- 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.
its a faic lol. yew dun see it?
:3 =D =3. Also, me and broccoli don't talk anymore. Not after the thanksgiving incident. >=C
We have faces for those, you know: :cute::D
I <3 emoticons
Aw, how sad... broccoli is delicious.
im on an iPaq so the little sidebar with all the ecomotions are disabled =C oh well. So i have to memorize the img code for it
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Yes that would be awsome but i wont get to see it couse i dont play expansion
CLASSIC FTW!!!
Amen.
Preach it!
Ew gross... Okay then, I feel your pain
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Ohh great idea.
-It shows Tyreal Destroying the worldstone and then it stops, and turns to cain and some random npc's around a fire at night.
Cain: and that's when he destroyed the worldstone, and Terror was finally destroyed.
Random kid: and what happend next!
Cain: well that easy* zoom in on eyes* Daiblo..Returned.
- That could also be a good trailer for WWI -
That would be awesome. i can just imagine something like this.
-Tyreal destroying the world stone, and then it turns to cain* much older * At a campfire, with random people around him.
cain: and that's when he destroyed the worldstone, and terror was destroyed.
Kid: what happend next?
Cain: that easy* close up of eye's * Diablo...Returned.
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i can strangly also see something like this for a diablo 3 announcment at WWI , kinda like starcraft 2 with the marine.
that just gave me a chill, you should work for blizz
but there is no way they would be able to add a cinematic. the cinematics are read off the disks, or you have to install them. i like the idea someone said about the standard of heros being used as a new cube recipe. it would awesome if it opened a portal to a room with giant letters saying something about the upcoming wwi.
Haha, I've been lurking on this site for a few months now, but i simply HAD to register once you mentioned d2 classic. I absolutely LOVE IT! When the ladder resets, you'll find me on USWest (unless they decide to add an Australasian gateway for us Aussies!)
Bring on D3!!!:offtopic:
ya ya that was me........lol. (getting full of myself)
well if they wouldnt be able to put a cinematic in. then could they even make the screen go black and have letters saying diablo 3 announcement soon?
oh.......i got it. letters on the screen will come up saying diablo III announced at wwi. lol im pychic.
Sorry. Diablo 3 will never pass 10 million people logged on at once. I believe as of 2004, the max Battlenet had as a WHOLE was 12 million players. The Diablo franchise and battlenet will be popular, but believing that it is going to beat the juggernaut MMO of online gaming is silly.
Edit: For clarification, the key word here is AT ONCE. Certainly millions will log on, but the majority will probably play very casually before moving on. It will be a big multiplayer game for a while, but expecting it to topple top name MMOs is a bit optimistic. Certainly Diablo 3 could sell that many copies, but how many of those will transition to online accounts? Even half is generous number.
Diablo 3 will most likely not require a subscription and can be played casually. While I am sure that a player will be able to invest hundreds of hours playing the content over and over, if the game follows in the tradition of its predeccesors, it will be able to be completely beaten in 10-20 hours. You have to remember that not everyone is a hardcore gamer. Most who log on WoW are casual gamers.
Aside from that, many WoW players are not even Diablo 3 fans. Blizzard has done a great thing with WoW by bringing literally MILLIONS of new people who have never gamed before into the market with that game.
We'll see, but following the precedent the franchise has set, this is unlikely. As many other Diablo fans have pointed out, another fantasy (m rated, no less) MMO would not capitalize on profit for Blizzard, so it is unlikely.
I am glad we agree.
I believe, that with the release of all the recent Warcraft titles that the Warcraft fanbase, is in all probability, bigger than the Diablo fanbase.
I actually own AoC, so don't spoonfeed me that load of garbage. The game will run fine on most desktops made within that past two years (that don't have a PoS factory graphics card.) And it did not have 1 million subscribers. It SHIPPED 1 million copies. They would be lucky to sell half of that. Furthermore, within the first 3 weeks it has lost 30% of its fanbase.
Yea. Have you seen the vidoes/screenshots? The game looks as outdated as WoW. People coming back from playing open beta specials are saying the graphics look "about as good as WoW." Due to this, as long as WoW can keep coming up with bright ideas (and blizzard is more than capable of that) then the age of WoW will not factor into the competition with WAR.
This has been my point, or did you never catch on to that? Blizzard only has to fear competition from other MMOs. Age of Conan and WAR look like failures, which is sad because I followed both for quite some time. Bioware looks like the next up to bat.
If Diablo 3 is not an MMO, then the majority of players will buy it without cancelling their WoW subscriptions (except the fanbois) because simply put - Diablo 3 can be played casually, WoW costs money and usually can not.
Battle.net's total worldwide subs on at the same time hover at 150,000... if you are counting bnets total boxsales, then if you compare that to wow, then wow has about 15-20 milliobn box sales - wows subs are active users, not total boxsales
hope i ddint confuse anyone lol, but yeah, diablo won't ever surpass wow, but it could surpass on boxsales =p because some people play single player only
my post was too confusing, i touched on too many different areas lol but yeah i agree, d3 wont ever have 10 million active online players.. now if there si a diablo mmo, that won't be on bnet, and that Could have 10 million subs
rofl that gem is so awesome - i really hope they patch today, it seems like they are