We going to have to put up with weekly maintenance during peak times ala WoW for this game?

Well with SC2, when a region of Battle.net goes down for maintenance it's just that region, e.g. NA goes down, but Oceania still up.

So I'm guessing we'll have similar regions but does that mean the auction house will be shared amongst an entire realm? At first I thought that might mess with the AH if but I guess it'd just scale up right?

Hmm, that does raise some interesting points. Perhaps there will be a separate AH on each region, which will determine which region has the most botters or not :D . I think they might realise having to take down the whole AH just for a region to go down will be impractical, in keeping with the 'real world' trading aspect.

Not sure mate I'm just making wild guesses.
Could be like WoW's system though, separate AH for separate realm.
Again, no real idea here :P


my 2c

Thats because your being throttled. You can't run the game smoothly when more then half of the servers capacity is being dedicated to recording player data and the Off site monitoring of the beta. There's stuff in there that has been turned on whether your playing locally or online. I really dont get why people complain that a demo is not polished... I get it all the bloody time.

Be patient people, its not far off and it wont be flawless, but it will work.

P.s as far as I know Maintenance will be the same as SC 2.

Awesome :P. Sounds good :D

You're muddling demos and betas. If a demo wasn't polished I would not touch the full game. There's no question about it, a demo absolutely should be polished, it's purpose is to demonstrate the release version of the game.

This is a beta test, not a demo, of course :) so almost by definition one should not be expect it to be polished, as you say, it's purpose being to find problems prior to release.

Even so... I'm not optimistic. It's not really a question of polish, it's a toxic design choice (mandatory use of remote hosts even for single player play.) So far the beta is exposing exactly the result you'd expect from that - lag spikes and the like, even in single player play, for at least some people. No amount of polish can fix the fact you're playing on Blizzard's servers not on your local PC.

I can tell you now that the lag will be signifcantly reduced. Maybe not on luanch as there will be a heavy shock load on the servers, but it should stablise to a more playable status. Like I said before the beta is being throttled. My build is not throttled and I direct connect to those servers and get about the same sort of lag you would with playing wow on BlizzNA servers. Having said that I doubt Aus will have to deal with that.

Unfortunately I agree with the remote host direction but thats more of a general game market trend. I mean have you noticed how many AAA's are doing this these days. Its rediculious, just another chance to divide the populus. People who can afford the crazy speed ISP's are going to have a huge advantage.

The whole choppy feeling that everyone gets is because of something we use when QA'n. "Marker's" are added to essentially "screen cap" positions we beleive low end systems may crash dump. Also works to show us what high end systems can achieve on the servers.

Anyway having said that I've finished with D3. The other teams are about to as well, which means if all is well and D3 follows the SC2 rollout, you'll be seeing it sooner rather tha later. Unless they change their mind again... which happens alot but I've got my fingers crossed!

I dunno... Blizz haven't even announced a release date for the next SC2 expansion and I thought that was going to come out first.

Play Path of Exile in the meantime, and, if D3 sucks, continue to do so. PoE is looking like what D3 should be anyways.

Just got an email from a mate about changes in the next patch!


If this is true then we won't see D3 for quite some time!

More info here:
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4325...1_19_2012#blog

Hopefully all the changes will be for the better

Sigh... will have to wait even longer now.....

Yeah they won't be hey. Not happy with some of those changes at all.

Salvaging sounds the worst, being able to do it in dungeon made it much faster. Going to have to port back now? :confused:

"We will remember if the game is great, not late."

No I think we will remember it as late as well as great.
Just like fucking Starcraft 2. (Although I'm not complaining too much about that)