Pentatonic breathey ney flute?
Check.

Clangy-twangy Arabic oud lute?
Check.

Boing-and-tripletty Udu and Darbouka percussion arrangement?
Check.

Ululating/yearning/moaning female vocal?
Full house!

They didn’t make much sense in Gladiator.
They made no sense at all in Blackhawk Down.
They made decreasing sense in CoD4.

But now in Khanduras as well? We must fight. We must stop these soundtracks marching across the world. We must fight them before no other forms of soundtrack are permitted.

Wildly excited about the game itself, and awash with admiration for Blizzard in general, but wtf?

And alienate customers. Their reputation is worth more than anything they could potentially make off any title.

As to randomly generated landscapes, I hope they do have them (apart from set piece areas of course) even though doing so is difficult with 3D terrain. But imagine if they pulled off a system robust enough to actually handle it. The game would rock so hard.

As for the other questions, the previous thread mentions a mix of static and generated layouts for the areas so that’s a good compromise I guess, so long as the generated aren’t just lower end optional stuff but can offer their own grand challenges and appropriate rewards.

Basically imagine just going to a chapel’s basement and going through something as epic as the whole first Diablo, all generated, with a badass dungeon boss like say, the butcher level. But the way to there was through a static layout ruined city area like D2. Or something. That’d be neat.

Why would they change the model for the third in the series in terms of pay to play?

Because they’ll make a double metric giga-fuckton of money?

From the gameplay vid, it looks like 4 players at once – but obviously, there may be more.