Diablo 3 for $49.99

Hello, I hope you are doing well.

Micro Center will have Diablo 3 for $49.99.

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Note regarding possible lower price (5% off): If you sign up for Micro Center's newsletter in store, you can get a 5% off coupon when you purchase an item; the 5% off coupon will appear on your receipt. To clarify, you would sign up for the newsletter, buy an item (you can buy something small and return it right after), then use the 5% off coupon printed on the receipt to purchase this game.

Note: You can try to get a retailer, such as Best Buy or Fry's Electronics, to match Micro Center's price.

Enjoy!
Vic

Not on website yet, click on ad and said not in stock. Hopefully it will be true!
Thanks!!

This looks like it will most likely be an in-store only deal. Great find still!

jtroye32 said:   Trying to decide if I want to buy and play this game or have a life... D2 Meph, Pindle, and Cow runs ruined a good portion of my social life.

Meph... it'll ruin your life.

Up up down down left right left right B A start

zcm923c0 said:   $50 isn't a deal.
It is if everyone else is selling it for $60.

I'm in when it hits $30. Hopefully on BF.

jtroye32 said:   Trying to decide if I want to buy and play this game or have a life... D2 Meph, Pindle, and Cow runs ruined a good portion of my social life.

While I can't say I put off many things for D2 except for maybe sleep... I don't even want to know how many hours I put into that game overall. I played it off and on for the better part of 10 years. No other game has been close.

However I don't think D3 will really be the same, because gamers are too soft nowadays. The beautiful and ridiculous thing about D2 is it that the best builds were very specialized tying the perfect stat/skill/equipment combination together. You had to know your goal at level 1, and you had to build and lvl a different character for each build. On top of that the rules changed several times with the expansion and big change patches.

D3 seems to completely remove that aspect, which is nice for casual gamers but really kills a lot of the drive to build many characters and removes the huge swing of patch rebalancing. I'm also very suspicious of the auction house system, though with real money involved at least Blizzard will have some motivation to manage hacking, which they did a ridiculous job on with D2.

I have no doubt the game will be a huge commercial success but somehow I don't think it will have quite the same replay / staying power as D2. I'll buy it, of course. But somehow I doubt it will cost me as much sleep as D2 did.

If Blizzard would have used graphics good as today, better anti-cheat, and better anti-spam in redoing D2, I would have paid a pretty good price for it. I haven't touch d3 but reviews scare me a bit.

FranksandBeans said:   jtroye32 said:   Trying to decide if I want to buy and play this game or have a life... D2 Meph, Pindle, and Cow runs ruined a good portion of my social life.

While I can't say I put off many things for D2 except for maybe sleep... I don't even want to know how many hours I put into that game overall. I played it off and on for the better part of 10 years. No other game has been close.

However I don't think D3 will really be the same, because gamers are too soft nowadays. The beautiful and ridiculous thing about D2 is it that the best builds were very specialized tying the perfect stat/skill/equipment combination together. You had to know your goal at level 1, and you had to build and lvl a different character for each build. On top of that the rules changed several times with the expansion and big change patches.

D3 seems to completely remove that aspect, which is nice for casual gamers but really kills a lot of the drive to build many characters and removes the huge swing of patch rebalancing. I'm also very suspicious of the auction house system, though with real money involved at least Blizzard will have some motivation to manage hacking, which they did a ridiculous job on with D2.

I have no doubt the game will be a huge commercial success but somehow I don't think it will have quite the same replay / staying power as D2. I'll buy it, of course. But somehow I doubt it will cost me as much sleep as D2 did.

The expansion came out, 1 year after the initial release? That probably extended the life span of the game, not shortened it. I imagine there will be some additions to D3 as well. Remember that D2 was very different when it first came out than how it looked after LoD and multiple patches.

D2 was revolutionary in many ways and it's gonna be very difficult for D3 to replicate that.

Regarding character builds in D2, after synergies were introduced the number of viable builds per class dropped considerably.

djklmnop said:   Up up down down left right left right B A start

Not sure what's worse; the fact that you got the Konami code wrong, or the fact that it has nothing to do with Diablo...

On topic: I heard some bad things about the beta, but I did see gameplay footage that looked pretty nice.

Deal is pretty good for anyone who missed out on the Newegg deal. The 5% off might help take off some of the sales tax (if there is any).

mase123987 said:   Up, down, left, right then "a" and start ....Can Johnney5 tell me which game that is for without googling?

Aladdin on Sega Genesis? I don't know. If I got it wrong, at least I didn't google it...

johnney5 said:   mase123987 said:   Up, down, left, right then "a" and start ....Can Johnney5 tell me which game that is for without googling?

Aladdin on Sega Genesis? I don't know. If I got it wrong, at least I didn't google it...

You got the system correct! Sonic the Hedgehog...It is the code for level select.

jtroye32 said:   Down, up, left, left, a, right, down
A,b,a,c,a,b,b

I swear some of the Mortal Kombat Fatalities were that hard!

PilotWillie said:   johnney5 said:   djklmnop said:   Up up down down left right left right B A start

Not sure what's worse; the fact that you got the Konami code wrong, or the fact that it has nothing to do with Diablo...
Off-topic again, but he did get it right. Yeah the code technically ends after b a, but unless you hit start (or select start for 2p) then the code is useless.

Touché.

Heard that the MC was a price mistake and that the deal was until May 14th... One day before release... what a cop out...

fattgirl said:   deal was until May 14th?

Yeah check out the ad that was posted here...

Alucards23 said:   ... Cobra. nintendo.!?

Fix't - Contra

asabase said:   How is it more choice in D2 when you just googled the exact number of stat points you needed to put where and did exactly what the guide told you to?

DING.DING.DING.

Plus, you were tied to a "Bow-A-Zon", "Zealot", "Ice Sorceress", etc.

The new game let's you play all the builds. Addition by subtraction.

The ad for $49.99 on 5/15 in store was available earlier on their front page, then they took the ad off their front page later today. I called the store, and they said price in store is now $59.99. Salesman said I got the last one they had at their DFW store. They are now sold out at the DFW store, they tell me.

gman2819 said:   zcm923c0 said:   $50 isn't a deal.
It is if everyone else is selling it for $60.

I'm in when it hits $30. Hopefully on BF.
I saw SC3 for $30 in Target during the holidays and it had only just come out earlier in the year, so there's a good chance D3 will be the same way.

gman2819 said:   zcm923c0 said:   $50 isn't a deal.
It is if everyone else is selling it for $60.

I'm in when it hits $30. Hopefully on BF.

Make a separate battle.net account for it. Pay 60 bucks now, play D3 until you get bored, and sell your battle.net account on eBay for 58 bucks. Only ends up costing you 10 bucks or so to play.