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Diablo III is being patterned after Diablo I, more than Diablo II. As such it's a horror-themed, gory, gruesome, frightening game. It's going The developers hoped to be make it creepy to playin places, at times, and the D3 Team hopes to make it a memorablewhile providing enough variety in theme, moody experiencetone, with a pervasive sense of doom permeating the plot and dungeons. How well they succeed at that remains to be seen, but early reports are promising, for fans who want a darker, more gruesome theme visuals to the game than Diablo 2 managedkeep from growing monotonous.
<font color="#FFFFFF"><b>Wired.com:</b> You’ll obviously have to edit content for regions like Germany and Australia, but what about China? Is that a more difficult case?</font>
<b>Jay Wilson:</b> Definitely for regions like Germany and Australia, we will have to change blood if we’re going to sell there. And that’s fine. Those are the standards for those regions, and we don’t really have a problem with catering to what they need and what they want. But China’s going to be hard for us. Because a lot of the restrictions there are really… we may not be able to do them. It may not be possible. With our relationship with NetEase, we recently got new information about what China really wants, and it’s a lengthy list. It’s really hard for us to cater to. We’ll try. There’s no reason we wouldn’t want to go there, but there is a certain point where we’d have to redo so much of the game that it’s not viable anymore.</blue>
==Less Blood Options?==
Early in development, Jay Wilson said they were planning options to turn down the gore and blood, and that the game would likely be censored for violence in some markets (such as Germany and China) that traditionally allow less violence in games.
The edits appear to not have been needed. Diablo III was approved without edits by the ratings boards in almost every region, and if there were any edits or gore removals required to gain rating approval, (without being tagged with an Adult level of rating that would have lessened the game's potential sales) Blizzard has not shared any details about it.
As of December 2011 there were no plans to include any sort of "less gore" player control option. [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/d3s-gore-inaccessible]
<blue>Bashiok: We don’t currently have any plans to provide reduced gore options. The game is rated M for Mature, which is a 17+ rating, and we encourage parents to remain aware of game ratings, the content in the game that led to that rating, and keep them in mind when choosing which games are appropriate for their family. </blue>
This came as something of a surprise to many players, as many changes as the developers have included in Diablo III in order to make the game more [[accessible]] to the masses.
See the [[Pentagrams]] article for more on this issue, including a critical reaction from Max Schaefer, one of the creators of Diablo and an art director for Diablo I and Diablo II.
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