Diablo III Release "still a long way to go"
"I don't know how far out it is, but it's still fairly early in development. I think when people see it, it feels so polished and so finished, but the reality is we have a very small portion of the game done right now," Pardo explained.
He added: "A lot of the way we develop is: We wanna make sure the game is really fun and the visual fidelity we want ... we wanna make sure we have a small area that feels really done so we know what to build. So even though it looks really complete a lot of the content is just not there. We have a long ways to go to build each of the different acts in the game and put in all the quests and all the different monsters. We have a lot of development ahead of us before it will be something ... It will definitely be out after StarCraft II."
It looks like we'll be waiting for Diablo III for awhile yet. Let's just pray that Starcraft II comes out within the next few months.
Thanks gyrextt for spotting this in an interview I'd read but kinda skimmed over.
Come on late 2009!!!
I know what you mean....:(
I keep watching videos and re-reading interviews....hoping for some shred of new info that I might have overlooked.
D3 isn't even out and it is taking over grrrraaahhh
Games are typically announced 2 years before release. Diablo III was announced at the end of the summer. It hasn't even been half a year yet. They didn't announce it early, at all, because we don't know the release date yet, so we have nothing to measure it against. Hold your horses, pre-announcement fans would have (including my self) allegorically killed to hear just to see one of the multiples of screenshots we can see every day
I hope they atleast get the beta out before summer.
Im really starting to think that it won't come out untill 2010
"Now, prepare to be surprised by some of the reasoning behind this “news”. Diablo 3 release date has been a hot topic and we’ve all heard the usual Blizzard rhetoric that Diablo 3 will come out WHEN the game is ready.
First, some background: a guy who played Diablo 2 for years got a DOL rune and experimented with it until it crushed the game. He got an error message … a series of meaningless numbers. Or are they?
64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39.
So why is this significant in ANY way? OK, this is the geek part: 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39 is hex for : Diablo 3 09/09/09. That means that if you translate the hexadecimal code, it gives you Diablo 3’s release date.
Now, the critical part. How likely is that Diablo 2 developers knew in advance when Diablo 3 will be released? NOT LIKELY. At the same time, if I were head of development at Blizzard and I was a bit of a numerology freak… I’d pick EXACTLY this date. Why?
Well, it’s pretty obvious. 09-09-09 represents 666 if you turn it upside down. The number of the beast! (cue the Iron Maiden song here)"
Ok, i admit i have no experience with hexidecimal stuff at all, so i haven't checked if the hex code is actually the same as the release date when translated. Also i think it's quite stupid, why would blizzard do this?
The latest diablo 2 update was quite a while ago, so they had to know the release date of diablo 3 at that time, wich sounds impossible in my ears. And how could messing around with a dol rune give such an error in the first place?
To be honest i'm pretty sure it's all made up, but i'm just checking it and seeing how u guys think about this.
Allow me to assure it for you- it's all made up.
"He blends into the shadows <:-zerocool908-:>"
So if that's the case, they can work on it for another year or so for all I care. =P
Let's hope we have a confirm at blizzcon (or just a hint...)