I hate the auto-stat thing. They say they want people to want to keep playing the game. However, it was variants like a Bow Paladin or a Warrior Necromancer that kept people playing past the first year. The forced stat placement kills a lot of the long term desire for making characters. They wont get as robust long term sales if they eliminate that.

Awesome interview, you guys are pros, congrats!

And Jay Wilson is a fun guy!

Lmao @ his tshirt, I want one, anyone knows where I can get? Medium to Large sizes. Thanks!

I’m not asking for 20 crappy runes..  I’m asking for 20+ great runes. I’m looking forward to this game being much grander scale than DII…  It’s a decade old, and should rightly blow everything about that game out of the water.

As far as “Duh, it’s a demo of course there will be more than 6 runes”, Jay’s language implied that there may or may not be that many more.  Making runes that can alter a number of skills in both technical AND visual ways is no small feat, and there’s huge time management and balance issues that come with it.  I’m merely skeptical that with those things in mind, Skill Runes will be varied enough to counter-act them taking away our customizable attributes.

In short, A) Skill Runes could be massively game-changing elements that we can use to personalize every skill we have and completely redirect the direction of our characters, or B) They’ll be gimmicky and cool, but won’t ultimately be enough to design builds or characters on.  I get the impression from their language that they’re leaning toward Option B.

“Making runes that can alter a number of skills in both technical AND visual ways is no small feat”

Yep. And since they have about 4-5 tiers of each rune, that’s what, 4-5 different types of effects x number of spells/skills allowed /w runes x number of classes….. LOTS of graphical stuff to do there…

AJ

Ah, it was so nice to see a Q&A;session where the questioners were well versed in Diablo 2. You asked a lot of questions the community wanted to know, so thanks a lot. Although, I would have liked to question them a bit on the Wizard’s teleport ability and potential for abuse. Well maybe it was discussed in another video/interview.

Nice job Flux, and no there wasn’t any nose picking on your part.

Any way to download the interview? I can’t stream it, it always stops after a few seconds… Doesn’t matter which browser or time at a day I try to view it..

ya but the thing is, when u were a noob and u didnt no how to build your character, ya u did mess up a couple, but it didnt take long to figure out how to build your characters. all u had to do was talk around to people. it would tae a maximum of a couple of days to figure the builds out. i just wish jay could here that