GGG= Blizzard north??

New to the game (lvl 78 Xb1) and the forums. Old D2 ladder player with untold amount of play hours. So.. I can't help but notice PoE feels more like diablo than the junk the new blizzard team made last try.. any old D2 devs in the mix for ggg? Or did they just decide d3 sucks too bad to be on earth and needed to do it right? Also, Xbox needs global/trade chat and a party system that doesn't use your friends list. Some of us don't always like our friends 24/7 after all.

its just the creators liked d2 a lot and its different then d3 no comparison at all to d3.

but its like d2 in lot of ways. the rng to items and how they roll properties on them and the so called trading is old school.

i havent played console yet so idk how trading works there.

i havent looked to far into it, but what its lacking maybe not actually able to do it. not sure if there is a party board that would help. global trade chat would help and just being only able to party with friends is a halt to what ggg says they believe in is to get players to interact with others more its one reason trading is bland.

sounds like console is more d2ish then pc is. hmm. even d2 battlenet allowed to find games seem more fun then only being able to party with people you know.

is there a clan feature like pc. if so make a forum post for xbox people to make your friendship or guild bigger or make a post telling everyone to add you lol.

idk.

also i wouldnt say d3 is bad. its just different. the no trade in d3 is like playing ssf all the time but the item system is atleast tailored to it. meaning more balance atleast.

the end game in d3 also is more better for grouping and coming together to promote friend play then poe does. with players being able to speed through end maps in less then 3 min solo and sometimes having friends if there not a support aura can cause slower game play that some people just dont like either bc gear or slower build or latency issues or computer issues people having worse computers.

also since its on xbox everyone is the same it should be more stable. less people play it so less items to go around. idk

end of rant lol

All developers in GGG were hard-core D2 players, they love it so much then they decided to make a D2-like game with much more depth to it and here now you are playing it, good things will happen when you have dream and determination.

And I want to add, not a single developer who made D3 were on D2, All d2 developers are gone/split to other ventures. D3 sold good number of copies only because it leeched on D2 legacy, D3 is actually a shitty garbage abomination of wow-themes.

so true its a immatation of wow. in a diablo rpg way that it sucks and failed horribly and like you said it had a diablo name so it made sales.

D3 is great game. It would sell greatly even that would have different name.

Few people (3) was working on Torchlight II from D2 crew as far as I know.

About 5 to 6 core members of the Blizzard North team were core members of Runic Games (which made Torchlight and Torchlight II).

Specifically: Max and Erich Schaefer and Matt Uelmen, though I believe there were some others as well.

David Brevik is involved with POE overseas as an "adviser" of sorts.

-wiki-

Biography[edit]
Early life[edit]
Brevik was born in Madison, Wisconsin, United States.[1] He was educated at California State University, Chico from 1986 to 1991.
Career[edit]
Following his position as lead technical director at Iguana Entertainment, Brevik left to form Condor / Blizzard North, holding a position as president on the company from September 1993 to 2003. GameSpot named him as 1996's fourth most influential person in computer gaming for his role in the inception and development of Diablo.[2]
Brevik resigned from Blizzard and co-founded Flagship Studios (in 2003) as well as Ping0 (in 2006), a sister company to Flagship Studios. After the company dissolved it was announced that he was appointed new creative director for Turbine and its new West coast studio.
In 2009, David Brevik began at Gazillion Entertainment in San Mateo, California working in the Gargantuan Studio.[3] In 2011, Gargantuan became Secret Identity Studios and David Brevik was named president and chief operating officer of Gazillion Entertainment.[4] Eventually he was promoted to Chief Executive Officer of Gazillion Entertainment in 2013.[5] He left the company to pursue "other opportunities" on January 6, 2016.[6] As of October 18, 2016, Brevik has been working as an adviser on the Chinese release of Path of Exile for Grinding Gear Games.[7]
As of January, 2016, David Brevik is President[8] at Greybeard Games, where the home page declares it is "David Brevik's Independent Game Company", and where he is responsible for everything from Artwork, to Design, to Coding[9].

:)

6 answers from a new player's thread talking about Diablo and still no toxic post?

That's awesome (record?)

I still cri everytiem when I think about Hellgate London. So much fucking potential. I spent hundreds of hours with that buggy game because despite all its weaknesses the "formula" just worked.

I still feel guilty for always revitalising the PRD reset-bug in HG:L, the one where the bosses respawned, they tried so hard to fix that and ended up with a new one that allowed me to drag more than one party into a single map.
Not that it made a difference to my speedy-gonzales-Templer blitzing through to reset manually,
don´t put movementspeed emass on dualwield weaponswap. The monsters loaded in slower while the forums complained about templer beeing the slowest class.

I tried borderlands but it never was the same.