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.
Edit - Haha forgot, it's even in my sig.
Plus, gives me time to save up for a monster pc; the 'thing' I have now...lol. I'm just not gonna play D3 with lowered graphics settings.
That's why someone with authority had to come and burst your bubble.
Sc2 will get out this Xmas or early 2009 and D3 i hope early 2010. At least this is how i see things
Lol sometimes I daydream hmmm maybe they want to release sc3 in trilogys so they can get the first one out in d3. lol but i guess i still gatta keep dreamin
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Actually thats what its probably gonna be
Why Blizzard, WHY?!
so my guess is early 2010, and maybe in october 2009 they'll release a playable demo for us:); but until there, Blizzard should do updates in D3's webpage more frequently, if not, they probally will face the hate ande insatisfaction of many fans.
That still leaves the door wide open and the question unanswered on a very broad scope.
Will that be after Starcraft II: Episode I, II, or III.
Has this been clarified?
Episode 1, as I understand will be the Terran campaign but will still include online battle.net capabilities which is what Diablo 3 is waiting for, the announcement of bnet 2.0
So anytime after Episode 1 should be viable for D3.
Me and my daughter used to play D2 LOD when she was like 9 years old, and as nerdy as it sounds we have been waiting for D3 ever since. Too bad she may be off to college before it will be released.
If so, there's your answer. It is logical to guess that they don't want to ship a sequel with significantly less playtime in the main single player game. Also, you need to remember that all of this year has been spent on polishing the demo to death, promotional activity, and dealing with some shuffling of personnel (like the Art Director, obviously). That means less focus on later, non-demo content, obviously.
I can only imagine how much work it would be to do destructible environments on dozens of dungeons with random features to an extent that even comes close to what we see in the demo.