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M6n6M6
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posted 07 May 2002 20:44     Click Here to See the Profile for M6n6M6   Click Here to Email M6n6M6        Reply w/Quote   
I know Blizzard has released anyhting to my knowledge but I've heard some rumors that a Diablo III is in the works, and will be released in a couple years. Anyone know anything of this?

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xXSpIderXx
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posted 07 May 2002 21:12     Click Here to See the Profile for xXSpIderXx   Click Here to Email xXSpIderXx        Reply w/Quote   
I haven't heard anything. Where did you hear those rumors anyway?

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Har'lea'quinn
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posted 08 May 2002 05:08     Click Here to See the Profile for Har'lea'quinn   Click Here to Email Har'lea'quinn        Reply w/Quote   Visit Har'lea'quinn's Homepage!
I came across something related to a ? D3 in one of my computing gaming magazines. A friend has the mag right now. When I get it back, I'll post the reference

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xXSpIderXx
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posted 08 May 2002 08:25     Click Here to See the Profile for xXSpIderXx   Click Here to Email xXSpIderXx        Reply w/Quote   
Har'lea'quinn you should have kept your clown guy avatar It was a good look.

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Igneous
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posted 10 May 2002 12:49     Click Here to See the Profile for Igneous   Click Here to Email Igneous        Reply w/Quote   Visit Igneous's Homepage!
If there is going to be a D3, I suspect that it is going to be a MMORPG, like everquest and asherons call. It certainly should be fun to be in the same 'game' with all those thousands of other players.

Hope it doesn't make modding harder, thanks to those hard working dudes I play this game for almost 2 years now.

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Har'lea'quinn
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posted 11 May 2002 07:05     Click Here to See the Profile for Har'lea'quinn   Click Here to Email Har'lea'quinn        Reply w/Quote   Visit Har'lea'quinn's Homepage!
The pc mag I have (still w/ friend) focused quite a bit on current and future releases of MMORPG's...?...

-SpIder,

The "clown guy"/harlequin was just a temp image for my false Harleaquinn ident. I tend to switch user images based upon what I am currently tinkering with

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xXSpIderXx
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posted 11 May 2002 10:22     Click Here to See the Profile for xXSpIderXx   Click Here to Email xXSpIderXx        Reply w/Quote   
Yeah, Aparently

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RexxLaww
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posted 11 May 2002 12:37     Click Here to See the Profile for RexxLaww   Click Here to Email RexxLaww        Reply w/Quote   Visit RexxLaww's Homepage!
Dont forget, Blizzard has a brand spanking new 3D engine, and if the response to Dungeon Siege is any indication of how gorgeous it can make a game, I fully expect Blizzard to release a Diablo III (3D).

Besides, Blizzard has two 'secret' projects that they havent released ANY info about. Wouldnt be suprised to see one of them show up as a Diablo product.

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M6n6M6
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posted 11 May 2002 20:45     Click Here to See the Profile for M6n6M6   Click Here to Email M6n6M6        Reply w/Quote   
Eh I just heard a bunch of stuff when I was seeing how my old clan was on B.net. They said they heard some stuff so I wanted to ask you guys. Ya one of those "secret" projects is probably a DIII.

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Bao Feng Xue
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posted 13 May 2002 03:25     Click Here to See the Profile for Bao Feng Xue   Click Here to Email Bao Feng Xue        Reply w/Quote   
/me guesses... World of Warcraft is one of those secret projects. The other is likely Starcraft 2.

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Har'lea'quinn
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posted 13 May 2002 04:15     Click Here to See the Profile for Har'lea'quinn   Click Here to Email Har'lea'quinn        Reply w/Quote   Visit Har'lea'quinn's Homepage!
At that, if Blizz ever does decide to put out a DIII, it will be talked up and hinted about forever before its release.

*recalls the time before DII*

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Bao Feng Xue
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posted 13 May 2002 04:42     Click Here to See the Profile for Bao Feng Xue   Click Here to Email Bao Feng Xue        Reply w/Quote   
Future = MMORPG
Diablo format != MMORPG

-> Future != Diablo

Too bad... it'd make a nice MMORPG. But the linear easy/hard differentation does not match a MMORPG where there are no real aims and no sense of progress.

People want to be able to beat Diablo... in a MMORPG that would be the end of it, but if they can't they would be annoyed.

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FoxBat
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posted 13 May 2002 15:15     Click Here to See the Profile for FoxBat   Click Here to Email FoxBat        Reply w/Quote   
Future = MMORPG?

Do you realise that only a relatively small subsector is willing to fork out for a per-month fee?

WOW is going to sell far fewer copies than D2. The monthly fee will easily make that up profit-wise for those that do buy the game, but it's still an "elite" market. I think trying to make WoW accessible to the casual gamer is funny, they'd have to be a rather dim or wealthy casual gamer to spend money month after month on something they don't play much.

If you mean that the future should be MMORPG, well I ain't touching one of those pay schemes with a ten-foot pole. I wanna be able to mod it darnit, only NWN gives me that

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posted 13 May 2002 18:09     Click Here to See the Profile for MPHG   Click Here to Email MPHG        Reply w/Quote   Visit MPHG's Homepage!
please look at the following
Wow @ EBgames.com

55$ for WoW
most games are 19.99$ per month aka 20$
1 year of a game @ 20$ a month = 240$

240 + 55 = 295 + tax where able
now a normal price game is 50$
you can buy 6 games
and a RAM upgrade for 1 game with a year subscription. lets find the logic.
Then write a logic handler cause that isn't logical to buy 1 game when you can have 6

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xXSpIderXx
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posted 13 May 2002 18:29     Click Here to See the Profile for xXSpIderXx   Click Here to Email xXSpIderXx        Reply w/Quote   
That isn't very locical is it?

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Brother Laz
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posted 14 May 2002 00:58     Click Here to See the Profile for Brother Laz   Click Here to Email Brother Laz        Reply w/Quote   
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Originally posted by FoxBat:
WOW is going to sell far fewer copies than D2. The monthly fee will easily make that up profit-wise for those that do buy the game

Nope. Let's see... $50 for the game, $20 per month. If only 10% as many people will actually play WoW, each of them would have to play it for 22 months for Buzzard to gain more money than they did with D2. Goooood luck.

About NWN: it is based on D&D. Bleh. That would be game #11257 with exactly the same characters and skills. Suuure.

From the official website's FAQ:

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2.18 When you cast a spell such as magic missile or melf's acid arrow, do you have to aim it?

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Alkalund
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posted 14 May 2002 08:29     Click Here to See the Profile for Alkalund   Click Here to Email Alkalund        Reply w/Quote   
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Originally posted by Brother Laz:

About NWN: it is based on D&D. Bleh. That would be game #11257 with exactly the same characters and skills. Suuure.

Hmmm, its a rare thing to find someone that does not like D&D... well, let me take advantage of you post Brother Laz, and give a message to all the good folks heading for Dungeon Siege:

At least characters have skills in NWN. Dungeon Siege was such a disappointment, characters are all the same, the skill system is poor, the combat is boring, simply for the fact you just have to clik once and be ready for clicking the "H" key in your keyboard in case someone needs healing...
Surely this game will have great modding potential, but the skill system and the action just make it not worth the playing time IMO.

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posted 25 May 2002 13:22     Click Here to See the Profile for johnny-b!   Click Here to Email johnny-b!        Reply w/Quote   Visit johnny-b!'s Homepage!
Okay, I'd figure I'd release my knowledge of what my dad found out on some site. In Diablo III, it's 3-D. You can go to a bar, get drunk. The bad part with that is that when you get drunk, your skills go down. You have new monsters (Of course). New charcters (like always). That is basically what my dad heard from some website. I'm guessing that the two 'secret' projects are: Diablo III, and StarCraft 2. Because they've released information on World Of WarCraft already. SO that isn't 'secret'.
That's all I know.

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