05-26-2012, 04:45 AM
(05-26-2012, 04:15 AM)Treesh Wrote: I'm trying to find the exact interview I saw where Jay said, specifically, that they don't want D3 to become an e-sport. I have found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E452S_fJwA where he does talk about more casual PVP, but that's not the one I saw where he spelled it out.
Found this snippet where Jay acknowledges that players are going to try to push to make it an e-sport, but that Blizzard isn't going to support it for D3. And yes, you can ignore the last minute of the damned video where the uploader tacked on a song instead of just ending the video.
Yes. That was the interview that everyone goes to when they raise the flags for "No serious PvP". It's also an interview that is nearly a year old, far before they pushed PvP off of release day. Many of the newer interviews and comments about PvP show a much greater focus on infrastructure for it (which is what I mentioned above) including the final Dev Diary they published in the run-up to D3s release:
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