Some Game Shops are listing Diablo III for pre-order in UK at the price of 24.99 Euros. It is incredible how some of these shops claim the game is shipping in 149 days when the other classes have not been announced yet. There is much more to be revealed. So don't hold your breath until Blizzard gives fans the official release date via Press Release. Below is a very informative summary for you to digest:
Diablo III is being developed as the definitive action role-playing game, and a true continuation of the Diablo series. Players will create a hero from one of five distinct classes, such as barbarian or witch doctor, each equipped with an array of spells and abilities. As these heroes adventure through rich and varied settings, unraveling an epic storyline and engaging in combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses, they'll grow in experience and ability and acquire items of incredible power.
The game takes place on Sanctuary, a world of dark fantasy. Unbeknownst to most of its inhabitants, Sanctuary was saved some twenty years ago from the demonic forces of the underworld by a few brave and powerful heroes. Most of those warriors who directly faced Hell's armies - and were fortunate enough to survive - went mad from their experiences. And most of the others have buried their haunted memories and pushed the horrors from their thoughts. In Diablo III, players will return to Sanctuary to confront evil in its many forms once again.
Diablo III will be a fitting sequel to Diablo II, with the easy interface, fast-paced action, and visceral gameplay that Diablo players have come to expect and enjoy. It will also include many new features that will take the Diablo action-RPG experience to the next level!
Diablo III for PC Features:
* Five powerful character classes to choose from, including the barbarian and witch doctor.
* Brand-new 3D graphics engine enhanced with spectacular visual effects and Havok physics.
* Numerous indoor and outdoor areas detailing new regions in the world of Sanctuary.
* Interactive environments with dangerous traps and obstacles, and destructible elements.
* Randomly generated worlds bolstered by scripted events for endless and dynamic gameplay.
* Vast assortment of fiendish monsters, with unique attack patterns and behaviors.
* New quest system and character-customisation options for the ultimate action RPG experience.
* Multiplayer functionality over Battle.net with support for cooperative and competitive play.
they're doing the same thing in the US, which I also find surprising. I'm interested in the Collector's Edition but no word on that yet. I'd be more than willing to pay extra for the Collector's Edition of Diablo 3. The concept art alone would be worth it.
Blizzard have never said at any point how long itll take for a game release thats just speculation from the fans, theyve been working on this game for 7 years and from the game play demo it looked like they were about finished, theyve done the gameplay art although, some people think its a mighty fine idea to complain about it not being dark enough when theyve only seen 20 minutes of the game and two classes haha childish much?
ive preordered it. I trust play.com and theyve never let me down on any other games!
149 days to go eh, im counting down =] lol blizz might push the date back anyway.
and finally, its against the law to missadvertise product or distrubute product without the permission or legal authorization of the copyright provider and producer or the product in question.
so blizzard has obviosly said companys can start pre-orders!
p.s - Blizzard hasnt ever done a collectors edition of a diablo game, it'd suprise me if they did now, its not a mmorpg or anything like that so, they cant exactly give bonus in game content or anything, maybe artwork, which we already have access to
How do we know Blizzard allowed them too though, they likely have no clue about it or just found out recently.
Collectors edition could include dev videos, posters/printed art, extra game guide etc.
Woah. 24.99 euros for Diablo 3? Are they mad?
As lovely as that would be, I highly doubt Blizzard are going to release the game for 24.99 euros, 30-35 Euros might be a better aim.
24.99 Euros in the UK is only around £14. That's a mighty cheap price for a UK game. Mighty.
And anyway, the game won't be out in 149 days, that's just useless speculation on their part. Blizzard said so themselves, after announcing a new game, it'll take a year to a year and half approximately before they release it.
i dont think thats all true, if you research release dates for previous Blizzard titles, youll find a game is released approx. 8 - 12 months after announcment, i really think Blizzard might blow some poeple away with this title and spring it on us a little early, its been in prodictuion for 5 years already. no reason to delay any longer. they ARE releasing betas, once they recieve all the input they need from beta testers, its to the shelves we go.
Now I'm not a fancy Europe man but i believe thats in late march right? (just so happens to be 3 days before my birthday too!) thats roughly 230ish days, which is a hard wait but I'm patient, since i first ball parked this game as late 2010.
I agree with everyones prior posts... the game looks very far in development, especially since they've been working on it for so long. The fact that everything had English translations in the teasers was enough... remember the Starcraft 2 teaser?
Gamespot had it listed as being released 12/31/08...just saw it today on their game rankings, then when I clicked on it the date changed to TBA...don't know why places do that...thought maybe I had missed an announcement or something.
I don't buy it. But on the other hand, if they have been working for 4-5 years on D3 they could be making now the final adjustments. Still I don't believe the announcement as Blizzard is known to push the initial release dates.
Watch the gameplay vid again..they say that only the first act is ready..
It's a matter of principal. They have said over and over that they are trying to stay true to the roots of the Diablo franchise with this latest installment, but if they make it p2p, that's not the case. I don't think I would do it. I feel Blizz would be trying to exploit the Diablo fans because of the overwhelming anticipation we've displayed over this latest news and their incredible success with WOW.
Not only that, my wife and I both enjoy playing Diablo. Our computers are set up right next to each other and we don't have to type messages back and forth, very convenient. If it were to be a p2p game, not only would we have to shell out $120-$150 to buy the 2 copies we'd need, then we would also have to spend who knows how much every month to play the game.
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24.99 Euros in the UK is only around £14. That's a mighty cheap price for a UK game. Mighty.
and £14 = $42 NZ. That can't be right. I bet I will end up paying $100 NZ for this game, excluding shipping/pre ordering stuffs.
most likely will release december of 2009 at 59.99 USD. high quality game worth every gold piece!
Sounds about right.
$1 NZ = $0.5 UD, roughly. Probably more like $0.45 US, but what ever. Take the american price, and double it, rough esitmate for New Zealanders.
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this is my point ...
in the past - i had 11 copies of D2 ... ( i buy them all ),
and i play simultaneusly with them on my PC's in home ( 3 PC under linux, with some diablos running on each of them ).
well - this was a greath fun , and greath time .. anyway - i wonldnt pay 4 play for sure ...
how much i should pay for 11 D3 every month ? - ROFL ...
Let Blizzard make their minds - beter sell D3 prety high , than every month pay for play !
if they wish some money ( greedy - let make it - something like 5$ at YEAR - i wont spend more for it ! )
Some people have 5 accounts in wow and pay 5x per month in order to multibox (play simultaniously with 5 characters) many times they also put up 5 different computers so it runs smoothly. (compared to 5x wow on 1 computer)
well anyways thats enough from wow.
In this finnish netstore they have a date for release in november 29th 2008 and preorders are up. But below it says "its an estimate and will probably change"
hmm...149 days= nov 28th 2008 which is a Friday majority if not all of todays games are normally release on tuesdays(it's a first full week of sales thing) in both us and europe....but then again d2 was released on a thurs. and the expansion a year later on a friday so i dont know......but just like wotlk every website seems to have a different release date ..bottom line....these websites dont know what they're talking about
If they make D3 P2P, my friends and I will nail-bomb blizzard. Or maybe just not buy it.
I think the dates given for pre-orders aren't worth trusting, as they can be pushed back perfectly legally until the game is released, or refunded if it doesn't release at all (Baal forbid.)
Also $1 NZ is more like $.75 UD, unless we're talking about a pre-bush government for some reason.
I am absolutely sure the game will not be P2P, because blizzard is well aware of the attitude of Diablo players. But Blizzard being Blizzard may just make the game price very high, considering it's free to play online.
Also,as we can see from the gameplay trailer, the basic concept of the game including the edited engine and the graphic part (which is the main part of the game anyway) are already finished. Thus meaning that they have only to finish the rest of the acts, quests and the map, and recieve reports from the beta testers, and it's ready to sell.
So, we can expect D3 to come out, somewhere between 3 to 12 months from now. I know it's very approximated, but we can't say anything more surely until they announce it themselves.
And the last thing, don't trust pre-order sites, because they have absolutely no means of knowing the release date, as it is scrictly against blizzard policy.
regards
P.S. One more thing, don't be surprised if you find the price extremely high, because they know we'll do whatever it takes to play the game (at least i would)
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Diablo III is being developed as the definitive action role-playing game, and a true continuation of the Diablo series. Players will create a hero from one of five distinct classes, such as barbarian or witch doctor, each equipped with an array of spells and abilities. As these heroes adventure through rich and varied settings, unraveling an epic storyline and engaging in combat with hordes of monsters and challenging bosses, they'll grow in experience and ability and acquire items of incredible power.
The game takes place on Sanctuary, a world of dark fantasy. Unbeknownst to most of its inhabitants, Sanctuary was saved some twenty years ago from the demonic forces of the underworld by a few brave and powerful heroes. Most of those warriors who directly faced Hell's armies - and were fortunate enough to survive - went mad from their experiences. And most of the others have buried their haunted memories and pushed the horrors from their thoughts. In Diablo III, players will return to Sanctuary to confront evil in its many forms once again.
Diablo III will be a fitting sequel to Diablo II, with the easy interface, fast-paced action, and visceral gameplay that Diablo players have come to expect and enjoy. It will also include many new features that will take the Diablo action-RPG experience to the next level!
Diablo III for PC Features:
* Five powerful character classes to choose from, including the barbarian and witch doctor.
* Brand-new 3D graphics engine enhanced with spectacular visual effects and Havok physics.
* Numerous indoor and outdoor areas detailing new regions in the world of Sanctuary.
* Interactive environments with dangerous traps and obstacles, and destructible elements.
* Randomly generated worlds bolstered by scripted events for endless and dynamic gameplay.
* Vast assortment of fiendish monsters, with unique attack patterns and behaviors.
* New quest system and character-customisation options for the ultimate action RPG experience.
* Multiplayer functionality over Battle.net with support for cooperative and competitive play.
Thanks, Kieran (UK)
http://www.blizzplanet.com
Incredible rip-off indeed.
"Cards and flowers on your window, your friends all plead for you to stay,
sometimes beginnings aren't so simple, sometimes goodbye's the only way."
which is equivelant to 49.80$.
not euros.
How do we know Blizzard allowed them too though, they likely have no clue about it or just found out recently.
Collectors edition could include dev videos, posters/printed art, extra game guide etc.
i dont think thats all true, if you research release dates for previous Blizzard titles, youll find a game is released approx. 8 - 12 months after announcment, i really think Blizzard might blow some poeple away with this title and spring it on us a little early, its been in prodictuion for 5 years already. no reason to delay any longer. they ARE releasing betas, once they recieve all the input they need from beta testers, its to the shelves we go.
This petition is to KEEP the current art direction
Good Job Blizzard. Stay on Track
Christmas with Diablo.
Didn't the penguin or the ice in the teaser give this away
Now I'm not a fancy Europe man but i believe thats in late march right? (just so happens to be 3 days before my birthday too!) thats roughly 230ish days, which is a hard wait but I'm patient, since i first ball parked this game as late 2010.
I agree with everyones prior posts... the game looks very far in development, especially since they've been working on it for so long. The fact that everything had English translations in the teasers was enough... remember the Starcraft 2 teaser?
Let the countdown begin.
Watch the gameplay vid again..they say that only the first act is ready..
Kieran, thanks for the nice description.
And the heavens shall tremble!
No word yet.
Not only that, my wife and I both enjoy playing Diablo. Our computers are set up right next to each other and we don't have to type messages back and forth, very convenient. If it were to be a p2p game, not only would we have to shell out $120-$150 to buy the 2 copies we'd need, then we would also have to spend who knows how much every month to play the game.
and £14 = $42 NZ. That can't be right. I bet I will end up paying $100 NZ for this game, excluding shipping/pre ordering stuffs.
Sounds about right.
$1 NZ = $0.5 UD, roughly. Probably more like $0.45 US, but what ever. Take the american price, and double it, rough esitmate for New Zealanders.
well anyways thats enough from wow.
In this finnish netstore they have a date for release in november 29th 2008 and preorders are up. But below it says "its an estimate and will probably change"
RIP: Demon Hunter: lvl 50 | Barb: lvl 60 (plvl 5) | Monk: lvl12 & lvl70 (plvl 200)
I think the dates given for pre-orders aren't worth trusting, as they can be pushed back perfectly legally until the game is released, or refunded if it doesn't release at all (Baal forbid.)
Also $1 NZ is more like $.75 UD, unless we're talking about a pre-bush government for some reason.
Also,as we can see from the gameplay trailer, the basic concept of the game including the edited engine and the graphic part (which is the main part of the game anyway) are already finished. Thus meaning that they have only to finish the rest of the acts, quests and the map, and recieve reports from the beta testers, and it's ready to sell.
So, we can expect D3 to come out, somewhere between 3 to 12 months from now. I know it's very approximated, but we can't say anything more surely until they announce it themselves.
And the last thing, don't trust pre-order sites, because they have absolutely no means of knowing the release date, as it is scrictly against blizzard policy.
regards
P.S. One more thing, don't be surprised if you find the price extremely high, because they know we'll do whatever it takes to play the game (at least i would)