A rep from Blizzard just sent me notice that there would be no more announcements at BlizzCon tomorrow (Saturday), so for those of you (ie: all of you) who were hoping that this would be the day that Diablo 3 was finally confirmed, I'm sorry to inform you that you'll have to continue to wait. We all know that it's eventually coming, but the waiting for the official confirmation of the third game along with some idea of what it will be like is a really hard thing to wait for. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I figured it would be best to tell you about this now rather than have you guys waiting around all day Saturday hoping that we'd hear more about Diablo 3. Thanks for sticking with us though... Blizzard is listening to us and sooner or later (ok, later) Diablo 3 will become a reality.
In other Blizzard-related news, the rep just sent me word that our own Umaro participated in the first-ever Starcraft II tournament with Loc Teinh (from w3roc.com) on his team and won in the first round, but they were unfortunately defeated in round 2 by TeamLiquid. The overall winner of the tournament was TeamLiquid who were then given the opportunity to play Karune and Stephen Chang from the eSports team. TeamLiquid wasn't able to defeat them though. Unfortunately there's no replay video footage from this tournament, but maybe that will change later on.
More news as it becomes available.
Sad Diablo indeed. (thanks to Zabadak for sharing this image with us)
I forgot which thread I posted this in, but considering the absolutely outrageous (and encouraging) activity on all D3/Blizzcon threads, I'll sort of repost this idea.
The E for All Expo is coming up in October which also happens to be the month that Richard A. Knaak's third book in the Sin War trilogy ships to stores.
Blizzard, knowing that their new Diablo franchise will be based on Knaak's storyline, probably wants their fans to have a full sense of what the tale of the Sin War actually involves (completely, not two books, not half-assed, the whole thing ya know, kind of like how everyone knows Arthas is the Lich King in WoW, they know the lore before the game ever came out).
Is it ridiculous to think that they might get a trailer and an announcement out then, when the fans have had the full opportunity to explore the lore and storyline of a potential new game?
I don't know about you - but I'm dilligently reading the Diablo book series in hopes of this type of announcement. Not to mention it really keeps you apprised on the whole backstory of Sanctuary (and I'll fight a WoW junkie to the death on the depth of lore between Warcraft and Diablo) and allows you to properly analyze any and all new plot variations intelligently.
I highly doubt the book would have anything to do with Diablo announcement just because I can safely assume the majority of Diablo fans never even touched the books.
Wouldn't make sense to promote Diablo through a book that the fan base doesn't read.
They don't know yet. I believe one person said that the URL on the back was not active yet. So yes, perhaps their is some hope still yet. Anyone else know the actual URL btw? I mean how long would Blizzard be willing to go distributing beta keys without announcing its title? Gencon is coming the 16-19th, another possibility. Who knows, I'm tired of trying to think of false hope...
You can make out some of the D1 cinematics on the 'tron there too.
Wow, I think the Diablo1 music is some of the most well orchestrated video game music out there. I think D2 has its moments, but nothing near as atmospheric as the D1 stuff.
So now that Diablo wasn't mentioned at Blizzcon, I think medeivaldragon should come back on here and reveal the codename given to the third unannounced project.
he said he want to spend time with WoW...for now...i can just see it now, after 2 more years with WoW, they will stop updating that and work on diablo 3...and than all the WoW fanatics will be in the same place we are at....waiting 6+ years for some WoW when diablo 3 gets all the attention for awhile
congrats!! youve just made it into my permanent shit-list.
wtf is wrong with you? why are you bashing on jews or WoW? its a game, and millions of people play it. maybe you dont like it but why should that mean no one else should? your a bigot and among the biggest retards on this forum. WoW made blizzard alot of money, but thats because millions of people are willing to pay the money to do so. and the reason they make more expansions are to give paying customers what they want.
atm they arent focusing on diablo, but when they do it will be amazing. i mean, just think of how focused they are on warcraft. imagine that energy on diablo.
so to conclude, go hang yourself you fag. the explanation wasnt for you, it was for everyone else.
well this is from the WoW forums " I asked someone at the information booth about this and they said it's not working because the beta isin't live yet. Try again when they announce what game it is and when it goes live."
^ thats in regerds to the beta key not working
castaway(perhaps wrong spelling)has about 10
so blizzard north still has enough human resource just without some ceo ect..
i just think Frank said that the game team 3 is working for is awsome
how can a 2-4years from announcement game to be awsome ??
The E for All Expo is coming up in October which also happens to be the month that Richard A. Knaak's third book in the Sin War trilogy ships to stores.
Blizzard, knowing that their new Diablo franchise will be based on Knaak's storyline, probably wants their fans to have a full sense of what the tale of the Sin War actually involves (completely, not two books, not half-assed, the whole thing ya know, kind of like how everyone knows Arthas is the Lich King in WoW, they know the lore before the game ever came out).
Is it ridiculous to think that they might get a trailer and an announcement out then, when the fans have had the full opportunity to explore the lore and storyline of a potential new game?
I don't know about you - but I'm dilligently reading the Diablo book series in hopes of this type of announcement. Not to mention it really keeps you apprised on the whole backstory of Sanctuary (and I'll fight a WoW junkie to the death on the depth of lore between Warcraft and Diablo) and allows you to properly analyze any and all new plot variations intelligently.
Keep hope alive Diablo fans!
Wouldn't make sense to promote Diablo through a book that the fan base doesn't read.
They don't know yet. I believe one person said that the URL on the back was not active yet. So yes, perhaps their is some hope still yet. Anyone else know the actual URL btw? I mean how long would Blizzard be willing to go distributing beta keys without announcing its title? Gencon is coming the 16-19th, another possibility. Who knows, I'm tired of trying to think of false hope...
You can make out some of the D1 cinematics on the 'tron there too.
Wow, I think the Diablo1 music is some of the most well orchestrated video game music out there. I think D2 has its moments, but nothing near as atmospheric as the D1 stuff.
LMAO
1. World of GAYcraft
2. World of WHOREcraft
3. World of BOREcraft
4. World of GREEDcraft
5. World of_________?
Whos got a number 5 for me?
I got one. How bout world of JewCraft.
Because they greedy the blizzcon.
congrats!! youve just made it into my permanent shit-list.
wtf is wrong with you? why are you bashing on jews or WoW? its a game, and millions of people play it. maybe you dont like it but why should that mean no one else should? your a bigot and among the biggest retards on this forum. WoW made blizzard alot of money, but thats because millions of people are willing to pay the money to do so. and the reason they make more expansions are to give paying customers what they want.
atm they arent focusing on diablo, but when they do it will be amazing. i mean, just think of how focused they are on warcraft. imagine that energy on diablo.
so to conclude, go hang yourself you fag. the explanation wasnt for you, it was for everyone else.
^ thats in regerds to the beta key not working
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=ABEEBBDBEBF167E213E0632DCBD31DFE?topicId=711966521&sid=1