DIABLO® III IN STORES STARTING APRIL 17, 2012 IRVINE, Calif. – March 5, 2012 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that its critically acclaimed action role-playing game, Diablo® III, will arrive in stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau starting on April 17, 2012. Diablo® III will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® at a suggested retail price of $59.99 and will also be offered as a digital download from the Blizzard Store today. A special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items will be available exclusively in retail stores for a suggested retail price of $99.99.
Someone just posted this on reddit saying it was on press release site for a few minutes. It's nothing there yet but if it is true. Then it is goddamn awesome.
Fake. How can a game that hasn't been released be "critically acclaimed"? When they gave a press announcement for Cataclysm and Starcraft II they wrote "highly anticipated". Somebody just made a fake mockup from the other press releases.
Fake. How can a game that hasn't been released be "critically acclaimed"? When they gave a press announcement for Cataclysm and Starcraft II they wrote "highly anticipated". Somebody just made a fake mockup from the other press releases.
Fake. How can a game that hasn't been released be "critically acclaimed"? When they gave a press announcement for Cataclysm and Starcraft II they wrote "highly anticipated". Somebody just made a fake mockup from the other press releases.
And the digitial download today???
Haha yeah..missed that one but that's obviously another sign
DIABLO® III IN STORES STARTING APRIL 17, 2012 IRVINE, Calif. – March 5, 2012 – Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that its critically acclaimed action role-playing game, Diablo® III, will arrive in stores throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Mexico, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau starting on April 17, 2012. Diablo® III will be available on DVD-ROM for Windows® XP/Windows Vista®/Windows® 7 and Macintosh® at a suggested retail price of $59.99 and will also be offered as a digital download from the Blizzard Store today. A special Collector’s Edition packed with bonus items will be available exclusively in retail stores for a suggested retail price of $99.99.
Someone just posted this on reddit saying it was on press release site for a few minutes. It's nothing there yet but if it is true. Then it is goddamn awesome.
lulz. ya OK
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
"once the pretty hardcore gamers we had testing inferno found it fairly difficult, we then we doubled it" -trolololol jay wilson
gonna have to say fake cause they wouldn't post it then take it down. Like the MoP brewmaster guy...Yeah this was up there for literally 30 seconds. What's funny is when 100 people reply with "Yeah I saw it too".
Fake. How can a game that hasn't been released be "critically acclaimed"? When they gave a press announcement for Cataclysm and Starcraft II they wrote "highly anticipated". Somebody just made a fake mockup from the other press releases.
My first thought as well. And even if some well intending journalist somewhere prepared this text and it leaked, we still know nothing before we hear it from blizz themselves.
I had hopes for the 17th of April, but now I'm just going to assume it's the end of Q2 to save my sanity. I have no games to play at the moment so I'm going kind of crazy.
Quit playing WoW, waiting for ME3, and I've pretty much been playing FIFA 12 clubs non stop just to have something to do!
I don't think they're gonna announce the date today or tomorrow. I still think they're gonna announce it on Cebit or GDC (as in, sometime during this week), and I'm inclined to believe that the "leaked" April date might be realistic, but I expect them to come with the announcement later or at the end of the show, definitely not on the first day.
I have the same feeling about april 17. they're playing around with this a little too much. Haven't we received other false hopes in terms of vendors flaunting release dates? Also, the way they are playing around means the release date will be, to me, at latest this end of this week.
Fake. How can a game that hasn't been released be "critically acclaimed"? When they gave a press announcement for Cataclysm and Starcraft II they wrote "highly anticipated". Somebody just made a fake mockup from the other press releases.
And the digitial download today???
Haha yeah..missed that one but that's obviously another sign
Not trying to defend the post. But about digital download being available - why not?
They've said it'll be available for pre-download so you can get your data in advance, you just won't be able to log-in until the release date. Just like with WoW expansions. Pre-expansion patches (4.0.1, 3.0.2 - those that actually contain the expansion data, even when they don't unlock new features yet) are available for download plenty of weeks in advance. And considering that this time we'll have to download full DVD (?) not just few GBs of patch data, I don't see why not give us an option to pre-download it right from the day when release date gets announced. Servers will be incredibly overloaded during release week anyway so I can totally see them doing everything they can to avoid it.
October 4, 2010 - WoW Cataclysm announced release date.
May 3, 2010 - Sc2 announced release date.
September 15, 2008 - WoW Wrath of the lich king announced release date.
Release Date
December 7, 2010 - WoW Cataclysm release date.
July 27, 2010 - Sc2 release date.
November 13, 2008 - WoW Wrath of the Lich King release date
IMO Diablo 3 announcement for release date is between today till March 15(thursday) + 2 months = May is the release date. If they delay it AGAIN they will announce the release date next month which is April 1 - 15 + 2 months = June is the release date.
But Bart Smit had the April 19th pinned before this Italian leak.
Yeah reading my twitter account this morning made me laugh seeing his trolls he done another one not long after that one witha troll face in it.
https://twitter.com/#!/Bashiok/status/176743627068936192
Fake. How can a game that hasn't been released be "critically acclaimed"? When they gave a press announcement for Cataclysm and Starcraft II they wrote "highly anticipated". Somebody just made a fake mockup from the other press releases.
And the digitial download today???
Haha yeah..missed that one but that's obviously another sign
lulz. ya OK
Quit playing WoW, waiting for ME3, and I've pretty much been playing FIFA 12 clubs non stop just to have something to do!
I have the same feeling about april 17. they're playing around with this a little too much. Haven't we received other false hopes in terms of vendors flaunting release dates? Also, the way they are playing around means the release date will be, to me, at latest this end of this week.
lulz this would be awesome
Not trying to defend the post. But about digital download being available - why not?
They've said it'll be available for pre-download so you can get your data in advance, you just won't be able to log-in until the release date. Just like with WoW expansions. Pre-expansion patches (4.0.1, 3.0.2 - those that actually contain the expansion data, even when they don't unlock new features yet) are available for download plenty of weeks in advance. And considering that this time we'll have to download full DVD (?) not just few GBs of patch data, I don't see why not give us an option to pre-download it right from the day when release date gets announced. Servers will be incredibly overloaded during release week anyway so I can totally see them doing everything they can to avoid it.
October 4, 2010 - WoW Cataclysm announced release date.
May 3, 2010 - Sc2 announced release date.
September 15, 2008 - WoW Wrath of the lich king announced release date.
Release Date
December 7, 2010 - WoW Cataclysm release date.
July 27, 2010 - Sc2 release date.
November 13, 2008 - WoW Wrath of the Lich King release date
IMO Diablo 3 announcement for release date is between today till March 15(thursday) + 2 months = May is the release date. If they delay it AGAIN they will announce the release date next month which is April 1 - 15 + 2 months = June is the release date.