@neonsun

what is your starcraft 2 character name and code so i can add you
For starcraft2 its also neonsun :)

Be warned i mainly play mods mainly tower defense, psychoMc s map , and nexus wars
Didnt even do the ranking games
I dable a bit in SOTiS (the unofficial starcraft2 dota)

you play on ogero dsl ?

So about that diablo 3 latency any updates peeps ?
i need character code also to be able to add u
al these noob reviewers dunno shit bout gaming, freaking best game i've played in a while
@cmwic my battle tag : Cyanyde#1366
game name neonsun

@firas : reviewers are just angry about the online issue , diablo was always a game you could take with you on ur laptop , on vacation etcc.. all of that places where you dont have the net .

in view of the the bad internet we have in lebanon i must say i kinda agree .
shant wrotethis is not sad, its time to rejoice, no noobs hacking their characters!
no matter how bad diablo 3 will turn out, it will still be better than any other game like it
Why does it matter whether they hack their characters or not if they will be only ones to play with it? But I think the main reason they did the online thing is mainly for their own benefit. Everyone that wants to play the game must buy the account. Not to mention speed hacking still exists, even in online games.

It would have been great if they did it offline, and the ability to go online if you wish to play with your friends. Just like those console games. Any hacks would ban the account, and I don't think it will be hard to catch them.
i think the main reason they didn't like diablo 3 is because they removed a lot of awesome features that we saw in the first diablo 3 gameplay video thats like 10 mins or something, also some people seem to be arguing about the storyline how they ruined it
My companions have stopped following me. The map has suddenly blanked out. The dungeon doors aren’t opening. And despite my just having cleared out a two-storey dungeon for the second time, there hasn’t been a checkpoint in over a half an hour. If I quit out to fix it, the entire area map will be reset yet again (a previous quit to see if there was any way to raise the difficulty had already done this to me once, and is how I discovered the dungeon wasn’t checkpointing), so in total an hour’s play time lost, and, well, here’s the thing: Diablo III just isn’t brilliant enough to warrant this.
-RPS

My main gripe with the game is 2 fold. One the always online codswallop THAT IS DRM. Two that fact that it looks like WOW and Barney had sex, produced Siamese twins, and subsequently mashed them together to reveal the howdidodi land that is Diablo 3. The myriad of problems that stem from a game that took near 12 years to make is appalling.

But I see the problem here. Too many apologists in our midst, too many people willing to bend over for blizzard while paying them to do so.

Sure.It's an undeniable fact that you will have fun, for the first 2 weeks or so. But when that first elation and hype riddled fantasies die away and your left with the grueling and nagging feeling: " Is this it?"

You might try to put up some implausible defense about hacks and why the game needs to be always online. But I implore you to open those pretty baby blues and see...hacks have been cropping up everywhere on Diablo 3 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149008757

You might also try to explain why the graphics look decades old and is if I'm strolling through the flighty woodlands of a Winnie the Poo book. "MAN THAT'S BLIZZARD'S STYLE YOU DUMB ASS" Ohhhhhhooooo, just because their biggest franchise set a style that allows them to prance about with the idiom "Oh it still looks good it doesn't age ...you know because it's cartoony" doesn't justify having all the rest of it's I.P.s look like it. It's sheer laziness and money mongering on their part. Why bother hiring people who know how to emulate the Gothic Style of the first two games when we have a legion of WoW artists at our disposal. Have you seen any other major developer do such an idiotic move, to completely restylise a game just to maintain homogeneity throughout their I.P.s. Utter crud I say.

But most of you suffer from the consumer version of the Stockholm Syndrome or some version or other of consumer guilt for buying such a shoddy game. What's worse you trick yourself into believing that your enjoying the game and that it's God's gift to man. What a sad state you've all come to. And it's truly a shame really.

This is my last say on the matter. I've spent enough time in the company of the disillusioned. Open the flood gates!!
Brashen wrote
My companions have stopped following me. The map has suddenly blanked out. The dungeon doors aren’t opening. And despite my just having cleared out a two-storey dungeon for the second time, there hasn’t been a checkpoint in over a half an hour. If I quit out to fix it, the entire area map will be reset yet again (a previous quit to see if there was any way to raise the difficulty had already done this to me once, and is how I discovered the dungeon wasn’t checkpointing), so in total an hour’s play time lost, and, well, here’s the thing: Diablo III just isn’t brilliant enough to warrant this.
-RPS

My main gripe with the game is 2 fold. One the always online codswallop THAT IS DRM. Two that fact that it looks like WOW and Barney had sex, produced Siamese twins, and subsequently mashed them together to reveal the howdidodi land that is Diablo 3. The myriad of problems that stem from a game that took near 12 years to make is appalling.

But I see the problem here. Too many apologists in our midst, too many people willing to bend over for blizzard while paying them to do so.

Sure.It's an undeniable fact that you will have fun, for the first 2 weeks or so. But when that first elation and hype riddled fantasies die away and your left with the grueling and nagging feeling: " Is this it?"

You might try to put up some implausible defense about hacks and why the game needs to be always online. But I implore you to open those pretty baby blues and see...hacks have been cropping up everywhere on Diablo 3 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149008757

You might also try to explain why the graphics look decades old and is if I'm strolling through the flighty woodlands of a Winnie the Poo book. "MAN THAT'S BLIZZARD'S STYLE YOU DUMB ASS" Ohhhhhhooooo, just because their biggest franchise set a style that allows them to prance about with the idiom "Oh it still looks good it doesn't age ...you know because it's cartoony" doesn't justify having all the rest of it's I.P.s look like it. It's sheer laziness and money mongering on their part. Why bother hiring people who know how to emulate the Gothic Style of the first two games when we have a legion of WoW artists at our disposal. Have you seen any other major developer do such an idiotic move, to completely restylise a game just to maintain homogeneity throughout their I.P.s. Utter crud I say.

But most of you suffer from the consumer version of the Stockholm Syndrome or some version or other of consumer guilt for buying such a shoddy game. What's worse you trick yourself into believing that your enjoying the game and that it's God's gift to man. What a sad state you've all come to. And it's truly a shame really.

This is my last say on the matter. I've spent enough time in the company of the disillusioned. Open the flood gates!!
I agree , and bought the game because of all the hype, as said it is fun for now, but wont be for long. I was not wowed once yet by it (except for the cutsene after Act 1 :p). Mediocre play and mediocre graphics, more of brainless clicking than anything.

Even Anarchy Online, a decade year old MMORPG that i still play occasionaly is still more fulfiling than this. The only drive is to get better items (carrot stick), nothing else - and they have capitalized on that carrot well by introducing the auction houses.

I would give it a solid 6.5/10 :p maybe just not my style of game...

Also, i would reccomend that you guys download and use the free "online authenticator app" @ battle.net store for your phone to secure your account and avoid hacking.

EDIT: the authenticator is free on appstore
Brashen wroteWhat's worse you trick yourself into believing that your enjoying the game and that it's God's gift to man. What a sad state you've all come to. And it's truly a shame really.
I'd have bothered to reply with a long well thought out post, but sadly, everything you've said was void the moment you've declared you have not played the game.

Sorry.
xterm wrote
Brashen wroteWhat's worse you trick yourself into believing that your enjoying the game and that it's God's gift to man. What a sad state you've all come to. And it's truly a shame really.
I'd have bothered to reply with a long well thought out post, but sadly, everything you've said was void the moment you've declared you have not played the game.

Sorry.
I actually slogged through 4hrs of it on the weekend. After 15 tries to create a character and failing, I finally managed to play roughly half an hour before being booted. I had to clear the same insipid area three times before the server deigned to register that I had previously done so. So please go ahead and beguile me with your well thought out reply. Colour me intrigued.
No.
Brashen wroteI finally managed to play roughly half an hour before being booted.
Half an hour, is not playing the game. At that stage, I'd expect more whining on the installer level than on the first couple of quests.

Your issues with the servers aren't that unfortunate, we've all witnessing them and Blizzard has already been bashed to oblivion about it.
No.
As emphatic as that may seem, might I point out that I actually stated I played four hours. You misinterpreted my first half hour of the game as my only foray into Diablo 3.
Brashen wroteMy main gripe with the game is 2 fold. One the always online codswallop THAT IS DRM. Two that fact that it looks like WOW and Barney had sex, produced Siamese twins, and subsequently mashed them together to reveal the howdidodi land that is Diablo 3. The myriad of problems that stem from a game that took near 12 years to make is appalling.
First and foremost, It's world of warcraft that has taken from diablo and not the other way around. Have you played Diablo 2? Changing a game from its original theme, content and style is basically changing the entire game and that is not what the Diablo fans are looking for.

Are you a Diablo fan? Perhaps this game is not for you?
But I see the problem here. Too many apologists in our midst, too many people willing to bend over for blizzard while paying them to do so.
You're not paying a monthly fee, you're paying a one time fee to get a game, similar to how you pay any other company for a game that if i may say, most can be completed in little under 5 hours. I urge you to actually complete the game in "Normal" mode which is pretty much Hack'n'Slash your way blindly in that time.
Sure.It's an undeniable fact that you will have fun, for the first 2 weeks or so. But when that first elation and hype riddled fantasies die away and your left with the grueling and nagging feeling: " Is this it?"
Most, are on the same boat. They complete normal boat and assume 'Is this it?'. You and them are completely mistaken, the game as you've probably seen me write before, does not start until mid nightmare mode. In terms of fun, this is quite relative don't you think? The Diablo theme is all about gear grinding, as much as Blizzard fails to admit it, it is.
You might try to put up some implausible defense about hacks and why the game needs to be always online. But I implore you to open those pretty baby blues and see...hacks have been cropping up everywhere on Diablo 3 http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5149008757
What you linked is totally irrelevant to why the game is online. The issues described in the topic you linked occur in World of Warcraft as well. It's a user problem, when it's a blizzard problem it gets fixed. Being online,

- Latency : I'm on the lowest possible connection in Lebanon and It's not an issue to me.
- Server issues : I've already mentioned this, yes, it's a shame.
- Being on the road/airplane : Read a book.
- Not having an internet connection : Don't buy a 50$ game, get an internet connection.

On the positive side:

- Control of the online community of diablo gamers : Battle.net consolidates these gamers and gives them an easy way to play together, find games, join games, trade items and so on. Yes, it is about making money for them, what company doesn't want to benefit from their games to the extreme? They're taking a 15% cut off of trades through AH.

- Cheats/Game Hacks remain on the 'custom' servers : You will never see a hacked item online. People will not be one shotting Diablo on inferno and so on.

There are many advantages, most of which skipped my mind at the moment.
You might also try to explain why the graphics look decades old and is if I'm strolling through the flighty woodlands of a Winnie the Poo book. "MAN THAT'S BLIZZARD'S STYLE YOU DUMB ASS" Ohhhhhhooooo, just because their biggest franchise set a style that allows them to prance about with the idiom "Oh it still looks good it doesn't age ...you know because it's cartoony" doesn't justify having all the rest of it's I.P.s look like it. It's sheer laziness and money mongering on their part. Why bother hiring people who know how to emulate the Gothic Style of the first two games when we have a legion of WoW artists at our disposal. Have you seen any other major developer do such an idiotic move, to completely restylise a game just to maintain homogeneity throughout their I.P.s. Utter crud I say.
Diablo 3 looks exactly how I expect it to be, I find the graphics rather nice. I grew sick of the 'colors' in world of warcraft, now THAT'S 'cartoony'.

Wouldn't you say that the fun factor and the taste in graphics is rather relative? Or do you want to impose on me what kind of graphics I should like?

On the negative side, my system is very powerful and I wish the game could've taken advantage of the hardware components I have to the extreme. Or at least allow me to make the choice.
But most of you suffer from the consumer version of the Stockholm Syndrome or some version or other of consumer guilt for buying such a shoddy game.
I've already exhausted the price I paid for this game, so i don't feel much guilt about it, despite how I feel. I presume for most, it's the same thing.
What's worse you trick yourself into believing that your enjoying the game and that it's God's gift to man. What a sad state you've all come to. And it's truly a shame really.
Why are you so keen on downing this game for those that are actually enjoying it? Are you seriously saying that everyone is delusional just because it's a Blizzard game?

I'm not going to impose or enforce a game on you. I enjoy it and that's all that matters. I've been partnering up with a 'Monk' friend of mine and doing hard content, having to do quite a bit of theory-crafting before hand in terms of identifying the skills synergy to overcome some random hard Elite packs with absolutely devastating mix of assigned abilities, only to end up changing it all over again because it failed and we wiped dozens of times.

'This' makes the game fun for me. I'm not looking for endless content that I can face-roll my way through.
kk anyone having latency spikes to 2000 ms ?
xterm wroteI'm not going to impose or enforce a game on you. I enjoy it and that's all that matters. I've been partnering up with a 'Monk' friend of mine and doing hard content, having to do quite a bit of theory-crafting before hand in terms of identifying the skills synergy to overcome some random hard Elite packs with absolutely devastating mix of assigned abilities, only to end up changing it all over again because it failed and we wiped dozens of times.

'This' makes the game fun for me. I'm not looking for endless content that I can face-roll my way through.
I wish i had a play buddy on D3, would be much more interesting i am sure :S Till then, my wizzard shall single handedly stand in the face of those infernal abominations and rid the realms of darkness. - and hopefuly shack up with that sexy Eireena the enchantress- :p


@ romel Its usualy 300-400 to me, but i don feel much lag, just occasionaly
CE is selling for 200$+ on ebay... no second batch will be released it was a limited release as far as i know.
About the arguing towards the graphics, when i saw the gameplay videos before release i was disappointed but when i got my hands on the game, upon installing, i got a message saying my pc doesn't have the requirements and i was afraid of that, i didn't even think this pc will run those graphics even. When i went ingame, i was actually surprised, RPG that look way more realistic instead of looking like an animated fantasy, i simply don't enjoy, feel free to take a look at dungeon siege 3, game was looking great on the previous releases until they ruined the graphics at the last game and i'm glad diablo3 didn't take that step, i'm running the game now on high quality despite the game telling me that i have low requirements, my fps drops to 30 at lowest and i'm fine with that, the did such a good job on the graphics that even crappy pc's such as mine can run the game smoothly and keeping the fantasy looking style of an old school rpg.

About the latency, it's mostly normal between 200-300, i am spiking a lot lately, but i think i have some problems from my end, a few days ago i even had a latency of less then 100ms but it occurred once around 4am in the morning, i still hope the latency will be improved, i know lebanon has a crappy internet but since the upgrade in lebanon i haven't reached 300ms latency on any game, i even play league of legends on NA servers on a stable 220ms and 70ms on EU servers.
peekaie wrote.
peekaie!

Your post was very important, please bring it back (Albeit removing the storyline part).