Been waiting patiently for this game as well. Im a huge MMO guy and happened to get into the Diablo series as well.

Hopefully with the RMT tradehouse ingame and the money it generates plus the new battlenet, the hacking and chinese farmers will be a non factor. Im about 99% sure I will get a beta key.

 

I am a little worried about being able to auction and buy stuff using actual money

 

Why? It always happens anyway, atleast this way there is massive competition which will drive the prices down and make the virtual pixels worth next to nothing. Atleast I hope it works that way haha.

This coming from a guy who made $10k on Everquest btw. Another thing Im hoping for is no bots. Guess its time to go make sure my account on d2jsp is still active.

 

How is that?

 

Speaking of Diablo, I still listen to this song regularly.

 

just ordered a new build for all the upcoming goodness, BF3, Diablo3, Skyrim

Intel Core i5-2500K Processor 3.3GHz 6 MB Cache Socket LGA1155
Biostar TZ68A+ Intel LGA1155 Z68 Chipset Motherboard with USB3.0
Patriot Gamer 2 Series DDR3 8GB RAM PC3-10666 1333MHz
PNY GeForce GTX 560 OverClocked 1GB GDDR5 PCIe Graphics Card
LG 12X Blu-Ray/DVD-ROM Combo Internal Drive
Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 120mm Sleeve CPU Cooler
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64bit (yes, I pay for software)

Its not a monster build but since its my first big upgrade Ive done since the original Modern Warfare it should be like night and day. Going to be here by Friday, going to be like a little christmas for me

 

I do not want to play a game where I am required to make microtransactions to be competitive.

 

A good gamer buddy of mine has a blizzard employee as a relative. said he'll be getting 10 or so keys for all of us that play together.

Its no different than if the items were sold on some offsite w/ chinese farmers and bots farming them. If you dont want to make the rmt microtransactions you can not do them or play on Hardcore.

To stay competitive, you have to have skill. Items arent going to make you if you simply suck at pvp and thats true for just about any game.

 

and yet you play WoW....

 

Much as I loved playing Diablo 2 (lvl 92 necromancer with skellies ) I'm going to wait till all the expansion packs come out and then buy a new computer. Don't think my "gaming" comp from 5 years ago can handle the graphics (dual 7900GTXs) lol

 

That's a nice setup. I've been looking in to building a gaming rig recently and my parts list looks similar. Might go with a 560ti or 1gb 6950.

 

Stoked for D3. Just got a new ASUS gamers republic laptop thats fully loaded. Bring it on =)

 

the only micro-transactions in wow are for flair items, there is nothing that is honestly useful that you can pay for

 

I assume you have not PVPed in WoW?

you can suck and have the current season of gear and still not die

D2 had problems with being able to buy items, but I still am a bit skeptical about an auction house that is powered by actual cash and not in-game money.

 

D2 had rampant item selling as well -- just not in an organized auction house. All Blizzard is doing is regulating the inevitable, and potentially thwarting some hacking.

I'm not disagreeing with you that buying items is bad, but I don't necessarily disagree with Blizzard's move either.