Comments on: Diablo III auction house and Monk pushed back

By: Raygun

Raygun — Tue, 29 May 2012 01:42:00 +0000

You have not played every blizzard game released so your point is mute.

If you HAD played every game they have released, your point is still mute because you are a fanboy.

Blizzards current games suck, period end of discussion. Learn to be a free thinker and not a follower.

By: Zax Wapy

Zax Wapy — Sun, 27 May 2012 22:17:00 +0000

And hey, some of us totally still do that lame “Accept” and trade window business…you can save 15% of lame-fake-money-transaction-taxes!

By: ZeeLobby

ZeeLobby — Thu, 24 May 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Rofl, ok old man winters. I’ve played every Blizzard game released, even their racing game, rofl. Not everything is like whine, age/experience doesn’t’ necessarily make you better at judging one thing over another, especially current events/games. It is more likely that you are A)Jaded, B) Over-expectant or C) Your preferences for gaming has just changed. I can safely say that I wouldn’t like half of the games that I liked as a kid now, maybe its just not the right genre of game for you anymore, which after 13 years, can be expected. Regardless of how fun you find the game, the game has been extremely successful, server glitches aside, and will benefit from Blizzard support and expansions for years to come. If you don’t want to go along for the ride, then don’t, but I know I will!

By: PongGeneration

PongGeneration — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:28:00 +0000

Yeah, they’re obviously doing something wrong releasing some of the greatest PC games in their respective genres.

By: Jack E Mabry Jr

Jack E Mabry Jr — Thu, 24 May 2012 20:28:00 +0000

I’m giving them a bit of time to get things straight, it took awhile to get done in D2 as well. I can say I wish that they had kept some things from D2 but that could be just nostalgia talking.

By: Raygun

Raygun — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:59:00 +0000

Well, as someone who has been playing games for most likely longer then you have been alive esp blizzard games, let me just say its not the same. The games are not the same, the fun is not the same

By: ZeeLobby

ZeeLobby — Thu, 24 May 2012 19:20:00 +0000

So sad that people believe this… Blizzard still survives off a lot of the same principles it always has. It still takes a long time to develop and release epic games, it doesn’t force feed you DLC, and it keeps things fresh (runes, skills, etc.) in a franchise that is decades old. Gotta love Blizz. They’re not perfect, but still better than many game developers out there…

By: Husky

Husky — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:28:00 +0000

Be real — the launch was far from an epic success. Yes, server bugs are to be expected when you launch with such a mass of people hitting the server. As a result the servers were crashed, there was significant and well publicized down time. Were they fixed? Yes .. but saying it was in epic success is just ridiculous.

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:27:00 +0000

Actually we have written about that: http://www.slashgear.com/tags/diablo-3/

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:26:00 +0000

I’ve played the game plenty, thank you. I’m referring to how you’re actually trading with other players in essentially the same sense as you were for Diablo II – without real money. Anyone who has played the game understands that you’re not actually walking up to another player and trading with that same “Accept” business anymore

By: Raygun

Raygun — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:20:00 +0000

fanboy much? Blizzard has sucked since the activision merger.

By: Bah

Bah — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:16:00 +0000

Blizzard has decades of experience dealing with customers that think their few bucks to play a game has any real impact on a multi-multi-million dollar business. “not making any new friends” becomes comical at their level. They’re not playing a game, we are. ;)

The RMAH was promised, sure… and will be delivered. Folks that are complaining only sound like children on a road trip. “Are we there yet?” “We’ll get there when we get there.” “But you said we’d get there an hour ago!” Yep… self entitled children. If Blizzard were a good dad, they’d tell people to sit down, shut up and enjoy the ride.

The monk being tuned is the first of many tuning that will be needed, and done, over the life of the game. I’m not Nostradamus or anything, but I predict revamps of the chat system, AH systems, Friend/Social Systems, and even the quest/lore systems. My ‘main’ is a monk… that skill is overpowered. with 2-3 monks, you can perpetually become invincible. Fun in gimmick, but not in actual gameplay. I needed to happen. Here’s a spoiler… it will happen again. ;)

Maybe you should write about how the launch was an epic success. Delivering an absolutely amazing product to 3.5million+ users with a tremendous uptime. Sure, login was delayed about 1.5-2 hours. Since then, it has been brought down.. once? It’s been otherwise stable baring a couple rolling restarts. Restarts due to the fact that they have a team committed to handling post-launch issues? Who can come close to their commitment? Bioware? ;) I feel an arrow… /facepalm

I’m not a Blizzard fanboi, but I am an IT tech. Blizzard has an uptime and commitment to quality that exceeds that of government agencies and hospitals. I would love to see those numbers. Hmm what other software launched that sold 3.5million copies in their first week? The only software that readily comes to mind would be OS launches. And we know how flawless those are. ;)

That would be a remarkable story instead of this bandwagon “it’s been plagued with problems” garbage.

Bah.

By: kayakyakr

kayakyakr — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:13:00 +0000

plus, those seem more like monk bug fixes rather than actual nerfs. Pretty minor too. I agree, Chris Burns I don’t think has actually played the game.

By: Ricardo Caiano

Ricardo Caiano — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:08:00 +0000

Monk is the new paladin class.

By: Andrew Shen

Andrew Shen — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:00:00 +0000

sounds like you haven’t played the game yet. “Trading with other characters”? essentially no one trades directly in game unless it’s among friends. items are easy to come by if you have the gold using the gold auction house.

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:28:00 +0000

Trading with other characters the old fashioned way, without real money, yes.

And telling people there’s going to be a real money auction house in the game, even if they made a special note in some circles that it wouldn’t be out right away, is a promise.

By: SpaceCaptainWarlock

SpaceCaptainWarlock — Thu, 24 May 2012 17:14:00 +0000

“Blizzard Entertainment isn’t making any new friends with its newest update which cuts out the Real Money Auction House promised to fans at the launch of the game Diablo III.”

I’m pretty sure they never promised that. Prior to launch, they said the RMAH would be delayed. I think people should prefer that the auction house works properly before they start dumping real money into it. It’s hardly required for the game.

“You’ll have to do your item finding the old fashioned way, folks, sorry about that.”

Um, there is a fake money auction house too that uses in-game gold to purchase items. That one has been mostly live since the game launched. So, there are still at least 2 ways to get good items: find them, or purchase them with the gold in your stash in the Auction House.