I'm logged in,says they've all been claimed. :(

PvP mode has been cut out in order for the game to arrive on time and not be delayed again.

Although Blizzard did announce the feature will be patched in later once its completely ready but didn't give an exact date when it would arrive.

http://www.screwattack.com/news/diab...further-delays

Diablo 3 looks like a childrens cartoon compared to Diablo I and II.

Ugh.

Horrible art style/design. Failure total. I wished they made a dark and gritty Diablo but everyone caters to the 12 and younger category now and every game blizzard makes now seems to have the same look as world of warcraft.

Stop living in the past.

May 15th was just announced as the release date. Super excited.

Let's see if theis date stands, excited if it does.

2012?:-\

Anyone here been able to get into the open Diablo 3 beta?
 

The one that's running this weekend?

From what I can tell, they put a limit on the number of players who can log into their servers at once and so far its been impossible to log in. Hopefully this isnt an indication of how their final product will perform.

Still cant wait tho, soooooooooo many good memories of Diablo II.

Playing Diablo II is one of my favorite teenage memories :love:

Was in the closed beta and couldn't download it right. Oh well.

Seems to be major fail. UGH trying all day to get into the server. Too many ppl playing, they shouldve limited it so that people who own Diablo II get in first.

Would still be a million people trying to get in.

Doubt it. Its been 10+ years since Diablo II...

30,000 beta invites we're taken within 5 minutes on one website.

Yah but were they all from people who owned and still own Diablo II?

Wow, you owned Diablo II...

Him and 4 million other people. ;)

Still, there wouldnt be a million people, on day 1, who still had their copy of Diablo II.

Anyway, I got in, and meh. It seems every single game blizzard made after Warcraft III uses the SAME art style and the same graphics. Its a bit boring by now...the game is alright, but Blizzard really lost its sense of art design...this just doesnt feel like a Diablo game.

It's their art style and it's awesome.
I'm still yet to properly play a diablo game, its on my desktop waiting for me to click it when my masses of coursework depletes.
How does this one feel different?

Art style is a lot more colorful and toonish, as opposed to Diablo I and II which were more gritty and darker.

Yeah... But surely that's just implementing the art style that they're know known for.
I just checked out videos and I think it looks sick, , I mean everything is rendered amazingly from what i've seen.

After playing it some more, totally not feeling it. You cant even assign your own stat points? Wut? That was like the whole point of Diablo II, finding items and creating different character builds. The game's incredibly dumbed down. No "lobbies" as well, just click and it throws you into a random game thats on the quest you're on. Lame/Boring.

It is just the Beta

I don't know how I feel about the leveling system. It seems that it opens itself to some customization of your character. I don't know how it will work versus the traditional tree skill development. I think the point of the D3 method is to make early skills more viable end game and to allow for customization but I'm skeptical that certain "builds" won't be defaulted to for certain areas/difficulties and PVP down the line.

Well, I was going to get it this at launch, but after playing the beta, I'm holding off.
Game isn't as good as I was hoping it would be.
(that'll teach Blizzard to do open betas! lol)

Just paid off my pre-order and bought a new PC for this. Gonna be so awesome.

LOL @ people who are not gonna get it because they didn't like the beta. Newsflash: most betas suck ass compared to the final product.

I played the beta too and this game blows a railroad track of dick!

And yes most betas are not finished product, but this beta is almost finished product so its not like they are gonna change the design or add a skill system like in diablo 2.

This game is like a free 2 play Nexon game skill wise.

Thats cool. One less moron I have to deal with online.

Now u make me want to buy it just to search for u on there.

Think I'm going for Torchlight 2, not feeling this especially with the always online part. I understand what Seph is saying about the beta, but the mechanics are pretty much locked down for launch, they won't change too much between now and Tuesday.

Bottle of lube on the dresser behind the guy on the right.

8 more hours. I feel like a tool, but damn, I been needin' my diablo fix for like a decade.

Only thing that sucks is that the video card I ordered for my new PC is the only part that isn't here yet. Gotta play on low-medium settings for a day or two >_<

Apparently people in Australia can't get the disc version of the game if it was pre-ordered at GAME stores since a bunch of them filed for bankruptcy and are refusing to either offer a refund or sell the copies they have in stores.

Arn't they able to get sued for that?

Diablo EU servers fucked, no one can log in due to massive amount of people attempting logon.

Asia had an issue as well.

Good luck America :p Then again, no fuckin doubt you lot will get in no problem.

Nah, Blizzard already warned this would happen.

US will be fucked too.

Apparently not since some have tried but the courts have said GAME isn't accountable for providing refunds because I think its a Chapter 7 (full shutdown) and not a Chapter 11 (regular bankruptcy) like the UK branch was facing.

I can't play the first day because I have to go out of town. I'm actually kind of happy because I knew that there would be server issues right off the bat.

Wonder how the global merger will go when the last servers come online at midnight PST

5 more minutes until servers go live. Gonna wet my pants.

My brother has been playing this non-stop since he got the midnight release, makes me think about getting on the weekend.

Ur brother must weigh like 500 pound :lol:

Besides login errors and issues, a patch is on its way to fix two bugs with one of them causing the game to crash.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/here-a...-out-for/4148/

I just equipped a shield on my templar and absolutely nothing happened. I think that bug is being blown WAY out of proportion by trolls. Should have seen the bnet forums last night. The same people claiming they could not even get in to start a game due to error 37 were reporting this error breaking their game.

Error 3006 is nothing more than a connection timeout. If you get it and it persists, just reset your modem/router and reboot your PC. Works perfectly fine after that.

My game was delivered at 630 pm, and I got to play for five minutes. I guess I've already played the first act anyway...but I wish I didn't have plans tonight. Last day of work is tomorrow though.

Still having issues getting the game to work. I'm not all too angry. After the SWTOR launch, this is pretty tame.

Man, when the hell am I ever gonna find my first unique item. Or ring or amulet. The anticipation is killing me.

Anybody else have the MSVCR90.dll error when trying to start the game out of the launcher? This is getting tedious. Can't seem to find a clear answer.

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findby...sing-error.htm

I get that stupid DLL going missing all the time.

Next stop is the hospital to get a foot removed.

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Ahahahahahahahaa.

lol dat was awesome

(Girl is smoking hot :drool: )

Altho D3 is a lot worse

This game looks fun, but I don't want a game that forces me to be online all the time. My wireless connection will be crap for a while.

Think they might cave in to the pressure with the login issues and release a patch to make single-player offline?

Probably not. But that would make me a buyer.

Game seems to be a lot harder than D2 on the higher difficulties. I'm on hell right now and I'm wondering just how rough the new Inferno difficulty is gonna be.

I do have one huge complaint though. Unique/Legendary items do not drop enough. It is retarded. I have not seen a single one drop yet.

You can always buy one in the auction house.

Wait, I see a connection here...

Spent more time with the trial edition (Got a code from a nice guy on another forum) and I think I'm gonna end up buying it tomorrow. I also found a cool mod for it that seems okay with blizzard that makes the art style more...diablo-ish.

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http://darkd3.com/

Blizzard made 2 announcements recently with the game breaking the all-time Day 1 sales record for a PC game at around 3.5 million copies and part of the reason for the servers being bombarded.

The other is the recent news of account hacking and Battle.net itself being attacked by saying the service itself hasn't been attacked nor has anyone's account been hacked in any new ways. They did say so far it seems to be mainly phishing attacks have been the cause for some accounts to become compromised.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/blizza...promised/4170/
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/diablo...ay-alone/4169/

After further playing, I have def changed my opinion on some fronts. I enjoy the game alot, but the AH is seriously broken and the Inferno difficulty end game is shit.

It's like, hey we have this difficulty you can not beat unless you have epic gear....but you aren't going to be able to get this epic gear unless you buy it on the AH from the few groups of people who can actually manage to farm inferno for the items.

What's the point of Inferno if you reach max level before you get there and are instantly destroyed in act 1, where you will not find items good enough to get you any further? Oh I know, it forces people into the AH (and eventually the RMAH) where blizz will take a 15% cut of profits.

The game is awesome through hell difficulty though.

So I made the mistake of trying the game at a friend's house over the week-end. I was hooked in half an hour. I went to the Future Shop right away, bought the game, and installed it on my crappy laptop with a crappy internet connection.

I can only play in the kitchen because the Wi-Fi signal is only strong enough there, and I had to put every setting to low (and even turn off shadows and clutters and stuff like that) to get the game to run smoothly.

But I'm still loving it. When I get to Montreal, I'll install it on my tower and finally get some real gaming going on.

I was very disappointed by the story and length. Way too easy in normal mode too.

Gameplay is amazing though. Wish you could use your companion in multiplayer though - you could in D2.

Im not sure how I feel about multiple playthroughs to get to a decent mode. Seems like there is too much "MMO like" farming built in.

Did you play Diablo 1 and 2?

D1 and D2 had definitive end games. While it may have been repetitive, it was fun. The end game in D3 is still repetitive but no longer fun due to class imbalance and extreme difficulty. Blizzard keeps saying you need to farm the items to progress, but there is a problem; the items melee classes need to progress past act 1 inferno do not drop until act 3 and 4 inferno. It makes you use the AH; big surprise there, considering they take 15% profits.

I feel like this game would have gotten the polish and balance it deserved if not for the AH and people constantly harassing about the release date. As it is, I kinda feel like we all paid for a decent beta build. We're just getting used as millions of test dummies so they can fix everything later with the obvious expansions they have lined up. Welcome to World of Diablo.

All things considered, the progress of levelling from 1-60 through hell mode is still fun. Just the inferno end game blows it.

Here is wonderful example of how to play D3 on inferno.

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What is everyone's problem? Blizzard constantly patches their games to achieve balance, and it's no different this time. God forbid they make the endgame hard as fuck and then work towards making it more obtainable. I would agree that D3 is easier overall than D1 or D2 up until Inferno, but it's the best flowing game of the series without question.

Best flowing? In what sense do you mean?

My brother said he is farming the Skeleton King on Inferno solo as a Barb. He told me he is making enough money on the yellow drops he gets (~100-200K per) that he can either buy what he needs or use what he finds. It's a bit of a process but that's exactly what Diablo 2 was like.

They keep the action going. Combat flows well, and the story progresses without large amounts of searching on the map for what you are looking for. I didn't mind it in some parts of D2 (the Arcane Sanctuary), but the Jungle in Act 3 was always super confusing and just a lot of running around trying to find the next waypoint. D3 does it well by telling you the general direction to go in if you want to hit the main quest line, but otherwise lets you roam around all you want.

Tell him to go to act 2. People who can solo the butcher on inferno get killed 1 or 2 hits by the first random monkey in act 2.

In diablo 2 you could find the gear you need to progress yourself. You didn't need to go buy stuff on an AH that blizzard will take 15% of the money from.

So they hold your hand and tell you where to go? Definitely better flow there.

Inferno makes your point about combat flowing well moot. Everything becomes about kiting enemies into a corner, dying, and then never going back to that corner again.

Yes, they hold your hand. So what? It makes for a better game, in my opinion.

And I already made my argument that Blizzard fixes things as they go. Inferno will not stay this way forever. Servers were down today because they were applying a patch to the game. Blizzard having post-release support...surprise surprise.

DAMMIT. That's exactly why I didn't want to buy the game in the first place. I have very few times where I can play Diablo because I work a lot. Last time I wanted to play was at the start of the week, and I couldn't because servers were down for maintenance.

Right now, I have an hour or two free where I can play. What's happening? SERVERS DOWN FOR MAINTENANCE.

I only want to play single players. Wish I could play this offline.

I'm an idiot. I bought this when I knew this would be happening.

Real-money auction house will be made available on June 12th with server instability the official reason to why it was delayed and only the in-game trading auction house was available at launch.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/real...elease-june-12

Not true at all.

The same thing was said about the RMAH going live on May 29th. May 29th came, and the date got changed to June 12th. There has been nothing official from Blizzard guaranteeing that as the definitive launch.

And it also has less to do with server stability and more to do with the fact that the gold auction house is buggy as shit. Peoples items and gold disappear for days and days on end with no explanation other than database errors.

If they have just a small percentage of the problems they have with the gold auction house occur with the RMAH then they will open themselves up for lawsuits.

Not to mention the numerous accounts being hacked with and without authenticators, and Blizzards blanket denials of it being from exploits to their servers. Forbes has even run articles on this at this point in time. What happens when you have your card linked to the RMAH and your account gets taken due to one of these exploits and someone else runs your credit into the ground?

In short, Blizzard can not afford to open the RMAH at any point before they fix the nagging problems with the game stability, the gold auction house, and the security of their systems.

I think the most shocking event in Diablo III so far

Blizzard removes the 72 hour restriction on digital copies which was meant to combat gold farmers but ended up causing a lot of issues with the low level cap.

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/blizza...rictions/4245/

I completely stopped playing this and I'm still at level 12. Just clicking on stuff was addictive at first but quickly lost its appeal. I bet I'll go back to it in a few months though when I have more free time.

It's getting better with the last couple patches now and the increased drop rates in Inferno. Balance is coming along somewhat, but still isn't quite tuned right for a couple classes.

Now if they would just get rid of that fucking single player lag....oh wait.

That would help my desire to play tremendously.

I started playing Hardcore mode with a monk so every upgrade item i get seems more important and so far I havent hopped back on my Demon Hunter to farm act 1 inferno which seems to be all I can do without using the Gold and RMAH.

Blizzard is banning Linux users from the game claiming they are either trying to get around the security in place of the game or are cheating. Linux users affected are saying all they are running is a Wine program (lets them use Windows to play the game).

Not all Linux users are getting banned though and anyone who has been affected was also tested for false positives as part of their appeal process.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news...of-Unfair-Bans

Upcoming patch will be raising the level cap by about an extra 100 levels while those who already reached the current cap will be now using a new progression leveling system called the "Paragon System."

http://www.screwattack.com/news/diab...-player-levels

Agreed. WD was my first character and I found it difficult to make a feasible end game build that worked.

I did a Butcher run tonight and saw nothing but improvements to a lot of things. The Paragon system is quite interesting as well. Going to start back where I left off at in Act 3 inferno soon.