Silicon Avatar wrote on Mar 13, 2013, 00:00:
I skipped this. I just pretty much skip EA titles automatically now.

I always wanted follow-ups to SimLife. I even emailed Maxis (the real one - before EA bought them) about a sequel but the guy who emailed me back said that it didn't sell enough copies of the original to do a sequel.

Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jul 24, 2012, 01:39:
Seems like there's plenty of ARPGs coming out now though. Torchlight 2, Path of Exile, Bordlands 2, Krater, Grim Dawn, and I think I'm leaving a couple out still...

RollinThundr wrote on Jul 23, 2012, 18:07:
Yeah because Hellgate London worked out so well. Oh wait.

Bhruic wrote on May 3, 2012, 08:05:
Perhaps instead of being a douche, you could actually read what I've written. I never once said anything about how the drops in Diablo 3 are going to be handled, nor did I say that how they were handled in Diablo 2 would have any impact on them. In fact, the entire point of my original post was to demonstrate that the individual claiming you couldn't get duplicate uniques was wrong - except for a special case. Which the rings were.

RollinThundr wrote on May 2, 2012, 22:32:
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I wouldn't actually be surprised if the drop rates are tweaked to the point that even quality rares, never mind legendary items barely drop at all to encourage use of their embezzlement scheme of an auction house to begin with.

No, it's not wrong. You, apparently, just don't know your history.

http://diablo2.diablowiki.net/Unique_Rings

In D2C, prior to v1.07, the game always dropped the three unique rings in a preset order:

Nagelring > Manald Heal > Stone of Jordan

This meant that if the game generated a Unique ring, from a monster drop or gambling, it would always be a Nagelring, if there was not already a Nagelring in that game (previously dropped or possessed by one of the character). If there was a Nagelring, then a Manald Heal would drop. If both, then a Stone of Jordan would drop. If all three, then the ring would spawn rare instead of unique.

So yes, they changed that in later patches, but for a time, it was not possible to have any of those rings drop if you already had one.

Bhruic wrote on May 2, 2012, 13:31:

I'll refer you to my previous post, where I linked to a Bashiok post where he stated that D2 uniques only dropped once per-game, and that they're called Legendaries now

There were a few special uniques that would only drop once per playthrough, and wouldn't drop if you already possessed them, but they were extremely rare. The vast majority of uniques could drop multiple times, and could still drop if you had one.

Dev wrote on Jan 8, 2012, 20:06:
Sign up on the official d3 facebook page for the beta, thats how I got in. Note that its NOT necessary to have a facebook account to do so, they have alternative entry instructions there. I signed up and a couple weeks later I was in (this was back in november). I think they've been increasing the beta signup waves significantly.
ALSO, make sure in your battle.net profile you've opted into beta's such as D3, and make sure to run the hardware thingy.