Diablo III

[Joe]

I know right, having a full-time job sucks.

 

[Cthulhu]

If it wasn't for work, I would have a healthy, active online MMO social life now, spending my days farming legendaries in WoW to make a living selling that stuff in the real money AH if it's ever launched. Then make youtube videos of myself swearing because it's not actually working and the Chinese farmers are destroying the economy.

 

[Vendel]

Is this the point where someone makes a smartass comment about playing the single player when the servers are down?

 

[Xelazander]

Is this the point where someone makes a smartass comment about playing the single player when the servers are down?

Single player requires you to be connected to the servers anyway for some stupid reason..

(if I missed internet sarcasm /fail)

I'm level 59 now and the server's down for the night fffffff

 

[ForceStealer]

That would be soo frustrating to me. It sounds to me like I'd like Torchlight II a lot better. And you can even play it on a freaking LAN.

 

[Cthulhu]

LAN play, now a unique selling point again, .

 

[Cthulhu]

Blizzard rolls out server-side hotfixes to fix some immediate issues. They fixed the resurrect bug, and nerfed a shitton of classes, reducing duration of skills and nerfing protection skills / spells. Because a client update needs more testing and whatnot (and finishing) before that, tooltips will still show the original values.

I thought they spent the last half year or more beta testing and balancing this? but good thing they're actively working on improving the game already.

In other news, D3 sets PC game launch record; 3,5 million sold on launch day, 1,2 million people entitled to play the game due to a WoW annual pass, 39% of games played in Korean gaming halls was D3, and after a week the counter is up to 6,3 million players (minus the koreans, because they don't actually own the game etc)

 

[Joe]

Woooo WoW Annual Pass wooo.

 

[Hisako]

I hear they're just butthurt that players are waltzing through Inferno far too easily, and they cba scaling up the enemies since scaling down the players is easier,

 

[Vendel]

Single player requires you to be connected to the servers anyway for some stupid reason..

(if I missed internet sarcasm /fail)

I'm level 59 now and the server's down for the night fffffff

 

[Cthulhu]

I hear they're just butthurt that players are waltzing through Inferno far too easily, and they cba scaling up the enemies since scaling down the players is easier,

They tried forcing the players to go do something else with error 37, I'm sure .

But, Blizzard games have a history of having the gameplay mechanics be tweaked for years after the release, up a figure here, decrease a figure there, etc.

 

[Xelazander]

It's cool I'm level 60 now just waiting for PvP to come out

 

[Cthulhu]

I'm actually having trouble getting back into it after finishing the game once, . Probably because it's (or seems to be) nigh-on impossible to get into a 4 player game on normal. Should just keep going with my monk though.

 

[Xelazander]

Completed Hell

Inferno is impossible..

 

[Cthulhu]

I just played through Act I on Nightmare, and it's starting to become challenging; died a dozen times or so. It was particularly bad when there were like four groups of elites raping us, . I guess it's time to go shopping in the auction thing again.

 

[Hisako]

Had a friend gift me a guest pass for now so I'll probably be installing the thing this afternoon

and hopefully playing it too

 

[Cthulhu]

Satsu, meet Error 37; 37, Satsu.

 

[Joe]

Yep, still not had this problem yet.

 

[Cthulhu]

Real money auction house postponed again. Surprise is not me.

 

[Hisako]

Yeah surprisingly I haven't had any particular errors (besides Error 12 forbidding me to use my guest pass outside anything other than Europe server boo, ). I have, however, had crippling lag. Utterly unacceptable, 5-frames-per-second lag.

The game itself is pretty good, but Blizzard needs to step up to the quality we know it has.

 

[Xelazander]

I'm looking forward to making some real monies!

 

[Joe]

You're better off selling WoW characters again Alexx.

 

[Interslicery]

Maybe they keep delaying it since once the real money section comes out, no ones gonna use the gold house when they can potentially make actual money.

 

[Cthulhu]

Maybe they keep delaying it since once the real money section comes out, no ones gonna use the gold house when they can potentially make actual money.

I doubt it; after all, you need buyers as well as sellers, and I'm quite sure that the vast majority of players aren't willing to spend real money on stuff, only the hardcore or the same type of people that buys WoW gold and such.

Also: according to Blizzard (I have no source), only 1% of players have reached Inferno level. It seemed like more, but then, I guess you mainly hear from the hardcore / vocal playerbase on topics on the internets.

 

[Hisako]

free-to-play models work off microtransactional models because the game itself is free and the content to have an edge over other players is (or should be) entirely optional,

The difference here is that players spend 60 dollars to purchase the game, so to spend more money to buy items to keep a competitive edge is pushing it imo.