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Blizzard has never said they won't add runestones to the beta. Please provide a link that says otherwise.
true, but blizzard DID say runestones will not appear until act 2. and have said MANY times that they will not add any further content to the beta past the skeleton king. they may add in runestones to act 1 to test them but they may only be tested internally and never see beta which is most likely considering their stand point on releasing more content.
True no runestones until Act 2. As you say, it doesn't necessarily mean they won't want them tested. Especially given how much changes they've gone through. It's something Blizzard seems to really want done correctly.
They said no content back when Diablo was still on track for a 2011 release. Now, I'm saying we'll say anything new on the level of the second and third parts of Act1. However, they've also added the GAH and RMAH, both are game content. Now that it could be another 1-7 months until a release, what Blizzard said pre-"delay" about the beta should be taken with a grain of salt.
Frankly, given how unclear Bash's statement was about giving us a look once completed, I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that they would be added to the beta. Who knows if they will, but it's certainly possible.
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No it isn't. I've played plenty of Diablo and Diablo 2 to know that I did NOT want that. I'm sure there are many more that agree.
Warcraft has nothing to do with this....at all.
Neither D3 nor Warcraft has been "dumbed down".
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Competent doesn't mean what you think it means....
I'm not sure what to make of the rest of your post.... people aren't claiming that the game is easy....because it isn't. The topic of this thread is that it's too hard for a few people and they want the game nurfed. Then this claim about a normal item outlasting everything until hell is just absurd. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that agrees with you, primarily because your claims simply are not true. I can't help but wonder how much of the game you really have played.
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There are no threads on the D3 forums with good and detailed reasons on why D3 won't have a long life, nor are there any here. It all comes back to the game being too hard. People just expect to walk through the entire game because Method and others did it so quickly.
I'm working through Act 2 Inferno on my WD and it is DAMN hard. Act 4 Hell is nothing compared to this. But I've got a few better item drops by farming Act 1 and the AH, which has helped considerably.
D3 is far from a perfect game. Every app/os/game has their bugs/niggles/annoyances. There are certainly some legitimate reasons why some may not enjoy the game. The lack of PVP is the first thing that comes to mind. As we've seen by this thread and many others, the game is too hard for some, which I can see not being fun. It may end up being too hard for me for quite some time while I continue gathering gear, and I'm perfectly fine with that. I expected it to be difficult as Blizzard has been touting that for months now.
It's funny...people were hoping Blizzard wouldn't nerf the Inferno difficulty prior to release. They wanted a hard game. Now we see people (some are the same, some aren't) using the excuse that the game is 'broken', when in all actuality it's simply too difficult for their skill level or the gear they have.
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People buy it because it's a great game. It's not a hard thing to understand.
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Funny. I have yet to group with anyone in D3.
That better gear is required to get past the harder difficulties?
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But it isn't. That's the point people are trying to make.
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In the end it depends upon the gear drops you are getting.
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Hah, exactly what I thought. I'm guessing he hasn't played a Diablo game before.
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Because everything you read on the internet is always true.
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It's not ALL over the Mac Tech forum. Most you see with issues are running with a 9400M, which I wouldn't expect to do that well. Especially since the majority are still on Snow Leopard.
@op...Snow Leopard is part of your troubles. Lion is going to run it quite a bit better.
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Those aren't spoilers. It's info Blizzard has acknowledged publicly.
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Background FPS kicks in when Diablo 3 isn't your focused app. For example, if you were playing along and wanted to check out a web site. You alt-tab to your browser and now Diablo 3 is in the background. A lower fps in that case will minimize how much system resources it uses. It's just sitting in the background so there's really no reason to keep a high fps in that case. I keep mine to around 8 and the foreground fps to 60.
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Hehe. No SSN means no job, no bank account, no credit, etc etc etc.