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)
"Gamasutra reports that Frank Pearce of Blizzard Entertainment has just confirmed that the company is working hard on another new title... and it's not World of Warcraft or Starcraft II. 40 people are working on Starcraft II and 40 people are working on this secret Team 3 project, so it's definitely another big one. According to Pearce, "Team 3 is working on something really awesome. I can’t give you any hints, but it’s totally awesome.""
I've read it many times, surely before even yourself, what I said remains the exact same.
Where exactly does it say
MMO team
RTS team RPG team?
What it says is that Team 3 has nothing to do with WoW expansions or Starcraft 2.
New franchise or a new Warcraft RTS, both would be "really awesome". Not busting your balls, I've just seen what you said many many times from other users and there's really no truth behind it. Stated as fact but it's indeed pure speculation.
Diablo III (PC)
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Release Date: 04/10/2099
Latest Update: FEATURE added on 04/25/2007 Your right this isnt gonna be released for a long long long long time =O.
Hot Job – Lead 3D Environment Artist
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could blizzard be dropping hints on what its doing??
Diablo III (PC)
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Release Date: 04/10/2099
Latest Update: FEATURE added on 04/25/2007 Your right this isnt gonna be released for a long long long long time =O.
Hot Job – Lead 3D Environment Artist
Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of Diablo and Diablo II, is looking for a lead 3D environment artist skilled at creating models and texture maps for both architectural and natural environments. The ideal candidate has experience modeling and texturing assets for a diverse visual range of environments, check out the job posting. Take a look at the job posting here.
could blizzard be dropping hints on what its doing??
This hint has been posted 50 million times on this forum. I think it has even hit double figures in this thread...
haha i was just checking what people had to say about the beta key and some people are selling their goodie bags on ebay for the starting bid or 150 haha...some people are gonna eb all over that
just throwin this out there.. but they still havent announced what the beta key is
this has led me to believe that an announcement might be made in liepzig or gencon. after all, they are all this month too (i think). if they do make an announcement soon, the beta key would still be relevant. not only this, but remember, the rep said that its for an upcoming game. the rep might have not chosen his/her words carefully, but why wouldnt they say WoW expansion or SC2? they could be keeping it secret between those two, but there is a tiny chance of diablo. and when i say tiny, i mean the size of an atom.
hah and this time your wrong, cos what was said is that the key remains inactive untill the announcement of this beta.
I dont like to destroy all hope, but its wrong to give false info
So it could as well mean that the key is made for starcraft or something, and when this is anounced, the key becomes active, they never said anything about the key being for a new game
I'm pretty sure BC testing was done by fileplanet subscribers, I'd expect the same would happen to WotLK. My money's on the key being SC2.
hah and this time your wrong, cos what was said is that the key remains inactive untill the announcement of this beta.
I dont like to destroy all hope, but its wrong to give false info
So it could as well mean that the key is made for starcraft or something, and when this is anounced, the key becomes active, they never said anything about the key being for a new game
but they never said anything about it not being for new game. they just said upcoming game. never did i give false info. when will they activate the beta? in all your hurry to put me down, you didnt take all this into consideration.
not only this, remember the rumor posted a while ago. about the orchestra that made the diablo 2 music working on possible music for diablo 3. if you tie up all the rumors and thoughts, its a possibility. read my sig though for the overall thought.
well, idk. but i doubt blizzard will announce it at those. unless they purposely want to offend others attending by making everyone only interested in diablo and not the other announcements or whatever.
thatll be the case anyhow, if only 1 blizz employee will be there, the main topic would become diablo 3, now WoW and SC had their convention.
I think blizz will organize a last minute event at the end of this year to announce diablo, like in christmas period.
Then they would have a massive christmas tree in the room, with diablo goodybags underneath it
if that indeed happens we will all be happy. something about diablo being announced near christmas seems either evil, or wrong. evil because its diablo taking away from christmas cheer, wrong because diablo fits into a different holiday. maybe holloween?
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Dude.
Read the VERY FIRST POST!
Nur.
That would at least mean they are at the bug-squashing / polishing stage.
Edit: Post 1200, w00t!
"Gamasutra reports that Frank Pearce of Blizzard Entertainment has just confirmed that the company is working hard on another new title... and it's not World of Warcraft or Starcraft II. 40 people are working on Starcraft II and 40 people are working on this secret Team 3 project, so it's definitely another big one. According to Pearce, "Team 3 is working on something really awesome. I can’t give you any hints, but it’s totally awesome.""
I've read it many times, surely before even yourself, what I said remains the exact same.
Where exactly does it say
MMO team
RTS team
RPG team?
What it says is that Team 3 has nothing to do with WoW expansions or Starcraft 2.
New franchise or a new Warcraft RTS, both would be "really awesome". Not busting your balls, I've just seen what you said many many times from other users and there's really no truth behind it. Stated as fact but it's indeed pure speculation.
and loot what it said about diablo 3
Diablo III (PC)
Publisher: Blizzard Entertainment Release Date: 04/10/2099
Latest Update: FEATURE added on 04/25/2007 Your right this isnt gonna be released for a long long long long time =O.
Hot Job – Lead 3D Environment Artist
Blizzard Entertainment, the developer of Diablo and Diablo II, is looking for a lead 3D environment artist skilled at creating models and texture maps for both architectural and natural environments. The ideal candidate has experience modeling and texturing assets for a diverse visual range of environments, check out the job posting. Take a look at the job posting here.
could blizzard be dropping hints on what its doing??
2099? So soon?
This hint has been posted 50 million times on this forum. I think it has even hit double figures in this thread...
The 0 should be a 1
this has led me to believe that an announcement might be made in liepzig or gencon. after all, they are all this month too (i think). if they do make an announcement soon, the beta key would still be relevant. not only this, but remember, the rep said that its for an upcoming game. the rep might have not chosen his/her words carefully, but why wouldnt they say WoW expansion or SC2? they could be keeping it secret between those two, but there is a tiny chance of diablo. and when i say tiny, i mean the size of an atom.
Oh man, your avatar make me sick...
but they never said anything about it not being for new game. they just said upcoming game. never did i give false info. when will they activate the beta? in all your hurry to put me down, you didnt take all this into consideration.
not only this, remember the rumor posted a while ago. about the orchestra that made the diablo 2 music working on possible music for diablo 3. if you tie up all the rumors and thoughts, its a possibility. read my sig though for the overall thought.
i think that the trend for them is to announce at blizzard events, but there are several events to wait for.
liepzig convention
gencon
E3
but i cant find even one site that says whether or not blizzard will be at these events or not. so far its speculation.
if that indeed happens we will all be happy. something about diablo being announced near christmas seems either evil, or wrong. evil because its diablo taking away from christmas cheer, wrong because diablo fits into a different holiday. maybe holloween?