(10-08-2012, 06:29 PM)Chesspiece_face Wrote: There was the big blow-up when Jay Wilson said "fuck off loser" on his facebook and I've seen differing statements that the comment was directed towards Brevik or Schaefer.
http://www.gameranx.com/img/12-Aug/diablo3hate.png
I find it really hard to imagine how that isn't talking about Brevik, with the interview being linked and all.
And no I don't think Brevik's comments are defensible as polite. You might have to be working on the project to read it, but what he basically said was that D3 was doomed from the start because there was something wrong with the people working on it. I.E. the problem isnt' that Jay and co. made some bad choices, it's that Jay was working on it at all. Whether true or not that's the definition of a personal attack.
Quote:Either way I'm left with an overall negative impression of the way Runic has presented themselves.
Brevik works for "Gazillion" or whoever on the upcoming Marvel Heroes, not Runic. If you got whatever impression purely from Schaefer's comments then that's your perogotive, but all I recall him critiquing were things there were hard to disagree with. For me I agree that the core gameplay experience is so much better with D3, but that doesn't erase the non-random overworld, limited incentive to re-level without skill commitment, online requirements, effect of AH on the item hunt, and so forth.