Diablo 3 - Candid Chats with Wyatt Cheng and Travis Day

As part of the recent Diablo III First Year Anniversary Celebration developers Wyatt Cheng, and Travis Day had a longchat with the Twitch.tv's ArchonTheWizard. Check the first link for all the information in text form as it's to long to post here.

Future Plans

What are you most excited about with Diablo 3 right now, that you guys are working on or talking about?

Wyatt: So this is a total tease, but the items stuff. I am excited about that. Travis is running point on that, and we have conversations about it pretty regularly. We also consult and talk to people on other teams all the time. We talk to people who are playing Diablo 3 all through the company, whether it's people on the Diablo 3 team or not on the Diablo 3 team. There are so many awesome designers at Blizzard, so we are constantly running our plans and ideas past other people to say: "Hey, is this good, is this good? No, it's not good - what would you change?" and trying to get it all together. So I'm pretty excited about that.

I'm also pretty excited about the other plans for the future. The multiplayer improvements actually consumed a lot of my time over the last couple of months. I think we can go farther. This week, I got this idea from our lead gameplay programmer, who was telling me this is what he does: he logs in, and he picks the Monster Power he wants to play on, and does Any Quest - Any Act and then just hits the Public Game button and drops into any public game at Any Quest - Any Act. It's almost like the game just rolls something for you, and it's pretty fun, to play with random new people.

The monster density was a big change, too. It's kind of the combination of multiplayer and monster density, that allows me to do a public game Any Quest - Any Act. Some areas are still not as good as others, and we can work on that a little bit, too. But the main point is that it's not horrible, you know.