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Ok, this rumor is confirmed to be fake:

A representative for Blizzard responded to IGN's request for comment, saying, contrary to today's earlier Kotaku report, that the company "didn't pull any announcements from BlizzCon this year or have plans for other announcements."


Kotaku's Jason Schreier, who broke the original story, has subsequently said that while a Diablo 4 tease featuring Blizzard co-founder Allen Adham does exist, his original report that it was going to drop at this year's BlizzCon may have been off.

Is it though? I wouldn't call the rumor "fake", just not getting everything 100% right in an attempt to shed some light into the darkness that is Blizzard's PR machinery. Let's look at Blizzard's exact statement in response to the Kotaku article:

"First off we want to mention that we definitely hear our community. We generally don’t comment on rumors or speculation, but we can say that we didn’t pull any announcements from BlizzCon this year or have plans for other announcements. We do continue to have different teams working on multiple unannounced Diablo projects, and we look forward to announcing when the time is right."

"We didn't pull any announcements" is correct if it was never meant for Blizzcon. Also, what does the second part of that sentence mean ([no] "plans for other announcements" - in the last sentence they confirm that they *are* planning on announcing something regarding their multiple unannounced Diablo projects. They do not directly deny that the video was being made. They do not deny any development of Diablo 4. But their cop-out statement also gives them a carte blanche to do whatever they want.

"[W]e definitely hear our community." That's interesting, since when? At Blizzcon? Will there be action based on what you have heard? When? And since when did you hear the community? Because you clearly did not hear the community over the past half year, which unanimously stated (on your own forums!) that we don't want a cheap mobile game or a quick fix to D3 - we want to us to *show* that you care about the Diablo franchise. Selling out the franchise to a Chinese P2W mobile app developer is the opposite of that.

Also, the "multiple unannounced Diablo projects" could be a D2 Remastered (which is definitely in the works, as they officially confirmed that they want to remake all classic games), some D3 low-effort changes like quadruple bounties and goblins or just switching up some numbers to change the meta (Nevalistis: "we're not done with D3 yet"), and some Diablo videos (as they really focus on lots of videos for all the other franchises, and apparently HotS, HS, OW fans are loving it). Also, we haven't even talked about non-gaming stuff (comics, books, the Netflix show, a board game, a movie, ...)

All of this sounds terrible and absolutely ridiculous and cheap and not what we want. But then, as someone who expected *nothing* at Blizzcon, didn't buy a virtual ticket, and focused fully on SC2 while trying to ignore Diablo - even as someone who really expected absolutely nothing I was still super super disappointed, as if they drove a dagger into my guts. Yeah, at this current point we have to assume the worst and I'm absolutely done with "in dubio pro reo" for Blizzard. "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." Well, we've been fooled with Diablo way more than just once or twice, so at this point, unless they show tangible evidence that they *hear* us, I'm done believing any of their "we have multiple projects in the works" "it's the best time to be a Diablo fan" (yeah this last weekend was the worst time in 22 years to be a Diablo fan).

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Edit: Got the info from Reddit. Tracker is complete for S15 now.

S15 looks good on the edit screen, but it's still showing S13 on the "share progress" screen.

Sorry, just saw this now. As mentioned in another thread, for some reason the thread notification stopped working and I didn't see new messages in here.

Anyways... it's a lot of work to keep the sharing feature functional each season, and I'll see if I cancel it or what I'm doing in the future, if I find time to update it. Obviously this weekend shifted my priorities as it seems like Diablo is taking a strange turn. The share feature was unfortunately only ever used by a handful of people anyways.

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My build disappeared after i edited it. Can you possibly restore it?

Here is the link;

https://www.diablofans.com/builds/100668-witch-doctor-support-build-for-gr-speed-runs

Edit: I created the build again by using Google Web Cache. Let me know if you restore the deleted one by responding here

I'm so sorry for the super late reply. Restored it. I have this thread on subscription, i.e., should get an email notification, but for some reason I never got it So I never saw your post until now. Anyways. let me know if you want me to delete it since probably it's too late now.

Also @Pindles build restored as well.

Unfortunately everything he says is true. But also, unfortunately, in Silicon Valley the marketing people have taken over again. This includes, and maybe even started with, ironically, Apple. Especially since he talks about XEROX it really hurts. To anyone interested in the history of computing and so on - Apple never invented anything. NOT A THING. XEROX PARC has been the true invention force in Silicon Valley since the 70s; it was just people like Steve Jobs who were 100% marketing-oriented sharks who took their ideas and turned them into products.

So what does that mean? The video is supposed to fool you into thinking "it's a great product" and you as consumer are in control. When in reality, it's just good marketing, and despite a shit product people are still going to buy it. That's for example exactly the case with the iPad. No one needs it. It serves absolutely no purpose, there is literally zero product design going into it (it's all just technical advancements that made XEROX's visions, like Mark Weiser's UbiComp scenario possible). And then with proper marketing people think they need it, and buy more Apple devices.

Blizzard has been doing the same thing. Just look at this Blizzcon in its entirety. There is ZERO development going on. It's video shorts for many franchises (Hearthstone, Overwatch, WoW) that they sold as new content and big stories on the opening stage. It's some quickly developed random add-ons that just follow a template of the previous ~30ish add-ons for their existing products (new heroes in HotS, new cards in HS, new hero in OW, new co-op commander in SC2). They even sell a simple "remake" as a new product for a fully fledged price (WC:R). There is absolutely no creative, innovative work visible to me; it's all just "use this template to add a new skin and sell another DLC".

That's just the industry these days. What's sad is that Blizzard is following it. They used to be different. But now they're like Steve Jobs... fooling you into buy mediocre, overpriced products that you don't need. Gutted.

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Does anyone even give a shit about these forums anymore?

It honestly feels like 90% bot posts and advertisements most of the time.

What happens is that there's a ton of "legit looking posts" by sleeper bots, and a few days or weeks or sometimes even a month later they're "activated" and edit their posts to have ads in them. Occasionally I try to go through the post history to recognize those but it's a tedious task.

I will not deny though that there's too much spam and it's oftentimes not handled fast enough. But we're short on staff since for quite a while there were no new promising mod applications - again, a symptom of a dwindling community. And what happened today doesn't help...

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Guardian is Zoltun Kulle 10 sec

Thanks! Can you also share the Champion and Destroyer bosses? Then we're done

Edit: Got the info from Reddit. Tracker is complete for S15 now.

Thanks a lot RealGsuss and Prisnagka! Updated now.

Yeah, I updated the data for S15 a few days ago already - but I don't swap the Journey Tracker before the season has ended, since there's always some people who do it last minute. Now that season has ended, I've switched to the S15 view. As usual we won't know the boss names except for the ones you pointed out. Apparently the data is too difficult to access for Nevalistis, so we'll have to fill in the blanks ourselves. I definitely will miss the season start, just not sure by how much - maybe I'll be just 5 hours late, maybe a few weeks. Last season it took me 8 hours solo (after a power level) to finish Guardian, so maybe I can complete all the info by Saturday evening. We'll see. If anyone is faster post it here and I'll update the tracker.

Have fun everyone in S15!

Hm. Strange. Can't tell what might have caused this, I'll forward this to the admins.

Edit - apparently your best chance is to submit a support ticket to have someone look into it:

https://curseweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

I can see a user account with that name, looks fine, and you should be able to log in from what I can see. That's all I can see at least... as I said, for more details an admin would have to take a look into it. What error message do you get when you're trying to log in? Maybe just try to reset password?

What is the name of your old account?

I'll tag OSW_Zenkiki so he sees this and can maybe elevate this. The entire switch to Twitch accounts was on the developers side and as a mod there's nothing I can do myself, not sure anyone else can. I thought accounts were automatically merged/transformed or so.

Hm interesting idea, haven't considered that. Didn't make sense so far yet since it would just be "-" for 13 seasons and only one entry. Yeah, maybe I'll add it for the next season!

I think they're working on 3 things:

1) D2 Remastered (this was now basically 100% confirmed I believe in a combination of recent articles and job postings and so on). But if they learned any lesson from SC:R they should know this is not gonna be anything else but calming down the D2 nostalgians.

2) D3 new class and some new features (like that boss chamber that was promised at Blizzcon 2 years ago, some new items, maybe some new events to give us more interesting "themed seasons"). Basically, similar to the necro pack. Why? Because I think even if they work on an entirely new game, D3 is still too fresh to let it completely run out, especially with the recent presentation of themed seasons. I also don't think any new Diablo game would be ready for release right away (unless Blizzard now jumps into Steam-style official "early access" BS) and it'll also be a different genre (like Diablo Battle Royal or Diablo Racing or Diablo Theme Park or Diablo Go or whatever).

3) A new Diablo game, which is not Diablo 4 - neither by name nor by spirit. Worst case they'll just try to put it into an existing genre (like MMO or Battle Royal or so), maybe they revive an old genre (like Adventure or Sandbox - I'd love an RPG-heavy Diablo-esque version of Raft, or Terraria, or Rust, or stuff like that - wishful thinking), and best case they try to define a new genre (back to the roots of Blizzard).

The hype they caused with the video and the disappointment after previous years of toilet-sized Diablo stands would make a presentation of "only" #1+#2 turn this into a big meme of overhyping and underdelivering a franchise, so my hope is that they preview #3 and people get excited enough to waste their time until that is available by coming back to #1+#2.

Apologies - there's currently an issue, we're working on it. See this thread:

https://www.diablofans.com/forums/diablo-iii-general-forums/diablo-iii-general-discussion/234126-build-creator-section-of-the-website-is-broken