Video Interview: Jay Wilson On Diablo III's Ladders, Latency, Piracy and More

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In the last week in April, games.on.net got the chance to sit down with [app=4089]Diablo III[/app]'s game director Jay Wilson to talk about all things monster-slaying and loot-grabbing. Click on through to hear Jay talk about why item acquisition is more important than ladders, how they plan to handle latency for Australians, and why they will not incorporate an 'offline mode'.

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[R3DNUT]

i imagine the biggest thing stopping offline play would be, they wouldnt make any money from it. and could potentially lose alot of money if one were able to get a hacked character on the online servers.. sell hacked items at the auction house. MAKE ALL THE MONEY! *insert ALL THE THINGS meme*

[DjVu]

Does the interview cut out for anyone else while they're talking about 'Always Online' ?

[Scared]

Does the interview cut out for anyone else while they're talking about 'Always Online' ?

Yea did it for me.

[Bennett Ring]

Hey guys, unfortunately the wrong version of the video was uploaded - the fixed version should be live in a few minutes.

Hope you enjoyed it, this was my first game interview edit, so I can see lots of things that could be done better.

[R3DNUT]

haha i thought it was just my phone pewping itself.

[tomt610]

It just breaks at 6:10 for no reason

[Gamer87]

Hey guys, unfortunately the wrong version of the video was uploaded - the fixed version should be live in a few minutes.

Hope you enjoyed it, this was my first game interview edit, so I can see lots of things that could be done better.

Waiting for propper version.
You back working for GON now?

[Sealpup]

The speaker's volume of voice is quite low, besides that, thank you.

[smifT]

Great work GoN! Answering some important questions so far. Waiting on the full video!

[Tim Colwill]

Fixed video will be up shortly guys, hang tight

[Bennett Ring]

You back working for GON now?

Just doing a little freelance video work for Tim-bob. Well, if you guys are happy with the end result!

[Bennett Ring]

The speaker's volume of voice is quite low, besides that, thank you.

Yeah, I tried tweaking it as best I could, but he's a real low-speaker.

[Jungleisgreen]

Thanks GON, cheers Bennett.

[Tim Colwill]

Fixed video should be up now guys, thanks for your patience!