Quote from Ashes
This the first patch that I don't like to much. I don't like socializing in D3 and now I'll be at even greater disadvantage playing solo. Meh.
Actually, you will be not affected in the least. The game will be exactly the same for you after the patch as it was before.
If you choose to see a buff to players who group together as a nerf to yourself, I guess that's one way to look at it.
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Battletag:DeepThought#1825
Link to armory profile:http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/DeepThought-1825/hero/19192988
Preference for softcore (SC) or hardcore (HC):SC
Average time available to play (hours per week):20-40 hours a week
Preferred difficulty level:T1 - T3
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Is this really how you imagine this exchange going down? The GameMaster respectfully asks the player to calm themselves, and they politely respond "Yes m'lord!"?
In my mind a more realistic scenario is the GameMaster respectfully asking the player to calm themselves, and the player impolitely calling the GameMaster a s*&$c*#! and telling them to f&$% themselves with a cactus before complaining about not yet finding their Crit Chance Mempo and the fact that their login credentials got stolen when they were purchasing gold from a third-party site.
Considering the maturity level of many of the players who frequent the Battle.net forums, I'm not surprised that the default position for a GameMaster is to hand out a temporary ban, especially when the user is obviously in violation of a clearly presented rule.
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You are spot on. I was just trying to strengthen your point. There is much more to be accomplished by a software team than the end user will ever know. That's sort of the point.
I can say this much. The members of the Diablo 3 development team are just as frustrated with the speed of progress as you are. Believe that.
At the end of the day, the developers answer to management, the management answers to upper management, the upper management answers to the executives and the executives answer to the ... shareholders!
TL,DR:
The developers are not in charge of their own destiny. In every software company, there are inevitably obstacles beyond the control of the development team that block productivity. [Sources:] (1) every Dilbert comic ever (2) the movie Office Space (3) every joke I've ever heard about middle management (4) my life
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No, but I have a pretty good idea. It's a lot.
Yep.
Meetings. So. Many. Meetings. So many.
Too many people. Too many people with their hands on everything.
Based on my work experience, I can tell you that Zero(pS) is asking all the right questions.
If the team was unbridled, independent, small and agile, they could iterate over these issues rapidly and release them just as quickly. This is not a small, agile team. It is a department of a massive international software company.
When people refer to "the programmers", the group they are actually addressing are coders, analysts, testers, QA teams, managers, architects, web developers, and many more, just on the software side. There are also technical writers, translators, community managers, customer service representatives, and many more just from a communication / documentation standpoint. There are infrastructure managers, server administrators, network specialists, release managers, database administrators, and many many other on the hardware side.
Each person has an important moving part that must hit a moving target at the same time as all other members of all other teams for a release to happen successfully.
It's a miracle anything ever gets done at all.
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I know of at least one other place...
http://calvinandhobbes.wikia.com/wiki/Transmogrifier
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I don't really know what you're getting at here. I don't bemoan anyone who cashes out their stake in a company. It's his stock to sell, and he sold it.
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Actually, you will be not affected in the least. The game will be exactly the same for you after the patch as it was before.
If you choose to see a buff to players who group together as a nerf to yourself, I guess that's one way to look at it.
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The number one goal for many players of the Diablo franchise is to collect equipment of ever-increasing power for your character. The Auction House makes this incredibly simple and efficient.
Did ANYONE think that the default position players would take with the Auction House is ignoring it? I didn't.
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And there you are.
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Honestly, Inferno is a shadow of what it used to be. Any character who could have any success in Act 1/2 before would certainly be able to walk through Inferno on MP0.
Try again, maybe it will be a faceroll.
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Srs bizns
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