Diablo 3 launching on May 15

When's Diablo III coming out? May 15. That's when.

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Yes, it's great that Blizzard is showing off skills from Diablo III, and postponing PvP to get the action-RPG faster, but when will it actually launch? May 15. That's when Diablo III is coming to PC and Mac. This is happening.

"After many years of hard work by our development team and months of beta testing by hundreds of thousands of dedicated players around the world, we're now in the homestretch," Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime said in the announcement. "We look forward to putting the final polish on Diablo III over the next two months and delivering the ultimate action-RPG experience to gamers worldwide starting on May 15."

May 15 is when it'll be available both digitally via Battle.net and at retail in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. It'll be available for download in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil on May 15 too but won't hit store shelves in those countries, or in Russia, until June 7.

You can pre-order Diablo III on Battle.net now to pre-load the game in advance, ready to unlock the second it's released.

Blizzard plans to patch PvP in for free some time after launch. The launch on May 15. In exactly two months. Oh, it's finally happening!

The regular edition of Diablo III will run you $59.99, while the shiny Collector's Edition packing an art book, soundtrack CD, documentary DVD, and soulstone USB key containing Diablo II and its expansion will cost $99.99.

From The Chatty
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    March 15, 2012 6:16 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Diablo 3 launching on May 15.

    When's Diablo III coming out? May 15. That's when.

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      March 15, 2012 6:19 AM

      whoa.

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      March 15, 2012 6:23 AM

      8=======================D

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      March 15, 2012 6:24 AM

      I hope it's worth the wait

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        March 15, 2012 6:35 AM

        I've been in the beta for a couple months now and whereas it is overall a good game and I know it will be a hit, something about it just doesn't sit too well with me. I only played it for about 3 weeks, stopped and haven't played it since. I dunno.

        • Zek legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          March 15, 2012 6:53 AM

          3 weeks is a long time to play part one of act one on normal difficulty. The equivalent section of D2 is boring as hell.

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            March 15, 2012 6:57 AM

            Part of one act on normal difficulty, without the biggest piece of the progression/customization system (runes).

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              March 15, 2012 11:10 AM

              Cept the runes are in the beta now.

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                March 15, 2012 11:30 AM

                But by level 13 you really only get two runes per skill at the most, usually one or zero.

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          March 15, 2012 2:27 PM

          Phat loots and challenging monsters are missing.

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      March 15, 2012 6:45 AM

      Good news everyone!

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      March 15, 2012 6:48 AM

      Do you get in the beta if you pre-order from battle.net?

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      March 15, 2012 6:49 AM

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        March 15, 2012 6:50 AM

        They do for free with most major titles, and with every game if you have Prime.

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        March 15, 2012 7:04 AM

        For major title like this they usually have release day shipping for $1.

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          March 15, 2012 3:06 PM

          Yes, but the option doesn't always show up when you make the purchase. A few times I had to go back at a later date and change the shipping method to "release day shipping".

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      March 15, 2012 6:51 AM

      Here's the announcement you guys were waiting for ...

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        March 15, 2012 7:29 AM

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          March 15, 2012 7:41 AM

          I fear torchlight 2 has made some critical errors now that it will be out after diablo 3... sucks for them.

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            March 15, 2012 7:51 AM

            yup. Blizzard froze them out, like calling a timeout before the last play. There is no way they can release before Diablo 3 at this point.

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            March 15, 2012 8:03 AM

            It's probably not going to be done until 2013 anyway.

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            March 15, 2012 10:21 AM

            that was my first thought. They really lost their market with their delays (hard to believe that a company could 'out-delay' Blizzard...

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      March 15, 2012 7:05 AM

      yay

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      March 15, 2012 7:19 AM

      This is how I want to wake up every morning.

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      March 15, 2012 7:24 AM

      Whats the chances the trackpad on my macbook air will be useable with this game? I can't use a mouse anymore as it gives me wrist pain.

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      March 15, 2012 7:27 AM

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      March 15, 2012 7:30 AM

      A few copies of the collectors edition is still up at amazon.

      http://www.amazon.com/Diablo-III-Collectors-Edition-Pc/dp/B0050SZC5U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1331821753&sr=8-2

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      March 15, 2012 7:42 AM

      Got the game thruogh wow sub. Preloading now! (should just give us all betas)

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      March 15, 2012 7:47 AM

      yay!!!

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      March 15, 2012 7:50 AM

      Day after my birthday. I may have to burn a day of vacation that week.

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      March 15, 2012 7:58 AM

      This game comes too early. The community is going to be divided.

    • DM7 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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      March 15, 2012 8:01 AM

      HOLY SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@##$^&
      :D

      YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
      *cries to the heavens*

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        March 15, 2012 8:10 AM

        hahahaha

        • DM7 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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          March 15, 2012 8:12 AM

          I was on the toilet when I read the announcement, and it was a good thing too because the amount of fluids that came out of me when I did was astounding. :D

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        March 15, 2012 8:32 AM

        HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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        March 15, 2012 3:30 PM

        IAWTRUSTBLADE


        YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

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      March 15, 2012 8:06 AM

      VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW VGW

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      March 15, 2012 8:09 AM

      Since this is online only (no LAN) Is there any point in buying a boxed copy?

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        March 15, 2012 8:13 AM

        I ordered collectors editions a long time ago but if you're not interested in that I don't think it's worth it.

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          March 15, 2012 8:16 AM

          Nay, I was just wondering if there was anything else other than the DVD (I'm sure the manual will suck since all game manuals do now).

          I assume you'll just plug your key into your battle.net account and never be able to use the DVD anything else ever again.

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      March 15, 2012 8:10 AM

      MacBook Air 13" run this fairly well? Just curious.


      Massive amount of jizz all over my room now, btw. Buckets of cum.

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      March 15, 2012 8:12 AM

      Very nice!

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      March 15, 2012 8:14 AM

      OK PREORDERED! Now let me in the BETA dammit!

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      March 15, 2012 8:23 AM

      preordered. game client downloaded. let the waiting begin

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      March 15, 2012 8:52 AM

      Preordered. Now to figure if i need to use vacation.

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      March 15, 2012 9:13 AM

      Sad, people still give a fuck about this game.
      Who cares what Blizzard thinks or feels or develops. There's been like 100000000000000 other titles like Diablo and their last game Starcraft II sucked balls, they laughed at the last 10 years of innovations and Blizzard heads ate it up.

      Whatever. Keep paying these guys mortgage's.

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      March 15, 2012 9:24 AM

      DIABLO 3 LAN party incoming

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      March 15, 2012 9:25 AM

      electroly - after all these years I still remember that I owe you a copy. I suppose it is time

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        March 15, 2012 9:29 AM

        it's gonna be awesome. i hope we suck at it as much as we did at titan quest

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      March 15, 2012 9:33 AM

      Just need to tell the internet how happy I am :D That is all.

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      March 15, 2012 9:41 AM

      question - cross-platform play between windows and mac?

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        March 15, 2012 9:48 AM

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          March 15, 2012 9:49 AM

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            March 15, 2012 9:53 AM

            Not true, it's very frequent that games come out that don't feature cross-platform play.

            The example you cite, Civ V, was outsourced to a different company to port. If the main publisher/developer doesn't keep paying to update the game the porting company won't keep up with it.

            It is true that the trend has been that if the port is done in-house it tends to be compatible but it's not always a given.

            As a different kind of example, Torchlight is on the Mac and even uses Steam Cloud but your PC saves can't be used on the Mac and vice versa because they had to use two different save game file formats for some reason.

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              March 15, 2012 10:17 AM

              save compatability and network interop are totally different beasts though

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            March 15, 2012 9:53 AM

            yea i guess it's knee-jerk after it being the case with consoles for so long

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            March 15, 2012 9:55 AM

            HOLD THE PHONE! Those AppleFags are allowed on my intertubes?!?

            FUCK THIS SHIT! BURN IT ALL DOWN! THIS WILL NOT STAND

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            March 15, 2012 10:17 AM

            It used to be a bigger issue before Apple went Intel.

            Since Apple went Intel on the desktop, programmers don't have to worry about in-memory byte order when constructing messages anymore...well, at least for the desktop.

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            March 15, 2012 10:47 AM

            "It's still weird that people ask this thing when there's a pretty recent and popular example of this thing not actually working"

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              March 15, 2012 10:57 AM

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                March 15, 2012 11:04 AM

                So then it's a silly question to ask about Blizzard games that come out with a Mac port day-and-date and maybe even on the same disc as the Windows release. That's valid.

                But to assume that this is standard industry practice elsewhere is a little premature.

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                  March 15, 2012 11:13 AM

                  I don't think it's silly to ask that even for Blizzard games. Since stuff seems to change so rapidly in the industry, past performance doesn't really appear to be a reliable indicator of anything.

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                    March 15, 2012 11:26 AM

                    True, at one point in time Blizzard games did spawn installs so you could play LAN games with one copy and up to like 4-5 people. Now you have to have multiple copies of the game yourself if you want to play internationally.

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            March 15, 2012 11:00 AM

            They shouldn't be allowed to play with PC users, they will just lag the game with their iphone connections.

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      March 15, 2012 9:54 AM

      AHHH!!! FINALLY! I CANT FUCKING WAIT!

      http://goo.gl/dLQGm

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      March 15, 2012 10:01 AM

      I thought this day would never come... *tear*

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      March 15, 2012 10:18 AM

      Finally! Amazon keeps emailing me saying they are trying to track down the release date for the collector's edition that I preordered last fall, lol.

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        March 15, 2012 10:21 AM

        Can't update mine to release day yet. :/

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          March 15, 2012 1:52 PM

          Yeah, I'm on super saver shipping right now and I don't see an option to change it.

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      March 15, 2012 11:01 AM

      What an amazing day, wasteland 2 is funded, diablo iii is downloading and baldursgate is about to be reborn - I feel like a kid again.

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      March 15, 2012 11:05 AM

      I just turned my phone on after a 10 hour flight and this made my day.

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      March 15, 2012 11:06 AM

      It never rains, but pours... gonna a drop more than $100 on May 15th for this and Max Payne 3...

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      March 15, 2012 11:14 AM

      Diablo 3 is on my fucking hard drive what the fuck

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      March 15, 2012 11:17 AM

      Will I be able to play this with a controller.

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      March 15, 2012 11:26 AM

      /falls into a coma for 2 months

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      March 15, 2012 11:28 AM

      Hey Blizzard. It's not too late to cut a couple more features. The you-must-be-online-to-play-the-single-player-campaign "feature" could disappear and I wouldn't be upset at all. I know you're pushing people on the spend-your-real-money-in-game-so-we-can-get-a-cut feature, but I wouldn't really miss that too much if I wasn't playing with or against (sorry, that feature's already been cut) players.

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        March 15, 2012 12:14 PM

        if you read anything about it you'd realize pvp is going to be in the game but put back in later on. it's not cut completely.

        and get used to the online for SP, it's here to stay in SC2 and now D3 and probably any future blizz game.

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          March 15, 2012 12:17 PM

          Doesn't mean he has to like it.

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          March 15, 2012 12:24 PM

          I would have mentioned the pets or reforging, but those were feature cut's I'll miss.

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            March 15, 2012 12:28 PM

            Anyone legitimately complaining about the Scroll of Companion being removed is instantly put in the "dumbass troll" category.

            They weren't actual pets. You'd get a scroll that summoned a small animal who would run around and pick up gold slightly outside of your default pick-up range. The thing would despawn after a few minutes, but you'd probably not notice because ti was so ridiculously minor.

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            March 15, 2012 12:33 PM

            If you knew what was cut from most games you'd shit yourself.

          • DM7 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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            March 15, 2012 12:57 PM

            With the companions I always felt the need to keep casting it and always have it up. I'm glad it's gone so I don't have to worry about if it's always casted etc. : /

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      March 15, 2012 11:57 AM

      No word yet on system requirements? I wonder if my 1.5 y/o MBP will play this

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        March 15, 2012 12:03 PM

        Nvm, found it. Is a Nvidia GeForce 320M 32gb better than an 8600M GT? I have no clue about video cards these days

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          March 15, 2012 12:11 PM

          8600M GT should be faster. A 320M is NVIDIA's integrated GPU, what was in Macbook Airs and 13" MBPs before they switched over to Core i5.

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            March 15, 2012 12:37 PM

            So in other words it'll run like shit on my MBP. Bummer.

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              March 15, 2012 12:42 PM

              Actually it appears to run great on MB Airs right now as it is.

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              March 15, 2012 12:46 PM

              I'm going to be trying to get away with on board Intel sandy graphics :(

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              March 15, 2012 12:47 PM

              I've actually seen it running on an iMac with that same GPU. It'll run well on your machine, just drop a couple settings to medium and shadows to low.

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      March 15, 2012 11:59 AM

      commence item grind 5/15

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      March 15, 2012 12:10 PM

      Collectors Edition question. Is it safe to assume that if you buy the disc version that the digital download version will be available to you as well?

      I'm curious as I plan on playing this on my MB Air.

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        March 15, 2012 12:12 PM

        Yep. That's how Blizzard's system works.

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        March 15, 2012 12:12 PM

        Yeah, you'll be able to use the download version as well. All that really matters in the box is the code that you redeem on Battlenet. From there you can use the disc or just download from the website.

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      March 15, 2012 12:13 PM

      Just pre-ordered the CE from Amazon.co.uk.

      72 Queen Heads for release day delivery...worth it? You bet it is.

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        March 15, 2012 12:47 PM

        serious question, why order a boxed copy? I was considering ordering a boxed copy, but I couldn't think of any reason.

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          March 15, 2012 12:54 PM

          The collector's edition items are on available via the boxed copy. Even if you don't care about the fancy USB stick or Diablo's head, the special dyes and wings make it quite desirable if you like meaningless aesthetic items. If you don't want the CE, then there is no reason. You are able to preload now regardless of which you go for.

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          March 15, 2012 1:00 PM

          CE. Otherwise, I'd have gone digital.

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          March 15, 2012 2:50 PM

          Digital: €59.99
          Boxed: €34.79 (got a good Amazon UK pre-order deal; calculated using current Oanda GBP-EUR exchange rate)

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      March 15, 2012 12:35 PM

      this game will only succeed if the gold grabber companions are in the game trust me on this one

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        March 15, 2012 12:58 PM

        roll a DH they get a skill which summons a pet that does just that lol

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      March 15, 2012 12:39 PM

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      March 15, 2012 1:05 PM

      COLLECTORS EDITION, YAAAHHHH. WOOOOO, WEEEEEE.

      I've only been waiting 11 years. Which is half my life.

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      March 15, 2012 2:25 PM

      Damn. That means I'll have to cancel my pre-order here in Hawaii and try to get a CE somewhere else :(

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      March 15, 2012 2:27 PM

      OH MY FUCKING GOD FINALLY EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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      March 15, 2012 2:56 PM

      Taking that whole week off work.

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      March 15, 2012 2:58 PM

      I never really got into this series, but fuck, I am excited.

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      March 15, 2012 3:31 PM

      Ok.. Collector's Edition pre-ordered... simply for the art book because they always have the sickest art books.

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      March 15, 2012 5:22 PM

      YEA PRE-ORDERED WHOOO FUCK YA

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      March 15, 2012 8:49 PM

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHv8fq1Hh98 ill just leave this here

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        March 17, 2012 6:21 AM

        Lol. So funny how people believe that.

        I watched a Schwarzenegger one once, that was also hilarious.

        "Who is this?"

        "This is DETECTIVE JOHN KIMBLE!"

        "Sorry, Sir?"

        "I'M A COP, YOU IDIOT!"

        Hilarious.

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      March 15, 2012 9:35 PM

      Any reason to do release day delivery from Amazon over ordering it via Battle.net? Battle.net does not do preloading, correct?

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        March 15, 2012 9:35 PM

        They do preloading. People have already downloaded the client

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        March 15, 2012 10:35 PM

        Well you save on sales tax, having to make a trip to the store, and you can preload.
        One thing I dont get tho is why are people preloading already. I mean why have 12gb of useless data just sitting there for 2 months. Im defiantly going to do it but not yet.

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          March 15, 2012 10:43 PM

          I have a hellova lot more than 12gb of useless data sitting on my drives.

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          March 16, 2012 5:45 AM

          Wah? I got loads more useless data than that already. It's not like HDD space is expensive these days...

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      March 16, 2012 2:33 AM

      Yeah I just need to add my own "Holy shit!" on here.

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      March 19, 2012 12:57 PM

      Wacom any easier?
      Might be a little bit awkward at first, but probably faster than a trackpad

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