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Coleslaw

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Why is D4 given a grace period but you guys tore in to Pantheon right away?

Was it because there was too much SLASH?
 
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jayrebb

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khorum said:
Really looking forward to a return to the og diablo gothic aesthetic.
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How do you figure? A lot of that stuff is against CCP policies.

They don't want to lose the right to sell a product in a major market just because its a little too gothy or satanic.

Whooo I guess we'll get some darker screens. That's a selling point in 2019. OK.
 
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khorum

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jayrebb said:
Whooo I guess we'll get some darker screens. That's a selling point in 2019. OK.
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CCP members will have their compliant diablo version on their huawei phones. That'll have the same FORTNITE palette every other fucking game seems to rock nowadays.

Everyone who cares can enjoy D4's return to Diablo's gothic setting through a vpn.
 
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khorum

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Bubbles said:
screenshots, with heaving post done in photoshop, can make most games look great
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thanks for the tip, James Cameron.

Now explain why those screens are either substantially different from the dozens of gameplay vods posted by streamers who were there or why blizzard would be somehow unable to produce those visuals when the game is released half a decade from now.
 
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TJT

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mkopec said:
Anyway regarding this game, it seems like they were kinda forced to show it based on last years debacle, but yeah this one needs to be in the oven a few more years before we can start bitching about it, lol.
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Oh no it does not. We can most certainly bitch about it right now. Everyone knows Blizzard's MO these days.
 
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Hateyou

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Dom said:
How much of that time is just afking to switch over to sell people shit he's listed though
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Not much. He has a third shift on call job he does from his home. There is some afk built into that when he gets calls but he doesn’t get a lot.
 
jayrebb

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mkopec said:
Anyway regarding this game, it seems like they were kinda forced to show it based on last years debacle, but yeah this one needs to be in the oven a few more years before we can start bitching about it, lol.
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Absolutely no fucking chance that happens, though.

Part of the Activision re-organization and corporate restructuring that took place earlier this year had to do with speeding up Blizzard development cycles and production of more Blizzard games.

0 chance this "sits in the oven" for a few more years.
 
jayrebb

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Activision's aim is to go for a "Battlefield" franchise style production cycle where some of the games suck ass, but they all make money on the back of the Blizzard brand.

They replaced the Blizzard CFO and a few other key financial and executive positions to make sure they run on more of a EA balance sheet as of this year forward. 2020 is going to be an entirely different management of resources for Blizzard and its going to be a culture shock. See relevant articles on Blizzard shake-ups for details.

You are already seeing the fruit of some of these changes with Diablo mobile, which was made up out of literally nowhere without any conceptual planning stage at all. Just slap a game together using an out-sourced Chinese development studio, get the Blizzard brand on it, sell it.

No more "Its done when its done". No more bloated 200m write-offs (Titan).

No more failed games (HoTS) and then back to the drawing board for 10 years or leaving the genre alone.

They want bounce-back, they want the next BF spin-off out next year.

They want Starcraft: Ghost to go gold.
 
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Gator

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Calling it now: Immortal will be the test for mobile platform which releases in 2020. Fast forward to 2025 when D4 releases and guess what it will release on along with PC and Consoles...

I have to agree with most, D4 may have been on the drawing board when Immortal announced last year but didn't hit production till after the fiasco. I would love to know what they have been doing all these years.
 
Nola

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Kinda off topic but Diablo related. Has anyone ever tried MedianXl mod for D2? Just downloaded and going to give it a shot. Was wondering what's a good solo build to do all content?
 
Mudcrush Durtfeet

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Fadaar said:
That depends, does that include time spent in trader mode in the Bazaar? Because I know my EQ account hit an absurd amount of time played purely from that.
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I don't remember if time played was per character or account, so maybe?
I seriously played far too much EQ though. I remember early Plane of Sky raids (pre-Kunark) going 14 hours for example, NOT sitting AFK. We got up to the Aviak isle while the level cap was still 50. Good times.
 
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TJT

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jayrebb said:
Absolutely no fucking chance that happens, though.

Part of the Activision re-organization and corporate restructuring that took place earlier this year had to do with speeding up Blizzard development cycles and production of more Blizzard games.

0 chance this "sits in the oven" for a few more years.
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I think expecting it out in 2021 is reasonable if Activision succeeds in speeding up their dev cycles.
 
Korrupt

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D3 alpha was the same game as D3 on release, these guys are going to give us the game we’re seeing now with some slight improvements.

The rune system is an improvement over D3 which is useless so that’s a plus. The skilltree is abysmal and we’re going to see the same cookie cutter shit. It needs to have a lot more choices and ways to choose progression other than 1% increased damage. I get they want to keep D4 simple but lack of depth is what D3 suffered from. There is no penalty for poor decision makers in D3.

Still going to play thousands of hours but they have a long way to go. The loot and crafting need major work.
 
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Needless

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I did find the people demoing the game, having like 6 abilities at lvl 20 concerning. I'm guessing you unlock skills at specific levels like D3, but then get talents to boost specific skills?
That sounds like they're just putting D3 set bonuses into a talent tree instead which is pretty lame

I'll still be hopeful though lol
 
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