*** The Official Diablo III Thread ***

[EDDS]

Sounds like entitlement mush to me.

Game is released on the 15th, servers go live just before. Everyone that pre-ordered can play at the same time regardless of where they ordered. Seems fair to me.

Sounds like you work for Blizzard to me.

Fair doesnt come into it, if someone else is playing now, who gives a toss if it's fair, it has no effect on me if someone else is playing now.

There's absolutely no reason not to let people play when they get the game, none at all.

 

[Bleek]

Sounds like you work for Blizzard to me.

Fair doesnt come into it, if someone else is playing now, who gives a toss if it's fair, it has no effect on me if someone else is playing now.

There's absolutely no reason not to let people play when they get the game, none at all.

Can of worms.

How would you control distribution and retail if the aim of the game were to be the first retailer to ship, regardless of release date? Might as well scrap release dates!

For standalone games you get a day or two early, sure, but not for online based.

 

[Gustov]

Guessing my pc won't run this?

AMD Athlon 64x2 dual
Core Processor 6000+
3.01Ghz
1.75g RAM
Windows XP

Nvidia geforce 7025 / Nvidia nforce 630a

 

[yhack]

Santa came today.

 

[ColEx]

Guessing my pc won't run this?

AMD Athlon 64x2 dual
Core Processor 6000+
3.01Ghz
1.75g RAM
Windows XP

Nvidia geforce 7025 / Nvidia nforce 630a

You should be good man, Diablo III is not a demanding game. Check out the requirements at http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-system-requirements

 

[OminousLatinNoun]

Sounds like you work for Blizzard to me.

Fair doesnt come into it, if someone else is playing now, who gives a toss if it's fair, it has no effect on me if someone else is playing now.

There's absolutely no reason not to let people play when they get the game, none at all.

No one is playing now, all of the game data is seeded from blizzard servers which are not online/accepting connections.

Edit - My amazon order hasn't been dispatched yet. Getting delivery refunded though. Had to change my delivery address today, so my order has probably been shuffled to the bottom of the deck.

 

[Lithon]

Sounds like you work for Blizzard to me.

Fair doesnt come into it, if someone else is playing now, who gives a toss if it's fair, it has no effect on me if someone else is playing now.

There's absolutely no reason not to let people play when they get the game, none at all.

As mentioned before if the game files are accessed early people will datamine. Also they've mentioned many times that D3 isn't a full MMO but does have elements of one. Such as needing to always be online, and the AH/RMAH being server wide.

 

[Silent UK]

Question. For those who ordered via Tesco. What mail service did they use?

 

[Frenzy]

GAME HAVE SOME CEs BACK IN STOCK!!!! GO GOGOGOGOGOGOGOOGOGO!!!!!!

 

[yhack]

There's absolutely no reason not to let people play when they get the game, none at all.

When it comes out, it's a race to complete the game.

 

[yhack]

Question. For those who ordered via Tesco. What mail service did they use?

Royal Mail second class.

 

[orderoftheflame]

Sounds like you work for Blizzard to me.

Fair doesnt come into it, if someone else is playing now, who gives a toss if it's fair, it has no effect on me if someone else is playing now.

There's absolutely no reason not to let people play when they get the game, none at all.

Calm down grumpy.

Can you imagine the ruckus that Blizzard would cause if they went to their retailers and said "Cheers for selling the retail copy of our game, try to get it out to people for the 15th if you would chaps. Oh! By the way, we're going to let people that order from us directly play whenever they've downloaded the client." Retailers would be dropping them left right and center.

In your world, who would want to buy a game from a retailer when they're then dependent on waiting for it to be delivered? Everyone in the know would go direct to Blizz, pay a bit more and be playing a week early, leaving physical retailers wondering why they even bothered.

It might be ok in fairy console land where developers can't distribute a game digitally themselves. But in the PC scene, it would be a stupid move by Blizzard to **** off all of the retailers supporting them.

I don't work for Blizzard, I just have patience, and as I said this is pretty common for PC games today. Any Steamworks title is exactly the same as this. Consoles might let you play early, but you're not going to be playing Diablo on a console for a while.

 

[Calneon]

Ok wtf, I have had no such emails, preordered 18th of April, scroll up for my Chat with Amazon, they said it only effects orders placed later. So how is mine prioritised over yours :S

Just had a chat with Amazon, said it was because I chose super saver delivery which makes sense. Changed it to first class which was only an extra £1.50, estimate is still the 16th though :S. Guess that will have to do.

 

[QlimaxUK]

Santa came today.

that was slow most of us got it hours ago

 

[Dist]

Just had a chat with Amazon, said it was because I chose super saver delivery which makes sense. Changed it to first class which was only an extra £1.50, estimate is still the 16th though :S. Guess that will have to do.

my amazon CE order was always on 1st class delivery, and shows estimated delivery of the 15th. As long as it gets here on that day I'm happy

 

[yhack]

that was slow most of us got it hours ago

I got a text saying I'm not needed in work today, so I slept till 1

 

[TAC4U]

My copy arrived today. I've activated it on Battle.net, though it's a shame I can't install it immediately.

 

[dakaiez]

Wohay got my copy from Tesco aswell this morning.

It's the quickest i've ever received a game from them, i've had it a day earlier, plenty of orders on the day and one arrive on the Monday on a Friday release.

I got mine for the total amount of £25.74 so glad i didn't use the Battlenet store so i could play instantly and held out with my order.

 

[EDDS]

Calm down grumpy.

Can you imagine the ruckus that Blizzard would cause if they went to their retailers and said "Cheers for selling the retail copy of our game, try to get it out to people for the 15th if you would chaps. Oh! By the way, we're going to let people that order from us directly play whenever they've downloaded the client." Retailers would be dropping them left right and center.

In your world, who would want to buy a game from a retailer when they're then dependent on waiting for it to be delivered? Everyone in the know would go direct to Blizz, pay a bit more and be playing a week early, leaving physical retailers wondering why they even bothered.

It might be ok in fairy console land where developers can't distribute a game digitally themselves. But in the PC scene, it would be a stupid move by Blizzard to **** off all of the retailers supporting them.

I don't work for Blizzard, and as I said this is pretty common for PC games today. Any Steamworks title is exactly the same as this. Consoles might let you play early, but you're not going to be playing Diablo on a console for a while.

I don't think you understood my point in the first place, I'm not talking about digital distribution, I'm talking about physical copies.

If someone receives it early there should be nothing stopping them from playing even if it's just single player on their own (and they should have an offline mode to do this but that's another argument all together).

Digital copies should have the unlock on them as that makes sense for those to unlocked on release.

At the end of the day I'm glad I play mainly on Xbox because this is backwards on PC.

 

[998cc]

Impressed with the early delivery from tesco!

Now i just need to finalize a battletag before the 15th as they're permanent