Regarding AH criticism - we can always choose not to buy items with real money. Only concern is if the servers will now be saturated with PRC gold farmers now that Blizzard has legalized RWM item sales.

Regarding SP criticism - there's Torchlight 2 so you won't miss D3 much. It'll also be cheaper for sure.

Main concern is this: if they try another bullshit price jack and lie their way out e.g. "Server bandwidth in Singapore is expensive so the game is expensive too!", then I won't be buying this game like I never bought and never will buy Starcraft 2.

This post has been edited by yimingwuzere: Aug 9 2011, 04:15 PM

Where's the monster level indicator btw?

This post has been edited by yimingwuzere: Sep 11 2011, 08:50 PM

The roadmap for Diablo 3 appears to be similar to Diablo 2 content wise. Four Acts in vanilla game, extra Act per expansion, fight Diablo in Act IV. No silly nonsense like cutting out Zerg and Protoss campaign to pad with filler for expansion SP if that's what you meant.

Not sure if this is posted here yet (major spoiler)

Quaz and cheese: Why don't both of you just block each other's posts and get on with it? It's much easier than littering the forum with unnecessary posts for the other.

The beta MPQ files can also be useful in finding out what goes on in the acts (obviously spoiler though if you dig through that.)

This post has been edited by yimingwuzere: Sep 13 2011, 01:04 AM

I said singleplayer content. The original roadmap for sc2 was 10 missions per race including the whole plot. They later revised that into 1 campaign per game, and stretched the campaign to fill in the gaps. That of course explains why you might find some of the sc2 missions appear to be story filler irrespective of how good/bad the mission design may be.

Anyway going offtopic here. By the way, anyone checked out the mpq dumps from the d3 beta yet?

That's actually very easy to offset with quantity. They can sell more copies easily. You don't hear Intel complaining about no longer selling RM1k++ entry level processors when they make a lot more with flooding the market with cheaper processors. Nor does Valve when they can make TeamFortress 2 free... or the numerous games you find being sold on the cheap at Steam.

Let's hope that they no longer have that sc2 rm250 fiasco, especially when the end result of that was a depopulated SEA server.

This post has been edited by yimingwuzere: Sep 13 2011, 02:02 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I recall correctly SC2 SEA server also died off and Blizzard moved the players over to US server, similar to how they closed the Russian server and moved the player base over to the EU one. I take that as another indicator of SC2 not doing as well as they expected here. Also, no more excuses for them to blame the price on the 'expensive bandwidth costs in Singapore'.

Can't seem to find the link though. Perhaps I was mistaken.
http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments...ervers_merging/

Latin America server merged with NA
Russia merged with Europe
Taiwan merged with Korea

During the launch period, prior to giving SEA users access to NA server, the SEA server population was lower than even Latin America. I most likely will snag D3 when I can get hold of a reasonably priced US copy, then.


Damn, that's a lot of money down the drain

Which is why I can wait for my cheap copy for this game and numerous others. I haven't even picked up Portal 2 yet! Also Torchlight 2 is coming out this year and should satiate my appetite in the meantime. And Dead Island (waiting for the bug fixes), Deus Ex 3 etc etc.

This post has been edited by yimingwuzere: Sep 13 2011, 04:51 PM

http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/...or-in-d3-combat

Added incentive for you guys that want to buy the US version!

You forgot the link:

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/22...ill-affect-you/

The lack of a pause feature even when playing solo seems terribly stupid to me, IMO.

There's always Torchlight 2 for those who can't wait.

You forgot "lagspike in hell difficulty with hardcore mode".

D2: LOD lar, that would mean it only comes out in 2013.

Bought Titan Quest during last week's THQ sale so I can wait till Torchlight 2... maybe.

If I buy this game, 99% odds are it's not the SEA version.

Dude gets aggroed by any form of criticism of Blizzard IIRC. While it's no big deal, the RMAH restrictions seem a little poor for those players in other regions (lots of Aussies in US servers for instance), it's like dangling a free carrot and then pulling it away when someone reaches for it.

A later patch removed the requirement to have the CD in the drive.

New changes in D3 sucked though. Not liking the description of the item identification change. I'd rather have scrolls that work instantly than to wait for the silly thing to pop open. Or better yet, why not get rid of identifying items altogether a la Titan Quest?

Also not digging the new system of item scrap/sell/townportals. I don't think people really need a break between combat to go back to town to sell loot, when other games like Torchlight have pets that can return to town and sell all unequipped items in their inventory. Also, why should one need to go back to town to scrap unnecessary loot either? Going back to town should be minimized as much as possible. The old system should just be maintained in this regard, with Town Portals reimplemented to be unusable in boss fights, and have a long casting time to minimize abuse.

This post has been edited by yimingwuzere: Jan 20 2012, 05:56 PM