There was a blog post on the 3 powers already - it's a good idea, but needs better implementation than their alpha version of it.
Very nice art in this blog!
There was a blog post on the 3 powers already - it's a good idea, but needs better implementation than their alpha version of it.
Very nice art in this blog!
Legendary items are still the top tier from what I read since they STILL offer more properties than rares. In the true endgame, say after 2k hours, you won't have upgraded rare items on you. Upgraded rares would be just the step to perfect legendaries.
Magic -> Rare -> Upgraded rare/set/legendary -> Legendary with perfect rolls/mythics
If D4 is to come 2021 they will show a playable demo at Blizzcon. But I personally doubt it that is the case since their official statement after the fiasco last year was that they did NOT had any plans for D4 reveal at Blizzcon 2018.
Yep, I expect D4 announcement with cinematic and gameplay video.
If I have to predict a release year, I go with 2022 in case D4 has open world, and 2021 if it is classical aRPG like D2 and D3.
We could easily get a D4 announcement at Blizzcon 2019 and it could easily turn out to be an FPS game.
Don't get hyped up until we see a D4 gameplay on PC!
If D4 is indeed already 4 years in development and has changed drastically during this time, this means even worse news - its developers are same level clowns as those of D3.
Meanwhile the new PoE patch notes word count is over 9000 - literally. Not a joke! Precisely 10304 words. It even goes above the paragon cap in D3!
Server slams in 2018. Feels BETA man!
D2: HD mod in 2019.
D3: Maintenance mode, more of the same we already have, power creep.
D4: Possible announcement in 2020. If it is not a top-down view it is a no buy for me and the logic is it won't be. It will look flashy and colorful in a 3d perspective allowing people to spend tons of cash on it for cosmetic items.
aRPG/MMO in another universe: I'd love to see a post-apocalyptic (Fallout-like) setting done by a top studio like Blizzard. I think such setting gives a lot more freedom to its designers and would kind of change our focus from the typical things present in Diablo.
Summary: Whatever comes next, it will be oriented with the idea to make money. It won't be done just for the sake of experimenting with something new, it will be well calculated money machine. That said I don't expect miracles. For such to happen passion and freedom are needed. And money does not have to be your main goal. It has to be the art and the gamers. Kind of unrealistic things for the big studios. But at least one can enjoy the AAA cinematics from them. They seem to sell the products well.
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I believe we will see something next year!
Next year is D2 HD. If they are making D4 or an aRPG in another universe it is 99% not a top-down view like D2/D3 and we might expect the reveal of that not earlier than 2019.
Hi, Chris! Thank you for the giveaway!
#wegottrolled
News about D3 upcoming system changes and new gameplay content in the form of 2nd expansion pack.
Also, thanks to DF for the ticket giveaway and future coverage!
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"I must say Nevalistis seemed very excited and pleased that she could make such a welcome announcement to the Diablo fans after the many months of total silence."
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Where did I quoted YOU, LTR? My response is to Excalibur. Learn to read, dude.
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No one makes such a precise prediction including 3 EXACT things - "one of the BlizzCon things is a mobile Diablo game made by Blizzard’s 3rd party team in China". No one. Trust me, I have a poker/statistics background - this is NOT a guess/prediction 99,99999% of the time. This is a leak for sure.
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@Bagstone: Well, it's nothing ever certain with such statements, but if we decide to trust them here (and I think we should about that particular statement), I understand the following part this way (see below): "we didn’t pull any announcements from BlizzCon this year or have plans for other announcements".
We know Blizzcon have ended when they wrote this, so the first part is pretty clear: They announced what was planned to be announced. If they work on X projects and they planned to announce one of them aka DI, this is what they've done.
Now "or have plans for other announcements" could be kind of a tautology. Or they mean "we won't say we work on D4, stop insisting"? Or (what is most probable from the way of the writing) they mean they haven't planned to announce something AFTER Blizzcon.
Btw, something which proves they did not have any plans to announce D4 are the messages with a leaked info to Rhykker's twitter. Kudos to jimmy696 for the find! This also reveals D4 will have an open world, which is cool if you ask me, new Torchlight (also Mythos back in the days) has this too for example and it feels like a QoL when searching for groups and friends.
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It is confirmed now (there were no plans to announce D4 at Blizzcon 2018), Abob, the more you defend the CM, the bigger idiot you will look like. She very well knew D4 won't be announced this year and nevertheless made the "You have no idea" comment.
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Ok, this rumor is confirmed to be fake:
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"Diablo 4 has changed drastically over the past four years"
This clearly signals their main driving force is the way of monetizing the game and it changed during development.
Btw, maybe this could have played a role.
What if they designed the game around loot boxes and this September they gave up this monetizing strategy since when D4 releases it could very well be banned? But why not show a gameplay trailer at least?
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PoE just announced private leagues, which can be modified by the players as they wish.
Maybe we see something like this as Diablo 3 Theme some day? Even only for mobile?1
The REKT response came after all people expected a Diablo expansion due to the Necro wallpaper released a few days before Blizzcon and we got a DLC. Sure, those three people she quoted predicted nothing for Diablo this year, but then REKT is not a proper response since we did not get THAT much to say REKT. Her wording was clearly towards the whole community and in that case it totally made sense - we got rekt for not getting that expansion.
About her reply to Windigo: There are no interpretations here - the CM knew what projects are to be announced and her wording can't be viewed by different angels. You are simply clueless if you defend her here. My bump in that thread got 50+ likes for a few minutes, because the other people are not blind like you are, Abob.
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Community manager Brandy Camel aka Nevalistis knew what is coming back in August and enjoyed it - she wrote it herself here:
Also, this is the same CM that wrote "REKT" to the Diablo fans after Blizzcon 2016.
I am only stating the facts in this thread - kind of a way to know her better.
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Remember guys, a mobile game is the perfect way to test the water for the proper monetisation of D4 - a chineese shared at reddit what could happen. This is the main objective now - in what way to extract the maximum from D4 - this mobile game will GREATLY help them in understanding that.
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Btw all the censorship with deleting stuff etc shows they can't handle criticism well at all.
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That means they cannibalize D4/D5 with such move since if D3 is open to modders it will be played for 20 years more at minimum since its engine is exceptional and the modders know what they are doing, they are not clueless developers. It's better for them to let D3 rip than opening it to modders. This means more money from next Diablo projects, which will be heavily build around microtransactions and loot boxes.
All this is of course a product of the world we are living in atm - greedy society interested only in accumulating wealth and ready to sacrifice its children in order to gain more from its future ones. Each person equals a money value in such society and is replaced by another when needed. People are after short-term rewards missing the big picture and this reflects in every aspect of our lives - games and entertainment is just one minor example. Until the people don't change their viewpoint and start doing things for the idea, not for the reward, we are going to have more of this stinking stuff. And the worse thing is, most of the people can not change their viewpoint - they are like machines programmed for certain operations and that is it. Sad story.
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We do know now. Also, we know the state of their marketing team. And we expanded our list of trolls working there.
The sum-up:
- D2 HD probably will come after they are done with WC3 HD, this means 2020.
- D3 is RIP.
- D4 may be in an early development stage, this means 2022 release earliest. However, I don't have high hopes for it and I don't expect a top-down view game, so Diablo is in a big lull (not a mistype, word means pause) for me.
What is left for us, as aRPG fans now? You can play PoE if you find it fun. They will support it for a few years more for sure until they build a new engine and make PoE 2 (potential 2027 release). Another option is Torchlight Frontiers that is coming 2019. We have to see around what endgame they develop the game. The engine is worse than D3, but their game mechanics seems fun from what I saw. Wolcen might be fun too, I don't follow it, I might start doing it. Besides these three we can expect some surprises for sure. You never know. Building games is a lot easier nowadays compared to 1998 and yet there still appear tons of crap worse than D1/D2. The bad thing now is, the crap started carrying the name Diablo too.