Diablo 3 - Patch 1.0.3 Preview

RPGWatch · Mon, 18th Jun '12, 1:05am

IncGamers "datamines" the next patch for Diablo III by examining data on the servers to put together the changes players will see. According to the article, the patch is already on the servers but just not marked for live use.

In other Diablo III news, the official site has an edited transcript of a recent Reddit Ask Me Almost Anything:

It IS, however, reasonable that drop rates would be designed with the AH in mind, to avoid flooding the economy with powerful items. How did you approach this as a design challenge during development, especially without a working economy to test on? 3 weeks after launch, are the economy and player's gear roughly where you were expecting?purrp: There seem to be a lot of misunderstandings and conspiracy theories from people who believe drop rates are directly influenced by the AH (if an item is common on the AH its drop rates will be lowered in-game). That doesn't really make any sense, but maybe can you lay this notion to rest?

Wyatt Cheng: The auction house has absolutely no effect on drop rates. There are conspiracy theories and misunderstandings, but I do want to re-iterate: there is NO interaction whatsoever. Bashiok mentioned earlier that we took the AH into account, so let me expand a little bit on that.

The drop rates were tuned for a player who would never use the Auction House. For the majority of internal development, we didn't have an Auction House, and we all played using our own drops only. I've personally leveled multiple characters from 1 to 60 internally before the game came out using only drops that I found -- we all did.

When we say we "took the AH into account," that means it's one of many factors -- i.e. some players will choose to play without trading, some players would play in a group of 4 where they share drops among each other, and some (as it turns out, many) players would use the AH. [...]

Lastly, Gamasutra notes Diablo III has sold 1M copies at NA retail. Given that you can usually double NA sales for a rough international tally and that we know the total sales are 6.3M, that implies a lot of digital copies.

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RPGWatch SPS Account Holder Watching... Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 3,495 Like: 0 Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts	Diablo 3 - Patch 1.0.3 Preview IncGamers "datamines" the next patch for Diablo III by examining data on the servers to put together the changes players will see. According to the article, the patch is already on the servers but just not marked for live use. In other Diablo III news, the official site has an edited transcript of a recent Reddit Ask Me Almost Anything: It IS, however, reasonable that drop rates would be designed with the AH in mind, to avoid flooding the economy with powerful items. How did you approach this as a design challenge during development, especially without a working economy to test on? 3 weeks after launch, are the economy and player's gear roughly where you were expecting?purrp: There seem to be a lot of misunderstandings and conspiracy theories from people who believe drop rates are directly influenced by the AH (if an item is common on the AH its drop rates will be lowered in-game). That doesn't really make any sense, but maybe can you lay this notion to rest? Wyatt Cheng: The auction house has absolutely no effect on drop rates. There are conspiracy theories and misunderstandings, but I do want to re-iterate: there is NO interaction whatsoever. Bashiok mentioned earlier that we took the AH into account, so let me expand a little bit on that. The drop rates were tuned for a player who would never use the Auction House. For the majority of internal development, we didn't have an Auction House, and we all played using our own drops only. I've personally leveled multiple characters from 1 to 60 internally before the game came out using only drops that I found -- we all did. When we say we "took the AH into account," that means it's one of many factors -- i.e. some players will choose to play without trading, some players would play in a group of 4 where they share drops among each other, and some (as it turns out, many) players would use the AH. [...] Lastly, Gamasutra notes Diablo III has sold 1M copies at NA retail. Given that you can usually double NA sales for a rough international tally and that we know the total sales are 6.3M, that implies a lot of digital copies.
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