Knights Of Sparta

So who has ordered the Annual pass? i just did, i mean i plan to play wow for the next year anyway so its no extra cost, + free diablo, beta access to expansion and free mount , anyone else? im kinda looking forward to diablo also!

i think im getting one for my birthday (this Saturday) so so i might be seeing you in the beta for MoP

Aye , But you know, it is the same price as what your paying now, just ur contracted for a year, and it stays monthy... you just tick the box in the deal.

i have it also

I like the movie type trailers for Diablo - but the gameplay doesn't look too interesting. It looked like the game was mass AOE, one shotting hundreds of mobs. Not sure where the long term appeal is going to be if the game is as mindless as the gameplay trailers make it look.

If I was minded to try another MMO I'd probably be tempted by something like Star Wars.

Mass AoE murdering swarms of mobs makes for attractively flashy trailer material, though, so I don't think you can expect it to be particularly representative. Did you play D2, Jugg? From what I can gather, actual gameplay's unlikely to be too far removed from that (just with whizbangier graphics, different skill systems to optimise, and a non-broken (at least initially) game economy).

IS it an MMO? I thought you wont actually meet any other players in the main game, just in BG style set piece fights?

It's multiplayer, but not "massively multiplayer"; you can have up to four people (down from eight in D2 ) in the same instance of the world, cooperatively taking on the mobs (whose toughness scales proportionally); either arranged groups or lobby-style matchmaking. And yes, there's PvP options too.