Diablo 3 Developer explains in his own words why D3 will be massively carebear and pvpless

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RickJames5 wrote:

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Septile wrote:

Well you can tell that Blizzard North cared so much about PvP in the original Diablo and Diablo 2 that they put hours and hours into balancing it, it's not like they just tacked on the ability to hostile players and attack them. Oh wait...

PVP and pking especially in hardcore mode was what many Diablo 2 fans loved most about the game.

Just letting people know how much better PoE will be if they actually enjoy pvp.

So they loved crappy PvP mechanics and griefing and loathed any kind of balance...

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Zom wrote:

You can't count on anything blizzard touches now days... really.

cant really undertand this. These comments usually come from ppl who have played wow vanilla and talk about how "that was awsum and newbz didnt has epix". I gotta say that i dont know the state of the game currently since i've stopped playing but in wotlk it was the best game i had ever played. Also with diablo3 we dont really know yet how the complete game will come out so we'll just have to wait and see.

LOL diablo for noobs

Never really cared for PvP in Diablo anyway. But regularly opened unsafe throne portals for those portal criers. Rage made me laugh.

Been over this a million times. PvP doesn't make Diablo and PvM doesn't make Diablo. PvM in Diablo is a piece of cake and anyone who thinks that is why the game last as long as it did/does then obviously wasn't very good.
PvP was amazing for the people who were actually good enough to do it, the people who sucked and couldn't hang obviously disliked it.

Noone can say what the majority did, not even Blizzard because they didn't keep any tabs on the series beyond playing themselves which doesn't mean jack. You say the majority PvM, but I say majority PvM to get gear to PvP.

Lol good enough to PvP?
You mean follow cookie-cutter builds and proceed to effortlessly kill off everybody who didn't follow a guide to the letter?

Diablo PvP took no skill, it was steamroll or get steamrolled.

I never really get why people complain about d2 pvp balance

I could take any class and kill any class I'd say that counts as pretty balanced (granted some classes were easier to use but none of them were unstoppable)

Also classic d2 had a lot less cookie cutter builds then LOD and is far more balanced because of it (rune words didn't exist and nothing past first tier sets/unique so rares were king which then was duped which made a very stable soj based economy for a very long time)

PVE is their main concern and thats how its should be

TLDR: We need a lot of kids buying this game and buying/selling stuff on RMAH. They get sad when they lose so we make the environment friendly so that they can focus on shopping new dresses on RMAH instead of getting good in PvP.

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Arkx wrote:

I for one am very happy that D3 won't be an esport. To me PvP isn't what the Diablo series is about at all. If PvP balancing effected the PvE core of the game I'd be pissed.

I am not sure where you get that non esport = carebear. Also in what world has the Diablo series ever been about anything other than spam killing monsters for loot? That is pretty much what every ARPG is about.

My words exactly.
My team in D2 was nr 1 on ladder, we powerleveled a barb 24/7. Leveling fastest to 99 was esport back then :)