Diablo 3 in 2008 !!?

[Lena Oxton]

Can you guys imagine, they created a large bulk of the game 4 years ago in 2008.

So why the hell does it take 4 years for developers to test bugs and balance gameplay when currently,
--there are still class imbalances and exploits being abused.

Watch:
Diablo 3 WWI 2008 Witch Doctor Gameplay - YouTube



(Not sure what the linking vid rule is, someone can pm me if this is a violation, thanks)

[codezero]

Yeah that's quite interesting isn't it. 4 years later and it is more polished in terms of the interface on the bottom I think.... but 4 years worth?? pfft No way.. wtf were they doing all that time?? and yeah at the moment D3 is exploit city.... Blizzard are f$$ked

[Tyranie909]

Largely due to the massive amounts if changes that went into the game in the final 6 months. They redid most of the skills and runes and even different systems. I do agree it's a little reticulum they had as many issues as they did. Funny thing is that bugs I reported in beta in August made it in the live version.

[theinfantry]

I mean no disrespect. Developing a game, specially a company like blizzard who also has WoW, SCII to develop/test/release takes TIME. The foundation of it takes that long to develop. Stories, Graphics, Animation, Voice, so forth.

Exploits are merely touching up the icing of the cake. Bugs are just holes in the cake. They are bound to be discovered, poked at and smeared.
Try making a mod out of it. Change the character's graphics, some story, and even the voice and quest. Even then your only slicing part of the cake and re-icing it.

Name me a bigame that has dumped rainbows from release without no one crying about this, exploiting that, and hacking the hell out of it?
Just one...

A company like blizz vs. Gamers around the world. Most gamers are IT enthusiast. You think the dev/QA/sales/support or any other team that makes up the company can keep up vs the world?
Ofcourse I'm no expert at this matter, just my .02

I am however, disappointed that they did not come out with PvP on release.