The Diablofans.com D3 Dev Tracker has picked up a forum conversation by Bashiok, about the identify system in Diablo 3. From the looks of it it has already undergone some changes and there could be many more down the road. Check out the original news post on Diablofans.com:

Bashiok recently commented on the Battle.net forums in response to questions about the identify system in Diablo 3. Here's what he had to say:

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"The identify system has gone through quite a few internal iterations already, and I think we'll probably see quite a few more. It's an interesting system in a lot of ways because first off it's something everyone remembers from the previous games, so if it wasn't there you'd probably wonder where it went. In a different light you could literally remove it entirely and probably not impact gameplay itself very much at all. It's also open ended enough where you could blow the system out and do something new and cool with it. Ultimately (and I know it's a broken record at this point) we'll do what is best for the game and what adds to the best game experience possible.

Personally - my own personal thoughts on the system - are that I think you could do almost anything with it and I'd be just fine. It wasn't annoying to me when playing the previous games, it was just a part of how they played, if it was removed I don't think I'd really miss it either, and if it was changed for the better then that's cool too."

He also went on to reveal something none of us knew. ;)

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"Little known fact, Deckard's aortic heart valve is made from solid gold."

 

Solid gold heart valves... well I guess the current state of the global economy isn't hitting everybody so hard after all.