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Diablo III: Stay Awhile and Listen
Blizzard just released the new community site for Diablo 3, which explains why the community team has been on and off on WoW for a while while they were finishing it up I guess! It looks pretty nice and is based on the battle.net format of the existing community sites.
Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Our new Diablo III community site has gone live! This will be your sanctuary for all the latest developments from New Tristram and beyond, featuring community forums and regular blog updates. Just like this site, you can post comments and share Diablo III news items via Twitter, Facebook, and other popular social media outlets. You'll want to check out the new Diablo III news feed regularly. We’ll use it to share everything about Diablo III and to highlight recent community activity, including your most entertaining videos, art, comics, fansites, and much more.
We hope you head over and get acquainted with the new site, and return often. We've got a lot in store leading up to the release of Diablo III, including the launch of the Game Guide section featuring lore, characters, classes, maps, and more. Additionally, you’ll see us on the new Diablo III forums. We look forward to sharing and discussing all the latest Diablo III news, content, and updates with you for a long time to come.
Blog comments, forum posting, and profile management are only available to those with an active StarCraft II, World of Warcraft, or Diablo III beta license.
Also, something interesting turned up on the DiabloFans forums today. When the site went live it seems that Blizzard also included features related to the open beta testing phase. Last time we heard from it, the beta was still supposed to be "soon".
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Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Character Models Update
We often see people request for model updates. This is something we'd definitely like to do at some point in time, but time is a very limited commodity for our art team. We also have to be very careful about what it means to "update" a model. We've made changes in the past to various characters and had some people be a bit upset that it was changed on them as they had made very specific choices about the look of their character. We try to be as sensitive as possible about these types of things.
I can't give you more information than that, but the idea isn't far from our minds. We just have a lot of things we still want to on multiple levels that we hope enhance the experience of the game for everyone.
There is a lot of new art that was introduced in Cataclysm along with upgrades in things such as water (as a very small example). We have some pretty high standards for ourselves as well and while we can always up the poly count, that only goes so far. We're talking about models that have existed since the beginning of the game and thus, aren't all as advanced as some of the newer models that have been introduced to the game. We've been upping more than the poly counts. We're doing more in the way of animation and the way models are articulated and move within the world.
Now, as for hiring more people, we are always looking for talented people as you can see from our jobs page.We're even currently looking for a 3D character artist among other things.
Again, I think people are taking what I said to mean that there is a lack of desire on our end, and this is far from the truth. We absolutely agree that we could make improvements and would like to do so. It's just a matter of figuring out the "when" that this could be accomplished. There's a whole world (of warcraft) of things that are being worked on and we want to get to everything we can and make it count. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Raid Finder destroys communities
With the current design philosophy of the upcoming Raid Finder, it's not at all intended to serve as a replacement for organized raiding. In fact, it isn't at all being designed to be used as a direct substitute for forming raids the way people do today. The goal is to give people who enjoy the more casual PuG raid environment, or just don't have the schedule to keep up with organized raids, a better way to experience raid content.
We're still solidifying a lot of the details for this feature and look forward to sharing more with you soon. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Mobile Armory App Updated
Originally Posted by Blizzard
(Blue Tracker)
Automatic price undercutting: Set the default buyout price of your auctions to match or undercut the current lowest buyout price for an item.
Aggregated buyout search results: Multiple auctions posted at the same buyout price can now be viewed as a single group.
Support for the following Guild features: Level, Perks, Rewards, Achievements, News, Events, and MotD.
Links to items and achievements received in Remote Guild Chat now link to those sections in the app.
Links to enchants, quests, abilities, talents, and professions received in Remote Guild Chat now display tool tips.
Improved search technology.
Search now suggests terms based on previous searches.
Updated calendar events presentation.
A character’s talents & glyphs now display on the same page.
Leaderboard has been removed.
Realm firsts will no longer appear in the activity feed.
Bookmarks are now saved locally instead of on the server. All old bookmarks will be lost.
The point they are making about the models seems to me like they are trying to get any expectations people have for them coming in the next expansion out of the way right now. It's a good idea to do that if you do indeed plan not to have that as a feature in the next expansion. Personally I think the next expansion is going to be very heavily end game focused.
They changed the tree form model and people cried. Hell, I've seen people who cried they want their old cat back... Imagine the shitstorm if Blizz takes away Orc humpbacks...
I have to say that the recent changes and some of the blue posts is what made me come back to WOW. Granted it was only a 3 week break but it could have been longer. The "Looking for Raid" tool is the start of what I have been wanting for awhile. I love raiding and everything that goes with it, but I dont have the time for it. Now I can possibly see some raids when I do have time and I dont have to follow my guilds schedule. For the people complaining about it, dont use it. Its that simple, you continue raiding with your guild and us casuals will use the tool. Nuff said.
"Raid Finder destroys communities" The communities were already destroyed long ago when they implemented cross-server battlegrounds and cross-server Dungeon Finder
Thats the problem with the art team and is something we need to be very careful with. We don't want to get stuck with a weird looking new model like Garrosh; big body with a small head. People asked for new tree-form and they got an over the top design very unappealing to most people even the casting animations are horrible. I would love new models as well but we have to be very careful what we wish for.
Everquest updated their models, and gave people the choice of which models to display. Blizzard and WoW, a game with like 9 million more players than Everquest probably had at the time has no excuse. I think the problem is they are using most of the revenue from WoW to build their other games.
this concerns about the D3 forum.... I have active Starcraft 2 acc, and still on the D3 forum "No characters were found." and cant do anything.... Can someone tell me whats wrong?
Why does it matter? The current models fit the art style perfectly, what are you expecting? Something out of Crysis 2 as your human female model? Also, why would you EVER want to change the moonkin models? They're perfect they way they are.
I'd atleast want to have a human male that looks like Arthas, or a human female that looks like Jaina, or a male orc that looks like Thrall, or a male night elf that looks like Malfurion. It shouldn't be that hard to update our models with these
I dont like automatic undercut, I would prefer if they get warned when undercut, but automatic? That shit will fuck the market, go away stupid shit! ):
I'm pretty sure that it means that when you pick an item to sell, if you have this option enabled it will have your initial price be slightly lower or at the lowest price on the market. That is no different than all the in game AH addons today. I can't see it being setup so that it will automatically drop your buyout price if someone undercuts you. That would make no sense at all.
Nothing pisses me off more then "our art team is too busy basically = TS You are stuck with your shitty 03 graphics on your toons, deal with it!" *headdesk*
this concerns about the D3 forum.... I have active Starcraft 2 acc, and still on the D3 forum "No characters were found." and cant do anything.... Can someone tell me whats wrong?
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Best things to ever happen to wow.1. LFD tool.2. Cross realm battlegrounds3. Guild finder.4. Flying mounts.5. Getting saved to bosses and not raidsSoon to come (I knew was coming)1. LFR (Looking for raid) tool2. Monk class
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