Jay Wilson Interview with Railgun

Posted 22 August 2011 by Rushster

Jay is in front of the cameras once again and this time the guys from Railgun.tv ask the questions. Jay discusses the background story in Diablo 3 as well as some of the features in the game such as checkpoints, items, magic find, RMAH, followers, Inferno etc.

According to Jay they are still fine-tuning the character levels and determining when players should move onto Nightmare, Hell etc. Listening to Jay it really sounds like they are not 100% sure how they are going to structure the difficulties which is a little surprising this late in the day (or is it late?).

Jay also mentions that the team will be committed to the game post release and it won’t be a case of finishing the game and the dev team moving on. They plan to keep tweaking and balancing and looking for feedback from the community post-release. It sounds like they are going to release the game in as solid a state they think is possible and then start working on making changes based on feedback. So out the box when it ships I think we can expect quite a bit to change over the first four weeks or so of release.

Thanks to Lars from Railgun for sending that over.

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  • Jay again expresses the bizarre view that Hardcore is all about bragging rights and thinks single players did not play hard core.  He either knows little about the Diablo community or is trying to pull the wool over a lot of eyes. I played a lot of hardcore single player characters as a lot of other people did as well.

    • Not what he was saying…

      He means there’s no bragging rights in having a single player character HC character because you can easily just use a hack or copy/paste backup your save file to make it so you’re not really killable. Or just use a hack to created a level 80 char from the get go. Geeze man, you are too grumpy!

      • I like how you assume all single players are hacks and cheats… :roll:

        • Assumes you! You’d be wrong.

        • He’s just trying to ape what Jay Wilson said. Which was ridiculous in its own right.

          • It’s only ridiculous if you didn’t comprehend what he was saying. 
            I’ll be the first to admit, he could sometimes choose his words with a little more care, but don’t be so quick to demonize everything he says.
            I play SP HC, myself, and I don’t automatically assume that he’s calling us all cheaters.  He was merely stating that the possibility existed in single-player for hacking your character.
            He wasn’t implying that everyone who played SP HC did that.

          • I comprehend precisely what he was saying. He was admitting that he doesn’t know anything about the hardcore community, and is basing what he does know on assumptions.

        • How many single players used ATMA?

          • And how many bnet players used map hacks, TPPK hacks, item hacks, CHICKEN HACKS, Pindle bots, Baal bots, or have otherwise indirectly benefitted from it? Yeah, ATMA is obviously pure evil, especially considering you can do muling with yourself (if you have two sets of CD keys, which many SP’s have) or friends (although, admittedly, both change your current map). :roll:

      • You obviously never played Hardcore then.

      • Regardless, it’s a ridiculous statement; I could have gotten my bachelor’s degree by plagiarism, the winner of the Tour de France could have been using illegal medical stuff (not sure about the correct term), etc. etc.

    • You’ll get downvoted by people who don’t play hardcore, GOW. That’s simply the way of it.
      They can argue wording all they want, but Jay has made his “understanding” of HC players quite clear in numerous interviews.

      I mean, so far they’ve been handling HC very respectfully, so that’s good news.

    • It struck me as well. I’ve been exclusively playing single player HC D2 for the last years, because that is the only way I know there won’t be cheating and hacked items. I don’t need bragging rights, I just like to challenge myself.

      This will not be the case if their online system is secure though. And they’ve been doing a pretty good job with SC2, so I’m not too worried about it. But Jays comment just struck me as funny since I experience it just the other way around as he’s explaining it. To him single player offline = cheats & hacks, while to me online Bnet = cheats & hacks.

  • With much of what he has been spouting lately about the “community”, I find that he is wrong more often than he is right.  I also have this sneaking suspicion that he personally has purchased more items for D2 than anyone else out there (he seems REALLY adamant that almost everyone did it (though, I have yet to meet a single one, in person)).

    • But you have yet to meet a single person, period. So that’s not saying much. /jokes (I <3 u)

      apparently 9% of people did do it… that’s close enough to almost everyone for me! Hey, but if people think it’s going to help improve their penor size I’m happy to sell them my junk on the AH. :D

      • “help improve their penor size I’m happy to sell them my junk on the AH.”
        Oh gawd…  If I was drinking something it’d be all over my monitor right now.

    • Go to Google.  Type in “Diablo 2 items”.  See all of those sites selling D2 items?  Even to this day the owners of those sites are making money.  Perhaps the majority of the community did not buy items…but enough did to keep the item selling sites running.  

      And he was spot-on with trading being a major part of D2.

  • in this interview, it sounds like he’s saying that all 3 Prime Evils will be in Diablo 3.

  • Poor Jay, he looks really frazzled and in need of a weekend at a spa I think.

  • I liked his comments about relative power and keeping a challenge at end game.  While it was fun to have all the best items in d2 and feel invincible, it wasn’t challenging and got old.  It’d be great if after your character is fully geared, inferno isn’t a cakewalk but just easier.  I want it to still require thought/strategy and be a fun challenge.

  • Not too surprised that they are still tweaking what levels they want each player to be when hitting a new difficulty level, although I would have preferred to hear that they had it nailed down by now. :)  Personally I hope they go the route where right after finishing Normal a character should be strong enough to head straight into Nightmare and to do the same with Nightmare to Hell.  

    And how old is Cain at this point?  130?

    • Sure he’s been a classic character for every Diablo game, but… Geez.. Cain… just die.

    • It’s only been like 22 years since the start of the first Diablo.

    • Deckard Cain was 70 in D2 and 90 in D3. There is (conspiracy) theory that the real Cain died long time ago (perhaps even before D2) and that Belial, Lord of Lies,  took over his body and has been trying to kill/currupt you/whatever evil characters like doing.

  • Did you catch his comment on the release date?  He said, we aren’t announcing a release date yet, but we are hopeful for 2011 (it’s almost September, so if they thought it would slip, no way he makes that hopeful statement).  At this stage with beta due any day now, they have a really good idea of their release plans.  His comment was direct enough, that I believe he is hinting to the community that it will be announced at Blizzcon.

  • i just wanna play the game. it comes out february 7th ;) , thats my guess at least.

  • Jay Wilson really should just shave his head so he is bald. That hair is ridiculous.

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