http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6019511928#17





They only realized this now? Why not like years before this while developing the game

This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jul 4 2012, 09:00 PM

from 140k to 14k...

i want GW2
cause D3 no pvp YET

This post has been edited by tlts: Jul 4 2012, 08:44 PM

I think it should be read: "We are trying our best to further milk your hard-earned cash over non-existing goods, for as long as possible because if you peeps stop playing, we're dead meat."



WoW. What an incredible revelation.

I guess better late than never. I seriously wish them luck in their future endeavour. They're gonna need it. That and the load of rabid (un-enlightened) fanboys.

They used to make good games. Now they're only interested in what would get you addicted. F8cking sellouts...

/snarky

The only way they can get out of this hole is they remove the level 60 cap and let everyone level all the way to 99. Thing is even then, they're still screwed cause the skill system only caters for level 1-60.

Not surprised since its not developed by the original diablo team, but i doubt it will make a difference.

140k and now 14k. Lost about 136k players..

They had the wrong idea about how to implement endgame anyways.

How they implemented it: Cap the game at level 60, then added an additional difficulty mode (inferno) and made it extremely challenging. In doing this, they hope that players will take months to clear inferno
How it went: Hardcore and very seasoned players cleared it within weeks, and a few have quit the game due to the lack of things to do in the game. This is no surprise, as the items you can farm in game are max ilvl63, lack of variation in item stats, drops. Majority of players (casuals) felt that inferno was incredibly frustrating, some have quit because of this and this number continues to rise every day

This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jul 4 2012, 09:47 PM

when u in inferno, what we do is farm gold... nothing much... how many of us can survive in the boredom of farming?

aiya, when is the release of hots?

What the game needs is hats.

cough* feels like a lie to me

so whats the D3 expension about then? Whimsyshire lvl2?

marhye, fark actiblizzard la

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Added on July 4, 2012, 9:50 pmgame fashionistas? i approve lol

This post has been edited by The Amateur Working Bee: Jul 4 2012, 09:50 PM

They will introduce a new boss

Azmodan will form the legs
Belial will form the body & hands
Ghom will form the butt
Diablo will form the head

All prime evils shout: THE TRUE PRIME EVIL!



This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jul 4 2012, 09:59 PM

Why not just add a tower defense game mode where players have to survive endless waves of enemies? That should keep players bz for awhile.

This post has been edited by Luftwacko: Jul 4 2012, 10:06 PM

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 09:12 AM

"Diablo III is not World of Warcraft"

then why the fk they implement RMAH? FOR FUN?

agree on the item and im still frsutrated with the always online and server maintenance...

But by God did they try to make it into WoW : Lite Edition

legendary items looks nice but is junk with those stats

okay Blizzard take that for delaying Diablo series for such a long time. The more anticipation, the more disappointment.

This news just to buy back the "hopes" that they can still hold on to. Good luck Diablo team!

the money game dies just like the last cinematic

uuurrrggggjjhjjj

4xx dps lvl 60 legendary ftw

y do wiz need strength for? to wield the heavy wand?

I think they just too lazy to code and decided to randomize everyshit availables

D2 items are incredible. love those EQ that adding skill level and etc

imma sell all my gears now

gogo, bro sales 1.25$ each

Good luck to the D3 team then, i really didnt expect D3 to burn out so fast for me.

Will take this any day. 5 to all skills and my personal decrepify debuffer

This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jul 5 2012, 01:01 AM

got to love the old stats.

This post has been edited by Moogle Stiltzkin: Jul 15 2017, 09:13 AM

Hmm I wonder what that could be?

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HAHAHAHHAA JOKE OF THE DAY.

10/10 will laugh again.

thanks for making my day

right on the point. quit d3 2 weeks ago n never bother to touch it again.

they juz wan to rush out a game to get $$ so their 2012 financial yr looks good for the shareholder. n you are correct, y a wiz need STR stats. y a 1 hand weapon has DH skill attribute on it? does DH even bother to use sword,staff n etc? all their eq stats is so mambo jumble up together.

cheer up, on the bright side, GW 2 release on 28.8.2012

And at the same time, i should probably be praying everyday, hoping that GW2 will not be a big pile of poo like Diablo 3 or Mass Effect 3, to a certain extent.

Why is everyone thinks that GW2 will be the game that will awesome in every way and suppress the disappointment with Diablo 3?I actually think that GW2 is incredibly overhype to the point that the same mass "disappointments" that happened with Diablo 3 will happen again.

No doubt GW2 looks great at the moment and the Dynamic Event sounds really interesting, but i think it might be a good idea not to overhype another game then become very disappointed with the game after release.

At the same time, i really hope GW2 will prove me wrong that it is really a good, fun game, as almost all the games i bought this year are fairly terrible games.

I wouldn't worry Cheese. It's not GW3. Something sial about the number 3 this year.

eh u did participate in the gw2 beta weekends kan?

WE NEED POKEMON BATTLE SYSTEM IN OUR GAMES!!!





Oh waaaitt...

What I believe they should come up with more new content, like making each hero job till lvl 60 and reward will be given. Or maybe put some achievement to unlock certain levels and items...

after TL 2 release....maybe 14k to 140 people.....

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/6019511928?page=3


I'm still waiting for my cheap items.

This post has been edited by ALeUNe: Jul 5 2012, 09:41 AM

Up the ilvl63 item stats, not some crappy shit. and expansion as free DLC! more mobs, more bosses, more elites, more loots! remove 60 cap.

and let people smash more vases and switch MF gears.

Even Blizz increase the level cap to 200, I bet you'll see many LvL200 heroes in a week.

Hundreds of thousands? If you heard it from Bashiok, you just got trolled. He's pulling facts and figures out of his ass again.

If you read, I use the "price" benchmark @ AH to determine the demand.

my "Unreal-like it gonna happen" hope list


1) adjust LEGENG'DARY Stats according to the player level during drop, i.e. low level gets low level legend stats and vice versa, meaning legendary has no fix level requirement, it can be of same level to the character that discover it

2) i like the "Tower Defense" suggestion..i 2nd it strongly

3) More easter eggs level/items/cutscene

4) where's the character profile at battlenet page that blizzy say gonna put up, at least it can give those players to browse other player setup/achievements

5) more custom chat option, personal/private/clan/guild/country channel option

6) more "Aesthetic Features" like to those Dye/Wing in game

7) Bring back gamble function (after all its a gold sink mechanism what)

8) Remove those unpopular affixes and replace with new type or D2 like affixes

9) Bigger Pots, intro +stat pots, +resist pots, +speed pots & other similar buff from consumption

10) time to time special event with special rewards (limited time only, add to achievement)

11) remove neph valor <-- jangan marah aaa..my personal view

12) more refine search function in AH

where is your statistics of less than 100k players online concurrently came from? do they have direct access to blizz servers to measure players online?

Why remove NV???

I just completed Inferno last night; after like 400 hours of gameplay (and AFK)... ok, i m a slow leveler... while "end game" has room for improvement, i think Bliz is already doing a good job on this game. (Dont hate me/Bliz) This game is just 2 months old. D2 took years (even after expansion) to be really cool too. Bliz recognized some unexpected result and are rectifying it with 1.1 on the Legendary.

For me, in my recent memory, no other game that can make me play for that long... i made some real money from the game too. so, i have no complain.

main problem is , im dont even have THE STATIFIED FEEL since normal:


like i brought a iphone 99cent game length

suck rare suck legendary suck side quest

suck diablo with boobs

This post has been edited by takkicom: Jul 5 2012, 10:39 AM

While this is a sample size, I think this is a good reflection of the current downward trend thats going on in the D3 playerbase.

Bashiok? Forever a joke and a troll, since WoW days

This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jul 5 2012, 10:45 AM

my question still stands:

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Added on July 5, 2012, 10:49 amgo sell loots, earn usd60 from RMAH, get d3 refunded fully, quit game. done settle, no one need to be unhappy.

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Jul 5 2012, 10:49 AM

the equipment i equip doesnt even worth more than 2m

200 hour NONE good rare like bad luck brian

The same can really be said about Bashiok just saying 'hundreds and hundreds of thousands' as is, without the proof to show for it.






This post has been edited by gaeria84: Jul 5 2012, 10:58 AM

you can opt to play only the AH if d3 is sooooooooooooooo bad luck brian to you

Trend wise, logical. More and more people can no longer online 18 hours a day for D3. But the base is still big. You graph is from xfire. In July D3 still has 40k hours:

http://beta.xfire.com/games/d3

From the same source, WOW just have 45k hours in July:

http://beta.xfire.com/games/wow

Note: these numbers are only for user that join xfire. So, as you can see, the number is quite close, my thinking is, the limit is on number of user that uses xfire.

This post has been edited by cowithgun: Jul 5 2012, 11:03 AM

he is a CM, you (or justd3.com) aren't.

who do you think people will believe more?

also, do try to add up the players from ALL quests from ALL difficulties, see if your "14k" gets exceeded or not. then think if public games are already exceeding, what about players (like me) who NEVER plays public game? (i entered once to get the 10pt achievement )

they make it short so they can keep selling expansion set

are you sure its from xfire? (from link image its from justd3.com, or maybe they took/stolen it from xfire, who knows)

EITHERWAY. if it is from xfire, i do not have an xfire account. does that mean i do not play d3?


the over-exaggeration in this thread jesus.

The numbers on xfire don't reflect the actual playerbase number, rather it represents the downward trend in the number of players. From May to Jun, the numbers dropped from 140000 to 50000, that's roughly a 60% drop in just one month.

so can you agree that if d3 sold 1mil players. dropping 60% is still 400k. and bashiok's statement of hundred(s) of thousands can still mean 100k and it will still be legit/valid?

my mistake. corrected my post. actually i agree that the trends is moving downwards. should bliz worry about it? may be not much. all those users already paid for the game anyway. u stop playing? so long! u still wanna play? hey, we got new patch coming...

Just3d... what kind of tahi website is that

d3 sold 6.3 million in the first week

at the very least, no matter how bad of a company they are, how much they "ruined/destroyed/f***ed up" (lol) d3, they admit on their mistakes, and are trying to turn it around.

unlike some other egotistical game companies out there who cant even admit their faults.

Is just a reflection of the actual number, it cant be accurate, but if 60% is the drop from xfire, then we caan actually see a trend that player is leaving the game.... that all... no need argue accuracy here....

that figure might be pulled out of your ass man

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Added on July 5, 2012, 11:11 amim not even arguing about accuracy if you didnt happen to notice

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Jul 5 2012, 11:11 AM

Unless you count out the number of players who bought multiple accounts and ran bots on them, maybe
Thing is unless Blizzard releases actual figures, nobody is going to believe hearsay, especially from the mouth of one CM who can't seem to get his facts right

You have to realize, the game was so hyped up that every casual gamer bought a copy. I know of several people (girls in fact) who actually started playing before my copy even arrived from Amazon.

These players aren't gonna stick around for long. They'll finish normal, and find better things to do. The numbers were always gonna drop.

The only argument you can make is that xfire represents the more 'hardcore' gamers. If you ask me tho, I think xfire really represents the online FPS, CoD generation. No PvP? Endless grinding? They're gonna lose interest fast and go back to getting frags.

You can infer that the numbers have dropped. Everyone knew that it would. What you can't actually say for certain is how big the numbers have dropped. Only Blizzard knows, and it's up to them whether or not to release those numbers.

Fun fact: my friends list still has 10+ people playing every day. No change from release.

problem is, since when xfire is ever accurate, they gave dumb figures for MOBAs too

so you're gonna derail this to bots and avoid answering my honest question/plea?

let me turn this back to you: "why do you think people run bots on a game?"
"is it because there is interest, and it is profitable to run bots on said game?"

do think about it.

as for bashiok, i've provided some VERY generous numbers to "proof" his fact. you can't even at least attempt to rebuke that? come on, if you want to flame a troll, at least put some effort in to it.

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Added on July 5, 2012, 11:16 amboth of my sisters, and their GIRL friends bought a copy on release day, and playing the damn game till this very day. hell, my sister sold a friggin 900dps WD weapon for 6m (after tax 5.1m) and is now richer than me. FML man :/

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Jul 5 2012, 11:16 AM

i'm curious, did you play D2? how many times you complete D2 ?

Once a deadweight, always a deadweight.

Seriously, dont take him seriously...

well, just seriously curious ..

Haha feels like the official forum is here. Pretty entertaining see people bashing on each other.

huh? who bashing who?

A 60% drop in player numbers is no laughing matter, especially for a company who makes their profits from the RMAH. 60% less players, 60% less profit. That's why they decided to come out and tell us that endgame in this game is simply not sufficient because they KNOW that player numbers are dropping way too fast and they KNOW that player retention is a huge issue in this game.

God another "Diablo sucks, you are all fanboys" vs "Diablo is fine, you are all childish" thread.

so after all those scary figure, now only bliz decide to lower themself and listen to players opinion ?

Exactly

T^T

I dont think they have a choice now.... they just need to change or ppl will keep quitting...

Problem with this, you are stating all these as facts, but... all you got are

1. unreliable statistics from dubious sources
2. playing amateur psychologist in second-guessing CM statements

i am not sure if anyone's (like blizz) really laughing on this. the players certainly aren't. blizz being blizz probably aren't if they are able to admit on faults such as these. you could probably pin that alleged troll CM bashiok for his "haha" comment word by word quote, but really, do you think he is actually laughing much if any at all?

you'd be delusional if a company won't fire/pay cut their employees if it aint doing well. even a company like blizz.

and seriously, do you think blizz really makes *THAT* much from RMAH with their 1usd/cut? i mean, do you think they had to RELY on RMAH to survive as a company disregarding how many they made off just from day 1 sales alone? or even the fact that they STILL have their cash cow WoW despite its continual decline?

come on, you can do better than this, right?

good for "atas pagar" people though, more popcorn session

ya, my cousin sis playing too. her previously favorite game is farmville. well, she is still not so pro yet.. i help power level a little from time to time.

about casual player also buying the game, i think Bliz strategy pay off. no other game in the history has so much transparency (some call it hype) before launching the game. i enjoy every BlizCon when Jay and team talks about the mechanics and some of the decision they made for D3.

an example, someone complain about Boss keep PA (announce) what they doing; actually, if you follow their development, this is a clever trick to 'tell a story' while allowing player to keep slashing mobs. Unlike in D2, you have to sit in town, read thru conversation...

but i do think its true, just look at my own friend list call tell the same; more and more friend away for more and more days, where at peak use to have more than 10 firends, now left around 2-3 still (and i know at least 2 is botting). the rest? neither is having a long afk for chill out, some online kejap see see look look then offline again, or some even no online at all ady.

can... can haz their contactz??

in b4 'NO!!! U STAY FOREVERALONE .jpg'

Congrats!
I haven't got the time to whack the big fat Ghom.

i am, like, half quit ady , sigh....

huh, since when D2 you sit in town read through conversation, i just skip through it and back to slashing.... haha...

Story wise, it doesn't make sense having a boss tell you step by step on how to defeat him. The supposed most cunning master tactitian.

Telling a story while slashing mobs. Pretty difficult to comprehend what he is saying when I'm busy running away from OP Elites.

+1...

if no contact can give, at least FB link plz~~~~