Diablo 3 potentially has an ARG (alternate reality game) contained in it! Starting at Whimsyshire!

OminousLatinWord · 2012-05-25T13:20:49.458126+00:00

I think we may need to keep the scoundrel as our companion while exploring for more clues within the game.

OminousLatinWord · 2012-05-25T12:58:45.721749+00:00

So the portal leads to Activision headquarters?

Pawlesslol · 1 day

In D3 Options menu, under the Gameplay tab, there is a checkbox labeled "Elective Mode". Check it and you can now use multiple abilities from the same group.

YooCanFly · 1 day

I don't plan on dying

From what I've been told, eventually, no matter what, you will die.

PKCarwash · 2 days

This is diablo, everyone is should be very gear dependant.

Zeyhn · 2 days

That's what the 4:3 people said, too!

imNTR · 2 days

This is what I'm running in Act 3 Nightmare - http://us.battle.net/d3/en/calculator/witch-doctor#aiSZdR!Zcb!YaaYZZ

I love the large AOE radius of Acid Rain.

steviemcfly · 6 days

If the group Oppressed by the slur wants to say it among themselves, who the fuck are you to tell them they can't? That's just more "I know better" bs which is the sort of entitlement/othering that created the slurs in the first place tbh

Do you feel this is the case even when the individual doing the "tell them they can't" is a part of the "group Oppressed by the slur"?

steviemcfly · 7 days

I just think it's a bad idea to allow ~~apparently 'with it' white friends~~ anyone to use slurs casually.

IMO, these slurs are gross no matter who is using them.

v0mg · 8 days

this probably stems from the fact that he played it for an hour before deciding he hates it so he didn't get the full array of runes to chose from.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who got this impression. "Crypt crypt hole crypt" is the first hour of the game..

regisfrost · 9 days

sleeplessone, even sites that actually care about doing the hacking in Diablo 3 disagree with you.

http://diablo-3-cheats.org/diablo-3-mods-and-hacks-the-beginning/

"Being able to see how the game works “under the hood” is the biggest factor in creating hacks or mods for a game…there’s a reason they call a game’s operating system an engine. By being able to peer into this engine and see how the game processes player movements, ability mechanics, and enemy AI, we are able to learn how to then change these elements to work in our favor. We are able to hack apart the safeguards Blizzard put inside of Diablo 3 in order to give ourselves an advantage other players cannot achieve. This is the act of hacking and the essence of cheating."

The quoted concept can just as easily be applied to being able to freely poke and prod the underlying server software.

regisfrost · 9 days

One last question, then. If Blizzard released the source code to their server software they are using right now, and I mean everything, would hacks come sooner, later, or no difference in time, because of it?

regisfrost · 9 days

You are wrong. If I have a local copy of the server, it becomes much easier for me to break it and get around it's restrictions. Not having a local copy of that server makes that a much harder task, and at the very least makes it take a much longer amount of time to do.

I find it hard for you to even attempt it after Blizzard has stated the exact same as I.

regisfrost · 9 days

Who cares if they "hack" the local copy of the server.

Having a local copy of the server helps hackers break into the real multiplayer server.. I don't understand why this concept seems to far out of reach for everyone against the online only decision.

regisfrost · 9 days

So giving everyone a copy of the server had no affect on how easily Closed Battle.Net was hacked?

regisfrost · 9 days

Until they hack the server, which they now have a copy of, which is the entire point of not giving everyone a copy of the server..

regisfrost · 9 days

Give a local version of the server that can be spawned locally for playing offline characters.

That's exactly what caused duped and hacked items to appear online. If you give hackers the server, they can more easily hack it.

I think what you meant to say was, "Develop a completely different game for the single player people."

regisfrost · 9 days

If a game is not online, a client has to be trusted to handle ALL data.

odd84 · 9 days

I'm sure Error 37 will subside as we move further from the release.

Forsick · 9 days

I'm sure there are plenty of other ways to prevent that

Well now that you've found the solutions, you can get contracted by Blizzard to implement them. Or, at the very least, you could share some of your "plenty of other ways"? :D I don't understand why people think they know more about these things than Blizzard.

Forsick · 9 days

So there is no other way to prevent hacks/dupes 10 years later?

Now that you've come to the same conclusion as Blizzard, you can stop complaining about it.

BlackLabel2021 · 10 days

It took 5 and a half ours for it to pan out.

pgatkins · 10 days

Discussions aren't about right or wrong. They are about discussing things. That mindset is exactly why circlejerks are not a good place to look for discussions.

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