D3 on May 15th!

**nulio** · 15-03-2012, 22:39

No D3 for me. I want to be able to play without internet.

When I go for a game I play it for a long time and I know that I won't always be around a fantastic internet. That and the fact that internet goes down when we really need it, life's a biaatch ^^

**TheReadMenace** · 15-03-2012, 22:42

Originally Posted by kestegs

The RMAH thing I understand, but you can choose to ignore it if you want.

...Kinda. Depends on your play style. Personally, I'm a hoarder; I've done thousands of MF runs in D2 in the hopes of completing the grail. ATMA and GoMule have alleviated many of the stashing issues, and without it I'd hate the process of transferring items between accounts, not to mention dealing with organization.

In D3, yes, we have the shared stash, and it's substantially larger than a single character's stash in D2. However, compared to GoMule, it's still significantly smaller. If the total number of sets & uniques is equal to D2's, there's simply not enough space. It means you have to pick and choose what you want/need to keep. And if there's an item that you've found but choose to get rid of due to stash limitations, it means that you'll either need to do more runs to find it again... or pick it up from an auction house.

As much as I hate the online only aspect, this limited stash space is the one thing I absolutely hate about D3. I'd ignore the auction houses if I could, but after a while I think I'll be forced to use it.

**Jcakes** · 15-03-2012, 23:12

Having played the Beta, a lot of my doubts went away and I will definitely be picking it up. Whether it will hold my focus as long as D2 did ... I am not sure.

**zaphodbrx** · 16-03-2012, 00:45

Originally Posted by RobbyD

I won't be getting D3, for a couple of reasons - but mostly no local SP option. I absolutely refuse to pay a premium to play a game that I can be banned from based on some whim from the server demi-gods that don't like the way I'm playing the game.

Instead, I'll be diving into Torchlight 2 when it comes out, as it has much more in common with D2 than D3 does - local SP, character customization, weapon switch, and, if the developers are to be believed, the best item meta-game that has ever been designed (we'll see on that).

Couldn't agree more. Also i hate internet disconnection.
Will stick to D2 and maybe try out Median XL a little more.

**Skjolde** · 16-03-2012, 00:56

Originally Posted by TheReadMenace

...Kinda. Depends on your play style. Personally, I'm a hoarder; I've done thousands of MF runs in D2 in the hopes of completing the grail. ATMA and GoMule have alleviated many of the stashing issues, and without it I'd hate the process of transferring items between accounts, not to mention dealing with organization.

In D3, yes, we have the shared stash, and it's substantially larger than a single character's stash in D2. However, compared to GoMule, it's still significantly smaller. If the total number of sets & uniques is equal to D2's, there's simply not enough space. It means you have to pick and choose what you want/need to keep. And if there's an item that you've found but choose to get rid of due to stash limitations, it means that you'll either need to do more runs to find it again... or pick it up from an auction house.

As much as I hate the online only aspect, this limited stash space is the one thing I absolutely hate about D3. I'd ignore the auction houses if I could, but after a while I think I'll be forced to use it.

Seems to me that you would love to play it if there was a SP/GoMule option:P

People on b.net have always been trading and operating with several accounts for mules. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Singleplayer through and through

**TheReadMenace** · 16-03-2012, 01:12

Bullseye, friend. I think I'm gonna love to play it regardless, but I'd love it even more if it catered to my every whim.

I used to manage dozens of characters with offline TCP/IP before I found ATMA, so I could handle it if we could make mule accounts. But that's simply not possible this time since we're stuck with our maximum of ten characters per realm and no more.

Eh. I'll survive. I may not enjoy treating the auction houses as an extended stash, but it's better than having no options at all.

**Skjolde** · 16-03-2012, 01:17

So we're only allowed 1 account per player?

**TheReadMenace** · 16-03-2012, 01:23

You got it. In D2 you could create as many accounts as you'd like, but this time around your account is linked to your BattleTag. One BattleTag, one account. You can make an account in each realm but there's no item transfers from realm to realm. The only way to make a second account in the same realm is to link a separate CD-Key to a second BattleTag, and there's no direct link between the two accounts.

**Skjolde** · 16-03-2012, 01:27

Ah that makes sense. Not saying that I'm liking it, but I should have known that Blizzard would be doing this.

I'm kinda looking forward to see how the whole item hunting will be in D3. Maybe there will just be way fewer items? Not sure if there has been a blue post regarding this.