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Feb 5, 20123
Cors posted a message on Well said, 9gager!I'd take stock trading advice from /b/ before I would expect anything from 9gag to be relevant, truthful, or original.Posted in: Off-Topic -
Jan 18, 201213
Umpa posted a message on Umpa's Witch Doctor and more!Hey guys! Just finished up a piece I've been working on of our dear old Witch Doctor!Posted in: Fan Art
And a bonus of the piece I did in collaboration with Force for the first Diablo lore podcast.
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Jan 11, 20121
Molster posted a message on Blizzard owes you nothingPosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionQuote from Designation15
Blizzard owes their fans everything. When Diablo was first released, it was just another run of the mill dungeon crawler that they didn't expect to take off like it did. Then those who knew that Blizzard had made a good product bought the second one when it came out, and again it was a success.
Now let's look at another franchise known as the Duke Nukem series. Fans became enthralled with the series, following it all the way through. Then one day they announced a title "Duke Nukem Forever". This games release would be 14 years after announcement, causing many, many fans to become upset and even some turned on the game. After 14 years of work the game was released and loyal fans (and very little others) purchased it. The day after release GameStop shelves were overstocked with returns of the game. It was so horribly received that the previously mentioned fans returned it faster than any other game before it.
So making fans wait for so long gave them a bad reputation and low sales numbers. Blizzard hasn't made us wait 14 years after announcement but there is no greater example for how making fans and customers wait is a very bad idea.
wait... so Diablo was only good because we bought it? so so so wrong.
Diablo did so great, and got so many sells, because it was an AMAZING game. There was nothing like it. It was a hands down fantastic amazing game, it was BECAUSE of that, that we all bought it, then said "hey man you HAVE to get this game" so they did...and so on till out sold so many copies.
This game did so well BECAUSE it was so good, not because we bought it.. its the full other way around
"We bought it, because it was good"
How in the world does blizzard owe us for buying one of their games Because they did such a good job on it....what? -
Jan 11, 2012
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Molster posted a message on Blizzard owes you nothingPosted in: Diablo III General DiscussionQuote from PolishMi
Blizzard owes you nothing ? hahahahahahaha they are making money becouse of us ...... so they owe us a lot
No, they are making money off of us because THEY are making a product we want. If they did not make this product a quality product that we wanted, we wouldnt buy it. They are the ones generating the profit on their own by their work (Which we also HAVE NOT BOUGHT yet)
So no, not at all. -
Jan 9, 2012
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darkshadowx8 posted a message on Disappointment in Blizzardomg... we get it. You guys are so disappointed in Blizzard...you've been a fan since Bashiok was born; you named your son Griswold; you've been waiting soooooooooooooo long for a release date, and if they don't announce a release date within the next 15 minutes, you're quitting all Blizzard games FOREVER.Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Please shutup with it all. No one cares. They are developing the damn game, and they will release it when it's done. You're not special. -
Jan 1, 20121
overneathe posted a message on Will Amazon restock on D3 CE?As apparent by SC2 and the last 2 WoW expansions Blizz make _plenty_ of CEs. They still have the Wrath CE at my local stores (Bulgaria).Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
Also to OP: Amazon can't "run out of stock" as they don't actually have stock yet. They're likely setting a realistic and small number that Blizzard will surely provide for them and keeping it safe until the game is actually out and they have like a million CEs in surplus (I'm being realistic with this number). Do not be worried OP, no one is going to miss out on the CE, unless you live somewhere where Blizz don't have intentions of making any money. US is not one of those places. -
Dec 24, 2011
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Molster posted a message on Can we say Merry Christmas ?Posted in: General Discussion (non-Diablo)
Official Blizzard Quote:
'Tis the season once again, and one never ceases to be amazed about how fast time passes… or perhaps this is just a sign that I am getting old ;-)
Anyway, this seemed to work quite well last year, and so without further ado, here is the most Politically Correct holiday greeting ever conceived by mankind :-)
Please accept with no obligation, implicit or explicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion or secular practices of your choice, with total respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, and their choice not to practise religious or secular traditions at all.
Additionally,
A fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make our society great, without regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, sexual orientation and choice of smart phone and computer platform of the wishee.
By accepting this greeting, you are accepting these terms. This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and no responsibility for any unintended emotional stress these greetings may bring to those not caught up in the holiday spirit.
This wish is warranted to perform as expected within the usual application of good tidings for a period of one year, or until the issuance of a subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first, and warranty is either revocable or limited to replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wisher.
This greeting is void where prohibited by law.
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Dec 20, 20116
Jetrall posted a message on Logo Contest Winner!To everyone attempting to claim that there was no victor in the logo competition or that they deserve some sort of prize or compensation because no logo was chosen to represent DiabloFans.com, I say:Posted in: Off-Topic
What the hell, man? Why you trying to steal my thunder?
The staff of DiabloFans clearly picked their favourite to represent the site and it currently adorns the top header of the page - just as it has for years.
In other words, the winner is me and I'd appreciate if everyone else stopped trying to downplay that and complain that no winner was chosen.
Bah humbug!
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Dec 14, 20113
Calavera666 posted a message on Diabolesques: Sorry Guys!!Hello Guys!!Posted in: Fan Art
I had a ton of work these last few weeks, and even if I love doing these strips, I'm sad to say that I'm taking a break.
But Hey! don't worry, I'm just taking a week off, Diabolesques will be back for Christmas!
so.. you know.. SORRY GUYS!
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Dec 13, 201124
OmniNom posted a message on Development and DelaysEveryone and their dog keeps making posts about Blizzard delaying release of Diablo for financial reasons. I'm going to ignore all the reasons that this idea is ridiculous.Posted in: Diablo III General Discussion
AFTER listing them.
1.)Delaying past Christmas misses the biggest sales period of the year, which will surely lose them hundreds of thousands of sales
2.)Continuing production means paying all the developers working on it for that much longer, further decreasing the net profit
3.)The beta still has plenty of bugs, battlenet features are unfinished, and the runes system is still being fooled around with, so clearly it's not ready for release
4.)Delaying release makes stockholders nervous, and since information given to them is public, we know what they know, and they have been notified of no sinister delay conspiracy. So Blizzard would be devaluing its own stock.
5.)It's fucking Blizzard. Since when are long development cycles unusual?
But we're ignoring this, because the most ridiculous part isn't all the very obvious reasons why the idea is insane. The most ridiculous part is the fact that some people think that their own personal convenience means more than the budgets and development cycles and physical health of the development team.
People working on Diablo 3 have been in crunch time (60+ hour weeks) for something like eight months. The company has sank millions of dollars into the project. The development team has spent 5+ years of their lives putting their blood, sweat, and tears into the game.
But your own impatience overrules all objections. The game should be released NOW, because you're tired of waiting. It's not like there are any other things in your entire life you could be doing.
If that doesn't sound not only absurd, but incredibly callous, then you have some life issues to work out. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Getting to and killing the SK (solo or group) takes about 1 hour (first time) give or take, doesn't vary that much with the different classes since it's such a short path. If you rush it you can do it faster though, but yeah. Just killing the SK isn't much of a speed test at all since it's just the very first levels.
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That one guy is "the rest of you" :P?
Anyway, I guess it would be kind of a funny prank... but in a
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X_Ot0k4XJc
kinda way.
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I think as you say it shouldn't be taken as the final truth. He does ask a lot of questions and many of his findings are speculative. It even says on the page with the serpent that it is the necromancers who has depicted Rathma as a serpent but Cain is asking if it's truth or just a legend.
The art is probably just his sketches or copies of other people's works so it's not certain they are accurate. After all he is just a human, he can't know everything, he has just studied a lot about it.
So yea I agree with you. The book should not be taken as the absolute lore colletion, but rather as is, a collection of knowledge gathered by a character in the actual world.
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Amazing lighting and I love how you incorporated several of the WD's themes into the same picture. I <3 that frog! Keep it up, the quality is amazing!
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It's almost the same, except the processor is a 2500k instead of a 2600k. The graphics card is a HD6870 though vs the HD6850 in the first one. So basically you trade a bit of CPU power vs GPU power. The main difference of 2500k vs 2600k is that the latter has hyperthreading which basically lets the CPU run double the amount of threads on the four cores. This is great for certain applications (such as movie compression, rendering and that kind of stuff) that can make use of 8 threads, but for games, which usually has very poor multi-threading capability you won't notice a difference. The HD6870 will be an improvement though. So solely for gaming this rig will have better performance. If you are into other stuff that you know uses many threads then the 2600k is probably the better choice though.
I looked around on other sites as well but it's hard to find pre-built stuff that has good value for money. Almost all manufacturers save in on the GPU and it costs a shitload extra if you want to upgrade it.. And still they label it "gamer"..
Anyway the newegg pack is pretty good except maybe that the PSU is from a generally unknown brand, but you should probably do ok with it. If you are considering building it yourself (or can find some other site that does assembly for you) then come again and we can help you put something together :).
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"Bashiok is a troll"-comment?
"Arrow to the knee"-joke in signature?
Classic example of bandwagoner, take it with a grain of salt please...
Bashiok likes to "screw around" with people sometime, but he doesn't really throw lies in our faces :P. Although he sometimes says things that out of context may seem like contradictions/lies/announcements...
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That's the point of iteration. Reitarate means to repeat the same action many times. People say it like it's something bad but it's how Blizzard makes games.. it's been working well so far imho.
But yeah, good news nonetheless. Now as someone said above we'll either get a release date soon with all the conspiracy kids going "I was right it was Korea!" or we get nothing for a while and the same people will go "It's still Korea but now they are pretending like it wasn't!"
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That's Proletaria's signature
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Yes, Blizzard will find and ban bots.
Yes, botters will still continue nonetheless.
Just like in WoW. Blizzard has done things about bots in wow and I'm quite sure that since the start of the game hundreds of thousands have been banned for botting. The reason bots are still in is that it's just impossible to stop. As long as there is an incentive to bot in a game people will do it, and they will find a way to do it.
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Put together three with the new sneak peaks of Inarius, Tyrael and Diablo that were shown (and then removed?). Just the basic Blizzard frame around it. The quality of the screenshots are not perfect since the video wasn't full hd, but it's acceptable imo
Wallpapers are available in 1920*1200 (for the cool kids) and regular 1920*1080 for you others. For you non-widescreeners.. just crop off the edges :P.
All the wallpapaers with different resolutions can be found here:
http://imgur.com/a/GNpBM
Previews:
Enjoy!