Diablo 3 News: July 31, 2008 Diablo 3 Barbarian collectible figure announced Sideshow Toys, in partnership with Blizzard Enterttainment, has announced that a Diablo III OVERTHROWN Polystone Diorama Figure based on the male Barbarian is currently in the works. The Barbarian Statue depicts the warrior class in fine form, wielding dual-axes in the heat of battle. Each piece is hand-cast in high quality polystone, individually finished and hand-painted to exacting standards, complete with individually assigned edition numbers on the bottom side of the base. The statue isn't cheap though, be prepared to put down 300 clams. Diablo 3 Barbarian Statue Photos:      July 29, 2008 Rumors of $6 charge for playing Diablo 3 on Battle.net A new authenticator system Blizzard will introduce to Battle.net will pretty much eliminate account hacking. The new system will likely be tested with the release of StarCraft 2 and placed on Diablo 3 servers if successful. But the downside is that it may cost players a fee - six dollars is the current figure given, though it’s not clear if that’s a one-time, monthly or annual fee. The new system was developed directly from lessons learned from Blizzard’s World of Warcraft MMORPG. The source of the rumor also claimed that “Diablo 3 isgoing to be a game with WoW architecture and a D2 skin." (source) July 26, 2008 Rob Pardo, Executive Producer of Diablo 3, on the D3 online experience "With WoW, we have different realms, with small communities of players. With D3 were not going to regulate people into those realm concepts like we did. It's going to be much more global. Within any earth region, like north america, you'll be able to play with any player there. You don't have to plan what realm they'll be on and then transfer your character or anything like that. So I think the biggest problem you see in WoW as of things like matchmaking is just player populations, because everyone is kind of segregated off onto one realm of like two or three hundred different realms for whatever region your in. So just imagine if all those players were in one place and you can match against any of them. So that's probably the biggest thing that we've learned from WoW and we've kind of already learned this lesson from WC3 which I think has a great matchmaking system. So I think WC3 is a better example of what you might expect in D3 then WoW would be." (source) |
       
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