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Seeing as how so much software is moving to online distribution, the significance of this controversy might extend far beyond gaming and XBLA. For now, however, the spotlight is firmly on Microsoft and the way it charges developers for testing their games and patches, after a well-known developer made an unusually public complaint. In a post on its official blog, Polytron said it would not patch a rare game-saving bug in its popular title Fez, because Microsoft would charge it “tens of thousands of dollars to re-certify the game.” It added that “had Fez been released on Steam instead of XBLA,” the problem would have been fixed “right away” and at no cost to the developer, which strongly hints that it’ll jump to another platform as soon as its XBLA exclusivity expires. Responses to the story over at our sister site Joystiq are decidedly mixed, with some folks outraged that Microsoft’s high maintenance attitude could hold back improvements in this way while others suspect Polytron of blame-shifting.

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It has been some weeks now that you have hacked your way through numerous dungeons, killing monster after monster as well as countering all that Hell can throw at you – even taking down the effeminate (but no less dangerous) form of Diablo countless times, all in the name of leveling up your character while searching for loot that can actually earn you real, cold hard cash over at the Real Money Auction House. However, there are always tweaks that can be made in the game to make it more balanced, and the good people over at Blizzard have just unveiled Patch 1.0.3b for Diablo 3.

Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3b is now live in the Americas, and as always, the usual rules apply. Until the 1.0.3b patch is live in your home region, you will not be prompted to download it. Right now, those logging in from a European or Asian client will just have to sit down and wait it out until the patch is released in your region before you proceed with installation. As for folks in the Americas who has installed the 1.0.3b patch, you cannot log into Europe or Asia using Global Play until those regions are also patched.

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Diablo 3 fans, here is a little something for you – Diablo 3 patch 1.0.3a is now out and live in the Americas. The usual rules apply here – those who are not living in the Americas will not be prompted to download patch 1.0.3a until the patch is live in your home region, so folks who are logging in from a European or Asian client will have to sit out on this one and exercise this virtue called patience – at least until it arrives in your home region. Having said that, those who have applied this patch in the Americas will not be able to log into Europe or Asia using Global Play, at least until the mentioned regions have been patched. (more…)

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