Diablo III

[Valentine]

No recent Diablo III threads? I am shocked. Playable from Monday evening for those who don't know and judging by the beta weekend it's going to be well worth the £30.

 

It is the last day you can unlock some special banners to use in game today so head over to Diablo III if you haven't already!

[siuko]

Yeah really looking forward to the release

 

Although if GW2 went live monday I would play that instead

[flyinghaggis]

Yeah, pre-ordered it by signing up for the annual WOW subscrition. I've been playing the beta for the last couple of weeks and it was great fun. Didn't seem radically diferent from Diablo 2 in terms of gameplay but no doubt it'll be a blast.

 

Can't wait for the servers to go live......

[Mako]

I was deeply disappointed with the beta.

 

I'll grab this title when the hype dies and it's on the shelf for £15.

 

Guild Wars 2 is my road at the moment.

[apeo]

I hope to get it but unlikely for Monday as I dont currently have a computer to run it. Need to build a new rig.

 

That said, if GW2 is released anytime soon there wont be much time spent on Diablo.

[rich_tech]

I downloaded it last night, I have an annual pass for wow and get this for free too, whether ill be playing it straight away or not though is anyones guess, spent the weekend sorting out my main PC onto Linux, WoW is working fine on there, but whether wine will like this game off the blocks is anyones guess

 

Looks to be quite an entertaining game.

[SHimmer45]

waiting for the preorder to arriveas friends brought it as a birthday gift

[DMcGuigan]

Mine should hopefully be waiting for me when I get home.

Played the open beta to death, all achievements unlocked.. need my fix!

[SHimmer45]

release date tomorrow?

[Valentine]

23:01 Tonight!

[flyinghaggis]

90 minutes to go assuming Blizzards EU server doesnt fall over! Anyone else on here going to be logging on tonight at launch?

[ZeroHour]

How does the whole server thing work? is there a ton of them?

Does this have a monthly?

I never kept up as it seemed like it was never coming and then suddenly its out.

[Boredguy]

Ah nice that the battle.net servers are still overloaded at launch time and the european game servers are playing up as well

[flyinghaggis]

How does the whole server thing work? is there a ton of them?

Does this have a monthly?

I never kept up as it seemed like it was never coming and then suddenly its out.

 

Nah, just one server for each continent (EU, US, ASIA) as far as I know so not really like WOW. In fact think of every game as being an "instance" since it's not really an MMORPG

 

Still getting an erroer saying the servers are busy so haven't managed to get online yet. Guess I should have expected that as there's probably about a few hundred thousand trying to connect at the moment!

Edited May 14, 2012 by flyinghaggis

[ZeroHour]

Nah, just one server for each continent (EU, US, ASIA) as far as I know so not really like WOW. In fact think of every game as being an "instance" since it's not really an MMORPG

 

Still getting an erroer saying the servers are busy so haven't managed to get online yet. Guess I should have expected that as there's probably about a few hundred thousand trying to connect at the moment!

 

Is there a monthly? twitter has been going rather bananas lol with people saying the servers are offline already at Server Status - Diablo III

[flyinghaggis]

Nah, it's free to play. Mind you Blizzard have setup an official Diablo auction site for online items which you can buy/sell for real cash. Blizzard take a 15% cut on everything sold though!

 

Some folks on the battle net forums have been saying they've gotten conected but I think they're telling fibs. All i'm getting is "error 37: server busy".

Edited May 14, 2012 by flyinghaggis

[ZeroHour]

Nah, it's free to play. Mind you Blizzard have setup an official Diablo auction site for online items which you can buy/sell for real cash. Blizzard take a 15% cut on everything sold though!

 

Wow nuts!

[flyinghaggis]

Server Status - Diablo III

 

Looks like Asia is the only realm up. I reckon all the Koreans/Chinese have got EU/US accounts (rather than their own) to farm items on the auction house and that's why the servers are overloaded

[rich_tech]

I was just too knackered last night to play the game, ended up going to bed early, the whole micro transaction/revenue thing is massive these days in these MMO games too, which is why blizz put it in a new game rather than retroactively add it into running games (Their previous stances with wow, imo make it very awkward to add in direct game rewards, everything they have added so far for cash, has been vanity item related, I think it would cause uproar if they went down this avenue in wow, though knowing them, it will probably happen somewhere in the future)

 

Hopefully ill be awake enough after my welsh class tonight to have a couple of hours on the game, should I be able to connect

[Bromcom_John]

1 hour 7 minutes to log in..

10 minutes of game play and disconnected... but before wailing and gnashing could take place it had only chucked us out to the character select screen.. at which point we logged straight back in and "I" played up till the just past the skeleton King battle.

By that time is was 1:30 am and I needed to kick in my "work in the morning" protocols.

[bushby]

after having to redownload the whole game installer at 10.50, i fell asleep at desk woke up at 3am installed fell back asleep played at 5

left for work at 7.30 time played so far 2 hours. loving it so far. just waiting to see if any of the kids here notice i was up early.

[DMcGuigan]

Still no sign of it yet.. I blame royal mail

 

Luckily the install will be fairly quick and I've got the skeleton king section of the game down to about an hour speed run in beta..

Can't have everyone overtaking me can I?

[CAM]

I was just too knackered last night to play the game, ended up going to bed early, the whole micro transaction/revenue thing is massive these days in these MMO games too, which is why blizz put it in a new game rather than retroactively add it into running games (Their previous stances with wow, imo make it very awkward to add in direct game rewards, everything they have added so far for cash, has been vanity item related, I think it would cause uproar if they went down this avenue in wow, though knowing them, it will probably happen somewhere in the future)

 

Hopefully ill be awake enough after my welsh class tonight to have a couple of hours on the game, should I be able to connect

 

Dw i'n hoffi siarad Cymraeg! How are you learning?

[rich_tech]

Dw i'n hoffi siarad Cymraeg! How are you learning?

 

Dw i'n gweithio fel technegydd mewn ysgol iaith Cymraeg, I work as a technician in a Welsh Language school.

 

Despite not being a welsh speaker (I dropped welsh at year 9 when I was in school for German, something in the benefit of hindsight that was daft, considering I have no intention of ever going to or working in Germany). I am learning as an adult now via Cymraeg i Oedolion - Cymraeg i Oedolion | Welsh for Adults

 

The school I work in supports me in learning Welsh (the immersion of the environment, is very good for picking up the vocabulary)and the class is not expensive - £100 for a years lessons on the intensive course(2 hours 2 nights a week), which the school reimburse me for, I am nearing the end of year one now, I estimate it will take about 3 years to get up to fluency where I work.

Edited May 15, 2012 by rich_tech

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