State of the Game Update Post Coming Monday
Posted 27 May 2012 by EllyIt’s been a fascinating week in the world of Diablo 3 with a lot of debate around numerous issues and features in the game. On Monday Blizzard will be pushing up a post that explains what the team are working on and some stats for us all to digest.
Anyway, we’ll have an article up on the front page on Monday that gives a couple fun stats, and goes into explaining a few of the things we’re working on and maybe some rough time frames.
I think we’re about to see the busiest weekend for the game yet, with the most amount of people online and enjoying the game together. We’re looking forward to a bright future for the game for years to come. We’re in it for the long haul.
I appreciate there are still a lot of questions, but the post on Monday has quite a bit of info and is coordinated to be posted in about a dozen languages. I really can’t get into too many specifics without ruining the efforts that have gone into ensuring a simultaneous release. I do hope it’s informative, though.
On Inferno and the amount of people who are actually playing Inferno, it’s apparently a very small percentage of players.
Over the past week the community have been debating the game intensively and the two camps are very much split down the middle. It’s been hard to keep track of it all, but do keep in mind that constructive criticism is what Blizzard need to see and not “I hate Diablo 3″ posts. The more useful feedback that the community can provide, the better chance of seeing some of the fixes and changes you may be looking for.
Who wants to see (fun) stats?! I DO I DO!
I’m right there with you!
what do you mean???
Really, less than 1%? I’ve completed act 1 inferno a few days ago now, and I have another character on lvl 50, and it’s not like I have all the time in the world with working, training and other social activities you need to take care of these days.
What’s happened with the new, young players? Do they all suck?
out of the 7 million copies sold, how many people quit after Normal ?
How many decided to give the game another chance and continued onto Nightmare ?
How many of those people continued onto Hell and then got completely frustrated with no RMAH, with the GAH often being down, with buying gems disabled on the GMAH and just got bored over all and finally quit ?
70 000 people in Inferno ? sounds about right
Check your account profile. Add up your total hours played. Divide by 10 days since release for bonus fun. State them here, and await a deluge of “god I wish I had that kind of free time!” replies.
Ive dropped to 6 hours average per day since release… :X Was over 10, but then my vacation ended.
Hmm, something like 7 hrs/day… and I’m not in Inferno, heh… been starting new classes instead while they mess with the tuning.
Otherwise society would fall apart from too many people playing video games!
And I agree, I HOPE that is not typical
I took a couple of days off work, and I’m part time anyway atm, but it is still a lot
Not sure that you are, but reading your post makes me think you were a little bit bitter while writing it
6h/day with both my characters included and then I’ve been to inferno for quite some time even if I couldn’t kill **** in the beginning. I’m just surprised because when I was younger and playing D2 I had a lot more time to spend, now I’m crunching out all I possibly can
Really? Less than 1%? I was having no issues till end of Act1 inferno… now playing act 3…
Should I feel like a nerd cause of that? lol
I know many people that bought this game won’t play often ok, but seriously i was expecting minimum 10-15% of d3 players to be trying inferno right now…
10-15% might be closer to the number of people in inferno that participate in the incgamers forum. But the majority of people don’t join fan forums, hell, they don’t even go on the b.net forums.
Yeah the % of people who use D3 sites will be higher expressibly here (I think I would of been in Inferno act 2/3 if my connection hadn’t gone spotty due to a damaged telephone cable).
With the 1% statistic, think of it this way; if 5 million people are playing the game (I’m just approximating the number), then 1% would be 50,000 players. I don’t think their numbers are far off. There’s no way there have been 50,000 people posting on these forums or b.net talking about their journey though Inferno.
So, yeah, a lot of people are playing in Inferno, but they’re still a small percentage of total players. It’s kind of like the “hacked” accounts. Even if we see hundreds of posts from people saying they were hacked, that’s only a fraction of a percent of total players.
Indeed. The thing about these numbers are, only a very small fraction of the people who bought Diablo 3 is even interesting in playing Inferno, so it should be no surprise that only an even smaller fraction is actually playing inferno currently.
The 1% doesn’t surprise me. Most of the hell diablo runs I do, most of the players get the hell diablo kill achievement. Its rare for me to run diablo with someone that has killed him in hell before.
“People tend to underestimate gear value…”
That just screams “Auction House” right there.
Good job, Blizzard.
I have a wife and kids, I have a hard time believing I’m part of less than 1% of players in inferno right now. I don’t even play that often.
wonder if they’ll talk about the GAH ?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5235399731?page=1
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what an complete fail
They will say itemization is fine, when we all know its the death knell of D3.
I hope the high level gear issue gets addressed.
Low and mid level legendaries are fine as they are, but I really hope some of the level 58-60 legendaries get buffed to at least be in the same ballpark as inferno blues and yellows. I’m totally okay with rares being the best possible gear – thats great. But there should be legendaries that are at least like 90% as good as the best possible rare. Currently even mediocre rares and good blues beat out the very best legendaries. And about 75% of the L60 legendaries are just completely worthless. Even fresh 60′s will never use them. That seems messed up.
For example, yesterday I bought a blue level 60 weapon for 50k. An over 800dps polearm. That is better than 90% of the level 60 legendaries, and about on-par with the absolute very best ones. 50k is nothing. Thats one short session of game play picking up gold or one low level item sold on the AH. Its like the developers didn’t even design inferno level legendaries. They stop getting better after hell mode, but inferno blues and yellows scale into the stratosphere.
Rule of thumb Legendaries should always be better than a blue no matter what. As for Rares some should be better and some worse then the legendaries. Note this is assuming that they are all the same item level.