Let the Diablo 3 Rumors, I mean, Facts begin!
Check out the full write up here
http://www.gamingsteve.com/archives/2006/02/rumor_diablo_ii.php
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| Cyks' Reflection |
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What strikes me the most are the WOW comments, such as, "Blah blah blah, Blizzard will not release D3 because it will compete with WOW."
The fact of the matter is that WOW will experience competition this year no matter what, and Blizzard knows this-- they are not fools. If one thinks that other game developers are not, this very moment, racing to develop a game to tap into this multi-million dollar MMORPG market, you have been playing WOW far too much.
Sure, blizzard has a WOW expansion on its way, but that is nothing more than beating a dead horse. Diablo will be announced by Blizzard this year, but only if they do not want to give up their market share.
So you ask: “Then why are we seeing so many Diablo-related job postings, Blizzard must be behind… right?”
The answer is simple: No, wrong. You do know that all of those job opportunities are for artwork… right? Lets use an analogy to clarify this answer.
Pretend all of us here at diablo3.com want to build a brand new sports car. Should we (A) build the car’s chassis and engine first, then design some flashy artwork that works around the car’s superior design, or should we (B) design the artwork first, and then adapt the car’s engine and chassis around it?
If any of you choose (B), the odds are that you will build a car that cannot perform like a sports car, let alone like any car at all.
The warrior, covered in the blood of foul demons, stumbles back in to Haggorath after slaying Baal. "Has the deed been done?" asked cain. "Yes" replyed the warrior. Cain's eyes seemed to burn inside, then Cain left out a demonic laugh that curtled the warriors blood. "You fool, you have sealed the fate of the world." said Cain. Why cain why, why would you trick us all???
"That is simple my pawn, long long ago thier lived a group of horodric mages. These masters of magic could do anything they wanted, but thier was one who rose in the ranks, who soon became the most powerful being ever to walk the earth, or hell for that matter. The mage was named Decard Cain, yes i was the greatest mage of all time. And knowing this the greed soon got to me, i wanted to control Earth, and after that Hell. The other mages soon came to belive that i had gone crazy and had no intent of doing this, but after i had killed the leader of the mages, they soon came to realize i wasnt joking. Knowing that thier was noway to stop me, they all sacrificed themselfs and banished me to eternal hell. After spending several years in hell learning to to corrupt souls, i had decided i would alter my plans and take hell first. So i sent my thousands of corrupted souls to rush on hells throne to oust Diablo. Needless to say they failed, my attack only angered the 7 great evils. We had fought several times during the sin war, over 1/4th of hells total force was busy fighting me. That was when i hatched a plan, i would go to earth and with my help i would use some one stupid enough to do my bidding. After years of nothing to do in hell i had found a secret way out. My plan was set. I knew i could make up a story about hell trying to take over earth. Diablo, Baal and the rest of the evils would try to follow me and stop me before they lost the upperhand. But with your power augmented by my magics, the evils where no match, and here we are, nothing can stand in my way"
"You forgot about me Cain" replyed the warrior, Cain simply looked at him and with one great blow struck the warrior instantly shattering his spine, Haggorath then burst into flames as Cain walked out the gates, off to conqure Earth then finally Heavan...
http://www.gamespot.com/e3/e3story.html?sid=6150919
recently blizzard has bought several d3 related websites, some linking back to blizzard europe..
http://www.diablo3.es/
http://www.diablo3.com.au/
http://www.diablo3.fr/
whats this?? job openings for the team behind d1 d2 d2lod... wait they didnt work on anyother games... not even warcraft..
http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/desig...-systems.shtml
http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/art-3d-animator.shtml
Around January-Febuary Blizzard purchased 1500 AMD based servers... they said they where planning on doubleing WoW srvers. WoW has 300 servers so if they double thats 600 leaving 900 servers left over... $900,000+ sitting left over..
ok why the heck would you not continue on a game like this???