I am not sure what is the bigger anticipation about Diablo 3. Obtaining the actual retail game on release day or actually receiving the news from Blizzard what the actual release date is for this game. Now that we know that Blizzard is shooting for a Q2 Release Date windows. Here are some of my possible suggestions.
*Spring Break for School*
If blizzard can target a release date within March through April to catch spring break for students, then they can get some good sales out of it.
*Easter Weekend Holiday*
For those that believe in the Christian Holiday / Easter Egg Hunt Holiday / etc I would find it ironic that Diablo 3 would be released close to this time frame. Again I know the story of Diablo vs the Bible doesn't entirely relate, the concept of Good vs Evil would display an odd cross-marketing type of thing.
*Schools Out*
For some school systems, during the month of May and/or June would be a suggested time frame to release this game to get more *kiddies* to dive into the action of D3. This could be the most ideal window for Blizzard anyway to grab the most sales.
*My Thoughts*
I really wanted this game to come out in Jan or Feb (My Birthday Month) because I love new game releases during the colder seasons. If the game does get released towards the end of June, it will be a bit muggy in good old FL while waiting at midnight for my D3 CE preorder. I believe Blizzard will hit that early to mid June release window so they can suck up every chance they get to test before the real release. It would not surprise me that they will even do a open beta stress test the month before the release date like they have with past betas. As far as the signs of Blzzard Employees working on the weekends to address beta patch rollouts go, I just think they have the approval to do overtime now to make sure they can be as aggressive as possible to not tell their fans that the game will be delayed for Q3 2012 which I believe is a smart idea. They can afford to pay their employees overtime anyway with all the WOW money coming in.
My last thought behind the June release is because around the end of May, start of June will give Blizzard a second boost of funds from fans that purchased the annual agreement of WOW. For those that decided to do the 6-month renewal, this is around the time that it will kick in. The combined funds from that and a D3 release would be fantastic for their sales.I am so looking forward to this game but I am just looking forward to a release date so I can get some closure and plan some vacation time around it.
Blues working on Saturday night to deploy patch? WoW. I am usually very conservative but I think we might be really close now.
I kind of felt this way too. Close is definitely a relative term though.
Unfortunately at the end of the day I think it was just that they gave themselves a physical deadline for the patch and had to meet it. Plus, delays in patches could potentially increase delays in the game if major issues are discovvered.
For some reason I've always head the feeling since announcement of D3 that the release date could be 6/6/12. It has the beasts number conitation to it in some vien. My original thought was 6/6/06 but i think we all know that wasnt going to happen... Or it was released then and the universe is conspiring against me with the most epic troll of all time.
But I'm not going to guess an actual date but just a range. I expect an announcement about mid-March. With that in mind, I would guess about a Late April to Mid-May release. If it is Mid-May, then I get to play it for a while because school ends for me on the 17th of May. I don't expect a June release at all because the fans would probably riot against Blizz.
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I don't have a specific date, but my guess for a month if June. Seems like a lot of WoW players wnat to believe that MoP is coming out early summer (definitely not, haha), so I'm thinking that they'll release D3 then to make people happy. Also, beta patch 13 looks like it's putting the *almost* finishing touches on some systems, so if you take into account some more tweaking and time to press/package/ship DVDs, you're looking at early summer.
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balancing seems way too off. they will do alot more balancing to skills before they release the game. but thats doesnt mean they cant announce a release date. considering how done everything seems with this last patch i definitely see a release date very soon. and i dont see it being 2 months in the future from that day either. possibly a late april release
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"once the pretty hardcore gamers we had testing inferno found it fairly difficult, we then we doubled it" -trolololol jay wilson
Balancing won't be that difficult. They will just make everything slightly more difficult they think it should be when balanced. It will still let everybody finish normal easily and then they will balance difficulty down, mostly when/if ppl start to complain. IMO, which is most probably incorrect on that matter as they are pedantic. And even if they were not they would rather dumb it down
At this point it's really difficult to guess the actual release date...
Every time I tell myself : "Ok, now it's 100% perfect, it's time for them to release". And everytime "Well... we aren't satisfied enough with [Insert random feature], so we'll probably iterate a bit more on it, but don't worry, it'll be ok soon".
So, as FreddyBenson said, let's just hope people stop crying about everything, this way we may be able to have the game for Christmas k12
Another fan site is running the beta competition till 15th of march. So im pretty sure there will not be a release date before then as there still needs to be the eu beta opt in. Also if they are to stick to the two month warning that would be 15th of may earliest, i would say we are looking at a june release right in the middle of summer.....
I agree and figure it will be for sometime in April!
I'm pretty sure it will be released on June 29th, because Diablo 2 was released that day as well as the expasion LoD, so i think its likely that they would like to release in the same date.
Another fan site is running the beta competition till 15th of march. So im pretty sure there will not be a release date before then as there still needs to be the eu beta opt in. Also if they are to stick to the two month warning that would be 15th of may earliest, i would say we are looking at a june release right in the middle of summer.....
huh? they dont have to do it 2 months in advance. its already been delayed twice. they definitely wont make it a 2 month in advance announcement. also just because fan sites are running it till the 15th of march doesnt mean ANYTHING to blizzard. they dont give the sites specific dates to follow. the sites do as they please with the keys.
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"once the pretty hardcore gamers we had testing inferno found it fairly difficult, we then we doubled it" -trolololol jay wilson
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*Spring Break for School*
If blizzard can target a release date within March through April to catch spring break for students, then they can get some good sales out of it.
*Easter Weekend Holiday*
For those that believe in the Christian Holiday / Easter Egg Hunt Holiday / etc I would find it ironic that Diablo 3 would be released close to this time frame. Again I know the story of Diablo vs the Bible doesn't entirely relate, the concept of Good vs Evil would display an odd cross-marketing type of thing.
*Schools Out*
For some school systems, during the month of May and/or June would be a suggested time frame to release this game to get more *kiddies* to dive into the action of D3. This could be the most ideal window for Blizzard anyway to grab the most sales.
*My Thoughts*
I really wanted this game to come out in Jan or Feb (My Birthday Month) because I love new game releases during the colder seasons. If the game does get released towards the end of June, it will be a bit muggy in good old FL while waiting at midnight for my D3 CE preorder. I believe Blizzard will hit that early to mid June release window so they can suck up every chance they get to test before the real release. It would not surprise me that they will even do a open beta stress test the month before the release date like they have with past betas. As far as the signs of Blzzard Employees working on the weekends to address beta patch rollouts go, I just think they have the approval to do overtime now to make sure they can be as aggressive as possible to not tell their fans that the game will be delayed for Q3 2012 which I believe is a smart idea. They can afford to pay their employees overtime anyway with all the WOW money coming in.
My last thought behind the June release is because around the end of May, start of June will give Blizzard a second boost of funds from fans that purchased the annual agreement of WOW. For those that decided to do the 6-month renewal, this is around the time that it will kick in. The combined funds from that and a D3 release would be fantastic for their sales.I am so looking forward to this game but I am just looking forward to a release date so I can get some closure and plan some vacation time around it.
I kind of felt this way too. Close is definitely a relative term though.
Unfortunately at the end of the day I think it was just that they gave themselves a physical deadline for the patch and had to meet it. Plus, delays in patches could potentially increase delays in the game if major issues are discovvered.
But I'm not going to guess an actual date but just a range. I expect an announcement about mid-March. With that in mind, I would guess about a Late April to Mid-May release. If it is Mid-May, then I get to play it for a while because school ends for me on the 17th of May. I don't expect a June release at all because the fans would probably riot against Blizz.
Every time I tell myself : "Ok, now it's 100% perfect, it's time for them to release". And everytime "Well... we aren't satisfied enough with [Insert random feature], so we'll probably iterate a bit more on it, but don't worry, it'll be ok soon".
So, as FreddyBenson said, let's just hope people stop crying about everything, this way we may be able to have the game for Christmas k12
But who knows blizzard likes the Term its ready when its ready
I agree and figure it will be for sometime in April!
huh? they dont have to do it 2 months in advance. its already been delayed twice. they definitely wont make it a 2 month in advance announcement. also just because fan sites are running it till the 15th of march doesnt mean ANYTHING to blizzard. they dont give the sites specific dates to follow. the sites do as they please with the keys.