[3/30] - About color on itemsSource:
http://forums.battle.net/thread.html?topicId=16019573941&postId=160181035668&sid=3000#33Original Poster:Quote
Jay Wilson said gold and yellow is hard to read. I would agree with that if your a beginner to diablo 2 but you get used to telling them apart fairly quickly after playing. Apart from that they are making unique items purple now instead of the traditional gold.
I ask " why is that " ... Why could they not just change yellow rares to purple instead, is that too much to ask? Why make the best items that we all know and love with gold color to purple now, why not just change the color of rares if they were so hard to read?
PS: off topic note: I am not a WoW hater. I just grew up with D2 so gold being the final color for end-game items for that game is something I value highly in the diablo universe. If I was playing D2 and the best items all changed to purple in the next patch I would definitely feel a sense of "not diablo". So I have to relate this with diablo 3. - Just an example.
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It's a bit late in the day so I'm just going to go off of what I know of the game implementation as it stands right now, which is of course very much a work in progress, and the implementation now is also very likely placeholder.
In the game right now, rares are yellow and uniques are orange (although it's a dark orange, almost brown).
As Jay said he was working off memory, and thought that purple might instead be reserved for some other item type we haven't talked about yet. That appears to be the case.
Regardless of all this though, there are only so many colors that work, that read differently from each other and are easily distinguished while also being easy to read, aren't annoying, etc. Purple will very likely be used for items of some type, and that's because it works and is easily distinguishable. If purple is the best color for an item type in its readability and ease of incorporation into fun and flowing game play, then that is what will be used. Game play comes first. We don't look at another game and take something simply for the sake of doing it, we're going to take something because it's a good idea and it's what will make a fun game.
On a personal note, I hope the issue you all have is with the classic item types staying the same, and not with purple as a color being used whatsoever. I can hope.