Diablo 3

it's in very early stages right now. you can't buy it probably for another year or so. if you want to try something a little different from wow, i recommend torchlight (similar to diablo) or lord of the rings online (similar to wow, and it's free).

 

I highly doubt it'll be a year. SC2 beta testing started February 17, 2010 and then released on July 27, 2010. The WoW expansion beta periods have all been 4-5 months. I would be very surprised if we didn't see D3 released before March 2012, and probably sooner, but you never know.

 

Real cash for vanity items is one thing, cash for functional items doesn't sit well with me. We'll see how it is implemented, it may not affect me or I may choose not to play.

 

What I'm saying is there is no such thing as "functional items" in Diablo, and, further, there are no items you can buy with real money that you can't find just by playing. Diablo gear (unless something in the versus system is dramatically different, and much more important than I guess it will be) is all about vanity. You can play through the whole game by basically wearing what you pick up. If you want better gear it's because you want it to want it, not because it makes a huge difference.

I would agree with you if blizzard was posting "super special sets of awesome" that were quantitatively better than gear that could be found in the game and were only available for real money, I'd agree. But a player driven money-based auction house seems perfectly reasonable to me.

 

Did you get a chance to lower the specs, cynthetiq?

 

Okay, thank you for trying.

 

They did say that they wouldn't enter beta with Diablo 3 until it was very close to release. There is still hope for the end of the year or beginning of next year.

 

Looks like my "not later than March 2012" prediction might be right on the money, but my "before the end of the year" prediction was not. I find it very surprising that less than a month ago they were confident enough in the release to issue the Diableard Challenge, and now they're pushing it back very ambiguously. I can only hope that they take this opportunity to send out more beta invites and to expand the scope of the beta. Gonna be a long wait!

Linkies-

Super sad post: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/3552227/#blog

Diableard Challenge: http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/3359129#blog

 

super sad, indeed.

 

I play a lot of RPG's but found Diablo very repetitive. Not sure if I will give this a go yet, will wait to see if you actually have to use more than 2 brain cells.

 

You have defeated the beta! Haha, that's awesome.

 

i just got in the beta yesterday; downloading now

 

I got my Beta invite a few days ago as well. Too bad I'm not home at the moment...can't wait though.