Oh well, I had waited for this game, but if there's no modding, then I doubt it will have a replay value high enough for me to buy it...
I guess it's time for indie games, yet again.

the Blizzard-Activision merger was the beginning of the end :<

I think the photo notes could use a few blockers of words such as mine, M1NE, m1n3, and other variations of the word. But that would kill Minecraft posts.

1. drm
2. no single player
3. no lan
4. no modding
5. real money

DAY NEVER PURCHASE

So... the tentacle and her are an item? I guess I haven't seen enough anime since I didn't see that coming.

Wow, I didn't see this coming... Blizzard killing their franchise to get MOAR MONEH!.. Or wait, wasn't there an expansion called Burning Crusade..?

i hate how blizzard is taking a step in the asshole direction...

Great News! No Diablo 3 for me until it is cracked probably! I like piracy when it comes to terms like this.

[url=#user_comment_70913]@CHT[/url] and[url=#user_comment_70902] @Mujaki[/url] I know Steam has an offline mode. I was listing all the games I CAN play offline.

im want that tan

Online connection for single player mode would only be an issue for the sucker who buy the game.
The pirates would naturally not have to deal with that bullshit.

And that, gents, is how we beat the censors.

Guess Ol' Tentacle doesn't have it in him. What kinda tentacle is he anyway? :P

DO NOT WANT

The baby is a lie!

Where's the tentacle's face o-o

[url=#user_comment_70936]@BLIZZARD[/url] There's games I really loved, like Fallout 1 and 2, Portal, and Warcraft 1 and 2, and yet I didn't get the sequels that looked good(fallout 3, warcraft 3 and wow, and portal 2, for some examples), so, I'm not getting a sequel that DOESN'T look good. Don't underestimate my cheapness

1. No problem.
2. Don't bother.
3. Those who wished to buy items for $$$ still bought them in D2, so no problem here as long as those items will not be "exclusive"

[url=#user_comment_70949]@biggityboobah[/url] You obviously don't browse gelbooru.com or rule34.paheal.net

First off, when will the creator of nerfnow finally draw ecchi/hentai instead of teasing us all the time.

Second I'm all for this. Because I can make money while playing Diablo 3. I'm going to play it old school anyways and not buy anything off the auction house.

Mwahaha... You guys can rant and deny all you want. You will buy Diablo3 nevertheless.

You have been mindcontrolled ever since the first WoW-commercials, broken your life and destroyed your family in exchange for a level 70 character.
Diablo3 is coming out and you know you want to do it again.

Geeez, I thought he was saving the nude fanservice for comic 1000!

Looks like I don't have to bother saving any money for Diablo 3. Guess I can put that money towards a new external hard drive.

Lack of offline singleplayer mode is even worse than the item mall scheme.

Most people will go along with this type of control without objection, since net connections aren't a problem. Big deal, right? I guess I just don't want Big Brother watching and drawing up statistics.

basically diablo 3 will be inferior to torchlight 1, case closed

[url=#user_comment_70890]@Skar[/url]: Steam does NOT require a permanent internet connection like assassins creed 2. You can use most of its games in offline mode provided the games are patched on the latest version. [url=#user_comment_70902] @Mujaki[/url]: Indeed. Bots are not the same as real players. In a few years, they might be though.

Well I just read the Auction House FAQ and overall it doesn't seem to bad. They created it as a more secure way for players to buy and sell with each other.

Plus, I lost track of how many unique or set pieces I got that were useless for my character in D2. Now if I can make a few buck in D3....

[url=#user_comment_70890]@Skar[/url]: Actually, Steam does have an "Offline" mode. And both CS:S and TF2 include bots. I know, not quite the same as playing against live opponents, but the option IS available.

I'm sure there will be an offline mode. I mean, what the hell else am I going to do on flights?

Oh wait Counterstrike, Starcraft 2, CnC, Diablo 2, any freaking game on Steam, and any game I own.

ITS LIKE ASSASSINS CREED 2 ALL OVER AGAIN

[url=#user_comment_70838]@Davtwan[/url]: Still buying it It was a bit more aggressive than I would like sorry for that ^^

FUCK YOURSELF[url=#user_comment_70739] @PointyKnives[/url]

Wait, people don't want to admit they don't want rich people gaining an edge? I never saw that occur in the various card games with that dynamic in effect (YGO, Magic on the Tournament scene). The people I know are fully willing to bitch that the rich people have an advantage.

@emp100k

The real money on the Auction House thing will probably translate to gold for the person selling the item, right? Or did they actually announce that they're making an economy like TF2 did?

Since I never liked Diablo, I don't give a single poo. Gotta say, though, that the real money involvement will likely encourage farmers and other kinds of pretty individuals

gold*

It's been talked about before and I can easily see a farmer grinding out high value rare items and sleeing them full time to make a actually decent "wage" I fear since this is a official part of the game unlike god farming the government might try and get involved...

Mianly I fear that the ability to buy and sell in game items for real money in a totally legitimate and even encouraged enviroment by blizzard will only bring us closer to the threat of taxation of online currancy.

As the future pirates king, i approve piracy for this game.

I personally don't trust ANYBODY to monitor in any way my computer usage. Where will they stop? Game files? Registration files? Website history? No, until there is a offline mode no D3 shall sully my computer and I'm a huge fan of the series (have all the discs too).

Find it funny that your complaining about spending real money on items and the ad above today's comic is a Diablo 2 item/gold store lol.

I give it less than 6 months before someone hacks the game to play the game at the most 2 years. This will be like a government website taunting Anonymous that they can't hurt them. And I will be cheering them on. This is as close to "1984" as a game company can get.

Jo, please include more panties. Regardless of what is going on in the story, we need more panties.
That is all.

Blizzard, investing skill points in Greed since World of Warcraft. And by the looks of it they are gonna max it soon. Gready bastards getting worse and worse...

Already vowed to pirate.

Looking forward to Torchlight 2.

A few people mentioned that you're just getting Bizzard Store credits or whatever instead of real money. What they stated is that you have the option between bizzard credits and real money being sent to your bank account.

So yea, you can sell D3 items for real cash money.

...after all, anime girls never get pregnant when tentacle/gang raped!

[url=#user_comment_70803]@Ace[/url]: How is Jo part of the problem exactly?

Look at the bright side...
it seems that you will be able to SELL items for real money as well.

So, while it would suck to have players get items so easly, at least you can get some money if you play smart

As much as I love the Diablo series, Blizzard can really go fuck themselves this time.

Ha haaa... perspective. Wait, how does a tentacle?... I need to spend more time in Japan.

Looking good? This is one thing Diablo III is no more. It can be actually fun to play, though. I don't care so much for buying items. Modding should be supported, at least custom adventures, not save modding. No offline mode pissed me off... I'm not buying Diablo III.

The thing I am pissed about is no offline mode. If an offline mode is not added I simply will not buy this game.

I don't care about the auction house in fact no one should an unofficial place to buy items would be up day 1 if they didn't have the in game real money auction house the only difference is that this way the consumer is protected and for blizzard it justifies not charging a monthly fee. Cont...

So anyone thought about the point of selling items yourself for real money? If they made a way to make item farming skillbased and not time (read: farm)based, it wouldn't be too farfetched to have a job as a gamer (besides the people earning cash at tournaments etc.)

Panties, seriously?

How am I supposed to keep my marriage this way?

No mods
No lan
No offline modus
No fair economy
No D3
As far as I am concerned Diablo 3 is dead
And sorry, as much as I like your comics, you are part of the problem which started in the last couple of years. Every game nowadays has a "money making scheme" build in, this has to stop now.

Pretty sure the whole reasoning behind real money transactions is so that blizzard can get a cut of a market that has already existed for a very long time in Diablo 2. For that, I honestly could not care less, good on 'em.

@Gentlemanne of Leisure: i don't think so since dota turned in to LoL, and they use skins not hats.

Remember you will also be able to sell YOUR stuff for real money.

maybe it will go free2play? :V

Not surprised about the permanent connection part (especially since hacking was rampant in Diablo 2 afaik). As for buying items for real money, I actually consider that a smart move. Cuts out the black market of companies selling ingame money for real cash like in WoW and other MMOs.

Off topic: Will DOTA 2 have hats?

[url=#user_comment_70724]@Mine[/url] Herr That's no tank top, it's a summer dress :D Also know as the greatest thing about summer <3

MARK MY WORDS FELLOW NERFNOW-MEMBERS. IT WILL HAPPEN TO DIABLO3 AS IT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED WITH MANY MMORPG, FROM HENCE THE IDEA CAME. THY ALL SHALL SEE!
THY ALL SHALL WITNESS. THY ALL SHALL FLAME!

I HEREBY FORETELL CHINESE HACKERS TO FAKE AUCTION MONEY TO FILL THEIR OWN PURSE AND RESELL YOUR DATA AND CREDITCARD NUMBER. WHEREAS BLIZZARD APOLOGIZING BUT LEGALY NOT TO BE BLAMED SINCE THEY HAD HIDDEN SUCH TERMS OF AGREEMENTS WHILE INSTALLING!

If you didn't buy things from (shady) sites before, this doesn't affect you. Yes, probably a significantly larger amount of the population will be buying gear, but all that means is you'll meet maybe twice as many ubergeareds in your time playing.

If you did buy gear, this is just straight plus.

If the cash market is only intern (as in no products sold by blizzard) and it just sells what players could get by training I don't see it as TOO bad. It's just that you know can make "real money" by hunting the good stuff in the game and in-turn use that money for the same or a different game.

"modding" was pretty much just used for hacking multiplayer and I never used single player mods anyway, don't care. As much as I played SP-only on D2 and never played D1 online, I don't care about always on internet...I always have internet. As for the AH, you can just use the gold one.

SO!
Who's excited for Guild Wars 2?

just draw yourself a tittie not only Jo can do it

Panty!

What do you get when a tentacle impregnates a girl?

*puts on sunglasses*



Spaghetti!
*YYEEEEEAAAAAAAAAH*

It's really all just one piece of news. The ridiculous auction house thing would not be at all possible without the other two items. It's one massively horrible decision to let the real-money auction house drive design considerations for the whole rest of the game.

Really liked this comic. Just want to say, your comics have been awesome and highly enjoyable since day 1. It's cool to see it evolve over that time. Keep up the great work!

Thanks to the addition of these typical fag feats my interest in Diablo 3 shrinked even more...

I'm sure if I sat here, I could put into words exactly what bothers me about it, but for now, it's a gut feeling that this is going to turn out poorly.

I was all excited for D3 for the longest time. Since they announced it, really.
Then they said I MUST have an internet connection to play and that there would be an auction house you could use real money in.
No matter how silly or unfounded my fears may seem, that shit hit a bad nerve with me.

Bad move, Blizz. This "buy in-game gear with real money" trend is disgusting.

So much sexy innuendo...

Diablo 2 modding. Something that only really mattered MANY years later. Also, something you could only do with single player. Blizzard saying "NO MODS ALLOWED" is no different from saying "We won't support it", because without official support it would be impossible (at least in the next few years).

However the Real cash you might earn you'll never see it anyway because it will be put into something that resembles the Steam vallet, so my guess is you can use it in the Blizz Store or to pay your Wow Sub.
Foolish to Boycut the Game because of something you can ignore fully anyway.

Dude she is walking around in a tank top and her underwear... SWEET!

So what ive understood about the AH is, There is a ''Gold'' AH and there's a ''Real cash'' AH.
Both are Run by Players since Blizzard won't be selling anything tho they will be takin 2 to 3 Fee's or something of the Gold/Cash Amount you Earn.
So you can Earn Real cash by selling D3 Items...

There are TWO Auction houses one with in-game money and one with real cash

Also, to the people saying that they are keeping single player separate from multiplayer is to stop hacking, D2 single player data was saved locally, and multiplayer data was saved on a server. You could not hack your characters by modifying a client-side file.

D2 had no mod tools, but mods in D3 are "expressly prohibited" under the ToS. Which means no mods at all.

Big difference.

I guess they don't want people playing single player and missing out on the AH that is probably going to make them more money than WoW.

That idiot....

As for the real money trading, they also said that the hardcore, permadeath mode won't allow you to buy items with real money, so it's not like someone can just throw money at the game's hardest problem. If someone on an easier mode wants to buy something, be my guest.

I think Blizzard is trying to put a focus on the multiplayer trading, hence the reason they require an internet connection and prevent modding: It's to ensure nobody cheats to put a ton of valuable items on their character for trading.

I hate to break it to you, mods were usually quite supported and have been what's kept D2 alive even up to today. D3 won't have that kind of support, and if it does, blizz will make an extremely limiting API that charges you for every mod you make for it and every mod somebody downloads for it.

right, all the photo notes are "mines" right now, get some new material?

first(maybe)