Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

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Argh. They've released fuck all content over the last year for a massively multiplayer game..Shouldn't there be an expansion coming soon as well?
 
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New content is scheduled to release every 2 Blizzard months (1 Blizzard month is roughly equal to 4 human months). An Expansion will be released within 10 blizzard months.
 
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Hit level 51 on the barb last night. Really enjoying it. It's funny, back when the game was released there weren't a whole lot of level reduced weapons, and if they existed they were extremely expensive.

When I hit 51 I just grabbed some 1100 DPS 2hander off the AH for like 50k. Walked into Hell difficulty and everything just dies in one hits, and elite packs are like 2 hits. So crazy. Really enjoying the game again so far.
 
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Noodleface_sl said:
Hit level 51 on the barb last night. Really enjoying it. It's funny, back when the game was released there weren't a whole lot of level reduced weapons, and if they existed they were extremely expensive.

When I hit 51 I just grabbed some 1100 DPS 2hander off the AH for like 50k. Walked into Hell difficulty and everything just dies in one hits, and elite packs are like 2 hits. So crazy. Really enjoying the game again so far.
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Run on MP10 too, better XP.
 
Mures

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DMK_sl said:
Argh. They've released fuck all content over the last year for a massively multiplayer game..Shouldn't there be an expansion coming soon as well?
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This isn't wow or eq2, diablo has never released quarterly new content and had yearly expansions. You're not paying $15 a month to play it.
 
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How it is a perfect counter argument? D3 never claimed to have updates like GW2. GW2 is, for the most part, a sub free MMORPG. D3 isn't and never claimed to be that.
 
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Ok, an excellent counter-argument rather than a perfect one. Neither game requires a sub fee, and while D3 never promised frequent content updates, GW2 proves that you don't need a sub fee to deliver them.
 
Mr Creed

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While D1 never had an expansion, D2 delivered one in roughly a year's time. Cant be arsed to look up the details so I might be off a bit, but certainly not the mid-2014 that is a pipedream and early 2015 that is plausible here.
 
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I think Blizzard plans on delivering these expansions quicker but they keep fucking up the base game so badly they have to push them out. SC2's HOTS expansion was supposed to be out about a year earlier than it was but they were so busy making it so BNet 2.0 wasn't a steaming pile of shit that it clearly cut that time out. Same goes for D3. I'd prefer them to try and address the issues I'm dealing with at the moment immediately instead of ignoring them and promising fixes in an expansion. Hopefully since they added more bodies to the D3 team we'll get more details about what is coming up in the expansion.
 
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Mr Creed_sl said:
While D1 never had an expansion, D2 delivered one in roughly a year's time. Cant be arsed to look up the details so I might be off a bit, but certainly not the mid-2014 that is a pipedream and early 2015 that is plausible here.
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Wasn't Hellfire the Diablo 1 expansion?
 
bixxby

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Yes, but it was farmed out to Sierra (!!) i think. There were even secret classes in hellfire you had to dick with files to unlock.
 
Mures

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Tenks_sl said:
How it is a perfect counter argument? D3 never claimed to have updates like GW2. GW2 is, for the most part, a sub free MMORPG. D3 isn't and never claimed to be that.
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This exactly.

My point about bringing up the monthly subscription was, from reading various forums, I get the feeling a lot of people new to diablo came from WoW where they are constantly releasing new content because they want you to continue subscribing. I in no way meant to infer that it is the only reason why diablo doesn't release new content more often or that they couldn't if blizzard really wanted to, only that there was no reason to expect d3 would be any different than its predecessors in this regard.
 
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mures_sl said:
This exactly.

My point about bringing up the monthly subscription was, from reading various forums, I get the feeling a lot of people new to diablo came from WoW where they are constantly releasing new content because they want you to continue subscribing. I in no way meant to infer that it is the only reason why diablo doesn't release new content more often or that they couldn't if blizzard really wanted to, only that there was no reason to expect d3 would be any different than its predecessors in this regard.
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If they really wanted to, they could do leagues/ladder ala PoE with RMAH enabled and add new uniques/gems/mats/whatever and get money through people trading for cash... However seeing as they can't do a tiny patch without fucking the whole system up maybe there's a good reason why they don't
 
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