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Diablo III in February?

[Jan 08, 2012, 2:17 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Joystiq has an image of a store display in a Rochester, Minnesota Best Buy that seems to show a February 1 launch date for Diablo III, Blizzard's upcoming action/RPG sequel. They have some follow ups that don't completely confirm or deny this, and word that the end-cap was legit, but has since been removed. Meanwhile, the Best Buy Website now shows a February 1 release date for the game.

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Re: Diablo III in February?

Jan 9, 2012, 14:15

Verno

Particularly when the reality is that Diablo 3 is primarily a multiplayer/coop game.

That's what people are talking about though, to some people Diablo is not played primarily as a multiplayer or co-op game. Just because you experience things one way doesn't mean everyone else shares that. Regardless of expectations (most of which are valid) there have been zero arguments about valid design reasons why this functionality is required. They could have simply had offline characters and online characters like previous iterations which would sidestep most problems while still retaining a walled multiplayer side. Change for changes sake isn't necessarily a good thing, people have listed the many downsides to this approach while there are few (if any) positive ones.

People don't like things that inconvenience them or interrupt a good game session, particularly when it has little to no benefit on their end. The same can be said for bugs and crashes, they might only occur 5% of the time or less but when they happen it's a memorable and frustrating thing for the customer.




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