Complaints, gripes, kvetches...

[Ragnoros]

cap on the number of games you can create?

Per X amount of time.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5795159597

[Soulflame]

It's actually worse than that.  It's a cap on how many times you can change quests.  Now I appear to be locked out, just because I want to farm mats for the staff of herding.

 

[Xanthippe]

Oh that stinks. Some of those things take a lot of effort.

[waffel]

It's actually worse than that.  It's a cap on how many times you can change quests.  Now I appear to be locked out, just because I want to farm mats for the staff of herding.

 

Blizzard nerfing farming in a game designed around farming. Go figure...

[rk47]

cap on the number of games you can create?

If you want more, pay more?  Shit just makes no sense.

[Ice Cream Emperor]

Pretty sure it's in response to some truly hilarious power-levelling schemes -- apparently you can just fractally repeat quests via joining/leaving games, because of how the checkpoint system interacts with multiplayer.

Like basically you can kill Belial once and then claim the (two) quest rewards for doing so an infinite number of times, provided you and your group of friends are sufficiently large/organized.

[Phred]

In 60 hours of game time, I've had 3 legendaries drop including level 16 boots. Not high level stuff, but no MF on my gear either.

One thing that occured to me today is if you are playing with other people MF is shared so you may have more than you know.

[Ironwood]

It's actually worse than that.  It's a cap on how many times you can change quests.  Now I appear to be locked out, just because I want to farm mats for the staff of herding.

 

Can't stop giggling.

[calapine]

Blizzard....can they get ANYTHING right?  

[Der Helm]

When did they turned of loot for barrels and other stuff ?

[apocrypha]

When did they turned of loot for barrels and other stuff ?

Few days ago I think, in response to people & botters farming the jars of ashes in the Skeleton King crypt for hours/days on end.

Sensible solution would have been to reduce the number of jars in that one area, but no, the Blizzard solution is to reduce all jar & barrel loot by >90%.

[Merusk]

I thought the patch notes said they only reduced it for the 'safe' places like before SK.   Wouldn't surprise me if that was the intent and instead they nerfed it everywhere.

[Setanta]

US servers down for "scheduled maintenance" once again, despite the fact they were offline for 6 hours in Aussie prime time last night for the exact same thing.

For fuck's sake, release Torchlight 2 so I can play a decent Diablo SP game offline :(

[Fabricated]

If you want Torchlight 2, lol@you because it looks like they've sort of confirmed another 2-3 month delay via twitter.

I have no idea what the fuck those guys are up to.

[Xanthippe]

When did they turned of loot for barrels and other stuff ?

Few days ago I think, in response to people & botters farming the jars of ashes in the Skeleton King crypt for hours/days on end.

Sensible solution would have been to reduce the number of jars in that one area, but no, the Blizzard solution is to reduce all jar & barrel loot by >90%.

I was in the end of Act III just after the nerf - you know where there's all those monsters and blue packs and so on - and that sounds about right for how often I found something in a non-chest container. It seems they nerfed more than just Act I and Act IV vases and jars.

Nerfing vases was a silly response. Why didn't they put more mobs into the safe places instead?

Does anyone bother checking containers now?

[Xanthippe]

If you want Torchlight 2, lol@you because it looks like they've sort of confirmed another 2-3 month delay via twitter.

I have no idea what the fuck those guys are up to.

I can't find anything like that on twitter. What did you see?

[jakonovski]

US servers down for "scheduled maintenance" once again, despite the fact they were offline for 6 hours in Aussie prime time last night for the exact same thing.

For fuck's sake, release Torchlight 2 so I can play a decent Diablo SP game offline :(

Try Krater. 

[Fabricated]

You sorta have to follow this conversation they have with someone.

Runic:
@rook0x51 I guess from our internal perspective it doesn't feel like a delay but just like work ;) and we <3 you too. Happy to add my info

@Nechronox @rook0x51 But otherwise it's content complete. Remember the ?'s in the skill tree in the beta? We're filling those in ;)

@Nechronox @rook0x51 It will be with the little wait while everyone plays D3!! ;)

The guy they're talking to:

@RunicGames I was just pointing out that it's quite easy to see how someone would consider another 3 month delay "crazy". But I still <3 you

@RunicGames @Nechronox Don't get me wrong, I'm super excited for TL2, but questioning why the 3 month delay is crazy seems a tad ignorant.

@RunicGames @Nechronox (3) because Max said that they were releasing the game roughly a month after Diablo 3.

@RunicGames @Nechronox ... really? I can think of a couple.. (2) because wonder told us that the beta was essentially the release candidate

@RunicGames @Nechronox ... really? I can think of some reasons... (1) because your original release date was last year.

[Xanthippe]

Thanks. End of summer target date now, according to this IGN article.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/07/e3-2012-torchlight-ii-getting-closer-to-launch

[Tebonas]

You know how Blizzard used to delay the launch of their games until they were ready instead of bringing them out and doing half-assed balancing?

Can't fault Runic Games if they do that, especially now that we see in Diablo 3 what happens if you don't.

[Jeff Kelly]

It's also a good idea if you're making a diablo clone and everyone is still busy playing the original.

[Ironwood]

Well, that sorta depends on whether it's any good.  I, for one, would kill for another Diablo Clone right now merely to get my attention focused off this POS.

[01101010]

It's also a good idea if you're making a diablo clone and everyone is still busy playing the original.

Wait, you can play now? Though maintenance was still going on... 

[Lantyssa]

Well, that sorta depends on whether it's any good.  I, for one, would kill for another Diablo Clone right now merely to get my attention focused off this POS.

They don't want to be the next PoS.

[Paelos]

They nerfed all barrels into the ground. It's hilariously stupid since there was only one real area that was causing the problem. So instead of nerfing "Ash Containers" they nerfed everything. The only thing I've found in barrels in Act 1 Inferno has been skeletons that were hiding. And even those fucking skeletons drop nothing!

[Tebonas]

I put my money on "Ash containers probably can't be distinguished from other containers lootwise, so there is no easy way to nerf just their drop rate ".

[Xanthippe]

It's as though the people making this game put no time into considering potential exploitative behavior by players.

[taolurker]

Well, that sorta depends on whether it's any good.  I, for one, would kill for another Diablo Clone right now merely to get my attention focused off this POS.

Before BW comes in and says "Path of Exile" again, I'll do it for him. Definitely a Diablo clone, and the only reason I'm not playing ATM is because I want "release" characters who get to keep their stuff.

I was in the beta of Diablo 3, and almost asked about the "trial" keys people likely have, but don't really want any part of the current Blizzard online issues for a limited demo of a game I wouldn't buy. I would be someone's mule, speculating for profit though, if someone wanted to split Paypal proceeds and buy me a copy. LOL

The forum lurking about this game is immensely fun.

[Tebonas]

It's as though the people making this game put no time into considering potential exploitative behavior by players.

In fairness, who could have expected that would be an issue in a game with real life money attached to the loot (sometime in the future).  

[Ironwood]

Well, that sorta depends on whether it's any good.  I, for one, would kill for another Diablo Clone right now merely to get my attention focused off this POS.

Before BW comes in and says "Path of Exile" again, I'll do it for him. Definitely a Diablo clone, and the only reason I'm not playing ATM is because I want "release" characters who get to keep their stuff.

I was in the beta of Diablo 3, and almost asked about the "trial" keys people likely have, but don't really want any part of the current Blizzard online issues for a limited demo of a game I wouldn't buy. I would be someone's mule, speculating for profit though, if someone wanted to split Paypal proceeds and buy me a copy. LOL

The forum lurking about this game is immensely fun.

In fairness, one of the wifes mates was pushing Path of Exile the other day.  I suspect I'll give it a go, but as usual with beta's and whatnot, I'll probably need a weekend or two just to download the client.

Also, it was the wifes trail key that got me into Diablo III because that first bit up to level 12 was actually fun.  It stopped in fairly swift order thereafter.  But I'm rehashing old tired ground by now.

[Lightstalker]

They nerfed all barrels into the ground. It's hilariously stupid since there was only one real area that was causing the problem. So instead of nerfing "Ash Containers" they nerfed everything. The only thing I've found in barrels in Act 1 Inferno has been skeletons that were hiding. And even those fucking skeletons drop nothing!

The Ashes in that room still drop phat loots in Hell mode and below.   

[waffel]

Seems like Blizzard is walking a fine line between having enough items being sold on the AH so they get their tidy 15% + $1 fee, and preventing people from farming items TOO easily and flooding the market which lowers the price of everything.

I don't know what the hell is going on with the game, but I do know I'm unloading all my gear on the AH to get out from under this mess. Already made 23 bucks off one ring.

[Phred]

If you want Torchlight 2, lol@you because it looks like they've sort of confirmed another 2-3 month delay via twitter.

I have no idea what the fuck those guys are up to.

Aren't they the ex-D2 developers who took 5 years to release a game using the same graphic engine as D1? And mostly the same mob models?

[Trippy]

If you want Torchlight 2, lol@you because it looks like they've sort of confirmed another 2-3 month delay via twitter.

I have no idea what the fuck those guys are up to.

Aren't they the ex-D2 developers who took 5 years to release a game using the same graphic engine as D1? And mostly the same mob models?

Yes, no, no, not sure.

[Hawkbit]

Well, that sorta depends on whether it's any good.  I, for one, would kill for another Diablo Clone right now merely to get my attention focused off this POS.

I came here to say exactly this.  However, it has already been said.