Looking back on the past few months, I can't remember if Blizzard gave a specific release date or not, but what's to say that they stick to their next announcement date?
Suppose that in the next couple of weeks they announce an April 12th release date. How will we know for sure that we can expect the game to release at that time? What do you think the likelihood is that Blizzard will once again push the date back after making an announcement?
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Don't you mean February? Beta started mid september so
1 sep, 2 oct, 3 nov, 4 dec, 5 jan, 6 feb
This would hold true if the beta started september 1, but it started mid september. =) Your list gets half a month added to it, ending in mid march.
The beta is already a joke, they can do more than 6months.
I'm sorry but I must sincerely disagree. What makes you believe the beta is a joke? They're bound to be much more progressed internally than they show us.
Contrary to popular belief Blizzard doesn't keep us in the loop. We hear stuff when they want us to hear stuff.
The beta was supposed to be 1 or 2 months long. Some may remember that Bashiok said long time ago beta should be whole act or even two. Then they decided they can release the game in 2011 so the beta was cut to this demo. Sadly, game is still months and months away...
Holy assumptions Batman! o.O
They said the beta was planned to be short and rough, they never said 1-2 months, that's just your interpretation. Clearly they ran into more problems than anticipated, on which I'd prefer not to speculate.
Next they didn't "decide" they could release in 2011, they just hoped they would be able to, but as said before, they ran into difficulties somewhere.
Thirdly, I dare you to find any link to Bashiok saying a beta should be 1 or 2 acts. The only post of his in reference to this subject was him saying the beta would be very limited contentwise, to not spoil too much. Just like Diablo 2's beta
Finally I dare not even guess where you pulled the "this beta is a cutdown version of their original plan" from.
Everyone can assume all they want, but Bashiok hasn't given a specific date as to the release. But even still, it looks like they are on schedule for a Q1 release, so my guess would be sometime in late February to early March.
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If it started at the beginning of September, which veggie already said it didn't, it would still be the end of February that the beta finishes (assuming the crap about beta times being 6 months etc). Hence the 6th month being february on his list.
Omfg. Q2 = early 2012 ? Q2 takes even the half the year, it is not even near "early".
Early is pretty vague but call anything but January and February early is bullshit. It's like saying 10 a.m. is early in the mourning ¬¬
Even march and april i might accept (if the year is divided early/mid/late). Anything past april is 100% delay and if anyone from blizz says otherwise they really believe the community are made of mindless zombie boys.
Omfg. Q2 = early 2012 ? Q2 takes even the half the year, it is not even near "early".
Early is pretty vague but call anything but January and February early is bullshit. It's like saying 10 a.m. is early in the mourning ¬¬
Even march and april i might accept (if the year is divided early/mid/late). Anything past april is 100% delay and if anyone from blizz says otherwise they really believe the community are made of mindless zombie boys.
Well.. we shouldnt think of it in quarters... Start. Middle, End. Early in year, mid year, Late in the year.
Why cant it be the first 4 months? aka first month of Q2? The answer, it can be.. we just all wanted it to mean Q1 more than anything =P
Everyone can assume all they want, but Bashiok hasn't given a specific date as to the release. But even still, it looks like they are on schedule for a Q1 release, so my guess would be sometime in late February to early March.
February isn't going to happen, period. And march is unlikely at this point.
Blizzard has historically given at least 8 weeks if not 10 between release announcement and release. That would mean mid march at the earliest if it were announced today, which it's not going to be.
99.9% chance of NOT a release date next week, as Jay Wilson's "big announcement" he has already stated will not include a release date. So IF by some miracle the release date comes the week after next, we MIGHT get it in late, late March. MIGHT.
But tbh, from the way they're talking about re-doing major mechanics, I'm thinking May at the earliest at this point.
P.S. Considering Bashiok specifically went back and changed his "on schedule for Q1" to "on schedule for "early" 2012", I would think Q1 is not happening.
Everyone can assume all they want, but Bashiok hasn't given a specific date as to the release. But even still, it looks like they are on schedule for a Q1 release, so my guess would be sometime in late February to early March.
February isn't going to happen, period. And march is unlikely at this point.
Blizzard has historically given at least 8 weeks if not 10 between release announcement and release. That would mean mid march at the earliest if it were announced today, which it's not going to be.
99.9% chance of NOT a release date next week, as Jay Wilson's "big announcement" he has already stated will not include a release date. So IF by some miracle the release date comes the week after next, we MIGHT get it in late, late March. MIGHT.
But tbh, from the way they're talking about re-doing major mechanics, I'm thinking May at the earliest at this point.
P.S. Considering Bashiok specifically went back and changed his "on schedule for Q1" to "on schedule for "early" 2012", I would think Q1 is not happening.
Yeah I agree with almost everything there. Really seeing late march/mid april atm (and thats if they announce a date at their meeting in feb) If they dont release a date around that time, then I no longer have a guess...as any guess at that point is just 100% wild guess =( I hope it does not come to that.
The beta was supposed to be 1 or 2 months long. Some may remember that Bashiok said long time ago beta should be whole act or even two. Then they decided they can release the game in 2011 so the beta was cut to this demo. Sadly, game is still months and months away...
Holy assumptions Batman! o.O
They said the beta was planned to be short and rough, they never said 1-2 months, that's just your interpretation. Clearly they ran into more problems than anticipated, on which I'd prefer not to speculate.
Next they didn't "decide" they could release in 2011, they just hoped they would be able to, but as said before, they ran into difficulties somewhere.
Thirdly, I dare you to find any link to Bashiok saying a beta should be 1 or 2 acts. The only post of his in reference to this subject was him saying the beta would be very limited contentwise, to not spoil too much. Just like Diablo 2's beta
Finally I dare not even guess where you pulled the "this beta is a cutdown version of their original plan" from.
First you accuse him of assuming, then you say "clearly they ran into more problems". That sounds like speculation to me...
Second, their betas are usually the entire game, so this is a demo at best, and very cut down from their usual handle on things.
Thirdly, Jay did say several times that he saw this beta as possibly being much shorter than a regular one of theirs.
Regardless this beta is uncharacteristically small in scope, and has lasted an uncharacteristically long time considering we don't have a release date yet. That is not speculation.
Second, their betas are usually the entire game, so this is a demo at best, and very cut down from their usual handle on things.
Actually only wow has betas like that (Referring to blizzard).. SC2 had no single player, d2 was also not more than act 1. So I wouldnt take the content of it as meaning of anything, other than what they already said about why they wanted a beta that is.
I think everyone on these forums are starting to short-circuit from all the straining to speculate when the game is coming out. Not a good thing when that is the only discussion to be had and everything else is old news.
I think everyone on these forums are starting to short-circuit from all the straining to speculate when the game is coming out. Not a good thing when that is the only discussion to be had and everything else is old news.
yep =P Thats why im occupying myself with programming something diablo related..
First you accuse him of assuming, then you say "clearly they ran into more problems". That sounds like speculation to me...
Second, their betas are usually the entire game, so this is a demo at best, and very cut down from their usual handle on things.
Thirdly, Jay did say several times that he saw this beta as possibly being much shorter than a regular one of theirs.
"They ran into problems" is not speculation actually, they have stated the development will be longer than anticipated.
Like Molster said, Starcraft 2 and Diablo 2 also had content-light betas.
I don't disagree with you on the third point, but I'll refer back to the beforementioned delays for the reason the beta is lasting longer.
yep =P Thats why im occupying myself with programming something diablo related..
Great job on that, btw. It's very cool to see so many people using it for their sigs, and it's very interesting to see all the variations of how they plan to spec and rune choices. Every sig I see is different.
Second, their betas are usually the entire game, so this is a demo at best, and very cut down from their usual handle on things.
Actually only wow has betas like that (Referring to blizzard).. SC2 had no single player, d2 was also not more than act 1. So I wouldnt take the content of it as meaning of anything, other than what they already said about why they wanted a beta that is.
Anyway just pointing out that one part is all
The company that developed Diablo II is virtually not the company that Blizzard is now. I don't think anyone that worked on the original two Diablos is still working there.
Secondly, the WoW betas have comprised 4 out of their last 5 releases, with Starcraft 2 being the only exception to my beta statement, and they only left out the single player campaign to not spoil story, the rest of the game's mechanics were present. That can't be said of Diablo III's "beta". And technically a beta/alpha build is the entire game, so this is indeed just a demo.
Second, their betas are usually the entire game, so this is a demo at best, and very cut down from their usual handle on things.
Actually only wow has betas like that (Referring to blizzard).. SC2 had no single player, d2 was also not more than act 1. So I wouldnt take the content of it as meaning of anything, other than what they already said about why they wanted a beta that is.
Anyway just pointing out that one part is all
The company that developed Diablo II is virtually not the company that Blizzard is now. I don't think anyone that worked on the original two Diablos is still working there.
Secondly, the WoW betas have comprised 4 out of their last 5 releases, with Starcraft 2 being the only exception to my beta statement, and they only left out the single player campaign to not spoil story, the rest of the game's mechanics were present. That can't be said of Diablo III's "beta". And technically a beta/alpha build is the entire game, so this is indeed just a demo.
You are confusing a beta test with a type of dev cycle. It's entirely possible that even though we are "beta testing" the game, it's an alpha version.
The open beta of Battlefield 3 was a demo. D3 is clearly not a demo.
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Suppose that in the next couple of weeks they announce an April 12th release date. How will we know for sure that we can expect the game to release at that time? What do you think the likelihood is that Blizzard will once again push the date back after making an announcement?
Blizzard beta's dont last over 6 months, march will be the 6th month for Diablo 3.
Don't you mean February? Beta started mid september so
1 sep, 2 oct, 3 nov, 4 dec, 5 jan, 6 feb
The beta is already a joke, they can do more than 6months.
I'm sorry but I must sincerely disagree. What makes you believe the beta is a joke? They're bound to be much more progressed internally than they show us.
Contrary to popular belief Blizzard doesn't keep us in the loop. We hear stuff when they want us to hear stuff.
They said the beta was planned to be short and rough, they never said 1-2 months, that's just your interpretation. Clearly they ran into more problems than anticipated, on which I'd prefer not to speculate.
Next they didn't "decide" they could release in 2011, they just hoped they would be able to, but as said before, they ran into difficulties somewhere.
Thirdly, I dare you to find any link to Bashiok saying a beta should be 1 or 2 acts. The only post of his in reference to this subject was him saying the beta would be very limited contentwise, to not spoil too much. Just like Diablo 2's beta
Finally I dare not even guess where you pulled the "this beta is a cutdown version of their original plan" from.
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Early is pretty vague but call anything but January and February early is bullshit. It's like saying 10 a.m. is early in the mourning ¬¬
Even march and april i might accept (if the year is divided early/mid/late). Anything past april is 100% delay and if anyone from blizz says otherwise they really believe the community are made of mindless zombie boys.
Well.. we shouldnt think of it in quarters... Start. Middle, End. Early in year, mid year, Late in the year.
Why cant it be the first 4 months? aka first month of Q2? The answer, it can be.. we just all wanted it to mean Q1 more than anything =P
So I agree with your early/mid/late.
PLus Q1 was a goal, not a set date =P
February isn't going to happen, period. And march is unlikely at this point.
Blizzard has historically given at least 8 weeks if not 10 between release announcement and release. That would mean mid march at the earliest if it were announced today, which it's not going to be.
99.9% chance of NOT a release date next week, as Jay Wilson's "big announcement" he has already stated will not include a release date. So IF by some miracle the release date comes the week after next, we MIGHT get it in late, late March. MIGHT.
But tbh, from the way they're talking about re-doing major mechanics, I'm thinking May at the earliest at this point.
P.S. Considering Bashiok specifically went back and changed his "on schedule for Q1" to "on schedule for "early" 2012", I would think Q1 is not happening.
Yeah I agree with almost everything there. Really seeing late march/mid april atm (and thats if they announce a date at their meeting in feb) If they dont release a date around that time, then I no longer have a guess...as any guess at that point is just 100% wild guess =( I hope it does not come to that.
First you accuse him of assuming, then you say "clearly they ran into more problems". That sounds like speculation to me...
Second, their betas are usually the entire game, so this is a demo at best, and very cut down from their usual handle on things.
Thirdly, Jay did say several times that he saw this beta as possibly being much shorter than a regular one of theirs.
Regardless this beta is uncharacteristically small in scope, and has lasted an uncharacteristically long time considering we don't have a release date yet. That is not speculation.
Actually only wow has betas like that (Referring to blizzard).. SC2 had no single player, d2 was also not more than act 1. So I wouldnt take the content of it as meaning of anything, other than what they already said about why they wanted a beta that is.
Anyway just pointing out that one part is all
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yep =P Thats why im occupying myself with programming something diablo related..
Like Molster said, Starcraft 2 and Diablo 2 also had content-light betas.
I don't disagree with you on the third point, but I'll refer back to the beforementioned delays for the reason the beta is lasting longer.
Great job on that, btw. It's very cool to see so many people using it for their sigs, and it's very interesting to see all the variations of how they plan to spec and rune choices. Every sig I see is different.
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The company that developed Diablo II is virtually not the company that Blizzard is now. I don't think anyone that worked on the original two Diablos is still working there.
Secondly, the WoW betas have comprised 4 out of their last 5 releases, with Starcraft 2 being the only exception to my beta statement, and they only left out the single player campaign to not spoil story, the rest of the game's mechanics were present. That can't be said of Diablo III's "beta". And technically a beta/alpha build is the entire game, so this is indeed just a demo.
You are confusing a beta test with a type of dev cycle. It's entirely possible that even though we are "beta testing" the game, it's an alpha version.
The open beta of Battlefield 3 was a demo. D3 is clearly not a demo.