Blizzard extends a ginormous middle finger.

[Trash]

Welcome to the biggest video gaming controversy of 2011. Blizzard decided to give its fans some more news on the upcoming Diablo III. With it their customers also recieved a kick in the face.

1) The game requires a constant internet connection. It cannot be played offline.
2) Mods are “expressly prohibited.”
3) Items in the auction house are bought and sold for real-life money.

Oh dear.

 

[Destroid]

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Not that I care, I think the game will be bad.

 

[Ulminati]

We already have a thread for this in the correct subforum.


In b4 retardo

 

[SCO]

No. I like the thread title here better.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Game looks like shit anyway.

I'll just torrent the Making-Of stuff including OST and Cutscenes, it's not like the game has anything else to offer.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Welcome to the biggest video gaming controversy of 2011. Blizzard decided to give its fans some more news on the upcoming Diablo III. With it their customers also recieved a kick in the face.

1) The game requires a constant internet connection. It cannot be played offline.
2) Mods are “expressly prohibited.”
3) Items in the auction house are bought and sold for real-life money.

Oh dear.

I thought Creative Assembly was being annoying with unnecessarilly removing decent conveniences from Shogun 2, but compared to Blizzard, CA now looks like generous and accomodating.

I think this sort of practice is kept up precisely because the gamers who buy the game will put up with it. Well, they'll get what they want, I suppose. It's why they gave Blizzard a million dollars in ten minutes with their purchase of extra content.

 

[godsend1989]

Blizzard doesn`t sell items, players only, rage more.

 

[felipepepe]

Pirates will fix it.

 

[Metro]

Blizzard doesn`t sell items, players only, rage more.

It's funny people say that as a witty comeback because the reality is what they're doing is worse than selling items. Rather than crack down on gold sellers they're just enabling them and cutting themselves in on the action to the tune of probably 25% or so.

 

[Darth Roxor]

BLIZZARD IS THE SAVIOUR OF GAMING

 

[Rivmusique]

Oh dear. Though, I was not really keen on buying it in the first place, this looks better and will probably actually see a release date.

 

[meh]

Pirates will fix it.

QFT. Definately won't buying this one.

 

[Raghar]

We already have a thread for this in the correct subforum.


In b4 retardo

Hack and slash RPG like should be in RPG forum, otherwise AP, or ME2 would need to be in GG and RPG forum would be nearly empty (aside of Vogel remakes, and TW2).

 

[Wolfus]

Diablo is not RPG. It's just action game with some (few) RPG elements.

 

[Johannes]

Diablo is an RPG.

 

[Black Bart Charley]

Halo Wars.

 

[Raghar]

Diablo is not RPG. It's just action game with some (few) RPG elements.

Doesn't matter. It has sufficient number of RPG elements to be on RPG forum. In addition, it has a story.

 

[circ]

WHY IS THIS IN ARPG DISCUSSIONS??

Same thing happened with Starcrap 2. Well pretty much.

It sold like hotcakes. I'm guessing. People who criticized among other things, the price, we're probably asked if they were poor. And it wasn't like it was just Starcrap with somewhat updated graphox. You know, kinda like how C&C 3 updated its graphox but you couldn't tell because you're LOL STUPID.

What now Blizzard fans? Still think they're the coolest company on earth?

 

[DwarvenFood]

Now the Chinese will be able to grind in D3 as well. Moving on, hoping Grim Dawn will be satisfying.

 

[Konjad]

but diablo was my favourite true rpg! no! what have they done?!

 

[IronicNeurotic]

Diablo is not RPG. It's just action game with some (few) RPG elements.

Doesn't matter. It has sufficient number of RPG elements to be on RPG forum. In addition, it has a story.

Oh that incoherent linear C&c less mess of clichees and downright copied/ripped off stuff from other sources? Including reusing of plotpoints? Well shit, that makes every game with a story ever an rpg.

 

[Konjad]

i think diablo's story is great. it's about evil in the world. i mean - it's not as good dragon's age 2 story, but it's miles ahead of ie. fallout.

 

[Renegen]

It was to be expected. This is the same Blizzard that will release 3 games for Starcraft 2 so that they can make 3x the money. Diablo 3 isn't developed by the people who did World of Warcraft for nothing.

And on a more personal note, I've been playing Blizzard games for a long time and this is entirely in line with Blizzard's approach to their fans. They simply don't give a shit, they chance anything they want arbitrarily if it will benefit them. I wonder if you are even allowed to trade items between players in Diablo 3. Some companies respect their fans and their opinion, Blizzard never did. From the very beginning of Diablo 3 I knew all I was going to do was pirate it, play it for a bit, and that's it. Guess now there's no choice aswell.

 

[Jools]

Totally foreseeable assrape.

 

[Wolfus]

i think diablo's story is great. it's about evil in the world. i mean - it's not as good dragon's age 2 story, but it's miles ahead of ie. fallout.

TROLOL

 

[Overweight Manatee]

inb4 Blizzard removes one of those 3 and is hailed as the best developer ever for listening and caring for its customers.

 

[Black]

Shit sux, at least I'll focus mainly on GW2.