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  Ill usually try betas but for this one, im waiting for full retail and enough time to enjoy it : et72
  • Yeah, I was in the D2 beta and this time around decided to sit it out until launch. I am really looking ... : oneandone11
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  Have to admit that the beta was fun but I absolutely hated the lag since I was strictly playing single-pl... : wankerjr
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    I was playing from half way across the world and it was really smooth. : Dontdrop
    • probably because it was the middle of the night for the US : JohnnyRey
  • That is one aspect that really annoyed me. I'm playing SP without even opening the game to public and it ... : ehaykal
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  For a good laugh, head to Blizzard's D3 Beta forums. For every person complaining about how terrible the... : GigiLeCheshire
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    "Entitled" is the new hipster : EricZBA
    • Entitled Apologists : royalally
    • People have even been throwing "Entitled" around in the Tera chat channels. There's no escaping it at the... : TrulyVexed
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      People bitching about server stability during a stress test is a legitimate use of "entitled." : walker270
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        People bitching that you can't play single player because the servers are overloaded is a legitimate comp... : GigiLeCheshire
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          Yeah, which isn't what I referenced. : walker270
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            It's exactly what you referenced. People couldn't play SINGLE PLAYER in a beta because the servers were ... : GigiLeCheshire
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              Diablo 2 had an offline single player, and its stress test was online only. In fact, a stress test isn't... : walker270
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                Indeed, and it wasn't a problem with the D2 beta, because everyone knew that when the game was released, ... : GigiLeCheshire
                • This was a stress test. The intent was to gauge the limit of their hardware and to find additional probl... : walker270
                • The whole point of a stress test is to push the servers to the limit and see where the failures are and f... : OmegaRed59
            • Walker's right. The only reason there WAS an open weekend was to test the servers. It was a beta, not a... : TheMongbat
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          I cant wait to see what the Blizzard entitled hipster bacon double cheese burger apologists come up with ... : EricZBA
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            During release? Everyone has the right to complain. During stress test, no. Also, why are you calling it ... : TheNiXXeD
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              Diablo 1 and Diablo 2 both had full single-player experiences. You are wrong. This is the first game i... : GigiLeCheshire
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                Yeah, and Fallout 3 was an fps. Games change. Especially when they haven't seen a release in over a d... : walker270
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                  Fallout 3 was an FPRPG. God damn you are an idiot. Are you a Republican by chance? Your arguments have... : GigiLeCheshire
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                    Fallout 3 is not a turn based overhead rpg. I don't care what letters you throw on the end of it -- the ... : walker270
                    • No decent game ever has required always-on online, aside from games that are impossible to enjoy alone (I... : GigiLeCheshire
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                    Diablo 1 and 2 were released over ten years ago, in an era where always-on Internet connectivity was not ... : FlatlineDixay
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                      I played D2 exclusively offline Where is your god now? : GigiLeCheshire
                      • He's not one of the people who can be reasoned with. :( : Ebu
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                      You are really devoted to calling people "fucking morons" and "fucking idiots" : Ebu
                      • Hi Ebu! I try to reserve a call-out for people who really deserve it. Anybody who has no extenuating Int... : FlatlineDixay
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                    And we're full on pointless personal insulting. Clearly you have a wonderful argument here. : TheNiXXeD
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                      Fallacy. Just because one person making an argument decends to name-calling does not render the positio... : Ebu
                      • I'm not saying that the insults voids the argument. The argument was void long before that. : TheNiXXeD
              • Welcome to Diablo3. We'll be enjoying our stay while you poop in your own cereal. : TheNiXXeD
            • Actually the game defaults to single player, and you have to actively open your game up, atleast that is ... : mordaken
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          It's not a legitimate complaint about single player. Were you confused about the game being online only? ... : TheNiXXeD
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            Were you confused when they advertised this burger as having been between my asscheeks? This burger was ... : GigiLeCheshire
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              You don't have an argument here. You don't like the change they made - fine. But that was months ago when... : TheNiXXeD
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                Because if I pay for a game, I want to be able to play it, regardless of whether Blizzard is able to affo... : GigiLeCheshire
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                  if I pay for a game, I want it to be free from hacks and cheaters. They can ruin MP all the time, instead... : derelict515
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                    And you think always-online will someone -stop- people from fucking around with the game? That's cute. : GigiLeCheshire
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                      The game isn't "always online" just for the purposes of drm. Everything in the game world is handled ser... : walker270
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                        But everything doesn't have to be handled server-side. This is a proven point! There are many games, even... : Ebu
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                          To be hack free? What games? : walker270
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                            Always online DRM is not online cheat prevention, they are two separate things. Cheat prevention is full ... : mordaken
                            • Ebu calls D3's server side world "always online drm." There's no online component in D3 specific for d... : walker270
                    • It helps a whole fucking lot, yup. : TheNiXXeD
                    • prevalence of cheating/hacks in MMOs vs every other online game? yeah... : derelict515
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                  What if your power goes out? Does Blizzard have to chopper in generators too? You know that it's an onl... : TheMongbat
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                    Remember kids, Shit Sandwich, tastes great : GigiLeCheshire
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                      Well, I think it's perfectly fine because I've seen how well they run the WoW servers and my connection i... : TheMongbat
                      • If he did that then he couldn't piss and moan and throw a big temper tantrum on the internet about not ge... : wfalcon
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                  It doesn't matter what bothers me. The game is going to be online only. Just like WoW. It's not like they... : TheNiXXeD
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                    Exactly, WoW is an MMO. I hate MMOs. I think they are the lowest form of gaming, and are geared towards... : GigiLeCheshire
                    • What the fuuuuuu.... : TheMongbat
                • If you buy the game, you're doing it with the knowledge that Blizzard is setting certain restrictions in ... : action wombmate
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        Remember this post when you can't log in on release day next month. : silent prophet
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          And if there is no issue on release day, will you go back to being silent? : sogelegos
          • No worries on that now, huh? : kagath
    • EricZBA is the new something : OverloadUT
    • Checkmate, athiests. : The Grolar Bear
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    You haven't seen an "entitled" shitstorm until you've read the forums after they nerf (or buff) a raid in... : genom
    • I have no idea how WoW works, but if anyone has a problem with purple stuff they are certainly no friend ... : GigiLeCheshire
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    People bitching on forums? It can't be! : jonin
    • don't be such an entitled snowflake : dumb.
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    What's a "snowflake"? : Volatus32x
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      Apparently if you want to play the beta but it's crashing single player because of server load, you think... : GigiLeCheshire
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        That's horrible. It's not catchy at all. "Neckbeard" and "entitled" are so fun to throw around, but "snow... : The Grolar Bear
        • I think that generally this idea of snowflake is supposed to refer to people who believe that their griev... : sogelegos
  • That's like the console gamers here when a shitty PC port happens : Godhatesfatpeople
  • The open beta was meant to stress the servers. It succeeded magnificently. If they use this data to e... : Magitek
• "the beginning chuck of the first act in the game" I think you meant "chunk"? Of course i'm always learn... : Zerbyte
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  Forgive me if this has been asked before, but what percentage of the full game did the beta contain? : onji
  • 2π : ChibiJosh
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    Characters were capped at level 13. Quests were available up to the first real "boss" of Act 1. (Suppos... : genom
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      Do we know how many Acts there will be yet? : onji
      • I don't believe so. If it mirrors D2, there'll be four in the main game, then another in an expansion. : genom
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        4 acts, and around 20 boss encounters total. I think the beta covers 2 of them, but if it's only one..... : walker270
        • They've said the beta goes about as far as Blood Raven in D2. But that said you could walk straight to B... : SqueegyTBS
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    If you don't count higher difficulty settings, about 4%. If you do, it's less than 1% (way, way less if y... : Magitek
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      It seems very unlikely that the game will be 25-times longer than the beta. : JarEme
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        how is that unlikely? : JINKY
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          Because that would make it twice as long as Diablo 2 and I don't think Blizzard was unhappy with the leng... : JarEme
          • My expectation is about 20-25 for the first play through on normal with the way I usually play. A quick ... : walker270
      • Why not? Skyrim is easily a 60-80 hour game if you complete all the instanced quests (non-fetch/random). ... : Lung Fu Mo Shi
      • that's only a 50 hour game. Why is that hard to believe? : mrazzino
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        I think it's highly likely that it's at least ten times longer. 25? Who knows, could be on the high side.... : FlatlineDixay
        • Probably depends on how you go through it. Leaving no stone unturned, I could see a normal run being 50 ... : walker270
      • Including all difficulties? Measuring in hours played? None of us know, who cares? : TheNiXXeD
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    Rough guess: Beta = 1/2 of Act 1. Five acts in Diablo 3. Four difficulties. 1/40 or so, considering a... : Psigun
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      I think there are 4 acts. http://eu.battle.net/d3/en/game/ : umegastar
      • 1/8 of the whole game, or 1/32 counting all difficulties roughly then. i wasn't sure of 4 or 5 : Psigun
• Our group had a lot of trouble getting in, between the server caps being throttled, and the servers being... : genom
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  i thought this was available till May 1st? : dantastic
  • You thought wrong, dantastic! : The Grolar Bear
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    The closed beta is. The open beta was this weekend only. Today there's likely a meeting detailing wha... : walker270
    • bummer, i got about 15 minutes to try it. all the other times i tried it was down. : dantastic
• considering they went from around 300-400 games on average to about 275,000 games available I think they ... : RogerDandy
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  What's the difficulty level above normal? And is it available immediately? : TPSReport
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    Nightmare, and it's not. That's not how the game is designed, you need to have progressed through normal ... : FlatlineDixay
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      Are you sure? how do you know nightmare won't be available right away? : JohnnyRey
      • Blizzard said it's going to work that way again. : JarEme
      • Trust me. I know. : FlatlineDixay
      • That's just not the way the difficulties work in Diablo. A fresh character stepping into Nightmare would ... : Psigun
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        IIRC, they said Nightmare mode has mobs ranging from level ~30 to 55. Hell will probably be ~50-60, and ... : walker270
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          Oh ok, so you use your previous character for the higher difficulties? : JohnnyRey
          • Yeah, so you'll have taken your character through all four difficulties in succession by the time you rea... : Psigun
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            Yep. Your character will go up to level 60. Previous Diablo games only had Normal, Nightmare, and Hel... : walker270
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              ah ok. So you can't ever just make a new character and start out with nightmare? And is there a hardco... : JohnnyRey
              • hardcore is a permadeath thing. You can get to nightmare and hell with a hardcore character, too. : barichnikov
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                Right. For subsequent play throughs you'll probably rush the lower level content as quickly as possible ... : walker270
                • *like in D2, I mean. : walker270
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                Nope, to get to nightmare, a character must beat normal. You always start in normal. Succeeding in Nigh... : SqueegyTBS
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                  ok. So there aren't really difficulty levels as much as there are New game + difficulty levels. : JohnnyRey
                  • Correct, but the higher difficulties are much harder overall. : saunders45
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                    Pretty much. The game's difficulty likely ramps up substantially in each difficulty. If it's anything... : walker270
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                      haha, love it, looking forward to 5-15 thanks for all the info in this little subthread : TPSReport
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                        5-17 through 5-20 are going to be epic when all of the people who went straight into HC splatter merciles... : walker270
                        • I want Youtube to explode with D3 hardcore snuff films. : SqueegyTBS
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                  What a convenient way for Blizzard to pad out the (lack of) content, by forcing you to play through the s... : Haxim
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                    I guess new game+ is a whole new concept to you, illuminated by D3. good times. : Downforce
                    • I heard D3 was going to be the first game to have a ng+ option. : barichnikov
                  • Not sure if serious..... : saunders45
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                    This is one of the systems that returned from Diablo 2, because it was awesome and worked pretty well. ... : SqueegyTBS
                    • That was true of Diablo as well. I think it was result from not being able to have 100% randomly gener... : walker270
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                      I would like if they borrowed a page from Titan Quest and added a few small unique bits to higher difficu... : derelict515
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                        We don't know for sure, but I'd bet thats the case with Diablo 3 as well. Though probably not as crafted... : SqueegyTBS
                        • They eventually added similar stuff to Diablo 2, and (I believe) have mused about stuff like that in thei... : walker270
                      • The developer diary spoke of the fact that it is mathematically impossible to play through all the areas ... : ImageOmega
                  • I guess you never played Diablo or Diablo 2 : ninjase
                  • You mean like every game ever created? Can't tell if serious.. : bozer
                  • in this subthread people earnestly reply to a Haxim post : veras
              • You wouldn't want to even if you could -- fighting a level 30 mob as a level 1 noob would be literally im... : ninjase
          • It would be impossible to tackle nightmare with a level one character. Nightmare and Inferno are New Gam... : Horn
          • Yeah, the first act of Nightmare is the natural progression from the last act of Normal. In D2 you end no... : Barnahog
          • That's sorta what made D2 awesome. You beat it on normal difficulty with a character that's a total badas... : ninjase
      • because we've played Diablo before : derelict515
  • No, you need to beat each level to progress to the next one. It goes Normal, then Nightmare, then Hell, a... : JarEme
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  Are there really no more sockets? Or anything like that? : JohnnyRey
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    There are gems and sockets, but they don't start showing up until later in normal difficulty. Resistance... : walker270
    • oh sweet. Ok. : JohnnyRey
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      I crafted an item with a socket in it! : sleepytea
      • OH SHIT YA. IMMA SOCKET THE SHIT OUT OF SHIT : JohnnyRey
  • http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/gem/ : SqueegyTBS
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  I wonder if it is possible that they will have it ready so that everyone can play simultaneously on launc... : sleepytea
  • I give it 50/50. : JohnnyRey
  • At its peak I believe I saw just above 300,000 players in public games. Since servers are regional I thin... : eoladis
  • Considering the stress test probably involved significantly reduced hardware (to induce stress), I'd gues... : TheNiXXeD
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  Worst beta ever! Couldn't even log in and it's over already? lol. I felt like a guinea pig testing their ... : scary_monster
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    what : Downforce
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      WAT!? : scary_monster
      • it seems odd you want to claim all of this anguish, but you didn't even get to play, so how would you be ... : Downforce
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    Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights were a-ok here. What time did you try to get on? : Serpico74
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      Kept trying throughout the day and every day. Kept giving the same connection error. meh... : scary_monster
      • Saturday afternoon around 5pm PST I got connect errors, at night it was fine. I didn't try any other time... : Serpico74
  • I felt like a guinea pig testing their server stress crap. are you slow? that's exactly what you were.... : NexusOne
  • Lolz lolz lolz! You don't give a damn, you just want to test! Today's spoiled kids? : Curike