I am a firm believer that D3 will be released in 2011 and here is why i think December 20th, 2011 is a very possible release date.
I know that there will be no beta in the month of August, however it will be in September...
The purpose of the beta is to stress test the servers with multiple games being played simultaneously, that means short beta(they have been internally bug testing for awhile now) sure the beta will bring up some unforeseen problems but I still dont think it will affect release.
Lets say they release beta on September 1st(unlikely but possible), beta is going to be 4 to 6 weeks tops which puts us around October 15th
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW, Heart of the Swarm is still to far out for any major announcements, which leaves us with Diablo
the only major announcements we can get from D3 at this point is a release date, new skills and features this far in would only be minor, and what is Blizzcon without a huge announcement lol...December 20th is the Tuesday before xmas and would be a perfect release date
I do want to point out that this rambling is 100% my opinion therefore 100% speculation(a guy can dream right? lol)
Make it happen blizzard, I want lot of loots for xmas =D
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I love all loot fest kind of game! I will be playing all of them for the next few years. Loot fest games I'm looking forward to: LotR: War in the North,Torchlight 2,Borderlands 2 and of course Diablo 3.
No major announcement for WoW at Blizzcon? Not that I play it anymore, but I'm pretty positive that the next expansion will at least be announced. There will also likely be TONS of HotS info, new gameplay, multiplayer announcements (new units, etc). And on top of that, we're all hoping for a D3 date. It's going to be a pretty huge Blizzcon this year.
Shit, I buy it. I could give or take a week or so (given we're still talking about a 2011 release). Of course, the length of the beta is almost completely relative to how smoothly the beta goes. If there are little issues, then we may see it in December.
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I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
I personally hope for the 13th of December. The final tests in my school end somewhere between 10th and 16th and i would like to get as much game-time in my christmas break as possible before school starts again around 5th january =P
I'm no business expert but I think it would make more sense to release D3 in December (holidays, shopping season, gift giving season, etc). Releasing it when everybody goes back to work, school, etc and after a lot of people are broke from the holiday spending is kinda... meh...
But D3 is D3 right? So people will still buy the game anytime of the year and through any means possible
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW
You are wrong on that. Blizzard announced that the last content patch for WoW Cata is going to be patch 4.3 (featuring Deathwing). WoW is currently running 4.2, that got release what a month ago? and content patch don't run for more than 4 months because people get bored. So the community is expecting 4.3 around December.
So it means that WoW next expansion cannot be in one year, because that leaves an enormous gap to fill.
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW
You are wrong on that. Blizzard announced that the last content patch for WoW Cata is going to be patch 4.3 (featuring Deathwing). WoW is currently running 4.2, that got release what a month ago? and content patch don't run for more than 4 months because people get bored. So the community is expecting 4.3 around December.
So it means that WoW next expansion cannot be in one year, because that leaves an enormous gap to fill.
Wasn't icecrown supposed to be the last patch for Wrath? Didn't they add another content patch between then and Cata?
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW
You are wrong on that. Blizzard announced that the last content patch for WoW Cata is going to be patch 4.3 (featuring Deathwing). WoW is currently running 4.2, that got release what a month ago? and content patch don't run for more than 4 months because people get bored. So the community is expecting 4.3 around December.
So it means that WoW next expansion cannot be in one year, because that leaves an enormous gap to fill.
im not saying there will be no WOW announcements, im saying there will be no MAJOR ones(i dont see a content patch as a major game announcement)
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW
You are wrong on that. Blizzard announced that the last content patch for WoW Cata is going to be patch 4.3 (featuring Deathwing). WoW is currently running 4.2, that got release what a month ago? and content patch don't run for more than 4 months because people get bored. So the community is expecting 4.3 around December.
So it means that WoW next expansion cannot be in one year, because that leaves an enormous gap to fill.
im not saying there will be no WOW announcements, im saying there will be no MAJOR ones(i dont see a content patch as a major game announcement)
I was not talking about content patch announcement but expansion if you read my post.
dec 20th is to close to the holidays, i think their ideal date is the same as it was for cataclysm (first week of December), they might not hit the first week of December mark but then there is January which has good sales numbers as well.
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW
You are wrong on that. Blizzard announced that the last content patch for WoW Cata is going to be patch 4.3 (featuring Deathwing). WoW is currently running 4.2, that got release what a month ago? and content patch don't run for more than 4 months because people get bored. So the community is expecting 4.3 around December.
So it means that WoW next expansion cannot be in one year, because that leaves an enormous gap to fill.
im not saying there will be no WOW announcements, im saying there will be no MAJOR ones(i dont see a content patch as a major game announcement)
I was not talking about content patch announcement but expansion if you read my post.
in my honest opinion WOW needs to just die...they keep dragging that game into the ground with expansion after expansion lol
I think WoW calls to an entirely diffirent audience, with some overlap of-course to D3 player audiences, but I really couldn't care less what goes on with WoW.
Lets say they release beta on September 1st(unlikely but possible), beta is going to be 4 to 6 weeks tops which puts us around October 15th
And you know this how.
It's safe to say if Blizzard wants to release D3 for Christmas sales it's going to be late November early December so everyone can buy it. Why would they release it few days before Christmas, that makes no sense. If we're in the 3rd week of December you know it's not coming out till 2012 Q1. Which is what I think will be happening.
Their doing this for one of two reasons. Either they don't want to release it along side SWTOR, which is most likely the case. OR! They have inside info that the world is REALLY going to end in 2012!!!!!
Blizzard will announce Mists of Pandaria at Blizzcon, which is huge. I don't think Blizzard will release D3 at 20th of December, that's pretty late to be able to get into the christmas shopping for real and would be a very bad marketing decision. I believe in an earlier date, between 30th november and 14th december.
I hate you. I was gonna say that. Lol.
No, but seriously, Mists of Pandaria will be the Blizzcon 2011 thing, with probable beta keys for Diablo 3.
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW
You are wrong on that. Blizzard announced that the last content patch for WoW Cata is going to be patch 4.3 (featuring Deathwing). WoW is currently running 4.2, that got release what a month ago? and content patch don't run for more than 4 months because people get bored. So the community is expecting 4.3 around December.
So it means that WoW next expansion cannot be in one year, because that leaves an enormous gap to fill.
Wasn't icecrown supposed to be the last patch for Wrath? Didn't they add another content patch between then and Cata?
And Blizzard announced that they were going to make shorter Expansions after Wrath with less content but would put more Expansions out. So rather then have an Expansion for 2+ years, have an Expansion for 1 year.
(Which is good, because I don't like Cataclysm.
Also, the major content patch between Ice Crown Citadel and Cataclysm was 4.0, which was The Sundering, which was actually the precursor to Cataclysm but did technically happen in Wrath. (Or do you mean the bs ruby sanctum raid?)
Lets say they release beta on September 1st(unlikely but possible), beta is going to be 4 to 6 weeks tops which puts us around October 15th
And you know this how.
It's safe to say if Blizzard wants to release D3 for Christmas sales it's going to be late November early December so everyone can buy it. Why would they release it few days before Christmas, that makes no sense. If we're in the 3rd week of December you know it's not coming out till 2012 Q1. Which is what I think will be happening.
Their doing this for one of two reasons. Either they don't want to release it along side SWTOR, which is most likely the case. OR! They have inside info that the world is REALLY going to end in 2012!!!!!
it says in the OP that this is 100% speculation....i never claimed to have any hard evidence
I know that there will be no beta in the month of August, however it will be in September...
The purpose of the beta is to stress test the servers with multiple games being played simultaneously, that means short beta(they have been internally bug testing for awhile now) sure the beta will bring up some unforeseen problems but I still dont think it will affect release.
Lets say they release beta on September 1st(unlikely but possible), beta is going to be 4 to 6 weeks tops which puts us around October 15th
Blizzcon is October 21st and 22nd, Cataclysm has been released so not going to be any major announcements from WOW, Heart of the Swarm is still to far out for any major announcements, which leaves us with Diablo
the only major announcements we can get from D3 at this point is a release date, new skills and features this far in would only be minor, and what is Blizzcon without a huge announcement lol...December 20th is the Tuesday before xmas and would be a perfect release date
I do want to point out that this rambling is 100% my opinion therefore 100% speculation(a guy can dream right? lol)
let me know what you guys think!
Shit, I buy it. I could give or take a week or so (given we're still talking about a 2011 release). Of course, the length of the beta is almost completely relative to how smoothly the beta goes. If there are little issues, then we may see it in December.
I hate the way you cling to ignorance and pass it off as innocence
But D3 is D3 right? So people will still buy the game anytime of the year and through any means possible
So it means that WoW next expansion cannot be in one year, because that leaves an enormous gap to fill.
Wasn't icecrown supposed to be the last patch for Wrath? Didn't they add another content patch between then and Cata?
im not saying there will be no WOW announcements, im saying there will be no MAJOR ones(i dont see a content patch as a major game announcement)
I was not talking about content patch announcement but expansion if you read my post.
in my honest opinion WOW needs to just die...they keep dragging that game into the ground with expansion after expansion lol
ALL HAIL DIABLO
It's safe to say if Blizzard wants to release D3 for Christmas sales it's going to be late November early December so everyone can buy it. Why would they release it few days before Christmas, that makes no sense. If we're in the 3rd week of December you know it's not coming out till 2012 Q1. Which is what I think will be happening.
Their doing this for one of two reasons. Either they don't want to release it along side SWTOR, which is most likely the case. OR! They have inside info that the world is REALLY going to end in 2012!!!!!
I hate you. I was gonna say that. Lol.
No, but seriously, Mists of Pandaria will be the Blizzcon 2011 thing, with probable beta keys for Diablo 3.
And Blizzard announced that they were going to make shorter Expansions after Wrath with less content but would put more Expansions out. So rather then have an Expansion for 2+ years, have an Expansion for 1 year.
(Which is good, because I don't like Cataclysm.
Also, the major content patch between Ice Crown Citadel and Cataclysm was 4.0, which was The Sundering, which was actually the precursor to Cataclysm but did technically happen in Wrath. (Or do you mean the bs ruby sanctum raid?)
thats what i was referring to.
it says in the OP that this is 100% speculation....i never claimed to have any hard evidence
Exactly that, I'd find a way to get it even if I had to pick up an extra shift.