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Quote from Daemaro

So are books though when compared to digital media. The best part about printed media is and always will be, it's more comfortable for bathroom reading.

Eh... not really the same case. And FYI, most women don't appreciate bathroom reading. =P

Looks like I'll have to find some means of buying the comics and rectify this travesty of justice, then.

Quote from FreddyBenson

ok guys, that video is F**k me sideways and call me billy bob joe good

prettay prettay prettay pretty good as Mr LD would say

have you guys seen this video before? and when? cos could this be diablos ad for release or did i just totally miss it?

You missed it -- this was aired at the 2011 Blizzcon. But it's still worth re-watching just the same.

100% agreement with Bashiok. Also, congrats on Blizzard's award and love the latest Diabloesque!

Edit: Also hope to eventually see a screenshot or two of the new place.

I feel I got a fair deal when I signed up for the World of Warcraft Annual Pass. You promise to pay for a year of WoW, you get Diablo III without having to shell out extra money. Mind you, it only works if you seriously plan on continuing to play WoW. If Diablo III isn't out by the time my AP is over, it's not too big of a deal. They didn't guarantee that part, but regardless I'll still end up with a free D3 copy.

Quote from Mechanism_of_Injury

I assume I've missed something but concerning the white items... They don't want people picking the up and selling them, though they do sell, and if they see that a lot of people are they will nerf the amount of coin received from vendoring even lower than what it already is. If they don't want it looted, why make it drop?

In other words, they tried to make everything useful in some way but that merely ended up causing dilution. So instead, whites will still drop but not be of any use. Then when something better than a white item drops (and there will be a lot of white trash), you'll be more likely to yell "eureka!" or whatever.

Take into account as well that for them it means needing to balance fewer items and the things may actually have better stats and effects than previously.

Hope that made some sense, even if you don't agree with their decision.

Sucks that a last-minute hitch prevented the patch from hitting this weekend, but on the other hand... I wouldn't want to deal with people spamming the forum and telling players "sorry, we had to push it back again" hour after hour, either.

PS4 uses cloud computing = always online for every title

As TB mentioned, if any version of Diablo has offline singleplayer, then it's final proof their "it's not DRM, it's a feature" nonsense is the bullcrap we always knew it to be.

I'm sorry but music? For realzies? There is barely any music in the game, most of it is just ambience. D2 or Titan Quest do a way better job of mixing ambience with actual music and I don't recall any of them being contenders for any such awards. In fact I'd say from aesthetic standpoint music is the weakest part of the game due to the ever repeating dungeon themes (why do dungeons in Acts 2 and 3 sound the same as the "music" we heard from the Tristram Cathedral demo years ago? Why the lack of variety?) and the often nondescript sounds lacking any melody that play during most overworld areas. There are some decent pieces of ambience for sure (Fields of Misery ambience for some reason just gets me every time) but I'd hardly qualify that as a reason to make the game a contender. As for strategy I can see that having at least some merit. Diablo 3's combat system definitely innovated the original hack and slash formula (guzzle potions until you run out, get back to town, buy more, and drink drink drink like you never drank before) and introduced a lot more strategic decisions into an otherwise pretty mindless game type.

Best strategy means, sell alot before game release, release unfinished game

Trolls wins

Best... strategy? Has the strategy genre atrophied so much?

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... oh wait. It has

As i said on the other topic. He's a scape goat, nothing else.

Jay had some pretty weird visions for Diablo that not many people agreed with, so probably the best for him to move on.

No love lost here. Later.