Diablo III coming May 15 • Hacker News Board

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by hackermom » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 2:51 PM UTC

I think I can hear the distant sound of marriage counselors rubbing their hands. It's THAT big.

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by harph » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 2:54 PM UTC

Jimmie wrote: post #11

"Online Only" sucks. No LAN and no mods make me a sad boy.

This. I will not be buying this game, because I don't want to support this model.

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by Shivetya » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:06 PM UTC

jeremymcanally wrote: post #13

Oh, they're fiendish indeed. They're offering the game for free if you sign up for a year of WoW. That's just mean. I managed to abstain from that, but I did pre-buy and pre-load the game. I was just so excited they had Mac support (which, last I'd heard, was sort of up in the air I thought).

Unfortunately awhile back when I looked at that option it requires that they hold you CC info on file for the full year, you cannot prepay it nor use another method.

One of the little gotchas for those who do not like leaving the CC with vendors or choose one time pay options.

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:07 PM UTC

hackermom wrote: post #15

budley wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, they understand perfectly.

+1.

There's a button for doing that.

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by mariusmg » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:13 PM UTC

TheCapn wrote: post #6

kahawe wrote: post #5

Are there any news on bringing it to consoles? Wikipedia[0] just says they are probably still working on it but there are no confirmations one way or the other... [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_3#Console_development

I don't have a source on me (Work blocks sites that I could link to) but they have confirmed that there is a console port coming. I believe they have a small dedicated team to the port.

Probably towards the end of the year...

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by athst » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:14 PM UTC

Okay, so that means I have about 60 days left of productivity/having a life

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by vyrotek » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:15 PM UTC

While I'm very (very) excited for this game.. I'm very nervous about my productivity this summer. There are few things that can pull me away from coding. This is one of them.

Maybe D3 will open some new startup opportunities? Yes.. yes that's what I'll tell myself. It's all research.

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by thomasloh » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:16 PM UTC

right about time! let's find out what's 10 years worth of developing this game looks like!

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by vyrotek » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:17 PM UTC

athst wrote: post #26

Okay, so that means I have about 60 days left of productivity/having a life

Start the count down!

Re: Diablo III coming May 15

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Post by debacle » Thu, Mar 15, 2012, 3:19 PM UTC

Judging by many of the posts of /. and reddit, the level of distaste with the 'Battle.net 2.0' scheme for Diablo III is much higher than what it was for Starcraft 2, probably owing to SC2's inherently multiplayer nature and the huge deviation in gameplay from Diablo II to Diablo III.

I has been common knowledge for a while that Diablo III will likely see a console port. Looking back, it's hard to imagine that that didn't severely impact the design of the game.