:
This thread makes me wonder how many deaths (in real life) there will be after a week from launch of the game. Seriously.

Also, imagine dying (ingame) after you've spent 1-2 weeks playing and nothing else. Those 2 weeks were just wasted. Oh em geeee.. I would quit the game instantly.

On April 28 2012 05:19 NotSorry wrote:


If those 2 weeks are wasted for you because of just dying then you probably didn't like the game in the first place.

On April 29 2012 02:11 {ToT}ColmA wrote:
Dont understand why people would like to play HC... like i play my demon hunter....disconnect, die in the process and everything i ve played for so far is over, i would probably be really upset so why bother? whats the motivation to do this~

On April 29 2012 02:19 Iyerbeth wrote:


It's the difference between enjoying a character and enjoying playing the game. I've lost plenty of hc char's in D2 (nothing like what some people have though) but I enjoyed every minute of them, and it was all the better because of the fact it wasn't a case of "oh I died, guess I'll restart from the last checkpoint" and everything mattered.

When your character does die? Well, damn, time to start a new one!

It's not going to be for everyone, but if you love actually playing the game it's absolutely worth it. I should add I'm not saying that enjoying having a max level character farming gear with no threat of death isn't playing the game (I'll have sc characters doing that too) it's just a different thing.

On April 26 2012 22:32 Kerans wrote:
If I may, just a quick suggestion to everybody whose sleep cycle is going to get demolished during the first days of D3 - and please bear in mind that this is personal experience: in no way am I suggesting that this is what IS going to happen, just that it did happen to me, and that subsequent talks with various medical practitioners (neurologists, mainly) confirmed as being a statistically real possibility. Consider it a word of warning, nothing more.

In 2001, at age 19, I volounteered for a pretty big LAN event in my (then) hometown - roughly 1k PCs over 3 days, which for the time was pretty big in Italy. That meant doing everything from hauling technical equipment off the back of a van to laying an untold amount of Ethernet cables all over this stadium, but the brunt of the work, for me and some of the boys, was checking the PCs of everyone who showed up at the door before hooking them up to the infrastructure. That meant standing behind a desk with a monitor and endlessly plugging case after case after case, turning them on until boot ended, turning them off and waving people in.
At the time - being 19, in excellent health and having had no problem whatsoever with computers since I was 3 years old and in front of a Vic20 - I thought nothing could go wrong, even with 18-19 hours of work (and a hell of a lot of fun, of course) for a few days. After all, 5 hours of sleep for 3 days is surely doable, right?
Wrong.
At the beginning of day 2, as I was checking PCs as usual, one moment I was staring at a monitor, and the next thing I know, I'm laying down and staring at a white ceiling, nauseous as hell and bone-tired. I'm in a bed - a hospital bed - with my relatives around me and my head feels like somebody took a sledgehammer to it.
Long story short, overworking my eyes with artificial lights for 18 hours a day and very few hours of sleep had made me cross a physical threshold of sort, and further examination led doctors to the conclusion that I had pushed my brain and body over a limit I didn't know I had. Something had to give, and I had an epileptic seizure, screaming my head off and falling backwards, head first, into a metal crush barrier. Not a pretty sight, and thank goodness I had a male nurse friend standing right next to me who knew what to do. I cut my hair too short, it looks like somebody tried to kill me.

Fast-forward to almost eleven years and a broken nose later - courtesy of another episode - I am now on daily medication, which has side effects which I have to be careful of, and of course I really have to watch the amount of time I can play every day, not to mentionall the hoops I have to jump through every time I have to renew my driving license. And I can't really say that I fully learned the lesson yet, since when SC2 came out I pulled a 4am session and of course had another attack, which had me falling from my chair and breaking my glasses in two very jagged pieces, both very close to my eyes, during a full-on seizure. Count me lucky, I guess.

What I'm getting at is this: I know very well how much you want it to be open servers hour on May 15th, I can hardly wait myself. But please, everybody, be careful. Ask yourself if it is really, really, really worth it. I don't want to sound like a jinxer or whatever, but some lessons have a habit of being very tough to learn, unless you keep your head on your shoulders. Choices always have consequences. For me, being a stupid kid who didn't know any better eleven years ago has led me to something which is definitely not life-shattering, but which I could've done without, and that might have never showed up otherwise. Please think about it, for your own sake, and have fun.