Ah, the month of December--wait...December? Wow, last time I entertained ye faithful readers was the 19th of November--been a while, huh? Well, let's get on with the stack.

Next Week's Topic Will Be:

Trading. An imperative aspect within the Diablo series. How easy is it? What's your most successful bargain ever?

Send in your thoughts!

Now onto feedback from the last bag's topic in which we asked you what you thought about Blizzard's decision to make available certain items on the Realms. Also, we wanted to know what you thought about Blizzard's unannounced project.

From: Cruzn15
Subject: Welcome Items

I think it's a nice idea that those who prefer to play a multiplayer game with their pals online get the same benefit as those who would like to toddle along Cold Plains alone. I don't see how it was a good idea to withhold items from multiplay to begin with. Was this done purposely because they thought it was a health risk to weild lances or did they do this so that long-time online players would say, "Hey, cool! We got new weapons without even having to pay for the expansion!" Oh well, whatever the reason, they made up for themselves by releasing the weapons onto their home, Battle.net.

The only problem that could possibly arrise from this is a few people running around to every channel taunting, "Muhaha! Me gotsa water sprinkler! Run through the sprinklers!! Haha." It won't be all bad. It'll allow a group of angry users get hefty use of the "hostile" button.

Yep.


From: GoldSnake
Subject: Note about Walkthrough

In your summary you say that diablo is tough, I find this to be wrong, once again like in the first game diablo was far too easy, am I the only one that finds this to be true?

The only hard thing about him is that he takes so many hits to kill.

The many hits it takes to destroy Big Red entails difficulty my son.


From: Da Scourge
Subject: Rebuttal

Whoa, whoa, whoa!!! Back up guys. Nowhere in my letter did you hear me slam the Korean people. Some background: (A little mood music, please) I am a 44 year-old U.S. Navy Veteran. (Yeah, old guys are hooked on DII too) I have visited Korea and will never (EVER) bad-mouth the Korean people. Asians as a whole are far more honorable, polite, and mannerly than our newest breed of Americans could ever hope to be [I'm fairly surprised that a man of your age can hold such nearsighted and downright ignorant paradigms.] My comment was entirely directed at Blizzard for not giving these people more servers of their own. It is not racist or even illogical to believe that this would be a better situation for all. Think about it. Not only are the USEAST servers overcrowded by other than USEASTers (Is that a word?), but the US internet has to give up bandwidth to foreigners who would be far more well served (ha, pun) by having a server of their own closer than 2000 miles away. We all just want a good gaming experience, right? I don't like the constant slamming of Koreans - they just want to play too. Forget the new politically correct movement - Good manners are just a good thing. We could all learn this from the Koreans!

Here was my prior entry and your reply: