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Nice, now whos dick do i have to suck to get a beta key?
I'm contemplating whether to use or sell my key...
I should be getting a key, at least as of today.
I should be getting a key, at least as of today.
Where can I sign up and get one?
I wouldn't even worry about getting in, it's not going to be the full game for the beta. It's roughly 13 levels, which is barely enough to even get started. There's not much content, all of the classes are available, but how much time will that really take?
Act I in full is in the beta.
Very good interview refuting a lot of the flaming about removing skill points and restricting skills to six. I would recommend everyone watch it, but, basically he says that what people believed was "customization" in D2 was really just a false choice, as everyone just amassed skill points into a few talents, and that the new system actually is more customizing, and I think he's right.
I don't understand the 6 skills per class thing. I get that you can modify them but come on... Give us some options...
Very good interview refuting a lot of the flaming about removing skill points and restricting skills to six. I would recommend everyone watch it, but, basically he says that what people believed was "customization" in D2 was really just a false choice, as everyone just amassed skill points into a few talents, and that the new system actually is more customizing, and I think he's right.
Very good interview refuting a lot of the flaming about removing skill points and restricting skills to six. I would recommend everyone watch it, but, basically he says that what people believed was "customization" in D2 was really just a false choice, as everyone just amassed skill points into a few talents, and that the new system actually is more customizing, and I think he's right.
I don't understand the 6 skills per class thing. I get that you can modify them but come on... Give us some options...
So you're telling me you used more than 3 active skills with your builds in Diablo 2?
Wait, don't even answer that because I know the answer is "no."
With all that said, I want to close with the point that there was no "wrong" build in Diablo 2 if you played through it only a few times, which most people likely did (it only makes sense there are more casual than hardcore players). The only time a build was "wrong" was when you wanted to min-max and make the absolute best out of a character - that's where the guides came in. Pointing at these guides as if they're a fault of the game is incorrect.
Better yet, how many casuals do you know of who were trying to go through nightmare or hell difficulty using their level 2 icebolt or level 6 charged bolt? My guess is zero, because eventually they'd rage-quit due to being unable to do anything at all or they would pick a skill, max it out, and use it as their primary skill.
WHAT THE FUCK! LVL 60!!!!!? FUCKING WORLD OF WARCRAFT
Thats cool, new artwork for higher tier weapons and armor. The Auction House is going to ruin this game. Just buy your way to the top. Fucking lazy slugs.
/Rant
So... are you trying to say it's a fault to try to add more diversity for 'hardcore players' (anyone who plays more than 2 chars?.. not sure how you define hardcore) or what? So people can't decide they want to have a sorc with 200 str 200 dex 100 energy 100 vitality, oh noes the casuals are getting screwed?
Better yet, how many casuals do you know of who were trying to go through nightmare or hell difficulty using their level 2 icebolt or level 6 charged bolt? My guess is zero, because eventually they'd rage-quit due to being unable to do anything at all or they would pick a skill, max it out, and use it as their primary skill.
WHAT THE FUCK! LVL 60!!!!!? FUCKING WORLD OF WARCRAFT
Thats cool, new artwork for higher tier weapons and armor. The Auction House is going to ruin this game. Just buy your way to the top. Fucking lazy slugs.
/Rant
Jay Wilson is wrong in saying there's a design fault with Diablo 2 when he uses the "enough str for items, enough dex for block, no energy, rest vit" argument as a basis for what is wrong with Diablo 2, when you could get through Diablo 2 just fine without following any guidelines at all.
WHAT THE FUCK! LVL 60!!!!!? FUCKING WORLD OF WARCRAFT
Thats cool, new artwork for higher tier weapons and armor. The Auction House is going to ruin this game. Just buy your way to the top. Fucking lazy slugs.
/Rant
How will the AH personally affect your gameplay? Not the D3 community, not how it will stop global warming or fix the national debt issue, your own personal gameplay experience. People skip a lot of content in a lot of games by reading a guide first playthough, hacking, cheat codes, ect, do you let that get to you? How does the AH personally affect your experience? If you join random groups online, do you just assume people with better gear than you bought it off the AH because there's no way in hell someone could already outgear you? Do you get mad if they kill enemies faster than you so you can get more loot? Do you just assume people beat you in PvP only because they bought stuff from the AH?
Maybe people can get through normal, and possibly nightmare, but after one of the later patches hell became really tough, and you'd be screwed if you didnt have a planned build. Many good builds required saving points early making some sections challenging. I dont know of any casual player that thinks "Mabye I should save this skill point for some better ability 2 playthoughs from now"
This is the same reason I dont mind no more open/closed bnet. You can tell people all day to do certain things and they'll still get mad they didnt get it and have to start over. Many people will make a lot of mistakes early on, and would simply have to reroll the same class to get it right. Same is online, I know a bunch of people that would create a SP char first, then think, "Why do I have to start over to play on closed bnet?!?" Creating situations where rerolling is necessary to experience endgame is a useless time sink across any genre. Why not let them simply respec so they dont have to go through the game again with the same class?
Did you even watch the video you quoted? Do you think he was lying about the statement that people were already buying stuff from shady third-party websites for Diablo 2? Or did you just not play Diablo 2 and you have no idea what you're talking about?
Because it cheapens the experience of the game. Now instead of hoping for the drop you wanted, you can just trot over to the Auction House and buy it.