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I hope D3 has an in-game lobby, rather then a Bnet Chat Room
One thing I would like to see is Diablo 3 matchmaking/socializing/trading switch from the Bnet Chat rooms to a full Town or Village, ala Guild Wars.
One where you can run around and see other players and chat and trade with them.
I not exactly sure if Blizzard is doing the sharded instance route or a Realm-Server Lobby route, but I would like to see a better method for trading and matchmaking then just spamming the Bnet chat channels with a little avatar of my character.
I'll miss that mysterious little Chat Gem, but it won't be forgotten
I'm curious what Blizzards "revamped" Bnet will look like for Diablo 3.
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That would be great. That way it would even be fun to just hang out when you're not really playing...
Doesn't Hellgate have a similar system? I never played it, but from what my friend says it sounds like each city is kind of a hub for everyone on the realm.
Speaking of realms.. I hope that they keep the system they have for D2. I don't like having a million servers a la MMORPGs.
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Hellgate has something very similar to Guild Wars. Towns/Stations are the gathering place before setting off into an instanced area.
I'm sure most of us would like to see something a bit grander than what Bnet currently has with D2. I expect they will have something and would be surprised if Blizzard didn't come through with this. Some kind of staging area which allowed us to feel a bit more immersed in the game/storyline would be great. Instead of the channels, maybe the staging area that looked like old-school Tristram where we could walk around with our toons.
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I disagree. I prefer the simiplicity and ease of use of the channels, rather than the confusion and chaos of the Guild Wars system. Walking around towns sounds all well and good but if it's anything like Guild Wars it would be a mistake imo. Revamped channels are the way to go for me.
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uhhhhh hell NO no auction house or mail system PLEASE! This is not WoW, and to the above posters, ALOT of people loved the different channels where you had to actually make an effort to trade ur stuff, and values were established, unlike just throwing ur stuff up in an auction house and running away... ughh that sounds like wow so much, god i hope they dont put in an ah
EDIT= see this is what the old D2 players need to try and fight for, the protection of all the things that made D2 a great game that need protection from the hordes of WoW players who want to see all their WoW stuff replicated in D3, D2 traditionalists need to fight this to the max
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Yeah, because WoW was the first place that auctions were established. Auction house sounds like ebay!! Please don't add ebay! It's successful and takes the monotony out of selling items all day long when you can be playing! God don't do that please!!
I love D2 just like anyone else, but even I know when something is a waste of time and can be done more efficiently another way.
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channels were not a waste of time, they were something that many players enjoyed and utilized, channels allow tons of stuff, from looking for cow games by bots or players, or trading stuff in various class channels or trade channels, or just clan channels. What im saying is, just because some people think that channels are out of date doesnt mean they didnt work, channels worked fine, fine enough that D2 was one of the most popular pc games of all time.
Channels werent a waste of time unles you plain and simple didnt know the benefits of using them. I traded many an item/soj through the channels, and leveled many characters through baal runs and cow runs by way of channels, and had many fun clan chats in them to boot, as did many others. Channels were great, leave Auction houses to WoW and just update the channel concept. Why must you people try and insist on tearing down the fundamental systems that made D2 the masterpeice and classic it was and is?
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