My worst fears are being confirmed… Diablo 3 is again on the backburner when it comes to its release.
Blizzard have stated that TWO titles will be released in 2010. One of course, is Starcraft 2. Fair enough, it was announced a long time ago.
The other title due in 2010 is WoW Cataclysm. Blizzard needs to keep the money machine printing. I did freeze my account months ago and I suspect I’m not the only one.
Here’s the confirmation from Shacknews: “Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed that just-revealed World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm and StarCraft II are the two titles the company expects to hit in 2010″.
What a joke. A 3 year wait for a game from a powerhouse like Blizzard??
World is going to blow up in 2012.
Dudes, I don’t know why you are so surprised
After all you’ve seen so far how could you asume that the game will be released in 2010? You’ve seen some demos/presentations. The game is very far from finished. You’ve only seen maybe 20% so far.
What you haven’t seen yet:
- the rest of the skills (you’ve only seen 5 for each class)
- the 5th class
- the changes that EACH RUNE will affect EACH SKILL on EACH CLASS (this could be a 1 year work, dude). This can be done only after all the skills are perfect (this is also going to take a lot of time and a lot of testing)
- the terrain, the items, the monsters, the bosses, music, sound effects, cinematics, game balance, etc etc etc etc etc.
Common, 2011 is good, but I fear worse. Diablo 2 was delayed 2 years AFTER THE RELEASE DATE. For now, you don’t even have a release date, so I would say not to expect so much to buy D3 in 2011.
im holding whit Andrei. if you lokk how many monsters they have made i could like only see 20 or something like that… try make a game out of the
this is bad as wish….. Do you guys what is the worst? The problem by delaying the game is to make more people addict to it. They spend more time to talk about it. They use the “blizzcon” and more to make people say wow and make people to search for diablo 3 on google for 2.5 millions research every months and for 70 000 research every month for Diablo 3 release date. This is annyoing to death. They are just crazy, greedy and they only want to make more money out of us, but something I think they havent understood yet is that they will make a lot more money releasing more game. Yo, they haven’t made money with diablo since what? 2005 they better wake up it will be 2010 and no release.
I’m sure there a lot more people like me who don’t play WoW and don’t want Starcraft.
As if they are not making enough money now. Put the expansion on hold and put all resources into D3. I bet a lot of people will ditch WoW and move to Diablo anyway so why expand it?
I waited for EQ2 for 12-18 months and that was bad enough. Now we have to wait 36+ months for this.
This isn’t the only MMO coming to market.
And what Marshall said,
What’s the point of getting someone addicted to the game if it’s not generating money for them in the long term. I won’t be suprised if we do have to subscribe
@clownius – Lmfao!
Yeah dude it’s messed up, man! I mean if blizzard ever does decide to release the f#@kin game – that being 2011, it’ll only leave us with year to play it before the world ends. And that would just be a waste of money. Damn mofo’s! Hehe.
Another thing! I’ve written myself off with this game… Honestly.
BORDERLANDS is going to be the sh!t people!!!
And once it’s been released the blizzard can go shove this game up their arses. No offence, but this just how I feel.
I see Andrei is the only clever guy here.
For the goddess’s sake D3 is NOT even in ALPHA, it is not being postponed for any marketing issues. It is not being postponed for hype, it is not being postponed due to WoW.
Blizzard has more-or-less 5 teams (MMO, RTS, RPG, B.net, Vintage) It is not like working on a title takes resources from another, nor are they interchangeable, each developer is an expert in his field but to put them in different stuff would just be a waste.
Also, the fact that they do not get money for D2 since 2005 (which in not accurate anyway since people still buy the game) and they still work on patches for it should just show you how Blizz caters to their gamers.
They would make more money releasing more games per year and releasing them sooner… but then they would be EA. Nope I think I’ll stay with Blizz, even if it gives me a (wrong) reputation of a fanboy.
ps: Things still missing in D3:
- female Monk is still in concept (which means not all effort is in the 5th class)
- 5th class is also in concept (skills, models, animations, effects, etc)
- itemization (all models, all inv icons, all +attributes, all affixes, etc)
- Talisman system (info n/a)
- Skill Runes (on hold until all Skill Trees are finished, all different effects for all and each of every active skill of every class)
- Acts 2, 3 and 4 are probably not finished with the 4th maybe even not started
- Act separating Cinematics (HUGE amount of time needed)
And this is just what we know about and I can remember. 2011 is really as soon as they can have it ready. If it comes out in 2011 I will be happy with Blizzard even if I, as everyone else, wanted to play it now.
I’d rather have a well finished game with an ending worth playing for. I don’t want the game to be a dissapointment or not worth playing through a 2nd (or 50th time like previous) times through.
I hope they take as long as is needed. Hell, I’ll wait til a day before the world ends…. I know what I’ll be doing when it ends.
Don’t rush the game!! Release when ready!!
Its sad that Diablo III first i released in 2011… But perfection games like Diablo III takes atleast 5 years to make. so what could you expect.
Many fans of the story like my self, need to see and play the best of the best when it come to Diablo III. not some unfinished crap game. Let Blizzard take there times to craft the best game ever seen…
then its even more worth waiting for. =)
OMG whining impatient kids! If you had any idéa about the complexity of making such games…
And if they did release a half-finished game early, you would whine about how crappy it is instead.
Wouldn’t you rather have a game that’s doesn’t crash, and with an awesome gameplay, than one that would only be playable after a year of patching?
Too many game producers release unfinished games that don’t work, just to have you download huge patches to fix them afterwards.
There are other games out there in the meanwhile. Now go play them instead… or have a try at reality;-)
Folks, don’t freak out about this. Yes it sucks cause we have been waiting ages for Diablo 3. But lets remember this is Blizzard. And Blizzard has a mantra that they follow which is, “never rush a game”. So I say let them take the extra time. If they take another year, then they can make the game look completely awesome and gritty like a Diablo game should look. Then we will all worship at the feet of the Blizzard gods when it does come out and feel like we are playing a quality game.
And frankly, WOW should come first. It is a completely awesome MMO that has set a standard in gaming that nobody has yet rivaled. So deal with it.
Morgg
Hi what do you think the last class will be i have heard that it should be a plaldin/warrior but i am not sure????
Well of course the date will be put forward more and more because they don’t going to get as much money as they get for WOW and then we have starcraft that have been on hold for a long time now if I don’t remember right it they was working on it at the same time as WOW so I won’t be surprised if it wont be released at 2013 or something like that but any way i looking forward for it even if it takes 10 more years! Diablo will always be a games close to my heart =)
Recarn
Man too many impatient people..
Can you wieners please just stfu?
Let them take their time with this, I and I’m pretty shore any true Diablo fan wants to see the true gritty grotesque gruesome sickness in this game when it finally comes out. Right?
Cause if you don’t wana wait for it you can then have them bring D3 out looking like WoW on crack cocain with rainbows an butterfly’s…
Please just shut it and wait.
Exactly how did you freeze your WoW account?
Do you mean you canceled it?
Yes, I meant I canceled it and now the status is FROZEN
I just heard from my trusted source that it would be released at the end of 2014. But the problem is we wont be able to play becuse the world will end in 2012 :/ they could at least give us a day!!!
yea i heard that too… Blizzard dosnt belive in that stuff. end of the world xD
oh well we can always play diablo 2.. hurray!!!……..
WHY BLIZZARD WHY ARE U TORTERING US!!!!!!!!!!!
Honestly, WOW is not a good game in my opinion. I tried to play the game because i am a loyal blizzard gamer. I played WoW for 1 month, i made a Paladin, i just never got into it. If i had made a Paladin on even diablo 1 i would have been into it within 10 minutes. The story is just much better and it is interesting. If they increased the reality and made a good PVP aspect in diablo three, it could go down as one of the best games in history and i will one hundred percent play it and be addicted (24 yr old accountant) along with about 100 of my friends.
I feel that diablo is one of the greatest games i have ever played. Dark Age of Camelot was also an amazing game in my opinion, however they ruined it when they came out with the second expansion. Blizzard should put as much as they can into diablo 3 and also a great amount of time in maintaining the diablo feeling. Its in blizzard best interest to put all their time into diabo 3, they can always come out with new patches and versions of d3 to make more money. It will be the most successful game guarenteed.
lawls
muahaha
how hard is it for a company like this to make a game in 3 years? come on… 40 people 3 years and one game? just make the game, wow is one of the gayest games ive eva seen and you wanna spent time on that crap? your wasting you time with it, everyone is getting real tired of wating…
MAKE THE GAME!!!!!!!!
hmmmm..for a company as big as blizzard i dont see it that hard to pull out more resource and working force to finish a project like D3 that they know is going to be a big hit .unless ofc they like to tease and build up more suspense for the game or some whacked up reason or commercial or 100 other reason which am sure are not in the gamer favor … i mean come on a project like D3 was talked about and worked on long ago . if blizz wanted to finish it sooner they would have .. but its like some thing dark is keeping them from going faster.
-and think about it 1 more year can mean more/better games in the end if i see a better game then D3 i will play it and forget about D3.
-and lol who know if anyone is still alive in 2011 to play there game
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and talk about people who dont mined to wait for perfection .. i agree having some thing perfect is better then a common low quality game… but that doesnt mean taking a life time to do it .. its not like they are lacking experience /manpower/the money or any other reason for making the game better .. So before you say let them take there sweet time ..ask about what kept them this long in the first place >_> .
foolishgamer -> About pulling out more resource to finish the game:
You know how hard is to find a good employee these days? Hiring a new employee could end to delay the release. If new employee isn’t so much into Diablo kind of stuff, he could do his work with half of intrest (or know-how what ever) to finish his work. At the end it could mean that others have to fix the mistakes that this one guy did.
And that’s just if he’s not into Diablo. He may not be professional, his sosial skills might be bad (affect to the other persons), etc.
Pulling an employee out of other project isn’t the answer either. Other projects will delay. And that’s not something that big Blizzard would want.
Blizzard has their schedule and they hold on to it. Yet again, it’s a great way to market the game.
Yeah, i realize how much effort goes into creating a game like this..Just think of all the items and runes and monsters and characters from diablo 2, and then it’s expansion, like holy fuck…
And i’m pretty sure i read somewhere that the item base is supposed to be BIGGER in D3 than it was in D2. D2 had the biggest item base i’ve ever seen, like just think of all the weapons and stuff.
And yeah, i garuntee you Diablo 3 will have more players than WoW, but you also have to keep in mind that WoW players pay every month to play, LOL.
And yeah, i totally agree that WoW blows. I think it’s one of the most horrible MMO’s ever. They needed to keep the Warcraft genre like it was in Warcraft 3 IMO, but who the hell am i, certainly not one of the millions that play it still.
AND…On top of all the work theyre doing for the characters, theyre making customization possible for each male/female character…Like, Blizzard has a HUGE undertaking in Diablo 3.
Yeah, i’d love to go buy Diablo 3 tomorrow, and yeah, i would love to think that they’re tricking us and that it’s actually coming out in 2010, and yeah i’d love to think that they won’t set back the release date past 2011, but this is blizzard and there track record, espically with diablo, is anything but good when it comes to releasing games when they say they will.
The only thing that REALLY REALLY REALLY pisses me off is that they HAD to showcase this in 2008. Like what the fuck, you know?
D3, I really couldnt care less anymore, there are plenty games out there to entertain everyone. I am fast losing interest in this D3 saga
By the time they do release the game and put all us idiot suckers out of our misery it will probably turn out to be 3rd rate anyway.
I am sick of all the hype surrounding this so called game and all the unproven ideas thrown about like confetti.
They wont release till 2010 now!! In 2010 that will propably turn into 2011//12 and you know what i really couldnt give two f#@ks
So…how many more gamers have we starting to think along these lines??
You know what. After all the years that these people have put and are going to put in this game, I doubt that they’re going to say, wtf, we were supposed to be working? And then pull a piece of crap out of their butt and market that.
I respect them for taking all the time they want. And I am so psyched for the game!!!
2011 here I come!!!
Thats good koolio4 because 2010 is when i went deciding not to wait anymore for the so called game makers to grab a better chance to line their pockets a little bit more at our expense
I wish you all luck whenever they decide to release this loser game
I walked into Gamestop and saw that they are now reserving Diablo III (like FYE starting doing months ago). However on the reserve list for Diablo 2, it said: 1/11/2011. We’ll see what happens…
I have played D1 and D2 and have been waiting for this game for over 6 years, dont get me wrong im a diablo fan boy but if it dosent come out by 2012 and they push it till 2014 2015, 15 years is to long to come out with a 3rd game they should drop it now because the xbox ps3 games that will be out will be better and diablo 2 fans will have forgotten its passed glory.
I’m sure that somebody at Blizzard had read all this, and I’m sure that they probably took into consideration of what everyone had said, and I bet, since they have already been working on Diablo III since the release of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction Expansion, and also seeing as how they stopped making MORE patches for Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, which probably won’t see past 1.15 even if they do make more patches again.
It’s apparent that you’ll DEFINITELY see Diablo III come out, either by the end of this year (2010) or by the end of next year (2011), somewhere in between that time frame, you will see it released. I can honestly say that if you look at all the “FACTS” and study it enough, you’ll come to the conlusion (if you’re not a complete moron), that they’ve had plenty of time, and it will not take as long as people are thinking for it to release. I’ve stated on another post somewhere on this site when I predict it being released, and I stand firmly by that prediction.
If you don’t, that’s alright. But you’re gonna feel salty when you see it announced and you pause for a second and then flip out with emense excitement as you rush to the store to pre-order. So just relax already damn it. Trust me, it’s gonna be released when I said. It’s not about having resources or anyone telling me that it’s releasing then, it’s about the facts and research. This is why there are people with intelligent piece of mind, and then there is complete morons that think they know shit without looking at the facts and doing some research. Knowledge is power. Take it from the smartest brains ever recorded in history.
Just wait and see and you won’t have a reason to complain. This game has got it going on, and I can honestly say that I can GUARANTEE IT. Now you’re probably thinking “Watch, he’ll be wrong HA HA HA!” but you’ll see. The brain will not fail you if you study the facts about something, and do as much research as you can log until you’re sure of yourself. You can’t be sure of yourself if you didn’t, don’t false tract your mind. READ GODDAMN IT, READ!
Yeah, I know I typed alot, but guess what? I can, because I went to school and learned how to type very fast and very sufficient. Even if my spelling may or may not be completely accurate. So you won’t get far being sarcastic or trying to make fun of me, because that’s beneath me, I’m not a child with a brain still developing like those that would make fun. If you’re one of those people, then what you say is easily garbage, and can be thrown in the trash, because you’re brain is still developing. So sit down, and shut up. Goodbye.
I am in agreeance with some of the more intelligent posts. just chill people. would you rather have d3 out yesterday, and have it another piece of crap like others have put, out or would you rather play the most badass game ever to be put on the market. i am still addicted to d2 and when d3 finally comes out i will probably be just as addicted to it. so just shut your pieholes put on your big girl panties and deal with it whining gets really irritating especially when it comes from people who probably have no idea what game programing consists of.
ah let them take their time. It’s painful to say but none of us want a game thats going to dissapoint. After blizzcon 2010 it looks like they still have a lot of work to do but what they have looks great. I just hope they announce the release date early 2011 so they have it in stores late 2011. I think theres pretty much a gaurantee that they’ll announce the release date by latest blizzcon 2011 which would imply a mid 2012 release. – lol I’ll be 21 by the time I’m playing diablo III ..the game is almost for the next generation. gavicioso@hotmail.com
Blizzard is the holy grail of game developers, and working there is like heaven, they drag on the developing process to milk every last penny they can get before release..
On the 240,000-square-foot campus, there is on-site dry cleaning, a chiropractor, valet parking, free car washes, subsidized meals, a full gym, outdoor basketball courts and several sand volleyball courts
box seats at Verizon Amphitheater and Honda Center are awarded to employees each month.
Regular Guitar Hero contests to blow off steam
The commuting program has a 6-figure rewards budget. Each quarter, participants get prizes and 75 percent of commuters win something — including $500 gift certificates.
why finish a game early? why not fine tune till the cows come home.
It’s done when we’ve had our fill, delay!