Patch 1.0.4 Pipeline for Information Released
Posted 9 August 2012 by NizarisNews has finally hit regarding Diablo III’s patch 1.0.4. This is more of a… sneak peak of a sneak peak. The pipeline for the information is the following:
Please keep in mind that this list isn’t set in stone, but it should provide a useful preview of what we’ll be revealing in the days ahead.
- System Changes, by Wyatt Cheng
- Senior Technical Game Designer Wyatt Cheng is preparing a high-level summary of some of the system changes planned for 1.0.4.
- Legendary Item Improvements, by Andrew Chambers
- Senior Game Designer Andrew Chambers is working on a blog detailing all the ways we’re making Legendary items stand out.
- Magic Find Update, by Jay Wilson
- Following up on earlier discussions, Game Director Jay Wilson will be providing an update on how Magic Find is evolving in patch 1.0.4.
- Class Changes, by Wyatt Cheng
- Wyatt will also be providing a preview of the changes we’ll be making for each class in 1.0.4 (and the philosophy behind those changes).
- Patch Notes, by Lylirra
- Of course, this is all building up to the actual patch 1.0.4 release, and we’ll be releasing the full patch notes shortly before the update goes live.
We’re also planning to run some interviews and developer chats surrounding patch 1.0.4, and we’ll be sharing those on the Diablo III front page. Be on the lookout, as we’d love to get you involved in any live chats we host.
As always, your constructive feedback is very much appreciated. Stay tuned for the updates to follow!
It’s not certain as to whether or not these are in any particular chronological sequence, but you can expect the information in the “not too distant future,” adding more verbiage to their ever-growing list of time estimates. How does the community feel about patch 1.0.4? Is this the patch that will determine whether or not you’ll stick with the game? What are you hoping will be included in this patch?
Well… what left is there to say? Make or break. Here’s hoping…
Anyone else worried about the “Magic Find Update”? The community spammed 900 pages mostly with people not liking the same options or asking that they leave magic find alone entirely. The fact that it says MF is evolving means they most likely didn’t listen to the community, a problem they seem to have suffered from in the past.
I won’t immediately dismiss this as terrible since we have zero details, but I’m hoping they have some unmentioned option they are going with instead of what they offered up in that magic find thread.
MF needs to be changed in multiplayer
the way it is now, it’s one of the reasons not to play with other people
That was my first reaction, the only thing they need to do with mf is scale it with the number of people in a game.
I think that the biggest news is that Jay Wilson will actually talk to the D3 fans.
But seriously, this is as bad as a pre pre pre pre pre game show for the Superbowl. I love it, but come on Blizzard!
I think it’s obvious that they’ll build up the hype to destroy GW2 first with 1.04, second with MoP. GW2 online will be a ghost town in 3 months.
That maybe the plan but since GW2 is buy 2 play it will have zero effect in real terms. I mean all you need to do is drop a one off payment to get GW2, you dont need to spend a cent or a penny more than that.
It certainly has minimal impact on GW2′s box sales, you’re right.
That wasn’t my point though.
I think its safe to say that the Diablo Devs do not come to work each morning saying: How can we destroy Guild Wars II but How can we make Diablo a better game.
The devs don’t. Execs do.
Alex…. Your posts are cringe worthy tbh.
Diablo 3 wont have any effect on GW2…. As it is a complete seperate genre, and there are many GW1 fans.
As for wow….. Well, they are radically different as well.
Some developer blogs about Diablo 3 wont hype me up much now. They completely destroyed any fun I was having with 1.03, why in the hell would I decide not to play GW2 now….?
But, ok…
After decades of gaming I have come to the realization that games do not kill other games. Games kill themselves. Either because they are terrible or because support for it has ended or turned sour.
GW2 has had people put in 60+ hours and they are still excited to log in any chance they get(stress test today). D3 has people frustrated when they log in and hoping their experience will be different with a lottery drop.
Will people leave temporarily to play another game? Yes. But people return to good games. That’s why D2 has been played for 10 years, they come back to it. It is why I come back to old games like Star Control 2 or bust out my original Nintendo to play Metroid or Zelda.
Funny, that was the same experience I had with D2.
That’s a good point, but history says: the games that try to compete with Blizzard all end up as ghost towns. Whether they are good games or not, whether blizzard destroyed them or they destroyed themselves – I don’t know.
History is written right now. And the ceo-duo (Kottick and friend) may well have changed the future prospects of the company with their decisions on how to run it already.
and Borderlands 2 will be out a week before MoP
so D3 will be a ghost town 2 weeks afterwards
It’s hard to gauge how many people are playing a non-MMO like D3 where everything is instanced – unlike an MMO like GW where ghost town effect is very obvious.
But I think you’re wrong. BL is a popular series but not anywhere Diablo’s level. MoP won’t prohibit people from playing Diablo because it’s not a competitor, but there will likely be a few people leaving Diablo completely for it, which is natural.
You can’t have it both ways. MoP is an MMO, and GW is an MMO. But you say, D3 will make GW a ghost town, but MoP won’t sap D3 players away. Which is it?
And you honestly think BL2 isn’t going to decimate D3′s players, just wait and see. BL1 sold 4m copies in the first year of release, which is pretty substantial for a new IP. I’d expect at least that if not more for BL2. I know myself and everyone I know that is still playing D3, will be leaving when BL2 comes out. Possibly for good, unless 1.4 is executed well.
GW2 a ghost town after 3 months? lol i REALLY doubt it.
Now if you were talking about Diablo 3……
GW2 servers will be a ghost town? You’re one of those silly, Blizzard can do no wrong and will get ALL THE CUSTOMERS fanatics, aren’t you? 1.04 will not affect the player base of GW2 in any way.
not-too-distant = “the new soon”
not-too-distant future™
NTDF for short.
National Tournament “Diablo Forza!” ^^
edit: Newsreporter: “Held right at the moment at Blizzard, Irvine. Tickets are up to 1.5k for middleseats. But you can also rent a webstream for a cheap 149$.”
Thumbs up for detailing the reasoning behind planned changes in advance! Sounds like they’re investing at least some work into something that doesn’t directly translate into monetary profit.
The multitude of pre-pre-pre-announcement-updates, probably released in loose sequence over several weeks, makes it sound like the patch won’t hit until 2014 though. =/
I remember Jay Wilson mention that he considers D3 to be a disaster if pvp does not come by end of 2012.
Sadly, that is slowly becoming a reality as there is no way patch 1.10 is going to happen anytime soon, since patch 1.0.4 will hit the servers mid September estimate.
On the other hand, mid-september is a kind of estimate that has been pulled out of someone’s ass and they still have about 5 months of time. A lot can happen in that time.
you have a link?
Why do people always ask for a link, if someone says that “he remembers” or uses iirc/if i remember correctly? The expression itself says that there’s no source at hand…
edit: By the way: I remember the same as DeathLight, but also can’t provide a source. But iirc, it was in an interview (videostream) taken/shown a few days to weeks before release.
just, a link would be nice, so i can see/read/hear it myself. that’s why i ask. because i can’t remember it.
We’re awaiting patch 1.0.4
PvP is scheduled for 1.1
There is no need to go through 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, etc to get to 1.1
This isn’t incrementing decimals, it’s software versioning and takes the form of Major.Minor.Revision
So, we could get 1.0.4 and then go straight to 1.1 (unless 1.0.5 has been announced and I missed it).
Yep the patch numbers are meaningless outside of being info to let the game/players check that the game is upto date. BTW This is the only reason the number increases as then it just need to run a is the number bigger in the patch file if yes download and install check.
If Jay Trollson is a real man.Witch we all know its not true.He have to leave right now.Take the responsibility Trollson.Don’t hide like a lil’girl.
“Magic Find Update, by Jay Wilson”
Guess he wasn’t fired yet.
The guy’s produced the fastest selling game of all time. I don’t think he’s going to be fired any time soon.
he didn’t do it. Diablo 2 did.
That’s probably true, but I doubt his bosses/the Blizzard/Activision accountants care that much either way.
Nope. D3 sold MORE than D2. What does that tell ya?
Many of the millions of WoW players bought it too. Probably to get a free WoW subscription.
He meant that D3 sold a lot because of the D2 legacy and not because of JW.
That a lot of filesharers had fun with D2, too?
That we live in the year 2012 where gaming has become much more mainstream and blockbustery.
@Play – are you kidding me right now? You have it backwards… you bought WoW at $15/month to get D3 for free, NOT the other way around. It actually cost A LOT MORE than just a $60 box copy of D3. And we know that WoW annual pass sales account for 1.2M of the 10.3M total. So unless D2 magically sold 9.1M copies, your point is baseless.
So you don’t even understand how the WoW annual pass works.
Most disturbing, 10 people +1′ed you. Just goes to show how useless the +1 system is when you consider the voting populous…
@RyTEK
Yeah, I got that wrong. I know nothing about WoW.
Could the high sales figures be due to many disillusioned WoW players, who didnt buy the expensive annual pass and instead puchased D3?
I still feel D2 reputation did far more for D3 sales than Jay Wilson.
I dont know how many copies where sold of D3 or D2 but i just dont think that could be true….
D3 might have had more sales the 1st day or week of release than d2 had the 1st day or week but D2 is STILL in stores today and has been selling well for 10 years now, that alone says that D3 only sold well because of D2.
If you really want to measure how good a game is see how long its been selling in stores, Diablo is probably THE longest selling game in History! What other game is still on store shelves that is over 10 years old? NONE!
Half of those are bot accounts.
Gaming is far more mainstream than it was a decade ago, and Diablo 3 built so much hype based off of D2. Don’t be fooled into thinking D3 is a better game because it sold more, because that is far from the truth.
He did nothing! It’s all about the NAME! He pee on that name.
Why should they fire Jay Wilson? He just does what he is told by the higher-ups who plan the grand scheme of things.
Did you notice that anyhing that could qualify as “end game” has been cut out, changed or nerfed before release? Powerful legendaries, mystic, rune DROPS (which you don’t need to farm as items anymore), PvP.
Espcecially PvP is a big deal because it would actually be “end game” for many people, and Blizzard doesn’t want everyone stick with free to play Diablo 3 when WoW Pandaria is around the corner. We are currently playing Diablo 3 “lite” until Pandaria is out.
amazing avatar!
I have a high hopes that all changes are gonna be a good ones, so much pressure on Blizz lately that they have to deliver and please customers 8)
Please some forum whiners you mean.
… Forgetting the already legendary phrase…”and then we doubled it …” was also the result of idiots running around saying “it is too easy”.
Isn’t it Flux …?
If they touch the present day Legendary system with ALL MIGHTY Legendaries they’ll screw their complete trading system to the ground…
Or … How a tiny community of forum idiots will be responsible for some total screw ups in game design.
History of mmo’s make a great example of these kinds of community idiots.
“we do not want cross server play … Because we believe in a server community …”
Yea right… Dead on launch as a result in War, Sw tor etc…
“… And then we doubled it”…what a legendary video.
Of course the blizzard haters already are laughing all the way now.
Show some backbone Wilson.
Go away Orc please, whining overload..
You actually made some good points here. And yes, I’m totally aware that bigger numbers doesn’t mean better, more interesting gameplay. That’s part of the reason I’m saying that some gamesystems are botched by design.
For the itemsystem, the change of the elemental resistance-part from the d2-style fixed values to a sacred-style incremental curve is the part that botched the itemsystem most. (Not to speak of using the same principal mechanics for armor.)
In Sacred, the solution to the downside was, having a new set of the same unique- and setitems every few levels, featuring slightly higher stats, while making resistances a baseattribute of items, delivering only indirect control over one’s ammount of elemental resistances through itemaffixes.
For Sacred, this worked surprisingly well. But the same won’t work on D3, as they’ve designed it with a fixed growthrate for characters set. It could be in a variant, where Blizz could implement a feature to upgrade found sets/legendarys in level, while also dropping the ammount of resistances needed for decent protection, though. But I’m still unsure if it would really work.
edit: Thinking further about it, “closed game design meets open game mechanics” could well be said to be the core of what’s wrong with the game.
“System changes”? That’s pretty vague. Anyone care to explain what this might mean?
Yeah curious too. I hope it means, that my more than enough pc is capable of putting some steady 60 fps on the screen in stead of drops..
Exactly, I am sick of microstuttering and fps drops on x4 phenom ii 965 be with r7970 lightning
((. It turns out that game works better on ancient hardware LOL 
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Probably some new end-game content, since that is not mentioned elsewhere in the post while it should definitely be part of this update.
I think the others’ prediction is more plausible, though. It will probably be something regarding performance and/or lag
No, in game developer terms a system is typically a set of mechanics that form a feature of sorts, like dyes, skills and so on.
In other words, some high-level systems will change in 1.04, as previously mentioned by the devs.
I think its the auction house changes and the color changes of health potions / gems / tomes on the ground.
Buy a SSD. Problem solved.
No joke. I did that about 6 weeks ago…BIG TIME improvement. The demons run by so fast now I can barely hit them!
well im running diablo3 on a ssd (intel postville) since launch and still have spikes/fps issues. Bought a new samsung 830 2 weeks ago too see if there is any difference, but no
. So dont advertise to everyone that a ssd will solve all the problems cause it aint.. Ancient hardware is running D3 beter than my pc atm 
It’s the fanboy kiddie age, where the zealots think every problem is everyones but the developers fault.
Trouble is i have d3 installed on samsung 830 ssd and it still microstutters. It has nothing to do with loading assets and there are countless threads all over the internet about it. There are people with even more powerful rigs than mine and they get stuttering and frame drops too. The game’s engine is f…ed up and it looks like it has been since beta times. It was reported back then (9-10 months ago) and has not been dealt with since then sadly
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It doesn’t mention any technical improvements in that preview of a preview of 1.0.4 but I do really hope this stuff gets fixed.
This is rubbish the only thing a SSD will do is shave a few secs of load times due to your computer being able to copy data into your RAM faster after this there no difference between a SSD or a HDD until you ethier run out of RAM space (shouldn’t happen unless there a memory leak) or you reach another load point (where more data gets copied into your RAM). The thing is if you really want to improve performance get some good DDR3 RAM.
Hey i run a really powerful rig, no need to worry about my memory really
. There are pple who run Battlefield 3 in ultra on 1900 x 1200 and have stuttering in D3. The problem got at least aknowledged by Blizzard’s bug fighters but only after milion threads putting the whole company to a shame all over the internet….
Its takes half a year to release at patch….. *sigh*
The game can’t be fixed for me anymore, unless it will be like Diablo 2 (which it won’t) so I’ll stick with dota 2. Too bad I spent 60 Euro’s for this game.
Why don’t you stick with d2 then, if that’s what you want? The game still exist buddy.
yay! Problem solved. Stop whining now.
GET LOST … FAG !
Tried it, but didn’t like the style of the series.