My thoughts on 1.0 details! .... Oh wait, there are no details.

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Lyralei wrote:

If you are already jaded by the game, no amount of rocktober and act 3.5x will change your mind. Not even pictures of Rory dancing wildly on the table.

Also not too sure about why there's a need for details. Hush hush can be a nice surprise.

where can i find said pictures - for educational purposes obviously.

"The rest of Act 3"

Oh man, thanks for that awfully descriptive and juicy reveal. I mean, I had no idea what was coming, but now I'm fucking PUMPED! All of those specifics have left me ravenous for the content to come. I'm going to go tell all my friends about the upcoming 1.0 patch and when they say "What is going to be included in it?" I'll be like "The rest of Act 3" and then we will just both literally flip shit and start going crazy in excitement.

GET REAL

I don't really care about information on the new content but come on. There has been NO exciting information released so far to build hype. GGG has no leg to stand on in this regard imo.

Correction, there was the news article with a bunch of things to come. But, of course, there has been no confirmation on the source of it so the information can't be trusted.

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DestroTheGod wrote:

I don't really care about information on the new content but come on. Don't pretend like you guys have given any kind of exciting information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFO4E5OKSE

I love the fact that they couldn't finish Act 3 in time meant that the in-the-can trailer was actually one big fucking spoiler.

If that video doesn't get a person excited for Release, then I strongly doubt much will.

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Rhys wrote:

You guys already know a large part of what's coming in release: the rest of Act 3.

Plus whatever else we can squeeze in.

Spoiler

Rocktober!

Look, I'm not one to doubt you people and your business plan, but sometimes too much hype can be bad.

You know, expectations and all that jazz, it sometimes draws the line between "bad" and "good" in the psyche of some people.

I agree they could be doing more to build hype. It always seemed like they gave more info in the past, but they've been holding their tongues for a while about the full release.

All I really want to hear about is optimization. It will be very sad if the game is released in it's current state.

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Charan wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDFO4E5OKSE

I love the fact that they couldn't finish Act 3 in time meant that the in-the-can trailer was actually one big fucking spoiler.

If that video doesn't get a person excited for Release, then I strongly doubt much will.

I have no doubts release will be amazing. I simply have no way to convey what is coming to any of my friends. This is not necessarily a bad thing, that I can't describe what is coming in release as I can still tell them about the game as is. However, I believe that using the situation where I am unable to explain communicating release to friends helps explain my agreement about the lack of exciting information on release. And again this relates with my agreement with OP. I can show friends the video but that isn't going to be a good source of complete information on content to come, haha. I'd still classify that more as current game content. :)

But yes, that final boss looks pretty cool. I don't follow the lore of the game very closely so I don't know who he is but he does look pretty epic. I'm pretty excited how he will be incorporated in the game. I wouldn't be surprised if maps go up to 78, at least, to incorporate new Act 3 areas and put in areas for new bosses from the new Act 3 content. I'm pretty excited overall.

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DarthSki44 wrote:

The opposite of this would involve the fanboy syndrome, loving the release blindly, and assuming GGG can do no wrong. One is far worse than the other. In fact skepticism is essential, in business, politics, journalism... actually pretty much everything.

I'm hardly the fanboy ;)

I have my own ways of getting my feedback to the right people and those don't involve making forum threads about them.

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Lyralei wrote:

I'm hardly the fanboy ;)

I have my own ways of getting my feedback to the right people and those don't involve making forum threads about them.

Support tickets?

Support tickets.

Hehe :3

At first, I was feeling just a little "meh" about the lack of information. But after seeing that unconfirmed article about stuff like guilds and a new class, the silent treatment makes me wonder if the full release will be interesting at all. It sounds like they are either going to blow our minds with a bunch of unseen additions and content, or we'll be super underwhelmed.

After hearing about the upcoming features in the D3 expansion, I actually logged in a bit to play for the first time in months. Account-wide Paragon means playing my characters has more meaning than before - this is the sort of stuff they should be sharing with us, stuff that makes us want to play more right now. And if there isn't a single feature that would make me want to play more right now, this release might actually be pretty lame.

What does "Finish Act 3" even mean? One new Solaris-sized zone to a boss? Two zones? 15 floor mega dungeon to the top of the tower? Because I get the impression it's going to be closer to the former and I fail to see how that will be fun for more than a few days. Especially if the area level is something retarded like 68 or 69.

And I find it irritating that the POE Defense Task Force is constantly coming into any thread with critique and basically saying "The game is fine, GGG is perfect, stop being a whiner." If you can't add to the conversation without insinuating that those of us who disagree are spoiled children, kindly see yourself out of the forum.

TL;DR: Some of us like the "carrot on the stick," and I feel like right now, we're just getting a stick shaken in front of our faces. And 6 weeks from launch is NOT a long time, most developers have details to share (actual details) months prior. Just saying.

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Lyralei wrote:

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DarthSki44 wrote:

The opposite of this would involve the fanboy syndrome, loving the release blindly, and assuming GGG can do no wrong. One is far worse than the other. In fact skepticism is essential, in business, politics, journalism... actually pretty much everything.

I'm hardly the fanboy ;)

I have my own ways of getting my feedback to the right people and those don't involve making forum threads about them.

Is this the troll trap I was concerned about? I hope you are not saying that forum posts are not meant for feedback. Unless of course they are positive in nature, then please post away :)

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