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Diablo 3 Dev Talks Multiplayer Options, Long Dev Cycle
AusGamers spoke with Blizzard's Jay Wilson recently about Diablo 3's multiplayer experience. Among other things, Wilson said the developers were making an effort to encourage cooperative gameplay. For example, each player within a particular game will see different loot drops from monsters, which prevents competition over who can click an item the fastest, and encourages trading. He also mentions that a team is already working on methods to prevent cheating, and he discusses why Blizzard games tend to be announced so long before they're completed. "One of the reasons why we actually prefer a really long window before we release a game is because we want a lot of feedback; we want to hear what people like and don't like about it; we want to give them several opportunities to play it before release."
You're ruining it. Diablo is not WoW. It is not friendly. It is not "fun." It's about who can click fastest and who can exploit hardest. Who can scam the most. It's about getting to the top by any means, and it's not a friendly world.
The only combos that really made the difference in pvm was the enchantress/necro-summoner combo. It really made for a huge advantage, and there should be bosses that can only be beaten with teamwork to further encourage cooperative gaming.
I've got a massive case of the farts tonight. It feels good to fart, doesn't it? Not "sloppy blowjob" good. Not "I just took a monster shit" good. But it still feels good in it's own way.
Don't care.
Next?
Obama will castrate our military and destroy our nuclear deterrent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxL8NcNACBY
He will tax corporations and high income earners that employ the population of the US, which will force them to cut jobs and send the unemployment rate skyrocketing.
http://obama.3cdn.net/b7be3b7cd08e587dca_v852mv8ja.pdf
He sees dead people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=galtZF0nKYc
He wants to take the guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens, leaving us at the mercy of criminals.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/barack_obama_gun_control.htm
He'll cut and run from Iraq, knocking the legs out from under the Iraqi government as they are finally finding their footing.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/
He believes homosexuals are entitled to more rights than straight people.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/23/debate.transcript/index.html
He believes in mob rule concerning criminal punishment.
The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama, p. 58
He refuses to call terrorists "terrorists" even when presented with evidence.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15251928
He will prevent us from keeping sensitive materials confidential, which will place national security at risk.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14356/
He would talk with terrorist countries without demanding that they cease their efforts to murder innocent people and abide by the rule of law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Oj7Jn9rv4
He believes we should reward people who ignore the existence of a country's sovereignty and illegally enter the country instead of forcing them to abide by the law.
http://obama.senate.gov/news/060923-sen_obama_at_to/index.php
He believes the government should regulate the internet.
http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060608-network_neutral/index.php
He believes in making those who have money pay for the healthcare of those who do not have money.
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/healthcare/
He believes we should take corn, a staple food for the US, and use it for ethanol production, which will cause shortages in food supply and produce car exhaust that is more dangerous to humans than gasoline burning cars.
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He believes that parents should have no choice but to send their children to government run schools to be indoctrinated by sub-standard teachers.
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In short, he's an anti-American, anti-military Marxist who will destroy the US before he can be voted out of office. I don't like McCain and I have problems with many of his positions, but he will, at the very least, keep the US from crashing and burning within the next 4 years (provided the Dems don't win Congress).
And no, he's not a Muslim (as far as we know). He's not black (he's bi-racial). He's not a Christian (against everything Ch
I loved Diablo 1 and Diablo 2. However, I'm not really interrested in multi-player games. I only hope Diablo 3 will keep an enjoyable single player mode.
There shouldn't be colors involved with every sword and axe swing. Magical effects should be used sparingly in order to maintain realism and create greater contrast. Realism and atmosphere is what immersed the gamer into D1, and D3's nonstop WoW effects are a huge turnoff.
All games get boring eventually, griefers or no.
However, games that give plenty of room to griefers are only more interesting to griefers. Griefability does not make the games at all more interesting to the rest of us.
Griefers always insist that their selfish and rude behavior is actually of benefit to those whom they make suffer, and it simply isn't true.
Yes, anti-griefing rules makes the game more boring....to griefers. I say good. I hope they make it as boring as possible to griefers, because the fewer of them the better.
Go grief each other somewhere else. And good riddance.
Wilson said the developers were making an effort to encourage cooperative gameplay.
How can you encourage cooperative gameplay if the players who want to cooperate live together? Does this mean there will be support for dual USB gamepads and TV-as-monitor like on that other popular action RPG series?
Wow, at first I thought you were complaining that Diablo 2 is filled with jerks who just click and cheat and make your games unfun. Then I realized that you're that jerk and don't want your own fun spoiled!
I'm not very impressed by your ability to click a mouse or to download hacks that somebody else wrote. But I've learned that different folks get their jollies in different ways. It'd be nice if Battle.net could set aside a server just for all the jerks and hackers. Call it "Thunderdome". Or "Hell". They can go click, exploit, scam, and spam to their hearts delight. The rest of us will go play something fun and friendly.
WHAT?! - NO PALADIN CLASS?!
Now I'm a little disappointed that the Barbarian is (so far) the only class that is returning to Diablo.
Maybe they will call it something else, but it will still function as a pally.
OK cue the WHAT NO XXXX class for the other classes now. The only other classes I played were the occasional necro and barb.
..........FULL STOP.
Any time I've ever lived with people who game, all of us had their own PCs.
You have a point about M rated games like Diablo III is expected to be, as each player is expected to either be in college or have a job. But E, E10+, or T rated games have players under 18, who due to school and child labor laws usually can't work to buy their own PCs and have to play on the family PC. Besides, two copies of a $40 game without single-screen multiplayer are more expensive than one copy of a $60 game that includes it.
you had to both huddle over 1 PC
A sufficiently large monitor should not require "huddling".
with a split screen
Diablo shouldn't have to split anything if both players' characters stick within a few meters of each other. Secret of Mana didn't.
well ... i liked the d2 style of grabbing ... and if you joined a public game ... you could try to grab stuff ... it was fun too ... even with the 'not trade encouraging' drop system
if you didn't want to fight for it you could play with ppl you knew and share the loot
why change this system?
i traded very very much in d2