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Oct 7, 2009mockery posted a message on Is It Too Early to Pre-Order?Personally, I wouldn't pre-order it from anywhere but Blizzard right now just to be safe. That said, I'll probably wait until the game has an official release date because (like OathofChaos) I'll want to buy whatever Collector's Edition they inevitably come out with, rather than just the normal game itself. Can't wait to see what kind of goodies they pack into it!Posted in: News
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Oct 1, 2009mockery posted a message on Sanctuary Goes MobileWhen I saw this, I thought you meant Diablo II was now available to play on mobile phones. Definitely wouldn't mind that!Posted in: News
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Aug 28, 2009mockery posted a message on Tyrael Sings "Hotel California".Hehe great finds Dauroth!Posted in: News
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Aug 28, 2009mockery posted a message on Tyrael Sings "Hotel California".Hrm, didn't notice any posts about it on here... it's in our dev tracker forum obviously though. And yeah, it's definitely a good findPosted in: News
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Aug 20, 2009mockery posted a message on A Recap of Blizzard's 2009 Fansite Summit!I also picked up my press pass a little while ago and could already hear Ozzy's band rehearsing in Hall D. Sounds good so far!Posted in: News
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Aug 19, 2009mockery posted a message on Diablofans Redesign Launching Tomorrow! Plus, Live Chats During BlizzCon!Posted in: News
Nevar 4getQuote from "eugene66" »We've come along way from the diablo 3 domain days baby.......:D -
Aug 19, 2009mockery posted a message on Diablofans Redesign Launching Tomorrow! Plus, Live Chats During BlizzCon!Posted in: News
Thanks Kwic, glad you enjoyed the live chats last year. We had a lot of fun bringing the news and chatting with everybody live at the event. I'm sure it'll be just as fun this year. Glad ya like the new design too!Quote from "Kwic" »Livechat was greatly done last year, hopefully this time you will be just as good Looks good so far
Those ads used to be there actually and still show up here 'n there. These server bills don't pay themselves after allQuote from "Absolut" »the new ad below diablofans banner -
Aug 19, 2009mockery posted a message on Diablofans Redesign Launching Tomorrow! Plus, Live Chats During BlizzCon!Posted in: News
There's always the possibility for new additions, but don't worry, all of your current forum accounts / titles / etc will remain as is. It's just a big facelift for the site at the moment.Quote from "Dauroth" »Question: Are the titles (Zealot, Faithful, Sexton etc.) and generally everything about the user on the forums going to be the same, or are we going to see something new in that area? -
Aug 19, 2009mockery posted a message on Gamescon Reveals Desert and More!In addition to 1UP's coverage, Kotaku has their hands-on coverage of Diablo 3 up online now:Posted in: News
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Aug 19, 2009mockery posted a message on Gamescon Reveals Desert and More!This is definitely some cool news and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the Desert area (and squishing creatures under my feet hahah). That being said, I'm still hoping that they'll have a different demo at BlizzCon with a new playable class. It's been a year after all... show us the goods, Blizzard!Posted in: News
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Aug 17, 2009mockery posted a message on New Curse network site: FFXIVCore.com! Plus, Diablo Haikus.Posted in: News
Seth, any time there's a huge a big announcement in the Curse network, we try to post it just as those sites post our big news. It's one of the ways we try to help each other out.Quote from "Seth" »I don't mean to be pessimistic, but why is a FFXIV fan site making headlines here if this is about Blizzard, but more specifically, Diablo news? I hope I don't start seeing every Curse news cast flipping up in our announcements.
Haikus, though... Oh goodness, who knows what madness this will unleash?
Does that mean you're going to see non-Diablo/Blizzard related news on here all the time? Of course not. I wouldn't let that happen to the site. This is a community for fans of the Diablo series and we're here to bring people the latest news about it.
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Jun 9, 2009mockery posted a message on REMINDER! Diablofans' BlizzCon Ticket Contest Deadline is this Monday!!Soooooooo many fantastic entries. You guys certainly haven't made our jobs of judging the contest easy this year! We'll post the results as soon as the Diablofans staff members have cast their votes! Thanks again to all of you who took the time to enter!Posted in: News
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May 22, 2009mockery posted a message on Blizzard Posts New Diablo-Themed FanartYngvar, seriously nice work there! Congrats on being featured in the fan art section on Blizzard!Posted in: News
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May 8, 2009mockery posted a message on Exclusive Interview With Richard KnaakGreat interview! Nice work Daemaro, and big thanks to Richard for taking the time to talk with us!Posted in: News
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Apr 27, 2009mockery posted a message on No WWI 2009- But Not to Worry!I'm definitely disappointed that there won't be a WWI 2009. Was hoping to attend it and hopefully meet up with some of the other Diablo fans from around the globe. But yeah, BlizzCon is definitely going to be great!Posted in: News
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Thought some of you might be interested in this sale going on Amazon.com today. It appears that all of Blizzard's "Battle Chest" box sets are on sale today for roughly 50% off the usual price. The Diablo Battle Chest for example - which contains Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, and the two strategy guides - is on sale for $19.98. The Starcraft Battle Chest is going for $9.98.
Pretty solid deals for anybody wanting to catch up on the old games before the new ones come out. And if you already have them, well, it's never too early to start shopping for the holidays right? Hope this helps!
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Shatterer, I just checked the link and it's working fine. Maybe try again or try loading it in a different browser.
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Official Blizzard Quote:
"It [dueling] was tacked on, a button that you'd just enable. We'd like to give it a bit more thought than that. We'd like to serve that community, and put real time and effort into making it much more than an afterthought."
Official Blizzard Quote:
"Players have a memory of Diablo as very serious, very dark, and very straight. But Diablo was full of humour that took the edge off that seriousness. That's our goal today. We're not going to be silly as World of Warcraft. We're not going to put any of our characters in a hand-made rocket car. Having said that, I don't think any licence lives in one note. This is a big world that our players are going to live in, maybe for years. It's got to have more than just a serious tone."
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Official Blizzard Quote:
"Thought I'd remind everyone that we have an official Diablo twitter feed, we've already run some cool contests, we have daily questions and interactions, and we're also making mini-updates that talk about current work as it progresses on the game. The best way to get involved in everything we're doing is to sign up and 'follow' the Diablo feed.
Some updates this week from www.twitter.com/diablo you may have missed:
"Female monk concepts are complete, work continues on her different armor set looks."
"New 'bloated corpse' clickable object almost complete. Decomposing with treasury-goodness."
"Dual-wield attack animations for the male monk are in progress. Check out some fist weapon concepts. http://bit.ly/bGV8r"
"Wizard resource system first pass concepted by Mike Nicholson, and it's looking... volatile."
Sign up for a twitter account and then just visit the Diablo feed and choose to follow it and you'll get updates the second they go out. Most cell phones have programs/apps you can get for twitter so you can follow the latest Diablo updates even while you wait for your turn to yell at your local town hall meeting.
We of course also have Warcraft and Starcraft feeds, but aside from Blizzard there are also a lot of different people and companies to follow. Personally I also like following my favorite comedians, some of them are really active and I get to to read a ton of funny throughout the day."
Official Blizzard Quote:
"I wasn't too hot on it either. I mean all I heard about it in my daily life was from over-enunciating news casters that half giggle every time they pause before saying twitter, tweet, etc. because... IT'S SO WHIMSICAL! Or just general over saturation.
And if you hear enough about celebrities or athletes you despise using twitter to update their fans on what conditioner they use or the size of their bowel movements, yeah, it sort of makes you hate even the concept of it.
But ... the community team here came up with a big overarching twitter project because just about every major game developer was already on board, and once I got into it I have to say there's a lot of pretty cool stuff to see. You only have to see what is being said by people or companies that you want to see. Sometimes the companies you can follow hold daily contests or giveaways or give limited time coupon codes - and free stuff/savings is cool. In our case you may also get some exclusive info on the development of our games.
There's that hurdle of not worrying what other people are doing and just using a product/service because it's something you want. And it's an opt-in experience! Just jump on and ONLY follow Diablo if that's all you want to do.
I will admit though, I wear kind of tight fitting jeans."
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So here's what you need to do. Post any questions about Diablo III that you'd like us to ask during our interview with Blizzard. The questions can be about art, design, lore, production, etc. Whatever you're interested in learning more about! And yes, you can post as many suggestions for questions as you like, just try to have them submitted by the end of this week at the latest.
We obviously can't ask ALL of your questions, so myself and the other staff members will be compiling a list of the ones we think are the most interesting (ie: don't post a question like "When's Diablo 3 coming out?" because you should know by now that such a question is pointless to ask).
Again, we're opening this up to you guys because you've helped us make this into the greatest online Diablo fan community and we really want to keep you actively involved with everything that's going on. So post some good questions and maybe we'll send them to Blizzard! Thanks all!
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Official Blizzard Quote:
What is your favorite monk skill of those shown on the official site?
http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/monk.xml
How about you? Share your thoughts on what your favorite Monk skill is from the ones listed on Blizzard's site so far and why. Blizzard is listening!
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It's particularly nice to hear that they're setting out to make this the "definitive" game of the series and that they allow themselves to "cross the line" artistically so they are able to find a creative balance. Same goes for the details about how they want things such as armor in the game to be realistic, so players could actually believe in their functionality rather than having outfits that are nothing but flash. What are your thoughts on what the two had to say?
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As stated in the article, it's hard to see the event as a total financial loss for them though when you consider the entire event is like one huge advertisement for their games. It gets people psyched up about what's to come and news from the convention spreads around like wildfire around the globe. Sounds less like a financial loss and more like a smart investment to me. What do you think?
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So for those of you who were hoping for a World of Diablo / World of Starcraft type game, I wouldn't really count on it. I don't know about you guys, but I wouldn't mind seeing Blizzard coming out with a new IP. Either that or World of Lost Vikings.
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In other news more related to Diablo 3, Bashiok recently responded to comments on Battle.net about how the public sees the game differently so far. He brought up some interesting points about how hardcore gamers view Diablo 3 versus the general game buying public. Here's what he had to say:
Official Blizzard Quote:
"Well I think it's kind of easy to look at changes and advancements in the RPG genre as a whole and narrow them down to any number of sources to fit each use.
To make a car analogy (my favorite!) it would be like having issues with the newest version of the mustang because its body styling takes into account things like passenger safety and aerodynamics, and being upset by this because these are features also found in the ford focus. A clearly inferior car in the eyes of the mustang enthusiast.
These types of ideas could never have been thought of or would ever be included in the mustang, of course, had not both cars been manufactured by ford.
It's just all a bit silly. What I do think is interesting is the differentiation between the hardcore Diablo II players (most of y'all) and the majority of the rest of the game buying public. From our showing at BlizzCon and PAX a lot of the articles and off-site (non fansite) discussions are saying that Diablo III may not be doing enough to change itself from Diablo II.
If those people read some of the posts here you'd think we were putting a Diablo sticker on a WoW box and calling it a day. So it's just an interesting difference between the audiences and how level of dedication changes perceptions and expectation.
And I don't mean to lump everyone together, I'd say aside from the trolls the majority of posters here are actually level headed and logical. At least able to take multiple things into consideration. Reasonable thought process and understanding that the game is a work in progress, and not someone that sees a character with a slight hunch and makes a leap of logic that we must be using model/animation assets from a different game.
That's still my favorite. Cause of it bein' so stupid 'n all.
But anyway I guess what I'm getting at is... I'd really like to read something new and original. These posts are getting tired."
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Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing Diablo 3 on all of the consoles. I'm sure it would look great on both the Xbox and PS3, and a Wii version could be entertaining to hack apart enemies by waving the Wiimote around. Actually, given the number of enemies one has to kill in Diablo, I imagine your arms would feel like jelly after playing the game on the Wii for any extended periods of time.