I don't know why the moderators here bother posting this crap as "news" if Blizzard themselves have said retailers will know the release dates when we do. Trying to drive traffic, diablofans?
I don't know why the moderators here bother posting this crap as "news" if Blizzard themselves have said retailers will know the release dates when we do. Trying to drive traffic, diablofans?
It's not posted as news. It's posted as news about a rumor. It was pretty big news today a lot of people talking about it. We made sure to provide why it's likely to not be true as well. We figured it's better to keep the fans updated even on rumors and remind everyone why it's not necessarily true. If people want to believe though well the hope is still there.
While they said they will announce around two months before release, which is standard, I would assume anyone interested in Diablo 3 has already pre ordered their desired editions / people have have been prepared for months. They could get away with a short notice.
indeed, like Bunny said, its something "they like/want" to do, its not something they "have" to do.
Just thigns to keep in mind.
They -have- to give a least a month for all the release procedures they have to go through. I'd guess this rumor is false, but I won't totally dismiss it.
that quote was referring to the 2 month they were talking about, which they dont have to do, they also dont -have- to do a month either.
Yeah they are going to do a least month for sure, all their recent games have (only not being the first wow) but they dont have to.
And to be honest, this was a bashiok quote from along time ago. The guy is CM not the distribution manager.
Why is a preorder date on some random italian website front page "news"? Its just speculation. Does our news team really need to be reminded that if it didnt come from blizzard, its just a guess?
Official Blizzard Quote:
Bashiok: Hah. So Amazon.de has the super secret inside scoop of release dates and Amazon.com doesn't? That's rich. Why would we tell any retailer a release date? Let alone a German specific outlet of a single retailer? Retailers will find out the release date the same time you do.
The reply by Wilson sounds like it isn't outside the realm of possibility. My guess is is that Blizz has a more defined range inside the Q2 that they gave us last month. Probably about a month range. And April 17th falls within that month range. If they had no plans what so ever to release it on April 17th, then we probably would of heard about it quicker. And be longer than one sentence.
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I'm not one to believe rumors but this one seems promising. The only suspicous part is that it would almost be a best case scenario right now. We'll find out soon (this word is ruined) I guess.
when it came to release dates they were adamant about debunking it with the 'they don't know either' line. but the fact that they didn't outright debunk it this time does say something
when it came to release dates they were adamant about debunking it with the 'they don't know either' line. but the fact that they didn't outright debunk it this time does say something
This is what I thought after I read that. Why the sudden change from debunking crappy rumors assuringly to using a professional, blank statement that wasn't worth replying.
It's not posted as news. It's posted as news about a rumor. It was pretty big news today a lot of people talking about it. We made sure to provide why it's likely to not be true as well. We figured it's better to keep the fans updated even on rumors and remind everyone why it's not necessarily true. If people want to believe though well the hope is still there.
And to be honest, this was a bashiok quote from along time ago. The guy is CM not the distribution manager.
And we just found it out, at the same time :P. \fuel-to-the-flames
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This is what I thought after I read that. Why the sudden change from debunking crappy rumors assuringly to using a professional, blank statement that wasn't worth replying.