The 3rd kind of player…

I played Everquest2 from early internal Beta (friends and family). I had read every word from the developers, for two years leading up to being invited.

When they finally lifted the NDA on October 17, 2004, I decided to share my feelings about beta over at Druids Grove. I had always read their site, and being a druid in EQ and other games…well that was a comfortable place to post. Read more

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Diablo 3 — MMORPG?

I am a huge fan of Diablo and Diablo II. I still play both of them on a regular basis. I have been reading “rumors from around the net”, that Blizzard may be coming out with a new MMORPG based on the Diablo series instead of Warcraft.

If they do, I hope they have Wirt as one of the vendors. (maybe you have go rescue his leg before he will buy and sell from you)

I always thought, the Diablo world would lend itself to a very nice game. I look forward to visiting Decard Caine for his sage advice.

(Perhaps we will find out in October, when Blizzard hosts Blizzcon.)

If they are making Diablo3, I hope it is a bit more difficult than WoW. I want more long term objectives, titles and ingame housing.

I would love to see less use of instanced dungeons. Give me a good ol’dungeon crawl. I want trains to the zone, shouts for groups, contested spawns…all the things that communities are built on! Make it so you can only group with people of the appropriate levels. I don’t want all the content simplified by having older players ‘Run you through” all the content. I want the armor we wear to be earned, and paid for in the deaths.

For now we can only hope!

(to be held at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California on October 10 and 11.)