Long Term Effects of Soul Binding / Restrictive Trading
While players may want the sort of staying power that Diablo II - Lord of Destruction ended up providing quite by accident (since the overall design pretty much provided different…
Lylirra posts on the viability of Campaign Mode + Dynamic Difficulty
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/10497440190#6 In terms of overall experience, rewards, density, and difficulty, we're working to have Campaign Mode and Adventure Mode be relatively comparable with one another. Even so, we anticipate that…
BlizzCon 2013 – Bounties and Rifts
The bounty's in Adventure mode are basically presenting the random events that one normally experiences in Story/Campaign mode, for play. Remember, they are getting rid of the requirement to play…
Patch 2.0 – Legendary and Set Items to be Soul Bound
Cursed, Inc interview from Blizzcon 2013 with Travis Day and Jason Regier: From around the 1m05s mark.... Travis Day basically responds to how soul binding will work: The way that…
BlizzCon 2013 – Plans for trading?
With regards to trading, word has it from those who talked to Mosqueira one-on-one at a BlizzCon mixer is that they have zero plans for any sort of trade system…
Extrapolating Diablo III console sales
Back in February during their fiscal 4th quarters earnings call, they announced they had sold 12 million copies of Diablo III (this was of course before the console versions went…
BattleTag change = partial fail on Blizzard’s part
Due to some spam issues (harvested BattleTag's so that gold sellers can send you in-game requests) I was having over on Asia, I decided to do a BattleTag change back…
An in-depth look at disconnects and latency in Diablo III
October 20th note: originally posted this over on the hardcore forums, I ended up deleting the multi-part posting (the entire topic was already 10 pages deep) due to the lack…