Vote: Reaper of Souls Release Date Reaction?

[Hound]

Yesterday we got the surprise (?) announcement that Reaper of Souls will be released not just in 2014, but early in the year, coming next March 25th, exactly one week after the Auction House shuts down. I've read a lot of instant fan reactions, most of which seem to be "Awesome!" or "Game sucks who cares!" Since you can never judge the community opinion on an issue just by the small % of players who are motivated enough to post a comment, let's Vote: Reaper of Souls Release Date Reaction!

But first, congrats to Fjassin who won <a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?847950-Somewhat-Official-Diablo-3-Expansion-Release-Date-Pool">our long-running RoS release date pool</a> by predicting the exact date. Better yet, <a href="http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?847950-Somewhat-Official-Diablo-3-Expansion-Release-Date-Pool&p=8550514&viewfull=1#post8550514">he did it back in August</a>, before September brought news that the Auction House was shutting down on March 18, 2014. (In retrospect, predicting release date for the first Tuesday after the AH shutdown seems a pretty good bet, doesn't it?)

The vast majority of predictions in our pool were well after March 25th, 2014, which I guess means it is a pleasantly surprising early release date. It's certainly months and months before I thought we'd see Reaper of Souls on store shelves.

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[priest]

I actually have no opinion. Prolly going to buy day 1, but my heart isn\'t with diablo anymore.

PTR patch 2.1 is kinda dissapointing, looks as if they\'re forcing our hand to buy RoS. No adventure mode in patch 2.0.1, kinda whack..

 

[ematanis]

I was expecting it in May , so this is good news.
What worries me though is that all the Blue posts are saying that they are early in the Beta , will 3 months be enough to balance everything out ?

They should start releasing patches faster for the beta , not pool everything and release in 1 major patch because that would delay the testing of those changes even more.

 

[HardRock]

Some changes needs to stay in the game for at least a week to give most players a chance to write detailed feedback. Another thing to consider is that they can change many things without releasing a patch. Changing crafting requirements is a good example, but the whole drop system is handled by the server as well. The client only needs to be updated when something new is added on the server that the client can\'t already handle. Smart software design choices in game systems can reduce the need for patches noticeably.

 

[ShadoutMapes]

Only a pleasant surprise if they actually deliver.
Otherwise it is just a rushed release.

Still fells like they have a long way to go.

 

[TheDestructor]

Option 4:

As someone who is not planning on buying this game, it\'s very upsetting to me that they\'ve gone against my wishes and plan on releasing it anyway.

lol

 

[Kornkills]

They stated some crafted items are bugged and will consume your materials and you will not receive the item. By some I mean almost every single D3C leg.

 

[Kornkills]

Very worried... I don\'t think they will have enough time to balance it all out.

Everything about this screams \"KICK THAT GAME OUT AND LET THE MASSES GET SUCKERED. THEY PLAYED JAY WILSONS D3, THEY WILL PLAY THIS ONE TOO\"

 

[TheDestructor]

I fail at sarcasm.

 

[TheDestructor]

What\'s live is usually way behind what they have internally. They\'ll likely release a patch soon fixing a large number of things. It\'s not like they don\'t know about these bugs anyway.

 

[rejam]

I still check this site out of habit but I don\'t have much interest in D3 anymore.
The original D3 release was disappointing and I\'m not convinced this expansion is going to fix the issues.
Plus, I think it\'s way overpriced. 1 new class, 1 new act. Some cut features added at last. And STILL no PvP!
Think Blizzard is being a little greedy with this release. Will look to get it cheap, later down the road.

 

[demasked]

Definitely not making the same mistake when it comes to pre-ordering the game like I did with D3 and getting the CE (the hype deceived me lol).

I\'ll most likely wait until after release to see if the game is worth it and even then I will probably get the game only once it\'s on sale. I\'m not being thrifty or cheap since $40 isn\'t much for me. It\'s merely the level of which I support Blizzard in which case it\'s far lower then what it once was before D3 came out.

Otherwise I\'ll have other games to preoccupy my time with. Right now I\'m more excited for GD then D3 RoS and have already sunk over 200 hours in the alpha.

 

[Flux]

I think online only MMO-type games are less concerned with balance at shipping, since they always end up patching a bunch of quick fixes and economic stuff a week/month after release anyway. Bliz just needs to get all the big bugs fixed and content complete and polished, and those are nearly there in the beta now. Just some Act Five content is still temp-named, some bounties don\'t spawn properly, etc.

 

[HardRock]

I think it was spot on.

 

[HardRock]

Just out of curiosity: What\'s GD?

 

[jamesL]

possibly Grim Dawn

an ARPG made by some of the people from Titan Quest

 

[demasked]

Yea it\'s GD. I would suggest looking into it but wait a bit until Act 2 is added as the development is understandably slow what with 6 people being on the team.

The kickstarter page for Grim Dawn will tell you a bit about what the game is and what features it will have.

 

[Apocalypse]

this release date could not be worse for me as its only ten days before ESO which means one of them will have to wait/never be bought. so it looks like i will have to skip this for now anyway and if ESO turns out like i hope it does i will probably have to wait for diablo 4 in 37 years

 

[fjassin]

Oh, I won the prediction game!!!!