Now, a lot has been said recently regarding SecuROM, Sony's little DRM software they saw to recycle after their previous brilliant idea in the market, XCP, was ruled as being completely and utterly illegal. Yet there's something not commonly known which I feel could very well crush, kill, or cripple Sony's DRM, and thereby render it in the same way as XCP from the legal front. It's something Microsoft knows quite a bit about, and something which intimately involves Microsoft via the effect.
The information? Sony's DRM software cripples Microsoft's Zune MP3 player software.
Now, you're going to ask me how this info could kill SecuROM, I know you are. Well, it just so happens that Sony has their own line of music players, and so are a competing company directly to Microsoft in that regard. So by SecuROM attacking and disabling features of the Zune software, it's actually acting in what could be construed legally as a rather /bad/ business practice.
The question is: Does Microsoft know about it, or would they act if they did?
Just thought I'd toss this up before as something to end my lack of posting. There was a petition out today that was for darkening the environments of Diablo 3 to make them take on a more gothic tone. It gained well over 7000 signatures. In response, Sol Invictus of http://www.blizzardguru.com has created a petition to preserve Diablo 3 to its original artistic vision had by Blizzard and to prevent changes from being made before we actually get to see more of the game.
The 4th day of the teaser, and now you can see those eyes gazing towards you... The spite, the malice... prepare.
Update: Alright, now it's time for a fact rolldown in regards to what's currently going on.
-The numbers being outlaid by the 'purple puzzle image' are being outlaid by the Valenzetti Equation from LOST(I've never watched, just relating the info), which apparently has something to do with apocalyptic prophecy. 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42. Blizzard is being rather fan-based/cryptic even with this, and it's speculated over if there's any bigger meaning behind it.
-Recently, it was noticed the Diablo 3 General Discussion forum exists on www.battle.net, but is down awaiting activation. This is important because it /is/ there, due to an active message reporting the boards are down if you attempt the address, while a boff address will redirect you to battle.net's main page.
-It was noticed last night that www.diablo3.fr redirects to Blizzard.com, which marks it as the first known active site bearing the official Diablo 3 stamp. Further, the WWI coming up is taking place in Paris, so it seems eerily suspicious.
-On a more speculative note, this area of the image has been unchanged through each of the 4 advancing versions so far, and to me looks like it could be a 'D3' with the D rather brilliantly concealed in the slant beside the 3.
Uncredible but cool:
-Overlaying the Diablo 2 box image on the 'face' with parameters seems to line up, but don't hold that to be any definite proof.
-Someone else shopped up this cool little image.
Yesterday I posted my predictions on the meaning of the appearing runes on the new Blizzard teaser, and I have to say that I'm rather ecstatic to have been at least correct in the design. It would seem that each rune stands for a different Blizzard game, leading up to a new announcement as intense heat swelters through the ice.
The first rune is a symbol from Frostmourne, which would make it seem WoW-related.
The second rune is the Hel rune from Diablo 2.
The third rune is the symbol of the Protoss in StarCraft 2.
So, we have symbols of past Blizzard games following a rather familiar configuration... Wait... isn't that the configuration I suggested yesterday?
Yes, they're taking on the positions of sigils that would appear a the points of a pentagram, a symbol synonymous with the more... Diabolic side of things. I just got the execution wrong.
Update: Apparently, the Diablo 3 General forum exists on www.battle.net. It just says its down rather than redirecting to the mainpage like a bad address would. (Thanks to kdymkle from the Diablofans D3 mIRC.)
http://www.battle.net/forums/board.aspx?ForumName=d3-general
As a followup to my previous(and first) post on the potential nature of the new Blizzard tease up and the proven identification of Diablo 2 runes in the image, I decided to get into a bit of what the Diablo fandom holds a rather firm grasp of. So it's time for a bit of rumor and speculation. :)
Now, with the image only holding 2 symbols, there is already a lot abuzz in terms of speculation on what the final image will look like. Well, my guess from appearances is that they're posting runes that will make up the intersigils of an inverted pentagram, as seen below and merged in the title image of this mini-article. Each rune makes up one letter of Big D's name or so it would seem in the speculation, and the final sigil will most likely be set in place in the center which will when glow and slow off the pentagram and direct you to Diablo3.com. Now, this is just wild speculation, but if I am at least partially correct, it should be well and apparent tomorrow. :)
Yesterday, a new teaser image appeared up on Blizzard.com of a rather... icy persuasion. There's been a lot of speculation over what the puzzle could be pointing towards, especially with the odd rune that was initially on the image. The rune was originally thought to be a Shael rune from Diablo 2, but was then redirected to be thought of as one of the runes from Frostmourne, the accursed sword of doom from the WarCraft franchise. So it's generally been a tug of war between whether or not the teaser was referring to Wrath of the Lich King or the potential for an announcement of a new entry into the Diablo franchise.
So we come to today, when things became more interesting. A second rune has appeared, which is without a doubt the Hel rune found in Diablo 2.
This caused many to turn back and ponder on it with a 'Diabolic' mindset, and the first rune was reexamined. So it was that Veltras over on Blizzforums.com came to find that the first rune, while not an exact match, did appear to be similar to the Nef rune also from Diablo 2, and uncovered a bit of a potential code.
The runes in Diablo 2 were symbolic and matched to the alphabet, in themselves forming a bit of a letter code. In that way, Nef would be D while the Hel rune would be O. Since the Hel is confirmed to be the Hel by full and unmistakable identification, and with Nef taken to really be Nef, the order would have to be Nef + Ort + El + Eld + Sol + Hel for it to spell out one thing so many are hoping it will... DIABLO.
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