{"id":37243,"date":"2012-05-07T17:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37243"},"modified":"2012-05-08T12:44:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T10:44:04","slug":"diablo-iii-to-feature-global-play-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37243-diablo-iii-to-feature-global-play-kind-of","title":{"rendered":"Diablo III to feature &#8220;Global Play&#8221;. Kind of."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Blizzard\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11841-Activision-Blizzard\">Blizzard<\/a> has confirmed that when it ships out next week, <a title=\"Diablo III\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/diablo-iii-about\">Diablo III<\/a> will no longer restrict players to a single realm server. If you&#8217;re wondering &#8220;Is there some sort of catch?&#8221;, then Blizzard can also confirm that, yes, there is.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be supported by servers in America, Asia, and Europe, and players will be able to move between servers and play with people in other regions. <em>But<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll have to play different characters in each region, and gear can&#8217;t be shared between them. This is because import duties on prismatic axes and skill runes are currently at an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I made that bit up &#8211; Blizzard didn&#8217;t give any reason for the decision, and probably won&#8217;t because it makes no sense whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarrely, you&#8217;ll apparently also have to recreate your friend list in each region, while Auction House purchases for real cash can only be made in your home region.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s better to just stay in one place, huh?<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.totalpcgaming.com\/uncategorized\/diablo-3-servers-are-region-free-blizzard-calls-it-global-play\/\" target=\"_blank\">TotalPCGaming<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diablo III for everybody! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[31,665,1799,4124],"class_list":["post-37243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-diablo-iii","tag-global-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37309,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37243\/revisions\/37309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}