If the hardcore fans have a grudge against Diablo III, they're going to go into overdrive with this news. A new SEC filing by evil publisher Activision has revealed its plans for Blizzard's games, including not just a sequel, but sequels to the popular dungeon crawler.
"Blizzard has released two expansion packs to World of Warcraft; World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King," states the nefarious company. "Blizzard is currently developing new games, including a new expansion pack to the World of Warcraft franchise, Cataclysm, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, which will be released with the new and improved Battle.net, and sequels to the Diablo franchise."
Given Activision's love of five-game-a-year franchises, you might not have to wait so long for Diablo IV after the third game comes out.
Diablo "sequels" in development [CVG]
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10:40 AM on 03.03.2010
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THEY TOOK URRRR JEERRRRRRRBS!!!
Just don't do that awful "3-game" Starcraft II treatment. Those aren't even sequels, that's just the full game!
They mentioned they are interested in that a while back right?
They seem to enjoy money.
Are they going to have the same graphical style as World of Warcraft as well, or will it actually look like Diablo?
Fuck that company.
Here's my prediction:
Diablo III : Will suck
Diablo III + Expansions: More money, more suck
Starcraft II: Will destroy series.
What have you been smoking mate?
I don't know that I've been smoking anything. I do know that I loved Diablo and hated Diablo II, so I don't see any reason why I'd like Diablo III, espeically if they are kicking it into replication overdrive.
As for Starcraft, I loved the first and am very afraid that they are going to screw the sequel up big time. If it's good at all, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
omg! :(
How can you say that after yesterday?
Why would Jim throw a hissy fit? He owns both a gaming PC and a PS3.
Oh, I forgot. Now I get it. It's because he's a Microsoft fanboy.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Too funny.
I would like to remind you that you have not played Diablo III, nor any Diablo III expansions, nor Starcraft 2, so predicting that all 3 will undoubtedly suck is quite silly. Not that it really matters to you how good the games will be, seeing as how you have already made up your mind and will find any way to justify your prejudgments whether the games are good or not.
Evil publisher Activision, is evil. CONFIRMED.
Which, if true, would make me very angry. Starcraft 2 makes a modicrum of sense, but...I feel like the only thing Activision has done to Blizzard has been make them realize they can siphon more money from their consumers.
I haven't made up my mind, I'm simply making predictions. If my predictions are wrong I will be very happy.
Also, yes, loving Diablo and hating Diablo II is my honest opinion. I'm not going to argue or explain it here; it would just take too long.
fact #1: Starcraft had around 30 missions total for 3 different races
fact #2: Starcraft2's each episode has 30 missions mainly focus on one race.
fact #3: Starcraft had 1 expansion.
How about you treat last 2 starcraft2 episodes as expansion packs? They add extra single player missions and they add extra mutiplayer units. Last I checked, those are called expansion packs. 1 game plus 2 expansions, Big deal, Stop QQ!
fact #4: No, Activision does not own Blizzard. Blizzard's parent company owns 51% of the shares, and Activision owns 49%.
Does this mean that their next mmo will be a diablo based game? Maybe it will be a diablo sequel in the way that wow was to warcraft 3. Perhaps they just didn't want to mention it as they haven't officially announced it (it's been announced in advertisements over the internet and on their website looking for new employees though), but it might be an idea.
That said...I quit WoW because it has seriously gone down the tubes. You can tell Blizzard has too much on their plate right now because WoW's armor designs, weapon designs, etc. all got extremely lazy and uninspired.
So this could also be bad news...
So I wouldn't expect Blizzard to start pushing out shit for cash-cowing, really. Like I said though, they do have too much on their plate and WoW's laziness of design has been showing for quite some time.
i am a bit worried activision could ruin my fav company ever, but in the end i dont really think blizzard needs them, so i just have to hope they can throw their own weight right back at bobby.