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June 21st, 2012, 22:37
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1) I buy Diablo 3.

2) I finish act 1. It tells me to buy the full edition to continue and then just leaves me in the final room with no further information.

3) I spend hours trying to debug and fix this issue. Finally I come across a news article that says that Blizzard added this "feature" on purpose. Apparently I can't buy the game I bought for them for 3 days. And the way they implemented it was by telling me that I haven't bought it yet. How is that even legal????

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June 21st, 2012, 23:17
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Is this the Act II skill wall you hit?

Seems awfully strange. Is it just a 3 day wait?
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June 21st, 2012, 23:41
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SevenSpirits Wrote:1) I buy Diablo 3.

2) I finish act 1. It tells me to buy the full edition to continue and then just leaves me in the final room with no further information.

3) I spend hours trying to debug and fix this issue. Finally I come across a news article that says that Blizzard added this "feature" on purpose. Apparently I can't buy the game I bought for them for 3 days. And the way they implemented it was by telling me that I haven't bought it yet. How is that even legal????

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Sounds like you downloaded their demo version? Or you DLed it before purchasing? Maybe its not attached to your battle net account?
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June 21st, 2012, 23:44
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I don't know about that. You just can't progress after you kill the skeleton king; you have no quests. Nor apparently can you get past level 13. They say this lasts 72 hours.

They introduced this with the recent patch 2 days ago. I unwittingly bought the game right after the patch, when the information about this wasn't very searchable yet. It certainly wasn't presented to me when I bought the game, and like I said the game just stops working after the skeleton king and tells you to go online and buy a copy. It's the most absurdly anti-consumer feature I've ever seen on a game. I mean I thought DRM was bad.
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June 21st, 2012, 23:47
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https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5889089807

Yeah apparently if you buy it online this is enforced.

I'm speechless. This is the stupidest shit I have ever seen.
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June 21st, 2012, 23:48
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Here's one of the threads about it:

https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5888808976
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June 22nd, 2012, 00:39
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Not that I agree with this decision, but I think it's some sort of feature to reduce the negative side effects of professional gold/item selling or something related to that.
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June 22nd, 2012, 05:03
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Wow, that's incredibly silly. Can't they just disable the AH for 72 hours?
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June 22nd, 2012, 05:32
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Wow. smoke
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June 22nd, 2012, 06:14
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This makes me feel better about not buying D3. I plan on never letting Blizzard see another cent of mine.
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