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Now this is just not fair. Talk about contradicting your own rules. When other people posted this "speculation" of a release date on the forums all those topics were blocked. Why do you have the rite to post this and we do not?
I disagree with what you are saying. I think it's a good thing they posted this - on the main page where a lot of people where see it - because too many people are seeing fake release dates and getting super excited and spreading it around thinking it's a real release date. This post is bringing to attention that a lot of these dates are indeed fake, and people need to watch out for them. Basically telling all those gullible people out there to smarten up and stop being silly.
I guess there is a difference when someone posts a thread saying OMG THIS IS THE RELEASE DATE! vs when someone posts a thread saying it's speculation. Either way, I think the comments in those threads always end up going in the same direction anyway.
As for me, I'm not believing any release date until I hear it from Blizzard. I didn't know when to expect the game originally, and when the beta started in Sept, I had a guess in my head that it would come out in March 2012, based on something that Jay Wilson had said (that the Beta will start 6 months before release). I was actually surprised when they said originally they wanted it out this year and they had to push it back. I had no idea they wanted it to come out so soon. So really, I think it'll come out sooner than I expected, which is nice for me.
Yes, but the thing is I did post a thread called exactly: "Speculation: Potential Diablo 3 Release Date".
http://www.diablofans.com/topic/31092-speculation-potential-diablo-3-release-date/page__p__695023#entry695023
But that got blocked, it had the exact same intention as this thread does and did not for one minute say that the release date was true. So as you can see, I do feel kind of betrayed by the fact that this thread was created stating that the release date was merely "speculation" and that the moderator who blocked my thread said that the rules do not permit "speculation" threads. So, I stick with my case. =)
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I definitely agree with this!!!!!!!!!
For the rest of it... lol - pretty funny. =)
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But i'm scared that it will not meet my expectations of what a true Diablo sequel should be and I say this because of this recent decision with skills.
Having skills automatically acquired for you character is not Diablo, it removes customisation, it removes a unique build and it makes your character just feel like everyone else's.
I believe Blizzard did find a reasonable problem with the previous skill design, but have now made that problem much much worse. They did not fix ANYTHING. The argument was that the previous skill design made players choose one skill that they would invest all their skill points into, making everyone come to the same build as it would have been the most effective. All they have done now is allow everyone to still come to that same build, but if someone on the off-chance wants to be a little different and make a different build just to experiment, they now cannot do this, they are pigeonholed into this ONE build - there is NO choice. Yeah you can swap skills out and choose another, but once you manage to find a really good build, guess what, everyone else can just switch their skills and do the exact same thing. No need to respec, just a click of the mouse and their good to go.
Now from my rant you may get the idea that I hate this current set-up, which I don't really as I can still see different forms of customisation. Its just that I feel Blizzard just got lazy and only want to now rush the game to release. What they could have done was developed some sought of different skill system that allows the players to choose what skills they want and everything, but are unable to just respec and put all their skill points into 1 or 2 skills. In fact, I would much much much much much prefer for Blizzard to completely scrap the respec idea and keep the old skill design, its much better than what they are leaning towards now.
So Blizzard - get rid of respecs and replace the old skill system. Respeccing is in no way a loss in comparison to removing our freedom to make a unique character build!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In fact, by removing respeccing, it will further enforce the longevity of the game as people will create more characters to try different builds rather than just try a different build on the same character. I know I would prefer to do that and I had no problem making a new character in Diablo 2 - its one of the things that made the game last for so long!
Yours sincerely: Frustrated, but understanding fan.
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You guys should check out Game of Thrones if you haven't already - its definitely up their as one of my all time favourites. =)
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I know Diablo 3 will be the best game to come out in 10 years! Its just a game this good, I want it to last a long time before I repeat it in Nightmare than Hell. =)
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So... In regards to Diablo 3's max level of 60 - Bashiok had revealed that at around the end of normal difficulty the player would be level 30 or so. This scares me for one reason.
If the player is able to get to level 30 at the end of the game on normal difficulty, how small is the game? I mean 30 levels isn't much, I remember in Diablo 2, at the start of act 3 I was level 30 or higher. So this can mean:
1) Each act is much smaller than Diablo 2, thus the game is much smaller than Diablo 2.
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2) Experience and the level rate is much much slower than Diablo 2. (Which doesn't sound too good in writing) But i'd rather this than the first point.
Would anyone know information on this topic?
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