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in Diablo.de: Will Diablo 3 still have a gambling-feature to gamble good rare Items?[indent]Jay Wilson: We have not actually made a decision on gambling. We have talked about it and we might do it! It kind of depends on some of the other decisions we will make. We do not have anything against it, it is more like that: Once we make some of the other decisions on how we are going to handle items, we will decide whether or not that warrants an inclusion. But, for the most part, i think we are generally for it!

in Diablo.de: When a character dies, will it lose gold and experience like in Diablo 2?
Jay Wilson: We have not actually decided on the final death mechanic. I can guarantee that you will not lose experience. We are not urging to big penaltys for death. But we want enough of a penalty to be there, so that death has meaning! Like to lose a little bit time, some kind of decrement... We do not currently have a durability, but some kind of ... a gold cost is actually not so bad. And having the player to waste some time, that is certainly an element. Generally we kind of rely on the effect that players do not want to die. You know, you just do not want to. So there is no real reason to add a further "ding" to them for something happening that was already unfavorable to them. But we have not got our final mechanics on that, yet.

The Diablo series is among those touchstone gaming experiences that many of us RPG types grew up relishing. If to this day your MP3 collection isn't complete without "Tristram" and other tracks from Matt Uelman's masterful Diablo 2 score, we understand each other.So, when the opportunity to interview Diablo 3 Lead Designer Jay Wilson came up, we fell over ourselves rearranging our Leipzig GC schedule even though this isn't Ten Ton Hammer's standard MMORPG fare.

Learn how Blizzard hopes to capture the essence of Diablo & Diablo 2 and even take Diablo 3 beyond its predecessors in a variety of ways, not the least of which is an updated control scheme and an fast-paced approach to combat that can only be described as epic, even by Diablo terms. Get the skinny on the boss fights you saw in the D3 trailer, gather some hints on the changes in store for Blizzard's multiplayer portal, Battle.net, and see much more in this ten minute video!

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Wow, thank god that as consolation for completely ruining any competition there would be in this CONTEST, we are assured that Blizzard will be sent all 308 of these! Good thing it's too much effort to pick out the 20 best, I mean, they'd have to read through all three... hundred... and eight... oh, no... they're going to have to read through them anyway!

Here is how this should have been handled. You should have sent them all to blizzard, then had them pick the 20 ideas that are the most inventive and/or different from everyone else's, and then reward those posters with the prize, AS insinuated by the original contest post.

Quote from "Iamallama" »

Pretty unhappy with the manner in which the contest was decided. Would have been nice to be clued into that rather than invest thought in a post. One could have qualified to win by posting "I think pvp should have fun stuff and not ganks. Trading should be not cheatable. kthx"

Quote from "Savage92" »

If i got this right, all posts were forwarded to blizzard, but only the 20 randomized ones where winners. But im not sure, correct me if im wrong :confused:

Quote from "Arkeband" »

Congratulations, DiabloFans, for not following the contest rules you set in place. Now Blizzard has been sent 20 identical posts asking for pvp titles, a trading board, and a necromancer. Constructive? I think not.

Thanks for wasting a lot of peoples time with a randomizer. Ridiculous.

Quote from "AcidReign" »

I wonder if Blizzard ever sees an idea here and discusses it in the offices...

Quote from "kon" »

I think that a some clarification as to how the winners would be chosen in the original post would have been appreciated.

Quote from "Zoltrix" »

Is that a thanks for telling you about it or a sarcastic thanks for deleteing the original one by mistake.

If its the latter I apologize again.

In this special Worldwide Invitational wrap-up edition of BlizzCast, we briefly recap some of the events at the recent WWI in Paris, and then move straight into a discussion with Diablo III Lead Designer Jay Wilson. We quiz him on how the development team is evolving the classic series -- and then dive into a discussion of some recent hot issues surrounding the upcoming sequel.

The Necromancer, he said, was simply a victim of his own success. He was just too well crafted as a character, something that Wilson's Blizzard design cohorts, current and former, likely don't mind hearing. Necro fans on the other hand, probably won't be too thrilled to learn of his disappearance, despite the Witch Doctor class's similarities.