4Gamer's Diablo 3 section of the website has been updated with a proper English translation of an interview we posted a while back which we used the Google Translator for. Telias has just informed me that he translated the version himself on the website, so here is some snippets!
Diablo Source: Will there be some kind of faction system like in World of Warcraft?
Jay Wilson: We played arround with that idea and I think you'll probably see something like that, but not exactly like in World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft has a lot of systems to progress past experience and the faction system is one. We don't really need that, we would not want a system for reasons like that, we want it more for role playing reasons, like we want you to be able to make a choice that affects the world in some way or we want you to feel that you are part of the world so we might add something like that to give you that context or to give you more background about the world. We probably wouldn't do it as a grinding type of system, but we will probably do something like that. We have nothing specifically on the rocks, there are a lot of systems like that that are kind of on the drawing board.
Diablo Source: Is it possible to play the game without an internet connection and is a LAN mode planed?
Jay Wilson: Right now, we do plan to allow people to play offline. We actually changed the front end of the menu a little bit. We want to encourage the people to go onto Battle.net and one of the things that happened in Diablo 2 was you start the game, the first option is single player, so you click it. You play through normal difficulty and beat the game and go "Oh, I want to play with my friends now." except you couldn't because if you went to Battle.net you couldn't take that character onto Battle.net and there is now way for us to allow that because we cannot guaranty the security of offline characters. So there is still a separation between offline characters and Battle.net. We do want to let players know ahead of time if they are playing offline that's going to happen so we do a lot more for players to want them to play in Battle.net, just play in Battle.net, it's better for you. You play with other players and if you just want single play you can close you game of an play by yourself, that's fine. If do choose to play offline we let you know that you won't be able to play offline. We have any plans for supporting LAN play, right now we are focusing all on Battle.net because we feel that's where you not only get the benefit to easily connect to other players but also the blizzard community and all the support we are doing for that, so right now we don't have any specific plans for LAN play.
Diablo Source: So there will be no fees for the game or for Battle.net?
Jay Wilson: I can't go that far and say there are going to be no fees whatsoever. It's out goal to make this primarily a box product and have that be our financial model. The problem is every marked is very different. The box marked doesn't work in Asia at all. If we come up with a financial model we have to do it for every region and announce it simultaneously, so it's very difficult to say what our financial model is going to be. All I can say is our goal is not to make it a subscription based game or not want it to be a box product game, but can I say that we'll have no subscription fees for anything at all? I wouldn't say that yet but that's not really out goal, that's not what we are trying to shoot. We don't think that's going to be a primary financial model for us.
You can see the rest of the interview at the link below.
Thanks Telias!
Original Link: http://diablo3.4players.de/games_convention_interview_with_jay_wilson.php
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