I was recently looking at gamefaqs and I looked up starcraft 2. If you click on each of the starcraft 2 part titles it shows there scheduled release date. Wings of Liberty (Part 1) 2010, Legacy of the Void (Part 2) 2010, Heart of the Swarm (Part 3) 2011. After discovering this I managed to look up Diablo 3 and it has it scheduled for a 2010 release. Is it possible that Gamefaqs has inside information?
Nah, the stores are always throwing up release dates trying to get pre-orders and such. The game will definitely not be out in 2010, I can guarantee you that. As i've said many times, my educated guess is that we'll see a Beta in 2010.
they are still working on a 5th class, finishing up the 4th, and polishing the rest. its taken them quite some time to get this far on the 4th, so things move
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from what ive heard, acts are still being put together/redone as they go. they are definetly getting CLOSER but they still have a ways to go. as stated, we havnt even hit beta testing and anyone who has played hon beta for a while can see how long blancing can take. its been out for a good while and patches like every week-2 with tweeks and such. it is just now starting to get to the nitty gritty glitch fixing. a good game with good balancing and finetuning takes time, sadly
Once again... All stores have to put in a release date when they put in a product into their inventory system. Most places will just make up a random date if there has been no release date given. The company can always go back and change the date but they still have to put something in initially.
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They already addressed that D3 will not be coming out in 2010 because they are releasing only two titles: SC2, and WoW: Cataclysm.
Now I am wondering is WoW: Cataclysm considered a game or an expansion. Is there a difference, if there is then SC2 is one of the games being released, what is the other.
I remember seeing one store have it set for December 2008 for release. I bet some people fell for that and bought preorder copies. I have a gut feeling we will not see D3 until 2012 the earliest. I think there are going to be delays for Starcraft 2 which will then push the release date back for D3.
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I say that as the earliest I am leaning more for 2013. They may try for the December 21st due to the end of the world prediction but I have a feeling they will encounter delays.
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They will most likely release the game late or mid 2011 late 2012 latest. Just cause think about it how long do you really think its going to take to finish 2 classes? 1 of which is halfway near done the other which is also halfway done. Then the testing and stuff shouldnt take more than a year year and a half 2 years at max. so that would put us right in the 2011-2012 range. Btw theres speculationg the "5th class" was actually the fourth because of a blizzard statement sayign somethign like we didnt plan to show this class or something like that ill have to find the thread. And since they said they pretty much had everything for the "5th class" figured out they were just using a placeholder at the time of the wizard videos so technically they should relly only have 1 class left, the monk who is as you can see very unexpectedly shown due to the lack of actual tree names and lack of skills.
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Wow people who still think that DIII will be released on a date other than June 29th. Come on people! I can guarantee that they will be sticking with tradition, and my gut tells me it will be 2011 too. 2012 is much too far away. 4 years of production after the announcement!! And how many years were they working on the game before that? 2? 4?
We've seen large sections from 2 acts (we are due for the 3rd), 4/5 classes (and I agree that the 5th class is farther along than the Monk), they are talking about the nitty gritty on the Monk, and many many other clues that they are pretty far along.
I'm sure closed beta will be mid 2010 to early 2011, followed by a June 29th 2011 release.
If you add in the time the original D3 team from Blizzard North worked on it I would guess it has been working on it since 2003 before Blizzard North ceased to be. I would guess that the current project has been running since 2006 and likely they started from scratch.
They have a lot to work on in the game. We do not know if they are done with Act 1 yet. We also do not know if any of the characters are done. I would say they have the animation and a good portion of the coding done but the skills I would say are far from done and will likely change during the development of the game.
During Beta testing many key things may be changed or new content add. Likely many bugs will be found and need to be looked at and see if they can be fixed or minimized the damage or find a work around to the bug. Fixing that bug may have caused another bug they need to fix.
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well they said there almost done with the female monk then they have to get the 5th class which i have a feeling the revealing of the 5th class maybe sometime in june this year or july or when blizzcon 2010 starts which i heard las vegas july 30 and 31 thats what i heard
but when they get the rest of the classes done there just working on monsters and the world up to act 4 and finish act 4 and they will probably make changes to classes but not big so once the 4th and 5th class and the class stuff they all have finished...diablo 3 will start being finished faster i know it
and i heard release dates whenever diablo 3 was announced and releases in 2008 which i knew was BS but i think release is sometime in march to sometime in june next year (i hope its that close)
and ya they need to have the DII community help with beta testing
The hard thing is that they do not work in a linear function. It is most likely that all of the classes are at the same point by now, even the unknown class. The acts have been shown in sequential order but that does not meant that they are being worked on in the same order. It is possible that Act IV is more complete than Act I. I am still hoping for a 2011 release. I don't see why not. An action game like Diablo doesn't take nearly as long to perfect as games that center around PvP like Starcraft. They are improving the PvP for Diablo but they have said that it is not their main focus for Diablo multiplayer.
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they are still working on a 5th class, finishing up the 4th, and polishing the rest. its taken them quite some time to get this far on the 4th, so things move
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from what ive heard, acts are still being put together/redone as they go. they are definetly getting CLOSER but they still have a ways to go. as stated, we havnt even hit beta testing and anyone who has played hon beta for a while can see how long blancing can take. its been out for a good while and patches like every week-2 with tweeks and such. it is just now starting to get to the nitty gritty glitch fixing. a good game with good balancing and finetuning takes time, sadly
You think there will be a beta for this game? I don't know about that.
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They have officially announced that?
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They already addressed that D3 will not be coming out in 2010 because they are releasing only two titles: SC2, and WoW: Cataclysm.
Now I am wondering is WoW: Cataclysm considered a game or an expansion. Is there a difference, if there is then SC2 is one of the games being released, what is the other.
Maybe a D2 mod if I ever get around the effort to making one.
We've seen large sections from 2 acts (we are due for the 3rd), 4/5 classes (and I agree that the 5th class is farther along than the Monk), they are talking about the nitty gritty on the Monk, and many many other clues that they are pretty far along.
I'm sure closed beta will be mid 2010 to early 2011, followed by a June 29th 2011 release.
They have a lot to work on in the game. We do not know if they are done with Act 1 yet. We also do not know if any of the characters are done. I would say they have the animation and a good portion of the coding done but the skills I would say are far from done and will likely change during the development of the game.
During Beta testing many key things may be changed or new content add. Likely many bugs will be found and need to be looked at and see if they can be fixed or minimized the damage or find a work around to the bug. Fixing that bug may have caused another bug they need to fix.
but when they get the rest of the classes done there just working on monsters and the world up to act 4 and finish act 4 and they will probably make changes to classes but not big so once the 4th and 5th class and the class stuff they all have finished...diablo 3 will start being finished faster i know it
and i heard release dates whenever diablo 3 was announced and releases in 2008 which i knew was BS but i think release is sometime in march to sometime in june next year (i hope its that close)
and ya they need to have the DII community help with beta testing
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