Diablo iii

[SMASH]

Anyone here going to play it. I played d2 for like 8 years and had some ungodly hacked open b-net characters to duel with. I cannot wait for D3.

[ARedLetterDay]

I so would, if only I had the money.

Blizzard made a mistake (in my eyes, anyway) by making the game online-only, as well as making it a monthly payment deal. I just hope it doesn't turn out like World of Warcraft - looks awesome, sounds awesome, ends up being decent. :face:

Worst comes to worst, I'll probably just end up replaying through D1 & D2, lol.

[Dudebro]

Where did you hear it's subscription? Everything I see points to it being like the other two, one time purchase. Also it's not online only. Single player is in there too, you just need to be connected to the internet to active according to wikipedia.

I can't wait for this game. I've been a big fan since the first game and Blizzard is a great company so the trend should continue. Once the game is released we should make a list of RU people playing and team up.

If you go to the Diablo 3 site they have some contests going on up until release. One is very easy to enter and you can win some in game bonus item. From what I can tell it's just an icon for your in game chat or something but they say it's only available before release so you might as well go for it. There's also real prizes for bigger winners and winners of the art contest.
Diablo III (http://reveal.diablo3.com/en_US/class_gathering/barbarian)

Here's my entry
http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2012_04/256.jpg

[SMASH]

^^ yea, there shouldn't be a monthly subscription. I refuse to continue to pay to play a game that I already bought..

[ARedLetterDay]

Where did you hear it's subscription? Everything I see points to it being like the other two, one time purchase. Also it's not online only. Single player is in there too, you just need to be connected to the internet to active according to wikipedia.

I can't wait for this game. I've been a big fan since the first game and Blizzard is a great company so the trend should continue. Once the game is released we should make a list of RU people playing and team up.

If you go to the Diablo 3 site they have some contests going on up until release. One is very easy to enter and you can win some in game bonus item. From what I can tell it's just an icon for your in game chat or something but they say it's only available before release so you might as well go for it. There's also real prizes for bigger winners and winners of the art contest.
Diablo III (http://reveal.diablo3.com/en_US/class_gathering/barbarian)

Here's my entry
http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2012_04/256.jpg

Huh..

I could have sworn that was going to be the case with D3. I read it on Wikipedia, I believe.

Oh well. At least now I know I can actually play it! Now it's just the matter of getting the money and a decent CPU to run it on, lol. :disdain:

[nikegirl2012]

I might play it. I liked D2, so as long as it is a one time pay and my computer can run it I would probably buy it

[Dudebro]

They said they wanna make it accessible for lots of users and the specs wouldn't require a top of the line PC to run. I'm not sure of the specifics though.

[nikegirl2012]

We'll just have to wait a little more... on the plus side, it won't interrupt with my studying

[Dudebro]

Honestly I'm very excited and can't wait. I haven't felt like this about a game for quite a while, it's a good feeling.

[nikegirl2012]

I just realize I should probably check out a trailer before getting excited... I would hate it if the game is in first person and I end up getting dizzy while playing...

[Dudebro]

Nah no way is it first person, they're too smart to change it like that.
Diablo III First 20 minutes of gameplay - YouTube

[SMASH]

Man this game is going to consume so much of my time.

[fungusman]

FYI, this weekend there is a free open beta. Go on over to battle.net and download it. So far it's good (if you like diablo).

[Dudebro]

I'll have to try it. I'm not that experienced with betas, what happens to the beta program after this weekend?

[fungusman]

I'll have to try it. I'm not that experienced with betas, what happens to the beta program after this weekend?

oh man dont worry, it's just like installing any other game. They kind of hide the installer though, you gotta go into MANAGE MY GAMES, and it's under DIABLO 3 OPEN BETA INSTALLER. It's 40 megs. Grab that, sit back for an hour while the game downloads. It's done on Sunday so act fast :) If you got an sc2 account, just go to the same area where you download the sc2 client and stuff.

[Dudebro]

I mean once the open beta weekend is over the program is useless and should be deleted? Like no bonuses for playing it or anything else cool?

[ARedLetterDay]

I'd have participated in the open beta, sadly, I have need of .5 more gigs of ram. -sigh- Which means I won't be able to play it at all ~ oh well.

[fungusman]

Just beat the beta, it's pretty good.

[SMASH]

I have the beta client, but I am unable to connect, I keep getting a connection interrupted error when I login.

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figured it out. had to switch servers. this game is pretty sweet.

[Dudebro]

I got the game and I'm about to download it now. It came with 3 free passes for Diablo 3(lets you play the whole first chapter) and one free pass for World of Warcraft(play up to level 20), if anyone wants a code let me know.

If anyone else is playing D3 let me know and we'll party up some time.

[SMASH]

I preordered it and it hasn't arrived yet. smh...

It will be here for the weekend.

[Demon-Mask]

According to my friend who bought it at midnight, everything is done server side, even your characters are stored server side, and due to the numbers of people playing last night, even single player was lagging.

I want to play it, but having to always be online and the monthly subscription are deal breakers for me.
I'll just replay Diablo II.

[SMASH]

There is no monthly subscription. You just have to have a constant internet connection.

It is no different than how diablo 2 managed characters. Where the character you play on closed battlenet was stored server side to prevent hacks.

[Demon-Mask]

Constant internet connection is no good for single player.

[SMASH]

That is true. I only want to play multiplayer.

I played diablo 2 for months before I played online. After I played online, I never played single player again.

Blizzard really should have had an offline single player. That was pretty stupid of them. They just want to capitalize on the auction house bit.

[bearhawk72]

Apparently people crashed the servers trying to play today and Blizzard had to close Diablo's battlenet.

[SMASH]

I expected that. I knew their servers wouldn't take the initial release day. Kinda glad my copy didn't arrive yet just because of that reason.

[CrispyChicken]

My brother has this game and said the servers were down. I was going to watch him play a little bit but I'll have to wait.

[Demon-Mask]

Requiring constant online for single player is the deal breaker for me.
I guess my love of single player games puts me in the minority anymore.

[Dudebro]

Besides their server going down right now what other reason could you have for needing to play this kind of game single player offline? I get that it's annoying that the option isn't there but really this game is meant to be played multiplayer, even if no one is in your game at the moment. Don't miss out on a fun game you might really like just because of some minor annoyance.

Btw I believe it's constantly online as an anti piracy measure, I don't think it has any other reason to do that.

[Demon-Mask]

Always online is more than a minor annoyance. Here, I never know when the weather will knock out my internet connection or when we don't have enough money to pay the internet bill.
Furthermore, you don't get to decide whether I would like to play single player or not. I enjoyed the other two Diablos in single player, why would this one be any different? And, if I'm playing single player, there is no reason for me to need a constant internet connection. A start-up check would be sufficient.
If EA or anyone else, excluding Betheseda, did something like this, you'd be quite furious, I'd imagine.
Why should Blizzard be the exception, BS is BS, no matter how great the bull producing it may be.


I'll likely end up playing this game anyway, once the price drops a bit.

[Dudebro]

My point is a game like Diablo is meant for online. Sure it can be played offline single player but you're only get half the experience. Once you beat the game you have very little else to do. Playing online with other people adds more with PvP, trading, increased difficulties, ect.

I do agree it sucks to require this but I would not be furious if other companies did it. I've accepted that it's a reality of modern gaming. Hopefully in a few years they'll come up with a better way but atm the choice is either put up with it or miss out on a game I'll enjoy playing.

Btw why did you exclude Bethesda? I'd be more mad if they did it because most of their games are known for being hardcore single player. Also I think EA already does this with their PC games.

[Demon-Mask]

I brought up Betheseda because of your Mass Effect avatar. It was a casualty of convenience.
When I do play it, I will primarily play multiplayer, of course, but I like it when there is a single player to play for when there is no internet.
Whatever, I'll deal with it, if it's half as good as Diablo II, it'll be more than worth it.

Still gonna wait until price drops.
Of course, that might be a long time, Starcraft II is still at sixty dollars most places.

[Dudebro]

Bioware makes Mass Effect. Amusingly I haven't been able to play ME3 for weeks now because of EA, which owns BW, requiring a log in check at start up. The files it needs to check got corrupted and now the game just freezes. How's that for annoying?

Watch for sales and you'll probably be able to get it relatively soon. The next expansion of SC2 is out soon so maybe they'll have a cross promotion then.

[Demon-Mask]

How did I get them mixed up? I feel so dumb now.
Either way, if I see a physical copy of SC2 or Diablo III for forty dollars or so, I'll not hesitate to buy.
I don't know where I got Betheseda from. I must have intended to say Bioware, since my reasoning was Mass Effect.
But Betheseda doesn't even sound like Bioware.

[Dudebro]

Probably because they're both known for making story driven single player RPGs.

[Slime Slayer]

Well they basically share the NA market for rpg's, geting them mixed up is not suprising.

[Demon-Mask]

I feel much less dumb now, thanks guys.

[Kugyince]

My major issue is, if their servers are down then I can't play.

I was thinking about buying this but that talked me out of it.

[Dudebro]

Well it's Blizzard so after this initial strain on the servers they should be up constantly for years. You could always just wait for a sale like DM.

[Slime Slayer]

I know that it's pretty much a givin that everygame "sucks" these days, but I was reading that it sucked. Apparently there is no challenge at all.

[Dudebro]

Depends who you ask. Either way the game has barely been out for two days so I don't put much stock in what people have to say about it.

[Kugyince]

Right now it's a toss up between Diablo III and Heroes of Ruin (3DS Diablo clone).

On one hand, HoR is portable, cheaper, and doesn't require online for the single-player experience.

On the other, Diablo is a proven concept, is out now, and I'll probably know more people that play it than HoR.

[Dudebro]

Well if you or anyone else gets D3 let me know.

[nikegirl2012]

I have to check if I have enough money left and if it runs on my computer.

[Dudebro]

I can give you a free pass if you wanna see if it works. I got three with the purchase and I won't be needing them at all.

[Demon-Mask]

What is this "free pass" sorcery of which you speak?
I mean, if you can't find anyone else I'll gladly take it.

[fungusman]

Btw I believe it's constantly online as an anti piracy measure, I don't think it has any other reason to do that.

I'm pretty sure it has to do with hacking. Think that was priority #1. Just read the battle.net EULA (they keep updating it too). "You promise not to move data from allocated memory used by this program ..." really esoteric stuff like that. The whole making bots to mine gold, selling accounts, making fake items, etc has always been a challenge for blizz.

When diablo 2 came out, there was 2 servers, one you can cheat on and another you weren't allowed too. Cheating has been a part of diablo since DUPING and GODLY PLATE OF WHALES ! lol

I'm not playing it right now because I'm waiting for all the casuals to get sick of it. Battle.net games are more SERVICE ish. I think the difference between assassins creed having always on drm and diablo is that once I beat assassins creed I won't play it over and over again. Diablo has replay value through the roof.

Anyway my 2 cents, dudebro isn't wrong I just think people are forgetting about how bad the hacking on the game has always been. Even for Starcraft Im happy they have anti hack stuff. Nothing worse then getting 6pooled and map hacked o_o

[Demon-Mask]

I'm waiting for all the casuals to get sick of it
Credibility shot. You're no better and they're no worse just because you are more "hardcore" about your gaming.
You have no more right than them to play it.

[Slime Slayer]

Credibility shot. You're no better and they're no worse just because you are more "hardcore" about your gaming.
You have no more right than them to play it.
Where did he say he was better? Where did he say he has more right to play it?

[Demon-Mask]

The way he phrased it.
He's not playing it at the moment just because they are playing it.
Think about it for a second.
Just think.
Okay, you got it yet?
It implies that their presence would make it impossible for him to enjoy the game, and by extension, games in general.
He could have worded it better if he didn't have something against casual gamers.

[Slime Slayer]

The way he phrased it.
He's not playing it at the moment just because they are playing it.
Think about it for a second.
Just think.
Okay, you got it yet?
It implies that their presence would make it impossible for him to enjoy the game, and by extension, games in general.
He could have worded it better if he didn't have something against casual gamers.
First off, I was'nt being condecending or disrespectful towards you, and would appreciate it if you woud try to conduct yourself with a certain level of maturity when you are speaking to me.

Secondly, if you were'nt so quick to throw stones, you might realise that what he meant was that he was waiting for the game to find it's rythm before he dives into it.

[Dudebro]

I don't think Fungus was being rude by saying that. DM was rude with how he replied to steven about it though. Let's not continue that discussion anymore ok?

@fungus- What do you mean about it being service ish?

I think the main reason they're so worried about hacking and stuff is because of the real money auction house that's coming soon. People would dupe and hack like crazy if there was real money to be made from it. Blizzard doesn't want to police that kind of thing so they're stepping out in front of it to nip it in the bud before it blooms out of control.

@DM- If you think your PC can run it I can send you a free pass code to try the game. It lets you play Act 1 for free and I believe you can keep what you do if you upgrade. Let me know in a PM if you want a code.

@Everyone else- I have two codes left and 1 WoW code still.

[CrispyChicken]

I'll probably get it when I get a better computer this summer. I have like 5 games I want but can't because of my crappy computer lol

[jim5cents]

Lulz

If Diablo III Were A GirlÂ*Video (http://www.break.com/index/if-diablo-iii-were-a-girl-2327511)

[Dudebro]

Sucks for the people that got that issue. I waited until a reasonable time to buy the game and start playing it so I didn't encounter that annoyance. What annoys me is so many cry babies gave the game bad reviews because of not being able to log on within hours of release. It's only one of the most anticipated PC games in recent history, no reason to suspect the servers might be over loaded right? Noobs.

[Demon-Mask]

Yeah, they're just such cry babies because they spent their hard earned money on a game they couldn't play for quite some time.
So terrible.
I mean, when you buy a game, don't you want to play it right away, especially if you per-ordered and then waited in line at midnight at gamestop or whatever?
People buy games to be able to play them, not to have them not work.
They had good reason to complain.

[DrunkN]

They had good reason to complain.
Thing is that everyone anticipated this kind of thing anywho, right?

Isn't this problem over with by now?

[Demon-Mask]

I don't think people anticipated Blizzard's servers being unable to handle the amount of players that they knew they'd get.

[DrunkN]

I don't think people anticipated Blizzard's servers being unable to handle the amount of players that they knew they'd get.
I only asked because I saw a whole bunch of featured memes on Memebase that suggested that the opening days would tip the servers until they stabilized. It left me curious.

[Demon-Mask]

Still, there is no reason Blizzard should have not been prepared.
They knew how many units the game would sell, they should have upgraded the servers.
The average customer had no reason to expect that the game wouldn't work for a while.

[Kugyince]

Thing is that everyone anticipated this kind of thing anywho, right?

Isn't this problem over with by now?

Everyone except Blizzard.

Still, there is no reason Blizzard should have not been prepared.
They knew how many units the game would sell, they should have upgraded the servers.
The average customer had no reason to expect that the game wouldn't work for a while.


I do agree that common sense says that you bolster your servers for the first few months after release. As things start to calm down is when you bring your servers back to normal.

It was a bad mistake on Blizzard's part but that shouldn't be the cause for negative reviews.

[Dudebro]

@DM - This kind of thing happens with almost every major multiplayer game. The first couple days are laggy and unstable. Anyone expecting a flawless release is either stupid or they're newbs. I know I was in no rush to log on because I fully expected there to be issues like server downtime and lag. When I did log on there was like a half hour of downtime, that's it.

I went to metacritic and checked out a bunch of the ratings. It looked like 99% of the negative ratings were about the day 1 connection issues. These people are morons and I have no reason care about their feelings being hurt. Rating the game a zero because you and a billion other people tried to log on and couldn't for a few hours? Boo hoo.

@Tenser- I'm sure they did boost their servers. They had that free beta before release and it had tons of lag issues so they weren't unprepared. The anticipation was just huge and they were overwhelmed by the amount of people who actually bought it.

[Demon-Mask]

So, you're saying that people have no right to be mad when they buy a game and can't play it?
Whatever, you can win this argument, it's clear you're blinded by something.

[Dudebro]

Of course people can be upset. My point is anyone with any sense would expect the servers to be log jammed. We're talking about Diablo 3. Everyone and their mother played D2. This game was bound to be overwhelmed the first few hours it's out. This is nothing new in online gaming.

[Slime Slayer]

I don't think giving the game a bad review because of it is right, but I do think Blizzard should have made the neccessary changes to avoid it, if possible that is. Some hardcore nerds probably went completly bananas trying to log on.

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I almost bought it today actually, I had it in my hand and mulling it over when I realised I don't have a cd drive lol. Felt like an ass and everyone in Best-Buy was looking at me laughing because they knew excatly what happened.

[Dudebro]

I think it's naive to assume Blizzard didn't try their best to prevent this. Servers crashing on the release of one of your biggest games is bad PR. To me it just shows how wildly popular the game is.

When I got the game I checked out their forums while it downloaded and the place was flooded with people crying about not being able to log in. People were demanding refunds and saying they were filing complaints with the BBB. This kind of thing is why I just lol at the people affected by it. The noobs make me not care.

[Demon-Mask]

I'm with you on the reviews. There shouldn't have been bad reviews purely on the grounds of server troubles.
I just think that they could have feasibly made it so you could log on and just have it be laggy.
And that when people couldn't log on at all, they had a very good, very solid reason to be irate and upset.

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Now, demanding refunds and stuff is way over the top.

[Dudebro]

From what I heard the international servers crashed completely before they took down the US servers to prevent that from happening again. It's like a DDOS attack, people were hammering the log in because of lag and connection issues.

[Demon-Mask]

That's not what you're supposed to do when you can't log it.

[Slime Slayer]

Hahah the situation just struck me as really funny. All these raging nerds... hammering the log in... widespread panic all over Blizzard... metacritic getting spammed with crappy reviews because of rage... the whole fiasco is hilarious when you think about it.

[Dudebro]

It is pretty funny. What's also funny is all the rage and meme making just makes the game more popular. Blizzard can't lose.

[fungusman]

I'm in one of those bizaro threads where everything Dudebro says is true.

Twilight Zone Opening THEME MUSIC 1962 Rod Serling - YouTube

Being a sys admin for a website that gets a million mysql queries in a little less then a couple of hours, I can only imagine what's happening at blizz. Pretty sure it wasn't one guy named Bob who forget to order more servers. I'm going to take a wild guess blizz leases some anycast services for speed (kind of like ru does with cloud front). One of their partners probably was unprepared and got hit hard. Not to mention the hordes of people who claimed to be ddosing the server from 4chan. So what, you got a bunch of servers, big deal. It's like really hardcore stuff sometimes. Our website is hosted on Amazon, and 2 weeks ago they had a harddrive failure. We have a ton of partners who need our website. It was just crazy for a couple of days trying to bring all that stuff up. And it's AMAZON, you know, a trusted brand. Basically the internet is on the verge of breaking 24/7, when you get down to the nitty gritty about how packets work, protocols, read all the rsa docs, it's completely amazing that the whole thing even works at all. It's like a lemon aid stand that over time converted to a walmart that still uses 12 year olds to squeeze the juice by hand.

[Dudebro]

I'm hurt. You make it sound like I'm usually wrong or being dishonest. :(

[Slime Slayer]

I'm hurt. You make it sound like I'm usually wrong or being dishonest. :(
Cheer up DB, nobody thinks you are dishonest.

[Kugyince]

If the server troubles persist then it should be reflected in the reviews.

[Dudebro]

@steven- Yeah! I may be wrong but I'm always honest about it!

@Tenser- I'm pretty sure the issues have been resolved and it was only the first 12 hours or so.

[jim5cents]

Awww...did anyone watch that vid? Diablo is hella hot.

[Demon-Mask]

Hahah the situation just struck me as really funny. All these raging nerds... hammering the log in... widespread panic all over Blizzard... metacritic getting spammed with crappy reviews because of rage... the whole fiasco is hilarious when you think about it.
Yeah, it is kind of funny.
If the server troubles persist then it should be reflected in the reviews.

Of course.
Awww...did anyone watch that vid? Diablo is hella hot.

I did, she was and the video was funny in general.

[fungusman]

persist, yeah for sure. When the doors open is just harsh. But who are we to dictate how people act ? We can only criticise, the horde will act how it wants.

This is exactly why I'm waiting. The same stuff happened for starcraft 2. Ton of noobs, weird glitches, server issues, imbalances. The lesson from this generation is to WAIT. Red ring ? No gaems ? iPhone Antenna ? Why people aren't aware of this when it comes to day 1 buys is beyond me. Who cares who is first anymore ? I'm not impressed if you get something 10 minutes before me anymore. It's not like someone shipped Secret of mana 2 from the back of a gamepro and cut out the wedges to play it on a north american snes pre internet era. We can all have the same things now when ever we want. Cool shirt, I'll buy one just like it.

Everyone standing in line for the COLLECTORS EDITION.
You really don't think it's going to be 100$ on ebay in 4 months ?

[bearhawk72]

I like how people don't understand if you keep spamming the log in screen trying to get on, you're only making the problem worse.

[Slime Slayer]

I like how people don't understand if you keep spamming the log in screen trying to get on, you're only making the problem worse.
That's why it's so funny, both the rage and the problems just kept multiplying.

[fungusman]

Not that I know how their system works, but I'm guessing all the game data that is on the servers is what's doing it. They are probably using UDP instead of TCP (I spoke about this before), so whatever the packets the server can't handle it will automatically drop. It's probably just the sheer amount of processing that is going on that is doing it. You know when you accidentally open 40 firefox windows ? Basically that. A ddos attack would slow down the service, but it wouldn't cause an outtage like this. Going back to this whole "anycast" thing, you can't just point at one server because it's spread out everywhere. Like we wouldn't be able to take down RU in a ddos attack because it's cached all over the globe (cloudfire). Like when anon said they were going to take down the internet, lol yeah right.

ANY CAST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-8ujEby5G4&feature=related

Blizz or whoever is running the servers, probably didn't expect this amount of processing power needed. When they did the beta, they might of used that data to say "well 10,000 played that beta and it required X amount of processing power. So if we have 1 million preorders and expect 2 million non preorder sales, then multiply X by 3 million and set up that many servers". Maybe it sold way more then expected, who knows man.

It cost a load of money to create this infrastructure, maybe it was hard to convince kotick ;P

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$1,099.99

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A datacenter has a bazillion of these.

Facebooks server room
http://youtu.be/JftkK3N7wME

Googles data center
http://youtu.be/M-3bdWCOSMQ

I hate to use a meme, but one does not simply build a data center. It's completely I N S A N E that we get everything we want from the internet so quickly. It's just completely unbelievable at times.


If the AI is running off the server and not the users PC (I think I read that somewhere) lol @ blizz. That's a lot of money dude. The server load per user must be a huge chunk. Anyway I didn't mean to go all egghead on you guys just though I'd shed some light.

[Demon-Mask]

So, the fact that they keep EVERYTHING on the server is what's slowing everyone down?
So, it is pretty much Blizzard's fault?

Seriously, that was a dumb move.

[fungusman]

So, the fact that they keep EVERYTHING on the server is what's slowing everyone down?
So, it is pretty much Blizzard's fault?

Seriously, that was a dumb move.

I think it's that in this case a miss calculation takes a while to fix. It's not like getting green peppers on your pizza by mistake. It's like "Oh we were off by a margin of 1.2. Let's drop $400,000 on a temporary replacement, deploy 7000 instances of our servers, configure everything, contact x,y, and z and make sure our migration is compatible with their stuff and do this in , oh, 6 hours at 2 am with 7 guys". This isn't hotdog stand calculation, it's in magnitudes so large that the time to correct them isn't just serving another beer because it wasn't what the customer ordered.

Don't buy things at launch ;)

I'm just defending the guy who's getting yelled at in the server room, I know that feel.

[Demon-Mask]

I don't buy things at launch.
I don't buy games for more than forty dollars.
I don't like buying things at launch because I don't enjoy playing games while everyone else is. I'd rather the ending be spoiled while I'm not playing at all than the ending be spoiled while I'm just about there.

[Slime Slayer]

Blizzards data center:
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/3161/1318352306866.jpg

[Dudebro]

Back in the day we used to have a pretty bad pad sorta like that for our diablo runs but not so disgusting. I love how the PC is the cleanest thing in the room, priorities!

[fungusman]

The speakers don't look too bad either ! lol
I'm jelly of people who still have CRT's.

[SMASH]

My suspicions are confirmed. The moment I heard the voice of Shen in Act II, I thought it sounded exactly like David Lo Pan (James Hong) And it was.

[Dudebro]

It's funny you mention that. I just got done playing that part and I thought it was him too. They really need to update the IMDB page for this game it's not very helpful at all.

So you're playing and you haven't invited me yet? What's your battletag?

[Slime Slayer]

So anyone get hacked yet? Reports are pilling up apparently, even for people who only play single player, so much for drm preventing hackers. Apparently they've also figured out how to duplicate items, simply disconecting halfway through uploading an item in the auction house, will put it in the auction house aswell as keep it in your inventory. Problem is the auction house uses real money.

I don't know first hand what of the above is factual, but there are several sources reporting it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Exploit-hijacking-hacking-diablo-3-action-RPG,15713.html (http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4309852456)

[Dudebro]

The only people I know playing are my brother and I and so far we're ok. We're still below level 30 though so we're probably not prime targets.

Where did you read about the duping thing? That topic you linked seems to only talk about the rumors of hacked accounts. I didn't read every post though since there was some annoying arguing. Btw the real money auction house isn't up, it's projected for around 5/29. They'll probably push it back now that this happened.

Someone in that topic had a good point. It's better this happens now so they can deal with it early and before people have big accounts.

[Slime Slayer]

My internet is finicky about random sites that it wont load at certain times of day, I can't read the article now but I think this talks about it:
Duplicate items in the auction house - Forums - Diablo III (http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4211042428)

[Dudebro]

Nah that topic is just some guy worried about it. From the looks of it the items are just store bought and someone is trying to make some profit off them.

So why are you reading the diablo forums anyways? I have the game and I'm not even reading it.

[Slime Slayer]

Nah that topic is just some guy worried about it. From the looks of it the items are just store bought and someone is trying to make some profit off them.

So why are you reading the diablo forums anyways? I have the game and I'm not even reading it.
I'm not reading them, I just googled the issue and that came up, figured it was what I was looking for.

[Dudebro]

Ok well I guess the better question is where did you hear about this in the first place?


My brother got the game the other day and we've been burning through and having a blast. We both go OCD about magic find % on our gear so we're finding lots of good stuff already. I got my first legendary item tonight but it wasn't useful for me so I gave it to him. I'm having a lot of fun with monk and it seems to work very well with him as witch doctor. Good times.

[Kong]

I have a friend that wants a free pass if anyone has one they don't plan to use.

[Dudebro]

I'll send you one Kong, check your PMs. If they don't use it let me know.

[SMASH]

Just one more to go!

http://www.retrouprising.com/img/2013_04/2128.jpg[

[Tails]

Congrats Smash!

[TodayIsForgotten]

Nice. Now go give Path of Exile a spin.

[SMASH]

And Done. Finally hit 100. Now I can actually play the game.

[Kong]

A friend wants me to play this with him. He is buying me a copy today. Questions.

1. Anyway to get a discount? For PC.
2. Anything else very similar but better we should get instead?
3. Anyone here still playing?

[Dudebro]

Anything else very similar but better we should get instead?https://www.pathofexile.com/

Path of Exile on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/238960/)

It's completely free and it's supported by optional cosmetics and some storage expanders. It has a real skill tree that requires thought and has consequences if you screw it up. Compare to Diablo where you can choose your skills at any time and essentially every Monk/Barbarian/ect is the same except for what gear you're wearing. Some people love that but to me and lots of other people it's a deal breaker, turning things super casual.

The only possible roadblock for PoE is server latency. Because it's a small team and they're from New Zealand their servers tend to suck for a lot of people. I don't have much trouble but my connections speed is very good and stable. You'd wanna test it out before totally committing to it(but it's free so only time would be lost right?)

If you guys end up playing let me know and I'll invite you to the RU guild I made. It's pretty pathetic because I'm the only active member but I have a bunch of items/gems you can have to test things out.


Anyone here still playing?I quit after beating the game twice and realizing it wasn't gonna get any better and that none of my choices mattered. Before I found PoE I thought Blizzard killed the genre by making it a casual console port.

[Jason L. Davis]

Path of Exile is pretty Awesome! I love how big the skill tree is, it gives the game mass variety on how to build your character.

[Dudebro]

And they are constantly updated and tweaking it so you get a free skill tree reset every couple months or so.