Diablo III Wild Speculation and Rumor Mongering Abounds

[Malakili]

Starcraft 2 allows you to play the campaign without being online, you just can't earn achievements.

Yep.  I guess the big difference though is that SC2 multiplayer and single player are totally different.  Whereas they are the same thing for D3.

[K9]

My point about SC2 was that as an online single-player experience it was seamless for me. Even through launch when they were hotfixing stuff on a very regular basis. I imagine that the cash AH will necessitate added complexity, but Blizzard for all their sins do turn out highly polished products.

[Sand]

Hey I got an invite to the D3 beta! 
Im sure its legit!

[Ironwood]

Deja vu

[eldaec]

I don't think anyone ever came up with a good reason why SC2 multiplayer has ubidrm, rather than allowing LAN play.

[rk47]

Thanks and see you all in the Burning Hells!

 

[Kirth]

so there's this:

http://jesse.forthewin.com/

Though seems like alot of nothing... still if you want to  about a rmt item shop in D3 with anonymous sellers this could add some fuel to that fire.

[Paelos]

Both those guys act like it's some great shock that Blizzard wants to completely phase out D2. It's makes them nothing. It's being replaced with something that will net them millions. Of course they want it to die, and no, they don't care about making it secure. The damn game came out 11 years ago. I mean really...

And no, they won't do the same thing on D3. They will crack down on that shit so hard that no employee will have the ability to screw their their cash cow. They don't want dupes because that would cost them money when the items drop in value.

[Segoris]

So yeah, free Diablo 3 digital edition if you sign up for a 1yr sub to WoW. So for those playing wow it may be worth it (annual pass comes to $149, free mount, and free D3). link.

Edit: Also, access to the next WoW expansion's beta

[Threash]

That's fucking evil genius at work right there.

[waffel]

 ...

Collector's Edition:
http://www.d3sanc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/diablo-ce.png

Dat flashdrive.

[Sand]

I will pay whatever they ask for that flash drive! 

[Paelos]

This would be one of the few games where I actually give a damn about the soundtrack.

[Yegolev]

Diablo music now comes with Torchlight.

[Paelos]

Diablo music now comes with Torchlight.

I don't get it.

[Hawkbit]

Did you play Torchlight?

[Paelos]

Did you play Torchlight?

Yep. Didn't like it.

[Hawkbit]

The music from Torchlight was pretty much the music from Diablo. 

The moment I heard the music in Torchlight, my mind immediately drew memories of Tristram.  In my mind I went 14 years into the past for a few minutes.

[Sir Fodder]

As Deckard Cain's niece, Leah, struggles to make sense of her uncle's mysterious and disturbing notations, she bears witness to a dark vision. Azmodan, Lord of Sin, towers over the fragile young woman, swearing his armies of the burning Hells shall pour forth into Sanctuary, ravishing the world and all hope of resistance.

Diablo III Black Soulstone Cinematic

[Yegolev]

Diablo music now comes with Torchlight.

I don't get it.

http://www.shacknews.com/article/60997/from-tristram-to-torchlight-an

[Paelos]

Ah I see, dude played in Torchlight.

The game was still not my thing.

[Musashi]

Torchlight isn't really a whole game.  It's more like a tech demo on steroids.  It's Mythos beta+.  For the price, it's worth it.  But it's just not a whole entity.  The loot is wrong, and there's no multiplayer.  Also, the classes really aren't balanced (or even all that interesting) like you'd expect from a full game.  I expect them to nail it with Torchlight 2.  And if they don't, I may lose faith in all humanity.  I want there to be (legit) competition in this genre.  And if Diablo buries Torchlight under a pile of burning cinder, I will be sad.

[Yegolev]

Well, it's really Mythos Beta- if you ask me.

[Malakili]

Torchlight isn't really a whole game.  It's more like a tech demo on steroids.  It's Mythos beta+.  For the price, it's worth it.  But it's just not a whole entity.  The loot is wrong, and there's no multiplayer.  Also, the classes really aren't balanced (or even all that interesting) like you'd expect from a full game.  I expect them to nail it with Torchlight 2.  And if they don't, I may lose faith in all humanity.  I want there to be (legit) competition in this genre.  And if Diablo buries Torchlight under a pile of burning cinder, I will be sad.

Well, it'll bury Torchlight 2 in sales, but Torchlight 2 is going going to have a very solid following of core ARPG fans I imagine.  At the end of the day, I'll be playing and enjoying both.

[Hawkbit]

At $20, I'll buy Torchlight 2 just because.  They just need to launch in the next month, to capture the folks waiting on D3. 

[sinij]

Torchlight isn't really a whole game.  

I didn't felt it wasn't complete when I played it. Its a mindless ARPG grinder. Grind was there, what else did you expect?

[Musashi]

Holy double negative, Batman.

[Hawkbit]

I don't think I missed the news, but did we not get a D3 release date from Blizzcon?  That seems odd.

[Ingmar]

I don't think I missed the news, but did we not get a D3 release date from Blizzcon?  That seems odd.

No date, which doesn't surprise me too much. It's Blizzard.

[fuser]

If they included D3 beta access in the Warcraft annual pass they would make a mint.

[Yegolev]

Apparently they have plenty of money and would rather be superior dicks.

[Sir Fodder]

Release date December 13!... Diablo III: Book of Cain [Hardcover]

Ha!

Author is Deckard Cain  "Designed as an “in-world” artifact from the Diablo universe" oh sweet. I don't normally go for this stuff but I've really enjoyed the Diablo lore and art from the websites, probably gonna have to pick this up.

[Yegolev]

[Phred]

I'm just wondering how bulletproof Blizz's backend is. I mean, you're not playing Diablo 3 via your webbrowser - the client is in the hands of the enemy. What happens to legit players when Blizzard has to take the servers offline on a regular basis to fix exploits, or do rollbacks, etc?

Am I the only one who remembers what a clusterfuck the first 2-3 months of D2 launch were like? The servers shit themselves constantly. I remember a month in getting disconnected from a one player game I was playing on battle.net. Not to mention the fun of logging back in to a game and getting put in someone else's game. I stopped playing online and played offline or a private 2 man game with a friend and by the time their servers settled down enough to be playable I'd already had all my chars deleted because it took them way longer than 45 days to sort out their shit.

That's why this went from a day one purchase to a wait and see for me. I'm tired of their "we didnt anticipate the popularity of our game" excuse every new release.

[Ragnoros]

Starcraft 2 was fine from day one, was it not?