You think it's good game design that the person with more money to spend gets to buy their way to the top spot of the leaderboards?
1. What leaderboards?
2. Implying you already couldn't do that with 3rd party sites...
You think it's good game design that the person with more money to spend gets to buy their way to the top spot of the leaderboards?
As for your comment about the AH, the item system is certainly different from D2. You won't have to use the RMAH to get through inferno, but its still obvious that using the regular AH is a must.
Utter bullshit, I think I've played the game every night since it's been out. There are a couple of occasions where I only get an hour or so in but I play - or at least have been playing very regularly. I have a 60 in Inferno and multiple alts I'm leveling.You must not play this game much, then.
V_Arnold, I'm not gonna start with you bro :/ I love you.
So outside of not being able to play the game when you want, you're able to play the game when you want?Same. Apart from a few login issues during launch, I can play when I want...well, outside of random maintenance.
So outside of not being able to play the game when you want, you're able to play the game when you want?
You think it's good game design that the person with more money to spend gets to buy their way to the top spot of the leaderboards?
when I last logged in I was early in Act II and had about 40k in gold. logged in tonight and my quest was reset to the first quest in Act 1 and my gold count was down to 840. Was I hacked or is this some kind of tech issue with Blizzard?
So since this is the bitching thread, I have a hypothetical question for offline mode proponents:
Would you be playing offline all the time? You'd never want to play with friend online and use the AH?
Would you just play offline when the servers were down? You must realize it would be a somewhat odd way to pass the time, as no matter what, offline and online characters would have to be separated, so playing an offline alt wouldn't be anything but a way to kill time until you got back to your fully-featured online character. Progress on the offline character would be sort of moot.
Also - (latency issues giving people problems aside), what situations would you possibly be in where you would have access to a computer to play Diablo III on, but not internet? Any situation I can think of where I wouldn't have access to internet I either wouldn't have my laptop with me in the first place, or it would be inconvenient/I'd rather do something else/have more pressing concerns than to be playing games. Again, even if I was in a situation without internet and I wanted to play Diablo III, why would I choose to do so over another activity when my progress wouldn't carry over to the fully-featured online part of the game?
Are there really (many) people out there who never want the option of playing with/against others where they'd primarily play offline?
You think it's good game design that the person with more money to spend gets to buy their way to the top spot of the leaderboards?
I never thought about it, but I wonder if the shit drops you get in Nightmare through to level 60 is designed to push you to the AH. Lord knows it's what finally got me to drop the game.
All cool man! ♥Same to you : D Sorry if my comment seemed rude, man. Going for providing a perspective, that is all.
For me, the nightmare is the error 31500. The game works fine on my laptop but on my desktop pc where I want to play the game that's all I kept getting. Spent so much time trying out all the different work around. The only thing that finally worked was copying cache file from my laptop over to the desktop pc.
Then a day or two later, patch came and it stopped working again. Glad I found all this using a starter kit. So I'm not as pissed as I would have but I think I gave up for now.
Taken individually, its parts are perfectly tuned. Placed in concert with one another they hum, tick and melodize in angelic harmony. Blizzard has delivered a beautifully realized symphony of all its classical skills, honed and practiced over long years. Yes, these do include the thrum of gaming addiction, the dark underscore that keeps people playing farming sims and fruit machines. But theres a lot more at play here.
The mesmerizing timpani of its feedback loop, the blaring brassiness of its loot system and the smooth vibrations of its combat are perfectly unified to create a siren song. But the art is in the detail. Its in the arboric perfection of the Gnarled Walker; in the creepy bleating of demonic goatmen, in the crazed cackle of the Skeleton King.
Audio effects delight; the clashing of axes against ancient earthenware, the orgasmic squidge of defeated enemies, the distant wailing of the crypt. Its amazing how much these effects matter, how they transform pleasure into desire for more.
When in Diablo II's (ongoing) lifetime has it not been a mess?the balance (skills & classes) is a mess, which is rather fascinating considering the time and manpower Blizzard had at hand
When in Diablo II's (ongoing) lifetime has it not been a mess?
Why do you feel entitled to play the game you purchased? What's wrong with you?!
New games are killing the industry.
(I haven't picked up D3 because of the outages and hacks and I honestly don't regret it).
Blizzard have said drops are tuned with the AH in mind. So to answer your question, yes, the game is designed to push you to using the AH. You don't have to, but that's the way the game is balanced.
I wasn't sure where to put this. It's not really game discussion or hate. It's a aria to hyperbole.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/01/what-makes-diablo-iii-so-darned-good
Never change IGN. Never change.
Diablo 3 is one of the few games that I've seen where hacking runs rampant and is somewhat accepted by the community. The "you got hacked? must be your fault, get an authenticator" mentality is absolutely disgusting. I have played so many online games/MMORPGs and account hacking has never been this widespread. I will even go as far as saying those free Korean MMORPGs seem to have better functional security measures than Blizzard.
Can't wait to see the Blizz defense force try to justify all of this.
Response to hacking issue: Get an authenticator! Sure, just as soon as a buy a gun to go to the ATM.
This gets to the question of whether or not Blizzard's standard security protocols are secure enough and if the authenticator is so important then shouldn't it be included with the game? After all, Blizzard is forcing every purchaser into this situation through the DRM.
Of course, there are further issues such as latency issues, the Auction House going down repeated times and the fact that though the game forces you to be online, it doesn't offer nearly as much of the benefits of being online as an actual MMO does.
Yeah, fuck those authenticators. I shouldn't need to protect my things! I shouldn't have to lock my doors either! It's my apt complex's fault people get robbed!
To be 100% honest, I love Diablo 3. I really don't care that it's online only, because I never played D2 offline (and you couldn't take offline characters into the regular online environment in D2 anyway, only to a quarantined section). The AH is fantastic, and adds a much needed element to Diablo.
Personally, a lot of the gripes about the game sound like people looking for something to hate. If you don't like the game, don't play it. Simple as that.
What fictitious leaderboards are you referring to? Diablo isn't a competition.
Game sounds like a train wreck to me personally. . . lag in single player provided you can even get on, waiting in cue to play single player, hacked accounts, having to actually pay money for more security?
I mentioned in another thread after the initial launch problems it sounds like I dodged a bullet, now the hacked accounts etc.
Game sounds like a train wreck to me personally.
Too short for a game that has been in development as long as this (how long was Titan Quest by comparison?), lag in single player provided you can even get on, waiting in cue to play single player (the fuck right there), hacked accounts, having to actually pay money for more security? Wow.
Don't give a shit for how good the game is, none of the above is acceptable under any circumstance.
I mentioned in another thread after the initial launch problems it sounds like I dodged a bullet, now the hacked accounts etc. What a load of bullshit.
Actual conversation from Gmail chat a few days ago that I think you'll all laugh at (edited for grammar because I'm a Nazi):
Friend: I called Blizzard tech support this morning.
Me: Why?
Friend: I wanted to get a refund for a broken game.
Me: What game is that?
Friend: Are you serious? I'm talking about Diablo 3.
Me: I assumed so, but it's funny to me.
Friend: I got a CSR and then she sent me to an automated system. The system reported that it was busy. I'm assuming their phones run on the same servers as their game.
Friend: Why is this funny?
Me: Because you beat the game twice already, put in dozens of hours, and yet you're requesting a refund. No offense [Friend], but they're going to assume you're on a fucking soapbox. When I worked customer service, we would get bloggers calling all the time trying to be investigative reporters: "I have a blog and I'll be reporting this if you don't answer my questions truthfully!" No thanks, Lois Lane, you just have a Wordpress blog and are a stay at home mom according to your profile.
Me: actually the line about the servers was genuinely funny. Bravo.
Friend: I bought a broken game. The server stutters, I can't connect due to constant maintence sometimes, I wasn't able to play for 12 hours on launch day, there's no offline mode, the real money auction house was promised and still not delivered. It's a consumer nightmare. I don't want it.
Friend: Besides, once you beat the game once you're supposed to replay at a harder difficulty? Who the fuck would do that? I played 15 hours, beat the game, and now I want to do more content, not repeat the old content. Where's the endgame content?
Me: You've never played a Diablo game before have you?
Friend: And I won't ever again. Diablo is dead. WoW is dead. Blizzard is dead.
OH GOD, my eyes were rolling so hard that I nearly went blind.
You don't have to pay money for the security. It's an option. Diablo III has the same base security as any other online game, straight out of the box. And the accounts aren't getting hacked, they're getting compromised as a result of people getting keyloggers/malware/etc. None of which is really Blizzards problem.
hyduK said:Aside from Day 1, I've had maybe one or two issues with the servers. That's being generous.
Anyone else order an authenticator that still hasn't shipped? It's been a week now.
No, I don't buy that. I had a WoW account that got hacked. Never opened emails from sources I didn't trust, ran adaware, spybot and nod32. Didn't give my password/account details to anybody, heck I couldn't because I didn't even group up or join a guild when I played.
Yet my account still got hacked.
There may of course be instances where people are being negligent and getting hacked that way. But that was never the case with me.
Yeah, fuck those authenticators. I shouldn't need to protect my things! I shouldn't have to lock my doors either! It's my apt complex's fault people get robbed!
To be 100% honest, I love Diablo 3. I really don't care that it's online only, because I never played D2 offline (and you couldn't take offline characters into the regular online environment in D2 anyway, only to a quarantined section). The AH is fantastic, and adds a much needed element to Diablo.
Personally, a lot of the gripes about the game sound like people looking for something to hate. If you don't like the game, don't play it. Simple as that.
What fictitious leaderboards are you referring to? Diablo isn't a competition.