- If you are wondering, I contacted my XFire liaison around noon. No response as of 3pm.
- Also one of my Blizzard liaisons. Blizzard has not made any press releases concerning a Game Announcement.
Original Story
XFire either accidentally posted there would be a Game Announcement based on the rumors sprung from DiabloFans.com and Blizzplanet, or they know something and oops ... slipped it. Did XFire confirm there will be a game announcement?
As usual, I will communicate with my XFire and Blizzard contacts for a comment to clarify this new rumor. Stay tuned for updates.
At this point, this is still considered a rumor -- keep that in mind. Blizzard has not made any official announcements concerning a a game announcement at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals.
This is what appears at the XFire website:
Thanks, IG_The Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, to be held in Paris on June 28th & 29th is sold out! If you can't attend, Xfire will be on the showfloor, bringing the event straight to your computer!
Get behind the scenes with Xfire during WWI to:
- Follow the opening ceremony and discover what new game will be announced in our chat rooms together with hundreds of other Blizzard fans
- Learn what the pros think of the latest Starcraft 2 developments, including the Zerg race
- Discover the latest version of the 2nd WoW Expansion, Wrath of the Lich King
- Meet the Blizzard devs and ask them your questions
- Get to see exclusive pictures and videos from the event
- Follow the invitational WoW Arena, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft tournaments
Come back here starting June 27th for our first news udpates about the event. In the meantime, you can register for the chat rooms by entering your email address on the right hand side of this page.
Honestly, I think that could be a good sign... because they might actually have a soul and believe lying is wrong =) They probably figure what the point in covering something up that we will find out in a matter of days anyways so they probably just disregarded the message and said "meh they caught us... oh well"
If there was one thing I remember, It was that.
LOL.
1600 results from googling Xfire Blizzard Announcement, it did exactly what it was supposed to do, whether it was to hype up the game or the event, and they would probably only respond to emails/pms if it was an accident (in copying over the Blizzcon, but I think that's been dismissed already)
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:Fop2TtOWymAJ:www.xfire.com/cms/xf_wwi08/+http://www.xfire.com/cms/xf_wwi08/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=au&client=firefox-a
Nice, we should have thought of that earlier. Someone should send that to xfire and be like, so what now, bitch?
Dude, you don't even know how much I wish you're right. :cool:
Or there wont be ...
DIABLO WILL BE A MMO
DIABLOW WILL BE A MMOW
I said it 2 years ago in many "ZOMG WOW WILL NEVER DIE" threads
WoW is now feeling the pain of AoC and soon to be WAR and Star Wars and Fallout 3 / Farcry 2 / Episode 3 (along with Portal 2) {all together as these are single player FPS, but are great enough to cause the casuals to finally flee WoWzor}
Blizzard knows they need a next gen mmo (oh IDK like what they have stated in press releases saying "Each franchise will get a MMO") and just the name Diablo added on to that next gen mmo will completely remove any momentum the previously stated MMOs had
/end
NOW for on topic: Xfire could be among one of the many sites being guided by the invisable hand of the Blizzard Propaganda Machine (Just like MD and Umaro are)
That said
DIABLO WILL BE A MMO
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MMO WILL BE A DIABLO
The only damn reason WoW is losing some subscribers right now is because all the new content thats been added to TBC is for end game rading guilds only. Once Wotlk comes out they will all come crawling back to the game. I remember it being the same way before TBC, all my WoW buddies have taken a break from the game and blah blah blah, then the day TBC came out, everyone in my friends list was filled was online.
Now for all your damned 10 year old crying of Diablo III being an MMO, Blizzard is not stupid. They will make Diablo III and have it be the tradition hack n slash genre everyone has come to love. Diablo would make a great MMO but Blizzard won't go against popular vote against the fans and do a MMO of the Diablo universe before a new traditional Diablo game is done and done.
This also reminds me of all the morons spouting that Starcraft 2 was going to be World of Starcraft.....that turned out well....oh wait! It was a RTS....the genre that the fans wanted the game to be in.
Now please get the hell out of these forums and stop giving Diablo fans a bad name.
Sigh...
That would...
1) make me play diablo 2 again
2) Develop a medicore boner
I suppose its because Diablo is the 1 hero takes on a whole empire kinda thing...
Where as MMOs generally emphasize big parties and what not....
Then again I dont wanna get shunned for raising Guild War comments bahaha...but that was MMO in town and single/party hack and slash...there was no crazy 60 ppl take on a dungeon BS....
Personally I feel Blizzard might include MMO elements in the game...which are obviously online only features....it fits with the "Sin War" theme
IMO who knows and who cares...it's going to be good none the less!!
Lol.
I god off educated guess that it will be announced.. Now yall are talking about how!?