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Geek Culture / Diablo 3 - or how to forecast the end of the world

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Green Gandalf
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Posted: 21st May 2012 23:45
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While searching for something Diablo related I stumbled across this thread:

Diablo 3 release date revealed

which referred to this site:

Numerology gone mad

Full marks to Alucard94 who said on the thread:

Quote: "Well the entire hex thing sounds weird as a coincidence. But then again Blizzard are weird. I know what to do, let's not care about this and just see when Diablo 3 actually comes out."


Well, Diablo 3 has finally been released () and our copy arrived this week.

That prompted us to dust off Diablo 2 (which neither of us completed). By some happy accident we have two copies (an online purchasing foul-up at our end apparently ) and we both set about installing it on our respective machines. It ran on my wife's W7 machine, albeit in some weird tiny windowed 640x480 resolution, but wouldn't run at all on my Vista mchine. We finally managed to get both copies to run correctly by downloading the latest patch from Battle.net.

I wonder when we'll finally get around to trying Diablo 3.

If I go quiet on the forum you'll know why...
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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 22nd May 2012 03:13 Edited at: 22nd May 2012 03:14
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Alucard94? This is kind of suspicious because we used to have a member here call Alucard and he's on my Twitter and he's using 94 at the end of his name. I wonder if it's the same guy.

Also, Diablo III seems to be working on my brother's MacBook Air, so there might be high hopes. I might bug him for a guest pass to see if I can get it to work on my laptop.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 24th May 2012 13:32
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While I can't give out my CD, I do have several guest passes I don't mind giving to people. I bought the game last weekend, so far it seems alright. Not sure I like the potion and town portal cooldowns, seems too much like a normal RPG. The demon hunter class is cool. The game is full of achievements, kinda like WoW.

"You're not going crazy. You're going sane in a crazy world!" ~Tick
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Dark Frager
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Posted: 24th May 2012 20:30
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Quote: "I do have several guest passes I don't mind giving to people."


If you don't mind, can you send me one? What details do I need to provide? Thanks!

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Posted: 24th May 2012 21:06
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Quote: "I do have several guest passes I don't mind giving to people."

I would appreciate one too if you are willing

"So hold your head up high and know, it's not the end of the road"

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Posted: 24th May 2012 21:57
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Guest pass is exactly what I needed, i played to lvl 4 in the stress test and absolutly HATED IT. After the guest pass i began loving it xD Now I have bought it too ~~


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Posted: 25th May 2012 00:31
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Guest accounts allow you to play up to the skeleton king boss in Act 1. So probably level 10 for your character by then, give or take.

1. Goto www.diablo3.com/guest
2. Create a Battle.net account or login to an existing one
3. Enter your guest pass key into the field provided
4. Download the free client or borrow your friend's game DVD to install the game


I sent keys to Dark Frager and heyufool1. I still have one more guest pass and a WoW guest pass (play up to level 20)

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Posted: 25th May 2012 00:44
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I guess I could take you up on the offer (bryn.price[at]live.co.uk is what I've used for my Battle.net account) then I can test if it'll actually run on my laptop. If it's running on MacBook Airs, I'm pretty hopeful here.

I've actually got 3 SWTOR trial invites and I've not found anybody to give them out to yet, I'd happily offer one as a trade if you wanted one.

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Posted: 25th May 2012 00:46
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Quote: "I've actually got 3 SWTOR trial invites and I've not found anybody to give them out to yet"


Whats the restrictions on those? Specifically lvl restrictions?


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Posted: 25th May 2012 01:04
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Basically you can play right around to the end of the Prologue, which is around level 16 (when you get your starship). So you get to complete your first 2 planets at least. The trial lasts for 7 days and you can't join a guild. You can create more than one character, I think I started 3 when I was running the trial. The chat channels are restricted, I could reply to whispers, but couldn't send them or use the General Chat channel. Also, you can't use the Galaxy Trade Network (auction house). Which is kinda bizarre, because in a way, it pretty much restricts you to soloing, but I did manage to join a couple of heroics when I was doing the trial. I can't remember whether or not you can queue for PvP matches, I don't think I even tried.

The game download is pretty big (25gbs iirc), on my crappy connection it took 30 hours to download, but I live in a small village miles away from anything and my connection is pretty inferior compared to most people's.

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Posted: 25th May 2012 05:09
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Quote: " sent keys to Dark Frager and heyufool1. I still have one more guest pass and a WoW guest pass (play up to level 20)"

Thanks a lot! It's nice to be able to test this game out considering some of the mixed reviews I've seen.

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Posted: 25th May 2012 15:45
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Quote: "Basically you can play right around to the end of the Prologue, which is around level 16 (when you get your starship). So you get to complete your first 2 planets at least. The trial lasts for 7 days and you can't join a guild. You can create more than one character, I think I started 3 when I was running the trial. The chat channels are restricted, I could reply to whispers, but couldn't send them or use the General Chat channel. Also, you can't use the Galaxy Trade Network (auction house). Which is kinda bizarre, because in a way, it pretty much restricts you to soloing, but I did manage to join a couple of heroics when I was doing the trial. I can't remember whether or not you can queue for PvP matches, I don't think I even tried."


Ahh nevermind then I played to around that level in the BETA aswell. A bit too storydriven for me that game - it feels like an SP with lots of people, not a MMORPG with a story to me ^^

Anyway, I would have tried it if to around lvl 20 and "unlimited" (no timestamp)


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Posted: 25th May 2012 16:04
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Quote: "sent keys to Dark Frager and heyufool1"


Thank you very much!

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