Diablo III is an upcoming dark fantasy/horror-themed action role-playing game in development by Blizzard, making it the third installment in the Diablo franchise. The game, which features elements of the hack and slash and dungeon crawl genres, was first announced on June 28, 2008, at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris, France

The game takes place in Sanctuary, the dark fantasy world of the Diablo series. This world was saved twenty years prior by a handful of unnamed heroes in Diablo II. Warriors who, having survived the onslaught brought by the armies of the Burning Hells, have gone mad from their ordeals. It is up to a new generation of heroes to face the forces of evil threatening the world of Sanctuary.

Players will have the opportunity to explore familiar settings such as Tristram.

The only confirmed NPCs are Deckard Cain,[5] who has appeared in both of the previous games, and his stepdaughter, a new character that accompanies the hero in quests from time to time. Cain's journal on the official site brings the player up to speed on the events of the first two games.[6] Diablo's world map is composed primarily of two main continents with several small islands in the Northwest region.

There will be five available character classes.[23][24] In the previous two games, each class had a fixed gender, but in Diablo III players may choose the gender they would like to play.[5] Although Blizzard initially revealed only one gender per class, the alternate gender has been revealed slowly in the lead-up to the game's release.

1. The Witch Doctor is a new character reminiscent of the Diablo II Necromancer, but with skills more traditionally associated with voodoo culture. The Witch Doctor has the ability to summon monsters, cast curses, harvest souls, and hurl poisons and explosives at his enemies. Blizzard has stated[citation needed] that the Witch Doctor is not another version of the Necromancer and that they may incorporate the Necromancer in a future expansion if they so desire.
   

2. The Barbarians will have a variety of revamped skills at their disposal based on the use of their incredible physical prowess. The Barbarian is able to whirlwind through crowds, cleave through swarms, leap across crags, and crush opponents upon landing.



3.The Wizard is a version of the Sorceress from Diablo II or the Sorcerer from Diablo. The Wizard's abilities range from shooting lightning, fire and ice at their enemies to slowing time and teleporting around enemies and through walls.

   
4. The Monk is a melee attacker, using martial arts to cripple foes, resist damage, deflect projectiles, attack with blinding speed, and land explosive killing blows. It combines the melee elements of Diablo II's Assassin class with the "holy warrior" role of the Paladin. Blizzard has stated that the Monk is not related in any way to the Monk class from the Sierra Entertainment-made Diablo: Hellfire expansion.[25]


5.The Demon Hunter combines elements of Diablo II's Amazon and Assassin classes. Demon Hunters use crossbows as their main weapon and also throw small bombs at enemies. Some of their skills have been revealed and among them are arrow skills such as Chain Arrow.


The Archivist class was presented on April 1, 2009, following in Blizzard's April Fool's Day joke tradition.

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Q: then is that we need to change our Battle.net info to US address in order to be able to trade in RMAH with the westerner or just buy the us set? I am really confused...or is there any article or announcement that explain the AH region restriction?

A: If I am not mistaken battle.net info will sync their servers every day.

I had previously link my WoW TW to my battle.net acc. I did it through the SEA portal. I had problems login on to WoW that day. So I did some investigation. I found out that if I login to battle.net through the TW portal, my WoW is still not link to it. But it had info about my SC2 and WoW:US. Then I change the region back to SEA, I can see all my other games plus WoW:TW. Change the region to US and the same thing as the TW one.

After a day later I check back at the TW portal and indeed my WoW:TW is there, same as US. And I can play WoW:TW again tongue.gif

So do take not of this. When changing acc info.

Oh regarding your question, yes changing your address to a US address will make you able to trade with "Ang Mohs" provided you can prove you really live there.

See the vid below for more details
http://youtu.be/ZirE9nd8ILc
Source: Quoted from shykull

Any discussion which has nothing to do with Diablo 3 will result in the immediate closure of this thread.

Thank you.

The settings of Diablo include Heaven and Hell as real, physical places. Angels and Demons waged a war for centuries, until the ascension of man. Heaven and Hell each tried to compel man to join their cause. A treacherous mutiny forced the 3 Lords of Hell—including Diablo himself—into the world of humanity, where they sowed chaos, distrust and hatred. With the help of Archangel Tyrael a group of magi trapped the 3 Lords of Hell in soulstones. Diablo's soulstone was buried deep in the earth and a monastery was built over the site to safeguard the entrance.

Generations passed and the purpose of the monastery was forgotten. A small town named Tristram sprang up next to the monastery's ruins. A religious king named Leoric then claimed the monastery and rebuilt it as a cathedral for his seat of power. Diablo entered the nightmares of the archbishop Lazarus and lured him to the soulstone, where he destroyed the stone. Diablo possessed first the king, who sent all his knights and priests to battle against peaceful kingdoms, and then possessed the king's son, filling the caves and catacombs beneath the cathedral with creatures formed from the young boy's nightmares.

Tristram became a town of fear and horror, where people were abducted in the night. With no king, no law, and no army left to defend them, many villagers fled. Dark rumors permeated the country, and would-be heroes and demon-hunters came to Tristram and entered the cathedral, but none have been seen again.

The story of Diablo II takes place some time after the end of the previous game, Diablo, in the lands of Sanctuary. In Diablo the main body of the story takes place beneath the floors of a cathedral in a small town known as Tristram. It is here that Diablo, the Lord of Terror, is defeated by an unnamed warrior .

The unnamed warrior that vanquished Diablo drove the demon's soulstone into his forehead, in an attempt to contain the monster's essence within his own body. Later in the canon it is suggested that this is what Diablo intended so that, should he be defeated, he had an "escape plan" instead of dying.

The unnamed warrior is ill fated from the moment he does this and is gradually corrupted over the course of the next few days by the demon's spirit. Deckard Cain recounts the story to the next band of adventurers that pass through the Rogue Encampment in Diablo II. It is one of these adventurers that appears in the wake of the destruction caused by the now possessed unnamed warrior, and attempts to find out the cause of the evil, starting with the corrupted warrior (known as the Dark Wanderer throughout Diablo II).

As the player continues through each of the four acts, he faces off against two of the Prime Evils (Mephisto – Act III and Diablo – Act IV, with Baal, the last prime evil, being the main boss in the expansion pack i.e. Act V), and two lesser evils (Andariel – Act I and Duriel – Act II), who act as the bosses for the first two acts. The player learns of the truth behind the corruption and the story of the soulstones. Diablo released Mephisto (Lord of Hatred) and Baal (Lord of Destruction) from their soulstones, as they were taught long ago how to corrupt them by the fallen angel Izual (also a minor boss in Act IV).

In the end, the player eventually reaches and slays Mephisto and Diablo, in their respective Acts. The story continues in the expansion to the game, where the player chases the last of the Prime Evils: Baal, who is going after the mythical Worldstone in an attempt to corrupt it. See the main article on the expansion for more information.

kianweic: may not need to be so detail, if this game can be as hot as sc2, may just get its own sub-forum anyways

mod: do take note, thanks.

so confident!

no necromancer.

phail.

what happened to Natalya? Up to the very last stage, at the town, she was missing.

what happened to Natalya? Up to the very last stage, at the town, she was missing.

she didnt have constant internet connection

Diablo 3 requires a constant internet connection -- a decision that has caused some strong reactions from folks looking to play the game solo, or those pushing against overly demanding DRM schemes. MTV spoke with Robert Bridenbecker, the Vice President of Online Technologies at Blizzard to get the developer's side of the story.

"Internally I don't think [always-on DRM] ever actually came up when we talked about how we want connections to operate. Things that came up were always around the feature-set, the sanctity of the actual game systems like your characters," said Bridenbecker. "You're guaranteeing that there are no hacks, no dupes. All of these things were points of discussion, but the whole copy protection, piracy thing, that's not really entering into why we want to do it."

Bridenbecker goes on to mention that Diablo 2 offline characters couldn't be used online, which got messy for players and the developer, so this time they decided to "just keep everything clean." As for those looking to play alone, they don't have to interact with any other online players if they don't want to -- but they'll still need that internet connection.

blizzard never go travelling to countries without internet problems
they dont understand the pain

"Internally I don't think [always-on DRM] ever actually came up when we talked about how we want connections to operate. Things that came up were always around the feature-set, the sanctity of the actual game systems like your characters," said Bridenbecker. "You're guaranteeing that there are no hacks, no dupes.  All of these things were points of discussion, but the whole copy protection, piracy thing, that's not really entering into why we want to do it."
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"All of these things were points of discussion, but the whole copy protection, piracy thing, that's not really entering into why we want to do it."

Overall, this theory of Blizzard’s isn’t particularly earth-shattering. Runes will still be placed in skills to alter their functionality in the same way we’re used to. They’ll still be item drops off of monsters, but the team didn’t think that Runes felt like items in the classic Diablo sense. There was no variation, no randomization. A given Rune-Skill combination always produced the same result, so long as the level of the Rune was constant. In addition to this, when moused over, the UI for Runes simply displayed the effect it had on each of your active skills. During the internal alpha testing, they found that this became a nightmare point of comparison and, after a while, just got to be frustrating for the players.

To rectify these issues, they came up with the idea of having Runes drop “unattuned.” This basically means that when a Rune drops, it’s just plain and grey and doesn’t have any specific effect on your skills. Once you socket the rune into your skill, however, it becomes attuned to that skill, providing it a bonus based on the Rune type that it randomly rolls. In addition, they are considering adding an additional random stat bonus – much like the charm system of the now-scrapped Talisman – to attuned Runes. Bashiok had this to say about the new system

Diablo 3, probably sticking to US servers for sure.

trivia: did you guys know that all three heroes in the first Diablo died and met very depressing ends? After the defeat of Diablo, the Sorcerer went mad in his search of the Summoner, and finally became the Summoner himself only to be killed by the heroes in Diablo 2. The Rogue returned to home, only to be corrupted by Andariel and became Bloodraven who was also killed by the heroes in Diablo 2. And the Warrior, as we all know, placed Diablo's soul stone on his forehead, and consequently became possessed and slowly transforming into Diablo himself, who was also killed by the heroes in Diablo 2.

trivia: did you guys know that all three heroes in the first Diablo died and met very depressing ends? After the defeat of Diablo, the Sorcerer went mad in his search of the Summoner, and finally became the Summoner himself only to be killed by the heroes in Diablo 2. The Rogue returned to home, only to be corrupted by Andariel and became Bloodraven who was also killed by the heroes in Diablo 2. And the Warrior, as we all know, placed Diablo's soul stone on his forehead, and consequently became possessed and slowly transforming into Diablo himself, who was also killed by the heroes in Diablo 2.

dont you know they r making the game based on what they(blizz) like/dislike, not what we(gamers) want?
blizz make it sound promising like if they enforce DRM there will be no hack, dupe, bot...
come on, look at the current D2 bnet, dominated by bots farming elites & runes. even in the realm lobby is flooded by spambots selling items for cash.
also not to forget infamous SOJ duping glitch?
Always-online DRM will ensure no hacks, dupes, bots huh? LOL

and they did admit, the purpose of DRM is not because of piracy, but to provide a fair gameplay among the players?
so whats the point for forcing the single player mode to go DRM? to provide a fair gameplay comparing to who? myself?

yes, in mmo it is best to enforce such rules to protect the other players, no botting, duping etc.
in single player? what makes te different if i have a lvl10 char with 2 soj? (soj is min lvl29) how unfair would it be?? to the 1st boss blood raven in bloodmoor?
now, they are so concerned making it always-online to protect DRM (DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT), ensuring no hacking.
yet, they would care less about piracy, copy protect. since when piracy isnt one of the the biggest threat against DRM (not only to pc games, also DVD, music album, softwares, the whole digital media industry) if they can live with piracy while talking about DRM, what makes duping an ingame item a DRM concern? damn, what a bullshit.

Don't you think the lack of DRM is percisely why the current d2 bnet is constantly camped by bots ?  We don't know the exact methods of their DRM but perhaps by limiting the content of the game to be stored locally, the hackers will have a harder to time to figure out how to mess up the online experience for everyone else. I understand the grief of having to be online to play offline but let's be realistic, Diablo is no longer a single player first, multi second kind of game. In fact that change took place in D2 and that was 10 years ago. It's the multiplayer aspect of the game that has prolonged its shelf life and it's popularity amongst gamers. Thus, it's only logical that they are doing their utmost to protect the multiplayer content of the game.

Don't you think the lack of DRM is percisely why the current d2 bnet is constantly camped by bots ?  We don't know the exact methods of their DRM but perhaps by limiting the content of the game to be stored locally, the hackers will have a harder to time to figure out how to mess up the online experience for everyone else. I understand the grief of having to be online to play offline but let's be realistic, Diablo is no longer a single player first, multi second kind of game.  In fact that change took place in D2 and that was 10 years ago. It's the multiplayer aspect of the game that has prolonged its shelf life and it's popularity amongst gamers. Thus, it's only logical that they are doing their utmost to protect the multiplayer content of the game.

we all agreed DRM on multi.
but what good is forcing single to DRM? it will not hurt the hackers, but only hurting the gamers(customers) that enjoyed single mode, who dont always have a good connection.

and why it wouldnt hurt the hackers? because blizz declared they care less about piracy and pirated copy.
in other word, blizz put their guard down on the 1st layer of the most crucial DRM defence, ignoring the piracy. then why need a legit serial keys to login to bnet?

if they really care about the single mode gamers feeling, they should know the very fundamental reason for solo is that: WE DO NOT WISH TO GO ONLINE AND JOIN THE MASS PLAYER COMMUNITY (sry for caps  ). If i can always-on, why would i still need to play in single mode? i can just cr8 a game in bnet & passworded it so no one can join!

that is why i feel that blizz has become a cold blooded ignorant developer. they listen to their customers no more.
yup auction house for cash thingy is far more important than the merely existence single players population

as u said, protecting their cash cow, by killing the single player offline minority group. small price to pay. how could i not love blizz!

diablo3 designed to be like mmo? no way. it should capped max 8players in a game, or there will be over thousand of players doing the same mephisto run. lmfao

Well Guild Wars is a mmo but it's also as restricted as Diablo, it's heavily instanced so only a handful of people can quest/level together at any given time. The only time people can en masse together is when they are in central hubs which is a lot like a game lobby like in Diablo. And now Diablo has a pvp arena which we've seen in Guild Wars. If you've played GW, you'll know what i'm talking about.

If we use features like big open zones where players encounter each other randomly as they play to define if a game is a MMORPG or not, then no, Diablo 3 is not a MMO. But then neither is Guild Wars, even though most consider it to be one.

You may not care about GW but clearly it's something Blizzard is looking at to re-emulate. Not sure of what to make out of that random personal quote of yours. All it proved is that the definition of mmo differs from one person to another. Guild Wars may not be a mmo in a traditional sense but it's still one regardless albeit a sort of hybrid or niche so to speak. You need to get past the old times and start looking at the bigger picture. Genres will evolve and so will titles like Diablo.

matey, you said d3 are made to be mmo just like gw, but in fact none of them are. and u still refuse to believe that.
stop defending for the sake of defense, face the facts.

"GW is something Blizzard is looking at to re-emulate".... 
blizz has their in-house engine, they have experience dev team with genuine ideas. from the history, they have never copy or re-emulate anything from anyone.

i really dont know should i listen to someone that dont even know what hes saying 

well unless there are more teasers or news release by blizz, i will stfu before ruin everyones interest this thread.

enuf said.
GLHF

bring back the dude with the sword and shield

paladin?

"tonite we dine in diablo"
whres the botak paladin

All of the classes suck, except for maybe Barbarian and Wizard.

My favorite class, the Necromancer, also gone, instead replaced by some nigerian scammer who hurls around snake oil.

1. When you said DRM "failed", do you guys actually know if the game did not discourage piracy at all? Like actual sales.

2. If D3 has private servers, won't users be excluded from the auction house?

1. When you said DRM "failed", do you guys actually know if the game did not discourage piracy at all? Like actual sales.

2. If D3 has private servers, won't users be excluded from the auction house?

The irony is most of blizz's early games were successful BECAUSE of piracy.

Games like diablo and starcraft would have never reached asian markets if it werent for piracy. Starcraft for example wouldn't even be a major e-sport game if it weren't for cybercafes installing pirated versions of the game in the first place.

ur statement has some problem...... and not all places in the world are like us who support pirate stuff and still said it out proudly..... and i dun even think tat Blizzard think tat Asean market was success becoz of piracy.

Its the question on how blizzard going to implement the 'constant internet connection required'.

i guess i was the labrat for Ubi DRM settlers7 and the experience on the first few months was horrendous. Ubi DRM servers constantly deny me from connecting either because by server overloaded or shitmix. Sometimes, the game just kick you out in a middle of a 2 hrs game due connection lost . And i have to start from the last autosave thats 30mins ago. FU ubi. Current patch still requires internet to login, but doesnt require internet connection ingame.

seeing how blizzard have designed 'auction house, ingame economy, constant internet connection required', its pretty much 1 step towards MMORPG and less RPG as what Diablo roots were.

Just FYI,
Ubisoft server isn't stable like since ages ago.

I remember we played Vegas and we have a hard time connecting into the online MP.

Potato memang potato. How could they made up into a server?

But I can make sure Blizzard will not have this kind of problem, or at least at the minimal level. Take a look at WoW and SC2.
Problems connecting? NO. Playing yes and that's due to different zoning. So for constant connection with Blizzard server is no problem at all.

And I thought the world have forgotten how much players is in WoW, even now.

But I can make sure Blizzard will not have this kind of problem,

True. Blizzard have a lot more experience and history in dealing with online content. Their online portals are one of, if not the most heavily congested portals in the world. I have good faith that they will deliver a good infrastructure for Diablo.

How can you make sure, it's not up to you

Imagine if too many people are playing Diablo III and you need to be logged into a queue.

First they require you to go online. Once you have a profile with all your save games in their servers, they start with offering microtransaction to do the most simplest of managing ur account and content ala wow. (download your saved games to yourlocal machine). Bottom line is, with this, were surrendering control to Blizzard and are at their whim and fancy. THey will eventually control everything and require us to pay for every tom d*** and harry thing. Look at the auction house for example. Its the beginning of the end.

In what sense D3 deserve much more than WoW? nor the microtransaction you talked about when people will just put the game aside once they finished it, which is less than 1 month. Auction house is just a side option. You no moolah you don't use it.

Coz D3 backend is the same backend as WOW. Battlenet. One system to rule them all. You think if that was the case, Blizzard would have the Auction House? Blizzard anticipates that soon after finishing it, ppl will come back for more. Especially so when new contents are introduced. If D2 is any indication, ppl will be back for more looong after finishing it the first time. Yes auction house can trade in gold or cash. But dont you think that if a particular item is being featured in an only cash option, that ppl would not be tempted to spend moola? Worse of all, Blizzard gets a cut from whateve cash transaction. So yes it is a side option but BLizzard intention is to reverse psyche you in believing that. SO once you in, u have no choice coz by the time u realised it, u have invested in it too much.

Now im not against this if this was more the exception than the rule but seeing how all this is being set up, you cant help but wonder the intentions of this companies...especially so when Activision is involved...and u kno from history how they're like.

Im an avid Diablo fan, but having such a "be all and end all" system just ostracise the existing fans. Even more insulting is the guise that we actually have a choice when actually we dont. Yes, we have a choice to buy the game or not. But really is that what its come to now?

Now if you feel that you need to spend your hard earn cash on those additional stuff that by tradition is free, then by all means. But, i'd prefer to have a little bit of control and not having to pay for it. You may not see it now, but im willing to bet that things are just going to get worst from here on. If anyone things otherwise, do enlighten. Though  'You no moolah you don't use it' is hardly an argument. so weak.

You sounds like a maple story player who pay way too much to AsiaSoft for Cash Item to me.

Your avatar tells me all

if u dun like the auction and stuff just ignore it loh.... i know i will.... i nvr purchase any additional stuff before.... i just enjoy the playthrough and the story.... after tat i move on to another game.... nvr care much about the rest.

I dont agree with the auction house not because it allows people to use money, but they are legalising gold farming for those gold farmers who are forced play 14 hours a day just to sell loot. All because Activision Blizzard wants to earn some steady income from the Diablo 3 community. It's unethical, because gold farming is never something good to begin with.

Personally, i wont use it, just like TF2's Mann Co shop that i will just ignore it.

Also, the always online shit. Even SC2 server had some minor problems at the beginning. And i hate to let my internet connection entirely to determine whether i can play a game i bought or not.

one thing, gold farmers has nothing to do with us if we are gonna play solo or with friends only right? what harm it could be? unless we are gonna take it online PvP, then staying online wouldnt be a problem. i just worry blizzard would make rare/unique items drop rate become really low. so ppl will have to buy them online if they want some uber weapons or stuff. hmm... seeing acti is a greedy whore. maybe they will sell weapons in the future. or forced to buy DLC else get our characters locked. hahaha...

but i do agree that bliz should give us option to make offline characters. no online protection version, ask user to click acknowledge the risk and proceed offline.

u could either retire and drop this crap game, there are plenty of other games that doesnt require ONLINE.
It is not like end of the world where blizzard and Ubisoft is the only company that makes good games.   

besides all these DRM tricks can be crack easily, it just makes piracy version of the game A LOT better than the original ones. The way these companies tries to punish their legit players are inviting motivation for more piracy.

Cut the damn selling price, selling in huge volume, where they actually learn this is the only ultimate way to reduce piracy? Arent Steam weekly huge discount prove it already?

i am not getting this game. period. Too old already. old people don't like messy changes blizzard is doing..

if u dun like the auction and stuff just ignore it loh.... i know i will.... i nvr purchase any additional stuff before.... i just enjoy the playthrough and the story.... after tat i move on to another game.... nvr care much about the rest.

Its not only the auction house that is worrying me. Is the whole go online and store all ur content in the cloud that is the one that is actually worrying me. Imagine, if ActiBliz decide to do the unthinkable and start taking advantage of this fact. Restrict certain things we can and cant do. Charge us for things that may be the norm for PC since back when...The list goes on. And the best part is we cant really do anything abt it coz D3 is deeply embedded in the BattleNet infrastructure. No way of locally saving ur own characters or games. If we decide that ActiBlizzard is going too far with said actions or if somehow they decide to charge us monthly subscription, our copy that we buy of D3 would be just trashware. This not taking into account of other unforseen circumstances:

i) Network down
ii) company goes bankrupt
iii) Hacker to the network infrastructure

The list goes on

Microsoft tried this with Windows Game Live where they charge for subscription to play online with ur friends(ala Xbox live), but playing online with your friends have always been part of the PC gaming experience and we enjoy it for free long before. That was why Microsoft decide not to continue this. Acti Bliz Battlenet reminds me of this and the best part they aware and they are forcing it down our throats anyway.

I duno abt you guys but im the type of gamer who likes to keep a copy of any games bought on shelf for future play through again, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years down the road. I just duno if by then, ActiBliz would support D3 or any games currenlty on Battlenet then.

Well, with the current state of the game, i dont think i want it anyway, unless the Beta is really good.

I hate the idea of forcing people to go online to play their games which are not MMOs. Just like when Streamyx PMS, i cant even launch Convinction.

are you implying you actually want the game if the beta is good? wtf you masochist or something? you keep saying the game is as if the end of the world to you and yet you want to beta test/play/buy it? wtf?

are you implying you actually want the game if the beta is good? wtf you masochist or something? you keep saying the game is as if the end of the world to you and yet you want to beta test/play/buy it? wtf?

Considering how crap is SC2 and how bad D3 looks now, and also the ridiculous pricing, even if it's good, I still have to think twice because this isn't a good quality blizzard game used to make.

I never say I won't be beta testing this. It's my choice, not your game.

I duno abt you guys but im the type of gamer who likes to keep a copy of any games bought on shelf for future play through again, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years down the road. I just duno if by then, ActiBliz would support D3 or any games currenlty on Battlenet then.

Your weariness is warranted but I don;t think they going towards an mmo monthly sub format, but towards somekind of free to play format. Think of Guild Wars, Lotro and now Age of Conan. All of those titles do it differently but the idea is to charge one time for a copy of the game, and then introduce extra features i.e. quests, zones, cosmetic changes, items, skills etc through expansions or some sort of DLC packs. I do not think they will charge monthly sub for D3 simply because it's in their best interest to have their gamers to play all of their games. They wouldn't want their gamers to be choosing to play either D3 or WoW. It's already a huge commitment just to play them, let alone paying subs for them.

Starcraft 2 and Diablo 2 are still very popular after almost 20 years. Any longer than that we will probably be playing the sequels anyway

Blizzard currently only have like, 3 main IPs? StarCraft, WarCraft and Diablo. I'm sure they'll support these 3 in the long run. Isn't that what they've always been doing?

maybe just start a namelist loh... who want it and who dont want it....
then later the game release see how many ppl convert over and bought the game.... like the SC2 case.... complain a lot then still buy the game.