All good demons go to... um... sequel? - Diablo 3 Announced

MrCoffee · 2012-04-30T19:29:28.000Z

Wizard Spotlight.

Guess i now know what im playing first.

Pogo · 2012-04-30T20:28:21.000Z

The monk, right? Because you already played Magicka.

CSL · 2012-05-01T01:15:08.000Z

Pogo:

The monk, right? Because you already played Magicka.

But the wizard voice actress felt so delightfully power hungry insane.

Badesumofu · 2012-05-01T02:12:13.000Z

Anyone else in Australia who wants to avoid paying $80 direct from Blizz might want to drop into JB Hifi. They’re doing a launch price of $69. I usually scoff at pre-orders in bricks and mortar stores, but in this case I think it’s the best option. Demand for this will be huge.

The word is that servers go on at 5PM AEST on the 15th, so we’ll have plenty of time to pick up physical copy, install and patch before it goes live.

JM1 · 2012-05-01T04:11:11.000Z

Pogo:

Then stop responding when it is brought up :)

Cough, Anno/Settlers threads, cough.

nomaar · 2012-05-01T12:45:22.000Z

As if we couldn’t have predicted this would happen …

Ars Technica

Blizzard to take up to 15 percent of Diablo III real-money auction house sales

Blizzard is going to take a cut of all in-game items sales for Diablo III.

DeepT · 2012-05-01T12:52:20.000Z

What was there to predict? All that was pretty much known, except maybe for the $250 item cap. I am also not sure why anyone would care unless you are a gold farmer and if you are, none of this should come as a surprise.

Dave_Markell · 2012-05-01T12:55:18.000Z

nomaar:

As if we couldn’t have predicted this would happen …

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/05/blizzard-to-take-up-to-15-percent-of-diablo-iii-real-money-auction-house-sales.ars?clicked=related_right

I frankly don’t care. They have to pay for the persistent D3 servers somehow–there’s no monthly subscription fee, after all. It’s also a completely optional part of the game experience as opposed to something like paid launch day DLC that contains content that should have been in the release (I’m looking at you, ME3).

WarrenM · 2012-05-01T12:55:34.000Z

Spect:

Yeah I’ve already took vacation for that week. I wasn’t taking any chances that my company would know what that week was, and crack down on sick outs.

People do this? :) I can’t imagine spending a week of my vacation time to play a game but to each his own!

KevinC · 2012-05-01T12:57:36.000Z

WarrenM:

People do this? :) I can’t imagine spending a week of my vacation time to play a game but to each his own!

Hell yea! My people do, anyway. Represent!

DeepT · 2012-05-01T12:59:46.000Z

I am taking Wednesday to Friday off. Ill work on Tuesday (Launch Day) because I doubt everything will be super-smooth. I am hoping the worst kinks will be ironed out by the next day.

Balasarius · 2012-05-01T13:15:40.000Z

WarrenM:

People do this? :) I can’t imagine spending a week of my vacation time to play a game but to each his own!

LMN8R · 2012-05-01T13:16:41.000Z

Why would anyone be surprised at or opposed to Blizzard taking a cut from sales? It’s not like anyone selling stuff technically owns some sort of property or anything.

WarrenM · 2012-05-01T13:23:13.000Z

Balasarius:

Oh, very serious! I know people often SAY they’re going to take time off work to play games but I don’t really know of anyone who has actually done it. I mean, calling in sick to get that one day, sure, I’ve seen that. But a week? Can’t say that I’ve actually witnessed that before.

ibdoomed · 2012-05-01T13:27:32.000Z

Crap, $250 cap per item… sigh.

MrCoffee · 2012-05-01T13:29:15.000Z

They are called vacations.

stusser · 2012-05-01T13:30:25.000Z

ibdoomed:

Crap, $250 cap per item… sigh.

That won’t last, it’s way too low. My guess is it’ll work similarly to ebay, where you’re limited to US$1k total auction inventory at first, then if you take off you that limit is gradually relaxed.

MarinusWA · 2012-05-01T13:33:28.000Z

Does the system also support barter in some form? Because then I can imagine that a $250 Stone of Jordan comes into existence and its dealt with in that manner.

charmtrap · 2012-05-01T13:36:54.000Z

Now I see why Blizzard is willing to give D3 away for essentially free with WoW subs. They’re gonna cash in on the loot drop gold rush.

Telefrog · 2012-05-01T13:42:25.000Z

Does this surprise people? Blizzard/Activision said that SC2 was kind of disappointing because there was no way to monetize players. While sales were very good, they didn’t have that constant stream of cash. Blizzard was clear that they were going to be making money on these D3 loot transactions.