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Gordon K Wilson <gkwi...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:


Congrats to Blizzard on the patch and let me be the first to eat crow
on my "vaporware" comments a couple days ago.
But one thing in this post bothers me a GREAT deal.

>     Less than two months after the release of Diablo (Diablo was
>released to manufacturing on December 27, 1996 and started appearing in
>retail stores around 1/2/97) Blizzard has released the first (and
>hopefully last) patch. Let's hear it for Blizzard indeed! Let them know
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You MUST be joking Gordon.  In fact, this comment forces one to ask if
you would be willing to state, on the record, that you have NO
affiliation with Blizzard or any of its subsidiaries, and have no
relatives, friends or any other type of vested interest in the
company.

The question is necessary because it does not seem possible that a
person who was simply a dedicated gamer could make such a comment.
The comment sounds like something that would be made by somebody who
in some way was having to "pay" for the manpower being spent on
patches.

The patch is a nice QUICK AND DIRTY fix and I am thankful that
Blizzard has released it.  But that is all it is.  You just can't
create a game that is as great as Diablo and leave the glaring flaws
that are still there even after this first patch.  It would be a
crime.  

Was just playing a game on b.net with two others.  We were all at the
witch getting mana, etc. and two of us bought infra scrolls to give to
the third person.  I dropped one, and then the other person dropped
the one they just bought. Viola!  "Duplicate item detected" and one of
the scrolls vanished!!!!  Talk about throwing the baby out with the
bath water!  

Then, I found magic armor on two different levels. We were piling
everything in town as usual.  When I get the second one identified
(crystal plate of something), I go throw it in the pile, Viola!
"Duplicate item identified" and the first one, from a completely
different level of the dungeon vanishes.

Now fine, for a quick and dirty fix to a nasty problem (dupping) I'm
all for it and can live with it for awhile.  But, PLEASE, this is
hopefully NOT the last patch.