Official Blizzard Quote:
While it is indeed playable from beginning to end, we’re still actively working on many individual game elements and the ways that they interact with one another, with a great deal of iterative tweaking, balancing, polishing, adjusting, redesigning, and retesting going on.
I understand everything here except "redesigning".
Come on, this is NOT a time to return to the drawing board.
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You know what? you're right. No one can know anything, because all information might be untrue or misunderstood. Thanks for your contributions to this awesome thread. If you read that post carefully, you will see that a decision regarding runestones has not been made yet, which is evidence that supports my statement "They are not feature code complete." How can your code be finished if you haven't decided what features are going to be in your code yet? YOU CAN'T.
First off, there's no need to be rude.
Let me see if I understand your point correctly. When WoW was released, there was 19 days between release announcement and launch. Therefore, a January release is possible?
If that's your point, I absolutely agree. However, I'm not talking about what's possible, I'm talking about what's LIKELY. I personally believe it's HIGHLY unlikely that the game will launch in January, and I have both evidence and professional experience on which that opinion is based. Now, I don't know everything, and I will kindly (and happily) eat my words if my opinion is wrong.
There's plenty of information to back up my claims, just as there's plenty of info to back up yours. I just feel my bias should be represented alongside the others.
Frankly folks, take the hostility down a few notches, let's not bring our e-peens into this. I'm not pulling the "I'm a software engineer card" for for any other reason than the OP asked for the opinion of people who have worked in the industry.
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Blizzard will announce they are removing the game from the game.
Part of me wants to see Blizzard completely pull the plug on Diablo 3.
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HAHAHAHA +1
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I literally don't even...
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R-R-Really?
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.. well, at least there isn't any funny-math to clutter my mind...
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While we're on the topic of fallacies, you've managed to include several in your rebuttal:
1. False dilemma: "If you support private enterprise protecting their products from theft, then by definition you also support governments violating your rights." It sounds ridiculous when you repeat your argument without using the second fallacy you employ:
2. Appeal to consequences of a belief: "I believe that a private company protecting their own intellectual property is a violation of my rights, therefore if I support Bliz protecting their intellectual property, I also support the government violating my legal rights." You're assuming your belief is true and using the consequences as the reason. Circular.
There's some old wisdom that I follow: If you set out your wallet in plain view and leave, someone is eventually going to take it. So don't leave your wallet laying around.
Is it legal to steal a wallet? Nope. Do I support stealing wallets? Nope. Do I leave my wallet laying around? Nope.
Bliz is keeping their code server-side for the same reason that banks keep money in safes: Because if people are provided no restrictions or restrictions without meaningful consequences, then the greedy and immoral, selfish, power-hungry crooks will fuck things up for everyone.
Need proof? Have a look at Wall Street.
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But don't blame Blizzard. Blame the crooks and assholes who abuse open source.
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The human brain is so subliminally attuned to sounds, I could see this work really adding a sub-conscious satisfaction to replaying the game..
Blizzard, YOU GREAT.
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Yeah, it takes REAL talent to tinker with existing code and change a few parameters in config files so you can make the game do a bunch of awkward crap.
In my experience, only time it's useful to mod a game is if it's a. garbage to begin with or b. Long outlived itself.
It's cool to mod a game if that's your thing. It's NOT cool to continually gripe and necro topics about modding a game when the point is moot and a large majority of people don't care in the first place.
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We will move out to a farm, raise an enormous family of little geeks, and use our riches to convert that farm into a gaming ranch where anyone can come and play any game, for free. Underprivileged children forced into the shameful and debaucherous life of Free to Play will make pilgrimages to our fabled holy land in order to experience "true gaming."
Finally, as the life of myself and my Gamestop soul-mate reaches its pinnacle, Blizzard will announce it is holding Blizzcon at our ranch. And Radiohead will be playing, even though Thom Yorke hates consumerism and America and shit.
So that's what I'll be doing for release day.
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No, this is a very good rebuttal. It's difficult to explain the phenomena to people who don't also feel this way.
The more I discuss this issue with you all, the more I see my particular point of view is fairly rare and obtuse.. I know I've seen other people provide the same grievance as me, but I recognize it may be unusual. My fear is, more people are unconsciously affected by this phenomena than it seems..
So what am I talking about?
It all starts with efficiency. I simply cannot resist the path of least resistance. I find it irrational, when presented with paths of different cost to the same outcome, to consciously take the longer and more arduous path.
So my mindset goes like this..
I want gear X. I can:
Option 1:
Boss Y is the most likely to drop gear X. Go grind Boss Y until you get it.
Time needed: t1
Option 2:
Any boss is more likely to drop gear X than any non-boss content. Go grind any boss.
Time needed: t2
Option 3:
Just play the damn game and eventually you'll find gear X. Don't grind, there's more to life than that.
Time needed: t3
Option 4:
Grind gold and buy gear X on the In-game AH
Time needed: t4
Option 5:
Pump up your BlizzBucks and buy gear X RIGHT NOW.
Time needed: t0
t0 ~= 0
t0 < t1
t1 < t2
t2 < t3
t3 ~= t4
Therefore, t0 is the best option. If I know I'm not using the most efficient option to get what I need, it bugs the hell out of me. Now, that's a weakness in my mindset you say? Well, it has gotten me quite far in my personal and professional life, so I have received a lot of positive re-enforcement for viewing the world this way.
IDK, this is turning into a fucking therapy session, isn't it...