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Diablo III Almost Became An MMORPG

Posted on Saturday, June 16 @ 19:12:19 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Since Diablo III released last month a lot of people have noticed that it shares a lot of qualities with World of Warcraft. Things like the auction house, art style, and online requirements have MMORPG written all over them. It turns out that there's a good reason for that.

Blizzard North Co-Founder Max Schaefer shared that Diablo III was originally conceived with an MMO model. He stated to The Verge:

When I was working at Blizzard a million years ago we were working on Diablo 3 and it was an MMO. We were going to do the Diablo version of World of Warcraft.

So... World of Diablo? That would be World of Warcraft with demonic creatures, tons of loot falling everywhere, and action-based gameplay, right?  Just what I've been looking for.

Come to think of it, Diablo III has an extremely thin layer of multiplayer that leaves me feeling alone 90% of the time. The mere thought of it having a seemless world rich with players, guilds, and barrens chat makes me realize what a missed opportunity this really is. On the plus side, at least we don't have to pay a subscription fee, and there's also Project Titan.
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  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 7:47 pm
    World of Warcraft can die in the cesspool of my unfathomable hate.
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 7:50 pm
    But... but... Night Elf female dance!
  • Squiggy
    Squiggy

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 12:44 am
    Hell, Draenei females in general. Sexy as hell once you get over the hooves.

    Unless you're... into hooves...

    In which case I won't judge you.

    To your face.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
    The Draenei women do have a nice badonkadonk when the tail moves out of the way.
  • Lien
    Lien

    Joined: Feb 2008
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 12:46 pm
    Bah! Give me the goblin dance instead. Much better then all them females standing around and moving their arms and rear.

    ...Just so we are clear i'm talking about the male dance here.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 8:25 pm
    Is this an excuse for the first month of problems?
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 8:33 pm
    That you had and I didn't?
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
    You shush Tiny or we're putting you in a home, with no wifi.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 6:41 am
    Do they have pudding?
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 8:09 am
    Yes you can have pudding, we're not monsters.
  • Chunibrow
    Chunibrow

    Joined: Mar 2010
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
    I hope these problems are done when I upgrade my comp and buy this game in 2 weeks
  • sandineyes
    sandineyes

    Joined: May 2008
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
    Around the time I quit playing WoW (after Lich King, before Cataclysm), leveling an alt also left you alone 90% of the time.
  • crazycracker22
    crazycracker22

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
    Ahhhhhhhh Barrens chat... Good, lonely, prepubescent, horrible times.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 16th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
    Now theres technically 2 barrens chat.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 10:30 am
    I love these comments.
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack

    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 1:32 pm
    I comment this love.
  • Squiggy
    Squiggy

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 19th, 2012 at 12:08 am
    It's a shame with all these comments around tha the TPS seems to have vanished. Was there like some announcement about it that I missed? It wouldn't be the first time if there was. When Duke left the site, it took me months to find out.
  • LinksOcarina
    LinksOcarina

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 11:40 am
    should have been an MMO, since they are pretty much a step away from it as it is.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
    I wasnt around when WoW first started, did they have this many problems in the beginning?
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 3:29 pm
    Contrary to what fanboys might say, wow had a ton of problems on release.
  • Josh_Laddin
    Josh_Laddin

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 5:39 pm
    What fanboys ever deny it? Everyone I've ever encountered who played Vanilla back in the day doesn't shy away from talking about the horrible server issues, queue times, overpopulation, etc. Most Vanilla players seem to wear it like a badge of honor, IMO.
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
    previous players =/= fanboys, plenty of wow fanboys have acted like wow had a flawless launch, and bash other mmos that dont luaunch as flawlessly.
  • Blazin13
    Blazin13

    Joined: Dec 2010
    Posted: Jun 18th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
    Jesus Christ I had forgotten about que times....*shudders*...spend half an hour to just get into Azeroth only to get booted out do to horrific game ending lag.
  • Daddio
    Daddio

    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
    Oh heck yeah, Vanilla WoW was nuts on problems. Some of the things didn't even make sense like the original cost of epic land mounts (600g back then was impossible to get lol). I also remember running for 20-30 minutes to scarlet mon. just in time for the group to fall apart

    So much time wasted running around places so much time
  • Josh_Laddin
    Josh_Laddin

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
    Epic mounts cost a cool 1k gold back then. And I had one... granted it was the warlock mount which was cheaper overall because it involved all those epic quests. Ah nostalgia.
  • Blazin13
    Blazin13

    Joined: Dec 2010
    Posted: Jun 18th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
    I left WoW for a time just before LK came out and came back right after Cat was released. I lost my **** when I saw lvl 20s riding mounts. I took to Goldshire chat and start ranting about how in the old days mounts meant something....and blah noobs these days blah
  • UpAndAtThem
    UpAndAtThem

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 5:21 pm
    If you want to play WoW, then play WoW. Leave Diablo for those of us who want to be able to really enjoy a game without the time investment of a MMORPG.
  • TheJx4
    TheJx4

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Jun 17th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
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