How? there freaking GAMES!! I just find funny as hell people take what a huge company does as personal. They are in the buz to make money, as much money as they can, period. And if you have a good time using there product, they great.
By the way played all the way thru Assassins Creed 2 without 1 hick up. worked perfectly for me.
By the way you dont have to buy it!
People cheat to make themselves feel better thats all.
Blizzard can do whatever they want its there game.
I guess I dont feel like game companies are out to get me, they want my money for sure
and Blizzard will get it for Diablo 3 no questions ask.
Pogo
1802
Falcon is like… Teiman rolled into newbrof, a touch of Brettmcd, and a bit of Ng_Yo
Teiman
1803
Part will run local, but seems some parts like inventory will run on the server… or thats what some people on this thread say.
Falcon is like… Teiman rolled into newbrof, a touch of Brettmcd, and a bit of Ng_Yo
You just hate me because I am sexy.
I dunno, you are the meaty filling of a newbrof roll.
Teiman
1805
I would make some ascii dissapoint eyes, but don’t want to go offtopic…
Well, I work for one of these huge companies, and we very seriously take the fact that our users are passionate. I also believe that if a company oversteps their bounds into money grub mode over the game quality, or other controversial business decisions they should get backlash.(I.e. will never buy another Activision Infinity Ward game) Unlike a movie or whatnot, there is a relationship between business and consumer that can continue for years. It is not just a game, it is a hobby. It is our responsibility as the owner to respect that and yes, make money but to not jump off the deep end and turn into a crazy capitalistic beast.
Edit: Everyone is going to watch this experiment very closely. It could be a huge win, or a colossal failure. Better for the 800 lb gorilla to attempt this risk than us smaller studios. The thing is, this kind of thing already goes on, and the owners of the property never see a cent of it, so from a business case this is a smart move…from a gameplay perspective, this could become very damaging if they do not segregate the population. There has to be an option to play ‘pure’.
Tony_M
1807
Its not going to be a colossal failure. Its going to be successful regardless, because its an incredibly popular IP. A better test is if someone tried this same idea with a regular IP (eg Torchlight, or Titan Quest)
I think Blizzard could release roasted dogshit on a stick and people would herald it as the most amazing dogshit ever made. No doubt it would be a well polished dog turd, but a dog turd none-the-less. They’re right up there with Apple in terms of fan devotion.
English teachers rolling in their graves.
You may be right for a lot of people, but… for me, at least, my fanboy love of everything Blizzard does loses out to my rabid distaste for certain forms of DRM or their functional equivalents.
I doubt you can find even one community on the internet heralding with great praise the D3 announcements.
I’m sure the official forums are doing it. Why don’t you check it out.
Whereas people like me are largely indifferent to the entire controversy. While I’ll never buy an item from the real money AH, I don’t care if others do, and I might sell some duplicates here and there, so that’s a net plus since I might make a few bucks. I dislike there being no single player mode (since not everyone has a reliable net connection and it kills mods), so that’s a minus. In sum, they cancel out and I find myself thinking most people are over-reacting.
Joe_M
1813
So you’re saying you don’t like DRM?
If the RMAH even modestly curbs botting then that’s pretty sweet.
They’ve been quite unable to curb botting in WoW, do you REALLY think…
How? If anything it seems it will encourage yet again the return of gold farmers (or in this case gold AND item farmers) which will control the RMAH.
Mrenda
1817
A question to the IAAL’s (as opposed to the IANAL’s) based on my first year university business law…
Does this strike anyone as extremely anti-competitive. One of the foundations of American competition law (since the 50s I think) is about how much vertical integration there is in a business, and whether that affects access to the markets for other business and individual consumers. So Blizzard would be owning the creative/producer side, as well as the retail side. I know that it’s rare for a singular product rather than a generic product type to come under scrutiny for competition law, but with Blizzard being a multi-billion dollar industry the threat of such scrutiny must ramp up. I fully accept there are ways of splitting off a separate but related company to handle the transactions rather than the development.
In general, I think the legal implications of the AH move are the most interesting part of this whole endeavour, from tax implications, consumer law, property rights, the right to earn a living and even competition law. A lot of questions that the courts have tried to stay away from answering could become relevant if Diablo 3 is anywhere near as succesful as WoW.
Give it time. Gamers have proven over and over again that they can be tough about a game until it comes out. We can’t even boycott anything. One look at the shiny, and people race for their credit cards. You think people will stay mad at Blizzard? I doubt it. It will take more than this to sour anyone on Blizzard, IMO.
