Blizzard Poster Bashiok has posted on the World of Warcraft Forums, detailing a number of gameplay changes that fans can expect to see in Diablo III; player killing will be taken out, but comprehensive Player vs. Player will be put in.

Player Killer (the act of killing another player in the game world) was a feature that was in the previous Diablo games which won't appear in the new title, Bashiok explain, but a Player vs. Player system will be implemented to compliment things

You can read the full post below.

"We're - in general - not big fans of griefing for any game. It's really only "fun" for one person, and that definition of fun isn't generally something we're going to want to encourage. It's far more positive to encourage and support meaningful and skillful options and systems within a game, than a mechanic for people to instantly turn against one another for no meaningful gameplay reasons.

I definitely remember running with my friends, and someone toggles it, and bam everyone is dead and your one friend is laughing. Ok, ok, good joke I guess, and then you run back and *bam*, you've toggled it to get them back. After a while everyone usually agrees to a truce because it's just a waste of time. But I also remember running with random players and losing extremely nice items because of it, not cool. I'm sure that it was a feature that was right up some people's alleys, I won't deny there are some that would enjoy nothing more than to see others frustrated, but is that truly something that should be encouraged through design - if not directly opposed?

We have a large focus on cooperative play for Diablo III, and the mechanics and design decisions related to multiplayer are likely going to be based on supporting and encouraging it as much as possible, and not breaking it down.

That doesn't mean that PvP won't have its own focus, but those are details and features we aren't yet discussing."

Tags : Bashiok : blizzard : Blizzard Activision : Blizzard Entertainment : Diablo : Diablo III : pc : PKing : Player Killing : Player vs Player : PvP

Comments

By: Evren On: 06:53 Jul 3rd, 2008 Offline	Im glad there is no PK'ing in this one, it really did annoy me, that some people thought it would be a good idea. Bah.

By: Dragonsoul On: 02:24 Jul 3rd, 2008 Offline	I agree that PKP is a nuisance. What little I encountered of it (for the brief time I used Diablo online) I found it downright silly. I never got the impression that Diablo was about finding your fellow player and slaying and stealing from them�but rather about dungeon crawling and treasure seeking. PKP was part of the reason I avoided online Diablo play. PVP sounds much more entertaining. But how does it work? It would probably be highly intriguing if it was almost a coliseum based battle, where the winner takes an item that�s been up to bid, perhaps.