Diablo III Collector's Edition and New Cinematic Reveled

[theonlydz]

Why is everyone hating on having to stay connected to play??? I think it's a sensible solution to piracy... Rarely do I ever play games on a system without internet access.... almost... never ? I mean really.... It seems like most of you complaining about that are people that planned on pirating it, then you run your mouth saying well i'll never buy a blizzard product..... you never would of bought it anyway.... besides, most diablo III players spend 500 hours online playing multiplayer and only about 25 hours in the single player campaign.

 

[bildo123]

Eh. Art book you look through once and shelf. TINY 4GB flash drive with an old game that most anyone with D3 will hardly ever play, cool looking flash drive holder, and a cool soundtrack... Not worth $100 IMO. I'd totally go in at $70, maybe, just maybe $80 but having bought past "collectors editions" they more or less and up as dust collecting space wasters.

 

[HolyCrusader]

I think I bought the D2 collectors edition back in the day, but it was only $10 more back then. This collector's edition is going to easily double the price of the game, for essentially junk. The only thing out of that mess I'd like would be the Memory Stick, but even that's stretching it at only a 4GB capacity.

 

[nikkidpartypooper]

Yeah! This clip really stinks and so does this game.

 

[Jprobes]

[citation][nom]wildkitten[/nom]I can't think it will happen. For one thing it was already stalled, and with the slate of bad news for the Warcraft franchise, cancelled comics and the magazine due to low sales, weak sales for the pre Cataclysm novels and a declining subscriber base just after a new expansion comes out all go toward making a film studio very nervous.The fact that Blizzard is doing this 'Get D3 free if you pay for WoW for the next year' promotion, which by the way is only for existing subscribers and players who have let their accounts go inactive, tells me they fully expect WoW to have a VERY bad year.But who knows. Maybe things will get shaken up at Activision Blizzard soon. I'm keeping my hopes up for that to happen.[/citation]

It seams to me that you have an exceedingly hard time grasping that nothing, and i mean NOTHING, can sustain growth forever.

In the end video games are never designed or meant to sustain 10 years of continual growth. Assuming that nothing short of that is a failure, in your mind, is comprehensiveness on my part.

At some point every developer of MMO's will hit peak subscriber usage and their is nothing to EVER prevent that from happening, regardless of the game or premise. Railing against that fundamental fact is quite detrimental to everything you post regarding Blizzard/Activision.

Assuming that this "shakeup" you're rooting for ever comes, it will do nothing to prevent the decline of a game that is 7 years old.

I can understand you're resentment for D3 because you do all your gaming on an airplane or your internet is dependent on fairy pixie dust for the fiber and it can not be used on a full moon of an odd number day in an even numbered month every 182 1/2 days.

But to not understand and accept that decline is certain as Death & Taxes and is part of the life cycle of any franchise/video game is misguided and skews every one of your points.

WoW is dying, not because of "How bad it has become", but because of how old it is. No IP can sustain 6+ years of growth without an eventual decline in subscribers/users along with a drop is non subscriber based revenue.

In fact, Blizzard is only company who can prop up an aging IP such as WOW with an even older IP having an new title released. Show me any company who has that luxury.

 

[quotas47]

[citation][nom]wildkitten[/nom]I can't think it will happen. For one thing it was already stalled, and with the slate of bad news for the Warcraft franchise, cancelled comics and the magazine due to low sales, weak sales for the pre Cataclysm novels and a declining subscriber base just after a new expansion comes out all go toward making a film studio very nervous.The fact that Blizzard is doing this 'Get D3 free if you pay for WoW for the next year' promotion, which by the way is only for existing subscribers and players who have let their accounts go inactive, tells me they fully expect WoW to have a VERY bad year.But who knows. Maybe things will get shaken up at Activision Blizzard soon. I'm keeping my hopes up for that to happen.[/citation]


Which bring sup my own point, with this collectors edition, you can notice that in the Green Box of info on the right of the picture, it says World of Warcraft pet.
So...
I don't get it.

We buy a year of WoW to get:
1. Year of WoW. Duh.
2. Wow-ingame-mount,
3. and FREE DIABLO III digital download

But buy the Diablo III Collectors Edition and get:
1-6. blah blah blah stuff yay!
7. DIABLO III (wait i already have one from my year of WoW...)
8. WoW in-game pet i obviously want...

So, what do I do with the two copies of the game?
I can't give away/gift/sell my digital copy, can I?
And I'd obviously have to use my collectors edition code to get in-game content for WoW/Diablo/Starcraft so...

???? I don't know.

 

[youssef 2010]

Unfortunately, I've only played Diablo II once and for only 15 minutes. This seems like a very good game though.