Here's a bit of sad news for Diablo III fans. So sad, in fact, that if you happen to be one of those "I can never let anyone see me cry" guys, you should probably run off to a secluded area. Like, right now. Go!
Activision Blizzard CFO Thomas Tippl recently talked about how the Blizzard side of the business has been going, and more importantly, when exactly all of the studio's games are coming out. According to Kotaku, we shouldn't expect to see Diablo III until 2011 at the earliest.
2010 will be a busy year for Blizzard, what with StarCraft II, the new and improved Battle.net, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, and whatever else may be in the works. This of course pushes those StarCraft expansions and Diablo into the "next few years."
As a Blizzard fan, long waits sort of come with the membership. But you know what? It sure would be nice to say, "hey world, I had the chance to play Diablo III before you ended in 2012." Make it happen, people.
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4:40 PM on 11.12.2009
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Lol, I wants my Diablo III!!!!!!!
One of the few games that both myself and my GF like is Diablo II :(
On the plus side, I've been playing Diablo II a lot and brushing up my skills. The spambots are a huge problem now though.
So there is a reason that Blizzard releases high quality products and it is because they've proven time and time again that they can lay golden eggs at will. They are one of the few developers who have the luxury to be able to spend as much time as they want working on a title and releasing it when it is done, rather than upholding some contractual agreement that says the game ships on X date and it better be ready by then.
I, for one, don't care if I wait a few more years to play Diablo 3. I want to play it when it is ready, no sooner. And if Blizzard says a couple more years, then I'll wait a couple more years. Plenty of other games to play now and before then. But when it comes out, I know I pretty much can clean my schedule for the next few months because it will be that good.
*weeps*
I watched Blizzcon over DTV and the game looked finished. I even half expected the final character class to be announced before Christmas. I'm going to go drink heavily now.
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Opinions on how good or bad a particular person feels aside, when you look at it from their point of view, every game they make is something dozens of other studios dream they could do with just 1 game they made.
Between the WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo franchises, they have blockbusters practically dripping from the teets. Successful company is successful.
Still hate it when they hype a game up YEARS before the actual release though. Oh well at least there's Borderlands.
I wasn't expecting it in 2010, but damn..."A few years?" What does that even mean, 2013?
As life long fan of the company and WoW player since launch (all 5 years) I'm done with their crap. It used to make sense when they'd make us wait for years and come out with a really great game but since WoW hit the over all quility of everything has slid down a terribly steep slop. Coupled with the fact that the company lost all sight of every thing else it was doing to keep its eyes on its huge money maker rather then giving us more games for their other IPs every few years.
Expansions to an MMO does not equal games..
*meaning they never really will.
But ya know what? I don't really need Diabolo anyway, there are plenty of companies out there with similar or better versions of the same kind of game. Even DS, PSP and iPhone have their own dungeon hacks.
Torchlight, Phantasy Star Zero, etc. I think I'll get by.
There are a ton of games to play in the meanwhile. I'm not worried.
* - Yes, it's not Mayan and fuck you anyway.
I totally agree. Also, Diablo 3 better be extremely awesomely epic by the time they actually release it.
That decision is looking pretty damn prescient right now. If I was worried about how I'd hold out for a year, 2-3 years would have been agonizing.
@Vanilla: you're right, obviously. Blizzard has demonstrated repeatedly that not only do they deliver what they promise time after time, but also that they will take their dear sweet time to do so. Take as long as it takes, Blizz.
When it's released it's released