Diablo III Multiplayer Limitations Confirmed

Posted Feb 7, 2012 at 2:49PM EST by

Listed in: News Tags: Blizzard, Diablo II, diablo iii

Diablo III is steadily creeping up on the horizon, and as the game gets closer to final launch, more and more details begin to emerge. This week’s information comes in the form of specs on the multiplayer mode of the game, which is apparently a bit more limited than most players were expecting.

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Diablo III’s multiplayer will support a maximum of four players, despite the fact that Diablo II supported eight. Blizzard has also elected to leave in-game voice chat out completely, so you’d better fire up your Vent server if you want to communicate with friends. This is likely the direct result of the massive failure that was voice chat in StarCraft II.

The reason given for the player limitation is that the game would be too “chaotic” with eight players casting spells all over the place. Some bloggers are also speculating that the limit could have something to do with the console version of the game, but who knows?

Regardless of the reasons, there are your Diablo III multiplayer deets. Four player cap, no voice chat.

What do you think? Is multiplayer a driving factor in your wanting the game?

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Voice chat would have been a very good feature to of had in Diablo II. I always found me and my friend getting separated cause you don't have time to type and fend off a mob of monsters at the same time.

This is one of the very rare few games I would say voice chat would be very handy to have included in Diablo III.

# zzz — Kirk 2012-02-08 09:20

use Teamspeak for cryin out loud..

# RE: Diablo III Multiplayer Limitations Confirmed — Airsoft 2012-02-08 02:59

waiting for the last ten years for this and we get a half baked game really bad move blizzard

# RE: Diablo III Multiplayer Limitations Confirmed — VetMMOGamer 2012-02-08 03:25

Meh, no one ever really uses the built in voice chat anyway, people usually just use vent, teamspeak or even skype.

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