This will indeed lead to serious gold inflation.

 

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Therecia, this came from the Diablo III FAQ,

Diablo III will benefit from Battle.net upgrades that will provide some exciting new features for players. Cooperative online play remains a primary focus, with multiple enhancements being planned to make connecting with your friends easier and cooperative play even more fun. We’ll have more details on all these aspects as well as other exciting new features at a later date.


Seems pretty cut and dry to me.

 

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You read it one way, i read it another.

Torchlight 2 is also "focusing on co-op play" yet the entire game can be done single player. Diablo has ALWAYS been a single player game with co-op as an option where, choosing one play style over the other didn't punish you.

I see no reason to change that in Diablo 3, why force grouping, when most of us play some form of co-op anyway? Why force me to group with 3-6-9-15134234 other people, in a single player franchise?

 

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If you can do all the content solo, you won't try to get your friends to buy/play the game. It's all about money where Blizz is concerned.

 

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Getting people to play Diablo 1 and 2 was an "issue" because everything was available to a single player?

I think not, I got many many people into D2 and never played with them.

 

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I agree with your thought process, but because we think Blizzard should keep the game the way it was, does not mean they will do so. You have to remember Activsion and Kotick were not involved in Diablo I and II.

I will be surprised if they keep the game 100% soloable.

 

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It seems pretty straight-forward to me. There will be 4 modes of play (Normal, Nightmare, and Hell) if they follow past convention and now Inferno. The first 3 can be either solo or co-op and the last is co-op. They mentioned the very best gear will be found in Inferno levels. So, you can solo to your hearts content getting all the available gear in the first 3 levels and call it a day. If you feel like running with friends (or random idiots), then que up for Inferno where you will also be able to get the gear required to complete the level. I don't see how the existence of one play-style affects the other unless you are just trying to rationalize your decision for not playing. If that is the case then ignore this as I could care less whether others play the game or not.

 

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What you fail to realize is this puts a solo player, who enjoys PVP, at a distinct disadvantage, since we all agree that there will be a gear disparity between hell and inferno.


Forced grouping, or be at a disadvantage.

I am really tired of this 'mindset'.


You really couldn't figure that out on your own?

 

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I really don't care. The game has all I am looking for so I have nothing to complain about. I can certainly understand if others pass on it though.


Edit: For all I know, they have a way to match Inferno PvP'ers against each other and the same for Non-Inferno. Maybe they don't, but I gave up on expecting one game to meet all gamers expectations long ago /shrug

 

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Or they simply expect the non-inferno players to purchase the equipment inferno players will sell for real cash (including Blizzard's percentage, of course...) so they can compete...

 

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