Less than a week ago, Blizzard – the makers of the highly
anticipated Diablo III – announced that its new online RPG would not be shipping with
the PVP (player vs player) game and systems gamers were expecting to have at
release. The announcement came from the Diablo III blog itself and was met with
nearly 1100 comments on this decision.
Blizzard stated that the PVP Arena system was not living up
to their standards, and that pushing back the release date would be punishing
everyone who has been (not so) patiently waiting for the solo and co-op content
for so long. Those pieces of the game are nearing completion.
PvP has not been cut out of the game entirely, much to the
relief of gamers everywhere. The makers of the game intend to release a patch
with the PvP system as soon as they feel it is worthy of release.
Diablo III creators are hoping that you’ll spend your time
(while you wait on PvP to eventually release) leveling and learning, so that
you might be ‘better prepared’ for battle when the patch does release.
The patch is slated to have some cool features: PvP-centric
achievements, a system to create evenly matched games quickly, and a
progression system to reward you for your destruction of other teams.
Hopefully the multiplayer experience they are creating is
worth the wait. They’re going to have a lot of ancy Diablo fans impatiently
checking for patches in the meantime.
