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Diablo 3 announced!!!
Topic Started: Saturday Jun 28 2008, 11:19 PM (1,393 Views)
NecrisTEWQ
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So have they sorted out the servers yet? Guessing no, based on Necs post. Really don't know if I can be arsed, intrigued as I am having missed diablo the first time round and quite liking torchlight and bandwagons....

Also, not sure if I want to support blizzard though given the complete clusterfuck they've made of SP, from what I'm reading at least.

Someone convince me one way or the other, this fence post hurts.
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Stick with Torchlight its more fun. What with TL2 coming out soon also it should be better. and for $20 you can't complain.

Im waiting for a cheap copy of D3 before Ill buy it, until then they can fix all their issues with the game first.
Edited by JAMSIN, Friday May 18 2012, 09:33 PM.


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Diablo has something about it that Torchlight does seem to capture. Maybe it's the story or the environments but I found torchlight to run a bit dull after awhile. Possibly because your continually only in a cavern. I think t2 will be a shit load better but I don't honk it'll ever stack up to diablo imo

Get it blue, I've had no issues what do ever logging on and playing
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Well I caved and bought it from the blizzard shop. Downloading now, so far so good and didn't have any problems creating my account which is a start. Bit peeved that I couldn't have my usual user name cause of stupid character restrictions, so I had to go with felicitousB but am already regretting that.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Ignore this post, I was told by Necris to remove my super secret post to get Diablo 3 cheaper :D
Edited by JAMSIN, Sunday May 20 2012, 01:41 PM.


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No i didn't I just told him to stop telling everyone, you never know, we might have actually GOT a copy if you did that :P


That being said, anyone have a guest pass that they could give to me at all? Having path of exile and torchlight 2 possibly soon (maybe/hopefully) don't know if it's worth getting a copy atm for $60, though a run though in a guest pass might tip me over the edge.
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Necris and his super secret squirrel business
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When did people get issued a Guest Pass?
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Nevermind, guest passes were only given out in boxed versions of D3
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You can buy a Guest starter pass for D3 from G2play for $7. gets you to lvl 18 and Act 1 or something.

But anyway fuck D3 until its cheaper. Im not planning on paying more than $30 for it.


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Diablo IIi

The good. - addictive as all hell and most fun I've had playing a game for a long time. Loving the combat, loving the skills and weapons, even the story isn't as bad as I was expecting, love the UI and design choices as it makes it really easy to see the effect of changes of weapons or skills. Going back to torchlight tonight, torchlight just felt slow and clunky and I gave up after about 5 minutes, diablo is just so much more streamlined, faster paced and fun.

The bad - the reason I was playing torchlight again tonight; servers down for maintenance, we're defaulted to US servers and so maintenance is during our peak play time. Also not liking having lag in a single player game - I've been "lucky" apparently with lag around 250 milliseconds, which is good going by posts on the forum... But highly noticeable and the couple of games I've played with higher lag have been very annoying. Doubt it would be better on a euro server, tried an Asian server and it was full and then the server dropped due to being overloaded. They better sort this shit out pronto.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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Wow Lag in a single player game?
Fuck this is why they need to remove that "always connected to the net" bullshit.


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Yup. Rooted. It's manageable and you do adjust, I must admit, on normal difficulty and with 200-250 ping at least. But any higher ping and there's a noticeable lag, and from what I've read the higher difficulties are almost impossible even at 200 ping.

A couple of complaints have been made to the ACCC apparently. The most disappointing thing is that the Aussie forum on battle.net are full of threads about it and not one single response from blizzard.


I'm still enjoying it I must say, and realistically am probably not going to be farming inferno for loot at any point, but I really hope this isn't a sign of things to come.
Edited by felicitous blue, Wednesday May 23 2012, 09:23 PM.
yo listen up here's a story
about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
is just blue like him inside and outside
blue his house with a blue little window
and a blue corvette
and everything is blue for him and hisself
and everybody around
cos he ain't got nobody to listen to

i'm blue da ba dee da ba die...
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If you offer something soo restricted and stupid just to "combat" pirating which can make the game unplayable for even single player, (seriously, single player queues?), then not having a local server for a country imo is completely unacceptable, and does nothing more then make me want to wait until the server emulator gets finished and actually pirate the game, because the pirated version is easier then being a legitimate buyer of the game (not to mention gives all users a level playing field, even if the game needs to be hacked to do so) - I can happily do without the bullshit auction house and real money auction house, considering D3 is a game about getting uber loot, not buying uber loot for more than you paid for the game, what's the point of playing the game if your gonna do that?.

A while ago I actually got directed to a statement blizzard made about aussie servers for wow (I'm aware the game sucks balls) where they said that they looked at the possibility of putting in aussie based servers and doing such a thing couldn't be justified, and then refused to explain why - Sounds like they just continued the tradition with D3 tbh.

Blizzard actually used to be a company I respected because they "wanted" to make good games, now they are basically a bunch of money hungry pricks that will take any shortcut they can possibly think of to add a few extra bucks to their salary.

BTW the "reason" blizzard have said for the servers needed for single player is apparently because they want their real money auction house to be as secure as possible, keep in mind that apparently they are gonna be giving a USD $1.60 per item fee for putting something on the AH and taking a 10% cut of the price as a "transaction fee" if the item is bought.....


I fail to see how Blizzard have any credibility after all this, but hey, this is just my opinion, which is apparently the minority.
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People seem to forget that they are Blizzard-Activision now. Doesn't that say it all?
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It was going that way long before Activision joined the party
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In regards to support, yes, but I think the hand started coming out to pinch pockets for cash once they became involved.
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First victim!

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32-year old Russell Shirley was found dead in his home over the weekend by his landlord and coworker. He suffered a heart attack after a three-day binge on Diablo III.
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First victim!

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32-year old Russell Shirley was found dead in his home over the weekend by his landlord and coworker. He suffered a heart attack after a three-day binge on Diablo III.
probably 200Kg and had nothing but a diet of red bull and cheezles for 3 days.
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