69,850 people didn't play Diablo 3 last weekend. Should we be worried?

[qwerq]

With Germany and France choking on the Greek, Spanish, and Italian soverign debt crisis, and with the UK debating a referendum on their EU membership altogether, I hardly think its the time to point to the Euro as an example of a stable global currency.

Especially as the Dollar is 70+% of global reserve currency.

Enjoy bailing out the deadbeats in your economic zone while having zero representative say in their austerity and reform measures.

Get back to me when you guys can figure out a plan to pay your crazy ass debt. But hey, you could always go steal some oil and pay with that!

 

[Nam3]

Get back to me when you guys can figure out a plan to pay your crazy ass debt. But hey, you could always go steal some oil and pay with that!

Now I'm not American or European but...

Most of Americas debt is from American institutions. They owe China aprox $1.5trillion, and they owe Japan aprox $1.2 trillion. That's majority of foreign debt. The rest of the aprox $15.something trillion comes from their own social services, federal trust funds, pension plans, et cetera, etc, etc. So in short, America is borrowing from itself. So their "crazy ass debt" is with itself. They really don't have to pay anyone off. They still have a deficit of ~$18 trillion but it's not like the entire country is going to succumb to total anarchy because of it. Why? Because they have a plan.

In Europa, however, there are several countries about to have that problem. It actually looks like they are already in total chaos. Greece has been given like 10,000 different plans over the past year and rejected all of them. The problem is snowballing into a huge circus show. At the end of the day, like every plan failed. More countries than Greece are having this problem as I'm sure you're well aware. UK has had enough of it and by 2015 wants to bail and leave the entire mess to Merkel, the Germans, and the French. This would cause the entire union to collapse. Oh and the French? They actually instigated military action, and won in Mali. When has that happened since Napole'an? The French are unpredictable right now, not to mention that some citizens are getting Russian citizenships to avoid the 50%+ income tax they're about to get hit with. Chaos. It goes on and on...

USA seems to have a more stable plan then the Eurozone right now. Your whole "figure out a plan" remark seems rather uneducated.

Don't get me wrong, America still has it's problems.
When you look at it neither of the continents can say their economy is better off at this point in time.

Oh and don't forget that most middle east conflicts have had European backing in one way, shape, form or another. But we won't get into that here.


And back to OP,

2,765,432,100.5+ people in the world can't read or write. That must mean Earthlings are pretty stupid.
Derp

 

[Gentoo]

POE beats the hell outta diablo, i been having a blast playing it.

 

[Abbs910]

POE beats the hell outta diablo, i been having a blast playing it.

money > playing games

 

[Champagne]

I've been playing a bit and can't get past lvl5 on any class cuz its pretty boring and the animations are bad, ikno its a beta but I doubt you can fix a lot of the issues, it just looks bad but I must say the skill system and items are cool. I need a good looking game to play, I can't stand to look at this. Its 2013 I would think they would make a game look better than this

 

[ToeNisLubBer]

I've been playing a bit and can't get past lvl5 on any class cuz its pretty boring and the animations are bad, ikno its a beta but I doubt you can fix a lot of the issues, it just looks bad but I must say the skill system and items are cool. I need a good looking game to play, I can't stand to look at this. Its 2013 I would think they would make a game look better than this

you obviously never grew up on diablo2. and don't pretend you did

 

[joni]

i have graphics set to max an i really like it, it looks like a softer d2

after d3 released, and sucked balls, i played d2 for abit, so i dont mind it at all
and the paste of the game gets much better at higher levels

it would be harder to bot then d3, but i really wanna see a buddy for it !

 

[eubot]

I've been playing a bit and can't get past lvl5 on any class cuz its pretty boring and the animations are bad, ikno its a beta but I doubt you can fix a lot of the issues, it just looks bad but I must say the skill system and items are cool. I need a good looking game to play, I can't stand to look at this. Its 2013 I would think they would make a game look better than this

Thats why im reluctant to try to it . When i see all that bad graphs and combat cant make myself try it, but i will someday to be inline with the trend haha
I played diablo2 but honestly i dont remember sh1t about it apart from butcher >.<

 

[ToeNisLubBer]

So many depraved children

 

[cheesebtn]

POE is defiantly worth playing, Me and some rl friends played d3 together, we were all barbarians and had exactly the same /stats/gear/skills. Now we're all the same class at poe but we got completely different styles, as well as stats,gear,skills,potions. The customization is just amazing.

The only way i would ever play d3 again is too bot, and atm its not even worth doing that(imo). I kinda hope no one makes a bot for poe since i wouldn't like to see it ruined, but I'm sure peeps will(If they haven't already).

 

[silkysamson]

POE is really good, and will keep players happy a lot longer than diablo 3.

The graphics really are not as bad as people are making out. And since when did graphics make a game. Really don't understand this obsession the younger generation have with graphics being the be all and end all.

And at the end of the day it's free, what you got to lose.

 

[mephuser1000]

POE is really good, and will keep players happy a lot longer than diablo 3.

The graphics really are not as bad as people are making out. And since when did graphics make a game. Really don't understand this obsession the younger generation have with graphics being the be all and end all.

And at the end of the day it's free, what you got to lose.

This is what you lose: time + opportunity cost + sanity + QoL (quality of life)

If you can't stand manually upgrading flawless gems to Radiant Star gems in Diablo 3, please read the below:

Forum - General Discussion - Why make me click 100 times???!?!? - Path of Exile

This is ***** nonsense. I have 200 alterations that I want to turn into fusings. I have to click 100 times to turn them into jewelers and then another 25 times to turn them into fusings. Is this a ***** joke?? ***** fail system.

Forum - Beta Feedback - Buying from vendors is aggravating. - Path of Exile

First off, i browsed through several vendor threads, but none really were about this, so much as about *should sell this, *sell all that, etc etc.

Ok, im a farmer, its what i do. Nothing thrills me more than rerunning the Dread Thicket 4.666.777.345 times in a row The problem is, that currently these vendors in game, well they kinda remind of of playing FF1. They're archaeic at the very best, and can barely do their jobs, to the point of that it frustrates the fuck out of me.

Its awsome that GGG has recently added the option to ctrl + click sell items, but the real problem is on the other side of things. Buying is a total joke.

Recently i had about 500 Whetstones i needed to clear out, cause they were just gettin stupidly stockpiled, and i decided best bet would be to upgrade as far up the currency chain as i could. The return for wisdoms on whetstones was well worth the trade in, or so i thought. but than i added up the time i sat at a vendor buying ONE SINGLE SCROLL at a time, over and over, from portals, to trans, to aug, to alts, to jeweller orbs etc etc.


Anyone that has gone through this procedure will know exactly what im talkin about. I also realise most people wont do this, thats fine, but theres those old critchety misers like myself that want ever pennies worth of return we can get.

I BEG YOU GGG for the love of freakin god, fix this horrible system BEFORE open beta. It might seem trivial, but it really makes me almost wanna quit, and take a break... a LONG break (probably a good thing - considering the time i spend in front of this game - who am i kidding, this wont happen).

But yea , in summary - 1 hr at a vendor is NOT fun in the slightest.

Cheers.

 

[silkysamson]

I think your using a bit of an extreme example there. I don't even bother with any of that stuff and only play a few hours a day in the evening for fun. Like most people would unwind after a day a work, watching TV or reading a book.

So no I'm afraid your wrong, not losing a single one of the things you mention. In fact you probably wasted more time with you inane response.

 

[Champagne]

you obviously never grew up on diablo2. and don't pretend you did

did i say i did? when d2 was out i was a kid playing outside with friends, i was sitting all day infront of the computer, but now its different lol

and the technology available now prodcues amazing games that dont even compare to poe or d2.

 

[Champagne]

Thats why im reluctant to try to it . When i see all that bad graphs and combat cant make myself try it, but i will someday to be inline with the trend haha
I played diablo2 but honestly i dont remember sh1t about it apart from butcher >.<

if ur bored one day go right ahead and try it but its not that interesting atleast at the low lvl, i cnt say much for higher lvls. there are better games out there for pc, console i rather waste my time on lol

 

[Champagne]

POE is really good, and will keep players happy a lot longer than diablo 3.

The graphics really are not as bad as people are making out. And since when did graphics make a game. Really don't understand this obsession the younger generation have with graphics being the be all and end all.

And at the end of the day it's free, what you got to lose.

cuz thats what gaming turned into, its very hard to have a good game without graphics and animations. graphics arent that bad in poe but omg animations are horrible, its like playing with stick figures.

 

[mephuser1000]

I think your using a bit of an extreme example there. I don't even bother with any of that stuff and only play a few hours a day in the evening for fun. Like most people would unwind after a day a work, watching TV or reading a book.

So no I'm afraid your wrong, not losing a single one of the things you mention. In fact you probably wasted more time with you inane response.

- Aren't you working like >12 hrs a day? When do you wake up? When do you reach home?
- Do you sacrifice sleep just to hand-play a game to unwind?
- You botting for fun or for $?
- Will you be buying a PoE bot?
- Are you staying loyal to PoE for the next 2 years? or are you going to migrate when the next Free-to-Play RPG game comes along?

 

[silkysamson]

- Aren't you working like >12 hrs a day? When do you wake up? When do you reach home?
- Do you sacrifice sleep just to hand-play a game to unwind?
- You botting for fun or for $?
- Will you be buying a PoE bot?
- Are you staying loyal to PoE for the next 2 years? or are you going to migrate when the next Free-to-Play RPG game comes along?

Lol you a probation officer or something, you seem to want to know a lot about my video gaming habits..

Firstly I don't know what part of the world you live in, but most people work an average of about 8 hours a day here. I'm self employed so sometimes I can be a little naughty and work less than that.

Bot for fun or money, come on don't be an idiot.. I do it for fun, I just sit there watching my bots all day and night.. Don't you?

No I won't bot POE, why because I don't believe there to be enough return in it.. ATM.. If it was released as a full game and shown to return a good profit, then I won't say never.

I will play it as long as I enjoy it then I may play something else. Doesn't have to be free. As I said I actually also enjoy video games and don't mind paying for them. Infact I happen to of bought a supporter pack for POE and played the closed beta, so not sure what your trying to imply. It would seem most of your assumptions are wrong anyway.

Hope that was enough info for you..

 

[ToeNisLubBer]

thread so off topic now lol. move to strike. over ruled. objection. sustained

 

[eubot]

graphics count and not new generation . it is a question of taste
i wouldn't watch and old movie with bad movie effects no matter how good the reviews