Amazon Declares Diablo III Its Most Preordered PC Game Ever

[Axyun]

I don't understand why people take so much issue with allowing for "free respecs". Making long-term decisions that affect your ability to enjoy the game without the necessary information or foresight to intelligently make them is a horrible game mechanic. Even Guild Wars 2 is moving into free respecs and that's one game I don't consider dumb or dumbed down by any stretch of the imagination.

Just because you can respec whenever you want without penalty does not mean you will have the stats/eq to properly support that build. The fact that gear is now the only provider of attribute customization means that for every significantly different skill sets you pick, you will need to have gear to support it. So, while you CAN respec whenver you want, it doesn't necessarily mean you will perform optimally with your new build.

I also love the pay-to-win argument. Just don't use the auction house. No one can make the items sold, they have to be found by someone before being sold. What does it matter if the person who found it wears it vs. selling it off to someone else. D2 was loaded with real-money trading in unofficial websites. All Blizzard is doing it is formalizing it for people who were going to buy equipment with real money anways. It's just that they now don't risk being scammed.

If you don't want to play with a pool of players that use the RMAH, roll a hardcore character. Hardcore characters cannot use the RMAH.

 

[BENZOOKA]

The game should be in my mailbox on monday. Pre-ordered it tax-free (41 ?) at the very first day it was possible; knowing that I would do it anyways.

Honestly, I can't wait.

 

[VladG]

3) They decided to add a new game mode above "Hell" difficulty which, by their own statements, would be almost unplayable unless you play the game with other people, utterly destroying the core single player nature of the game.

Eehm..what? Where exactly did you read about such a statement? Blizzard clearly stated that inferno is perfectly doable in solo play.

https://twitter.com/#!/Bashiok/statuses/194922245523648513


See, this is what I hate about people ragging on Diablo 3. They so desperately want to "fight the power", oppose the big bad corporation that they don't even bother getting their facts right, they just jump in on ANY hate boat they can find.

Blizzard also stated that Diablo 3 would feature offline single player. And that the game would be released with expanded PvP features.

Whoops.

Guess their word is pretty much completely meaningless to someone who has already been burned by their previous lies, eh? You're basically saying "I know that Blizzard was lying about those other things, but we should totally trust them at their word when they say that Inferno Mode will be playable solo!". It's a ridiculous stance to take.

Let's look at what "Inferno" mode is pitched as. They stated that the mode was added with the intention of giving people a challenge to run with friends. That sounds an awful lot like a campaign difficulty designed for multiplayer rather than for solo play.

Furthermore, monsters in "Inferno" mode start out at the player's maximum level, and go up from there. Given that the game is designed to be difficult when facing at-level monsters due to the variety of foes, this would seem to make the end portions of "Inferno" extremely difficult, if not impossible, to beat alone.

This is what I hate about people who rag on people who rag on Diablo 3. They try to defend the absolutely indefensible and especially heinous policy decisions on this game, either because in their mind Blizzard can do no wrong and can't make mistakes, or they are just blinded by their own obsession over the game to the point where they can't acknowledge any of its flaws.

(c wut i did thar)

You might want to check the date tags on your information. It was announced years ago that there will be no offline play, I don't even know when they said there will be offline play. Is it news to you that things change in development? It's not even like they said there's going to be offline play, and 2 days before launch they went "nope, no more offline play, fooled 'ya". You can just as well take the early gameplay teaser vids as lies as well, since there are some visible differences in animations and UI. Shame on them!

As for the PvP, it's been delayed because so many people wanted the game to come out sooner, people who realize Diablo is NOT centered around PvP, it's just a side-feature.

As for the difficulty setting, you might like to learn that it scales with the number of players. The only possible decrease in challenge comes from having a wider array of skills to use between 4 people.

And if Blizzard said it would be impossible to solo on Inferno I wouldn't have believed them, since their games are never as hard as they claim. But they are saying it is 100% doable, so it's not??

 

[Dantarn]

I don't see how the real money auction house is an issue, if you don't like it since you can powergame don't buy anything from it, and it won't really effect multiplayer that much since it would only have a negative impact in PvP

 

[zombiesinc]

It's Diablo III, of course it's the most pre-ordered PC game, ever (at least for now). My brother and I have been waiting nearly a decade for this damn game. Can't say that I personally care about its DRM or real-money auction house either, so no negatives here.

Also, I called EB Games regarding my pre-orders and it turns out the games are all packaged up and ready to go, pretty exciting!

 

[Ickorus]

I'm waiting on Torchlight 2 myself.

Don't get me wrong, Diable 3 does look good but they're asking for far more than I can afford at the moment and Torchlight 2 looks just as good for less than half the price.

I'm also a Torchlight fan so when I say 'looks' just as good I mean it will be just as good so long as they keep it up to the standard of the original.

 

[yundex]

Good fucking god, we get it. A select vocal minority isn't buying diablo 3.

Always online DRM: Honestly no longer give a fuck, since the only reason I play is for the multiplayer. I am not against single player though, since that would give us more mods than just the sharpness and "dark mode" we have now.

RMAH: This shit existed since d2 was a thing, since it's obvious that the only people complaining are people who have not actually played d2 competitively or have not played d2 at all, I will not elaborate. Neither of which probably know what an occy ring or white is.

Cartoony "torchlight/wow style": Download the mod.

Those are the only complaints I have seen that are worth addressing. For any other complaints, feel free to not buy the game and move the fuck on.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

PC gaming is so dead. Right? Right?