There is a 3 hour window directly after the Diablo Anniversary section. And it has two blocks that are shaded, which means they are going to do something, but not saying what.
This seems pretty obvious to me.
Please read post #14. This "free block" isn't a free block, they never have anything in parallel with the contest, and usually just a simulcast to the panel area. But I went over that on the last page already.
Again, unfortunately not the case. At Blizzcon 2014 there was the 2 hour opening event featuring OW and a one hour panel on Saturday. Both were huge blank spots; people speculated about a LotV announcement.
Yep. People are literally gonna shit their pants when they see the new patch content, making it convenient that the D3 booth is so close to the bathroom.
Sorry, but we'll have to hit the breaks on this particular hype train. The contests have always been simulcast on the panel stage, so this empty slot doesn't mean anything. They won't put a big new game announcement on the small panel stage when everyone's at the contests - they never had any big thing happening in parallel with the contest.
Also, the seemingly "free space" on the tournaments stages is always there. They don't want to end all tournaments at the same time. It's always been like that, it's empty and there won't be anything following this:
The schedule really doesn't have anything. They'd have to kick out some other game's announced session, and that'd cause riots in those game's community... so not gonna happen.
Their tweet doesnt make sense then, i dont get it.
I forgot about that!
To make that crystal clear: They wouldn't have tweeted that for nothing but a 20 year anniversary. We'll get *something*. We might not get D4 or D3X2, but I personally would love to see some of the player's concerns being addressed in a patch 2.5. Give me... a paragon fix. Some loot hunt that lasts for more than 30 hours. Give me runewords. I dunno, I could envision a bunch of stuff to get me excited. It's not like D3 is a bad game - if it was, we wouldn't be here, but just playing Minesweeper all day or whatever floats your boat.
http://i.imgur.com/z9AI9zh.png (the large gap at the end of the "panel stage" on Friday has always been there, and the panel stage is rather small so you wouldn't announce/discuss a major game release there)
As you can see, there's no large gap (similar to the Overwatch reveal in 2014) that hints at a big release
On the bright side, Diablo's booth isn't as small as last year and not tucked in a corner, but in the middle of the action; however, still by far the smallest of all of Blizzard's game booths.
What I take from that is that D4 and D3X2 are off the table for this year's Blizzcon. To be fair, not too surprising: as the content in patches with _x2 strings already hinted and the Forbes article highlighted a while ago, D3X2 was probably scrapped a long time ago. And D4 hired very basic jobs this year - concept artists, interface designers, game director - so those people probably just started forming the team, and it'll be another year (or two) before Blizzard has stuff that is actually "worthwhile to be displayed to public".
However, I still stand by my prediction that the shortened season S7 hints at an interesting patch 2.5 with a PTR for Diablo just after Blizzcon. If they wouldn't have anything for us, there would be no need for a developer Q&A panel (in addition to the "Diablo history" event on the main stage), because in times of no content the developer panel oftentimes just turns into a Diablo history session. I also wouldn't rule out D2HD entirely, though it's less likely in my book than some interesting 2.5 features.
Besides our main Diablo CM, Kauza was added to the team recently and Tyvalir came back as well. A game that has zero development and is in long-term maintenance doesn't really need 3 full-time CMs in Irvine. I think. I hope. Let's all hope! ;-)
Please read post #14. This "free block" isn't a free block, they never have anything in parallel with the contest, and usually just a simulcast to the panel area. But I went over that on the last page already.
Again, unfortunately not the case. At Blizzcon 2014 there was the 2 hour opening event featuring OW and a one hour panel on Saturday. Both were huge blank spots; people speculated about a LotV announcement.
http://i.imgur.com/EJL309i.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZmiHw9O.jpg
HYPE TRAIN (TEMPORARILY) STOPPED
Sorry, but we'll have to hit the breaks on this particular hype train. The contests have always been simulcast on the panel stage, so this empty slot doesn't mean anything. They won't put a big new game announcement on the small panel stage when everyone's at the contests - they never had any big thing happening in parallel with the contest.
2015 - http://i.imgur.com/dMJZYMk.png
2014 - http://i.imgur.com/xl4UhVF.jpg
2013 - http://i.imgur.com/ZNuH4I0.jpg
Also, the seemingly "free space" on the tournaments stages is always there. They don't want to end all tournaments at the same time. It's always been like that, it's empty and there won't be anything following this:
http://i.imgur.com/zp6tnp5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ktXuDBG.png
The schedule really doesn't have anything. They'd have to kick out some other game's announced session, and that'd cause riots in those game's community... so not gonna happen.
To make that crystal clear: They wouldn't have tweeted that for nothing but a 20 year anniversary. We'll get *something*. We might not get D4 or D3X2, but I personally would love to see some of the player's concerns being addressed in a patch 2.5. Give me... a paragon fix. Some loot hunt that lasts for more than 30 hours. Give me runewords. I dunno, I could envision a bunch of stuff to get me excited. It's not like D3 is a bad game - if it was, we wouldn't be here, but just playing Minesweeper all day or whatever floats your boat.
https://blizzcon.com/en-us/schedule#fri-nov-4
Friday schedule in one large image:
http://i.imgur.com/z9AI9zh.png (the large gap at the end of the "panel stage" on Friday has always been there, and the panel stage is rather small so you wouldn't announce/discuss a major game release there)
Saturday:
http://i.imgur.com/PhPzlUx.png
As you can see, there's no large gap (similar to the Overwatch reveal in 2014) that hints at a big release
On the bright side, Diablo's booth isn't as small as last year and not tucked in a corner, but in the middle of the action; however, still by far the smallest of all of Blizzard's game booths.
https://blizzcon.com/en-us/event-info/attendees/floor-map
What I take from that is that D4 and D3X2 are off the table for this year's Blizzcon. To be fair, not too surprising: as the content in patches with _x2 strings already hinted and the Forbes article highlighted a while ago, D3X2 was probably scrapped a long time ago. And D4 hired very basic jobs this year - concept artists, interface designers, game director - so those people probably just started forming the team, and it'll be another year (or two) before Blizzard has stuff that is actually "worthwhile to be displayed to public".
However, I still stand by my prediction that the shortened season S7 hints at an interesting patch 2.5 with a PTR for Diablo just after Blizzcon. If they wouldn't have anything for us, there would be no need for a developer Q&A panel (in addition to the "Diablo history" event on the main stage), because in times of no content the developer panel oftentimes just turns into a Diablo history session. I also wouldn't rule out D2HD entirely, though it's less likely in my book than some interesting 2.5 features.
Besides our main Diablo CM, Kauza was added to the team recently and Tyvalir came back as well. A game that has zero development and is in long-term maintenance doesn't really need 3 full-time CMs in Irvine. I think. I hope. Let's all hope! ;-)