10-10-2003, 03:31 AM
There has never been anything that Blizzard has said to suggest that the "World Event" and the event that drops the Annihilus are the same thing. For that matter, the diabloclone idea came about only from people looking at 1.10's MPQ's, and several people have mentioned that diabloclone had been in D2's MPQ's before 1.10 came out (I can't confirm this myself). Personally, I am of the belief that the "World Event" and the Annihilus/diabloclone events are separate. The "World Event" that Blizzard implied required selling 10 SOJ's to the shop is supposed to be a Realm Only thing, and maybe it does something special that could only be done in a Realm situation -- like make a general announcement to the whole realm that "So-n-so just sold 10 SOJ's to the shop. Can you believe that sucker?" I'm kidding about the message, but I'm serious about the general idea -- it might literally be a "World Event" that affects an entire realm.
The Annihilus thing, though, probably involves something different. Blizzard implied that there would be a new bonus area like the Cow Level. Maybe this is the whole diabloclone thing or maybe not. I'm sure they have it disabled in the patch so that it'll be a big fun surprise when the final patch is released. We don't know what will trigger it, yet, but I have a general feeling that it won't have anything to do with SOJ's. Personally, I'm hoping that the trigger is that you have to finish all the quests in the game, but I might be having a pipe dream there.
The Annihilus thing, though, probably involves something different. Blizzard implied that there would be a new bonus area like the Cow Level. Maybe this is the whole diabloclone thing or maybe not. I'm sure they have it disabled in the patch so that it'll be a big fun surprise when the final patch is released. We don't know what will trigger it, yet, but I have a general feeling that it won't have anything to do with SOJ's. Personally, I'm hoping that the trigger is that you have to finish all the quests in the game, but I might be having a pipe dream there.