No PvP at launch
Posted 10 March 2012 by RushsterAs we saw earlier with 
The Mystic, more and more features are being cut out of the game so they can release it as soon as possible. How much will still be in the game when it ships?
While we work on making sure PvP lives up to its full potential, we hope you’ll find some consolation in the fact that soon, you’ll be having a blast leveling characters, finding items, learning the classes, and perfecting builds…and that when the Arenas do arrive, you’ll be all the better prepared for battle.
When the PvP patch is ultimately ready, it will add multiple Arena maps with themed locations and layouts, PvP-centric achievements, and a matchmaking system that will help you and your team get into fairly matched games quickly and easily. We’ll also be adding a personal progression system that will reward you for successfully bashing in the other team’s skulls.
We know a lot of you are looking forward to PvP, and we’ll be focusing our post-launch efforts on making sure the Arenas are as brutal, bloody, fast-paced, and awesome as we know they can be. In the meantime, we’re in the process of putting the finishing touches on what we think is a truly epic campaign and co-op experience for launch.
We’ll have a lot more info to share on the PvP system in the future, and we look forward to the moment we can get the game into your hands.
Seems we’ve been saying this a lot over the last couple of months but what are your thoughts on holding back on PvP? Even if you are not a PvP fan do you feel this is the right move? Are you surprised and thought that Arenas were already in and just needed balance? Do you think they are completely reworking Arenas in that case and when the PvP Patch comes we’ll get something a lot more elaborate than what we have seen in the videos?
Update: We’ve put up a quick and dirty vote on our facebook page just to get your knee-jerk reaction to this. We may do a more elaborate poll in the main news at a later date but for now where do you sit on this latest decision?
Maybe they can patch in the “Diablo feel” later too.
Maybe they’ll patch out people like you later too.
i wish it would let me give you a + but for some reason i cant. probably cause i am on stupid IE
Sorry, but I am a franchise defining feature like permanent character customization. Oh, wait….
Lol, PvP franchise defining? This is a thread about the Diablo…
I see what you did there SteveG. LOL that actually had me laugh out loud.
You can’t really complain that the choices aren’t permanent, because they are if you choose not to alter them. So its all up to you setting rules for yourself, and sticking with them. Just like the creative people that does stuff like the melee sorc, pacifist necromancer, and other wierd but fun builds.
I don’t see that why its a problem that some of us like to be able to test different styles of play without having to level a character all over. There are only so many hours in a day I would rather spend those even fewer away from work doing fun stuff. Leveling a 3,4,5,6,7 or 8th version of a class to test out a different spec is just not fun for me.
“Franchise defining”? There was no permanent customization in Diablo 1.
he mad
shut up pve guy!
On a serious note, this just sucks plain and simple!
You lose, TB. SteveG is not only more correct, but also more hilarious.
No he isn’t. He is yet another whiner who should go back to D2 and have fun with the spammers, WUGGERs and script kiddies.
we can only hope!
Lack of a hostile button takes away from this Diablo feel also. At least give us a hostile button for that scary can get attacked in the wilderness feeling or dueling right outside of town.
LOL. I get plenty of Diablo feel without kids ruining my game experience at the push of a button.
/smiley-wave
Wuss.
Idiot
Kinda sad that you have more fun ruining other peoples fun.
I guess you wouldn’t mind having 7 people ganking you 24/7 in D2? What? Thats not fair?
Wuss.
Dude…. Whatever… I havent played BETA but i heard most people are very happy with the game. Many have talked about it indeed being part of the series…. Lets just get the game…
Sure, I need the game delayed another month +, so some yahoos can bare knuckle brawl each other on the first night. Seriously?
well, with that being patched out (and them mystic) I should have the game already installed on my pc, shouldn’t I oO
Ok Jay, accepted
Serve Diablo 3 anyway
Oh dear.
And here I thought we were having a good week…..
I love D3 and the dev team…. but honestly wtf?
It takes them 6 years to develop this game, and by the time it is ready to launch, half the game systems aren’t even implemented. I couldn’t imagine why it’s taken them so long for such little content.
I seriously hope this isn’t another Duke Nukem Forever.
They’ll talk about the awesome release of pvp content at the next Blizzcon!
I approve. It looks like they are REALLY pushing hard to get the game ready ASAP, and I am not really PvP type, I like it but come on, Diablo is about loot mostly
not to jump you in the face or anything but what makes you think they are pushing hard ? i mean in like comparison to 3 months ago … ?
“I am not really PvP type, I like it but come on, Diablo is about loot mostly”
And u think why loot is so important? Because it can make u godly at pvp. Only reason people still does those Mefisto and Baals runs….
My sentiments exactly.
Sure, when you say ‘it’s either giving up PvP on launch or delaying further’, everybody are going to say cut it, but what a disappointment.
Think of it like this, you will need to build a char for PvP anyway and it’s almost guaranteed that the first major patch will introduce PvP, so you won’t have to wait that long.
It’s likely that the time they’ll be working on a PvP patch won’t be that much longer than the time they would have to delay the game to include PvP at launch, so the choice is a pretty easy one. Still disappointing though.
This is very optimistic and I hope you’re right. Also, there’s another loss with this: PvPing while leveling up, when the game is in its diapers and not everyone have top of the line gear.
Other pessimistic scenario: PvP gets pushed back because of more urgent bugs, balance issues, and god knows what.
Bashy did that when announcing the last 3 or 4 features removed too, and it’s lame. Almost extortionistic. “X isn’t worth delaying the whole game 3 months for.”
Is there *anything* the devs could remove that the fanboys would not accept if the false alternative was waiting longer? Bliz could have released D3 in 2010 with 3 chars and no artisans or act 4. Would that have been fine?
I don’t get it either. What’s the rush to play a mediocre game?
Rush? That word must mean something else there.
I (choose) to see it as they now have more time to develop something I care about instead of pushing it past without aspects or elements I want to see.
If that makes me a fanboy, I’m fine with that. I like PVP and I want it to be great, not just average.
Yeah – I’m disappointed that PVP won’t be available at launch, but I’d rather it be done properly than rushed. And, honestly, it’s the sort of thing I’m probably not going to explore much until I’ve hit 60 with a couple characters anyway.
so much agreement flux…
WHAAAAAT?
YOu’ve got be be ****ing kidding me…
****, I was just in 4 players game and we were all talking how we miss pvp and dueling and how we can’t wait for the final game, and now to see this…
I couldn’t give a wailing toss about pvp. Bring on campaign asap.
Yep, pretty much my thoughts exactly.
Lets just have the damn game. The campaign will give me time to learn the mechanics, should I even want to try out PvP later.
I approve as well! Lets go!
Fine, give us the game sooner rather than later!
I’m glade that they’ll patch arenas into the game, but I really hope that this means they’ll announce a release date before the month is over.
Oh, who am I kidding, this changes nothing in that respect.
They better also add in world-pvp.
Good enough, just release the game.