how long do you think Diablo 3 will be?

[Cloudfire]

I don`t remember how long time I used on Diablo 2, but I am pretty shure it was longer than 15 hours.

[HTWingNut]

Diablo 2 played forever.

[xxpawnerzxx]

Only 15 hours? Seriously???

yeah most prob... for NORMAL!!!... remember there is still NIGHTMARE, HELL, AND INFERNO!!! and each u will spend longer time than the previous due to higher difficulty

[Ktulu85]

If a player was to read the lore, interact with the environment, access 80% of the game content then you are looking at 15-20 to complete normal difficult.

- Jay Wilson, Lead Game Designer



but as said above, that's just NORMAL, the first of 4 difficulties.

[Cloudfire]

yeah most prob... for NORMAL!!!... remember there is still NIGHTMARE, HELL, AND INFERNO!!! and each u will spend longer time than the previous due to higher difficulty

Thats true although I still think its a bit short.

But anyways, more time to play through all the characters then. And play all the difficulties, included Inferno which I MUST play now that Blizzard said it was ultra hard. That was a "challenge accepted" from me the moment I heard it. lol

Plus we have the online play

[Revoka]

Yes what I meant was 15hours+ for normal c-c-c-calm down

[bgstan]

Completing the game on each difficult depends on the other players you are playing with and what type of char they are using.

If you get a group of elite players with the best items with a balance char type (tankers, healers, ranger, magic, power), they will complete each level in a matter of minutes.

Remember d2 power rush your char to 99. It's not hard. Every diablo game had people rushing up the ladder to be the first lvl99 char. The same is going to happen in D3.

Some players are elite and will complete any game they play the first day.

[skaun]

will Diablo 3 support crossfire?

[Eldaren]

will Diablo 3 support crossfire?

Probably not until AMD releases a CAP for it. You shouldn't need crossfire to run it though. I played beta maxed out 1080p on my 6970m and my gpu never went above 60% load.

[jerg]

D2's longevity rested in 1) baalrun leveling grind, 2) MF runs, 3) making new and interesting builds, 4) pvp, and 5) ladder resets.

D3 won't have 1), won't have 5), it'll be expanded upon 2) via Inferno difficulty, it'll be greatly reduced in 3) due to free respec, and not much can be said about 4) yet since its pvp approach doesn't seem to be finalized yet. Also D3 will have 6) which is annual expansions, I bet.

My prediction is that D3'll be more action-packed but hold a bit less longevity than D2.