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(rightclick the image and set as background or wallpaper to make to make it your wall paper for 1024x768)The Diablo fans had expressed their disappoiment with current version - Diablo III, accoding to them, the petition is being made as a way to express the disappointment as the Diablo fans, about the way Diablo III artistic direction is being done. They said, Diablo III is Cartoon'ish art direction, obviously influenced by the Warcraft universe, as the petitioners said that, "Diablo isnt Warcraft".
There are 52,366 Diablo fans signed as of July 30, 2008, 1:26P.M. (GMT + 8:00) at the petition for the main objective is to show Blizzard that there's a significant number of players that dont agree with the current art style of the game, with that petition they hope to make Blizzard ear their voices, their opinions and their suggestions and they were seriously want some changes in the artistic direction of the game so it could be more coherent and familiar with the Diablo universe.
The petitioners wanted the following:
- A darker, gothic, cryptic and creepier environment.
- A more realistic artistic direction, more independent from the Warcraft universe art direction.
- Darker dungeons without a blue/green environment, Diablo dungeons are dark and shadowy.
- The return of the light radius / shadow system from Diablo 1 and 2, a concept modified picture made by me roughly shows and suggests how the shadow system should work on Diablo 3: http://i31.tinypic.com/2zta5o7.jpg
- Slightly less colorful and less vivid outside scenarios, they are too heavily influenced by the World of Warcraft ones.
- Darker and less colorful landscapes, Tristam never was colorful and beautiful: here's how it looked in Diablo 1 (before the evil was released across the lands): http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5194/tristram2jh.jpg
- And most importantly: An independent and renewed artistic direction, not a recycled art direction taken from the Warcraft world, Diablo never was meant to be as cartoon'ish as Warcraft, they shall have independent and distinct styles, this isnt happening in Diablo 3, at first sight it looks like a remake of World of Warcraft, graphically and artistically speaking.
- Example of the heavy influence from World of Warcraft that we dont think it fits the Diablo universe: http://img56.imageshack.us/img56/6795/diabloiii20080628035157dw4.jpg and http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/_images/screenshots/ss9-hires.jpg
