Personally I think they are making a D3 however I don't expect it to be any were near as good as D2. The company has lost its way ever sense they were bought out by Vivendi. Like said Blizzard is not the same company we all loved back before Vivendi took over.
When they were doing D2 it was for the love of the game. Now all they see is dollar signs, its all they care about. They will take short cuts, make cheese story lines, etc etc all for the all mighty dollar.
While I will give it a shot and it might be fun but I don't expect it to be any where near as good as D2 was.
Personally I think they are making a D3 however I don't expect it to be any were near as good as D2. The company has lost its way ever sense they were bought out by Vivendi. Like said Blizzard is not the same company we all loved back before Vivendi took over.
When they were doing D2 it was for the love of the game. Now all they see is dollar signs, its all they care about. They will take short cuts, make cheese story lines, etc etc all for the all mighty dollar.
While I will give it a shot and it might be fun but I don't expect it to be any where near as good as D2 was.
Your right about the whole taking over thing and Vivendi doing shortcuts for money. However, I am a manager of a telecomm networking contract company, and one of the first rules for investing and gaining money is to use all of your projects/products. This is the fastest way to gain revenue and all companies know this. You are not going to gain the hearts of, lets say starcraft or diablo customers when you release one or two games to them and focusing all of your efforts into Warcraft. Yeah you get a lot of money from Warcraft and say 2 million customers of warcraft, but what about the remaining customers that still play starcraft and diablo.
That is a waste effort to gain money when you focus all your man-power on one product. If they would evenly distribute the efforts on all products, you will have tripled your earned revenue. I fear if they continue to put all efforts into Warcraft, they will lose customers from starcraft and diablo. Losing customers results into lose of company. They know this. Trust me when I say that they will continue the starcraft and diablo franchise.
And for those who don't believe in my crudentials, look up Black Box Telecomm Networking services. I am a site manager in Oregon.
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As what thasador is saying is true..(yes i to believe it to be stupid to concentrate on only one project) i think blizzard knows that it has a stong fan base...how many DIablo Fans played Starcraft..how many warcraft fans play diablo...I think if u have played 1 blizzard game u have atleased played another. I think Blizzard is sucking games dry for all they are worth befor releasing other games. They know that many of there loyal fans have there blizz universe fave but will play any game of the other 2 universes just as well. Why compete with youre self. IF u have the # 1 game out dont go and release a diff one. how many countless times have we heard people on this site say " if d3 gets released im quitting wow" IM sure blizz knows this as well, thats why they are going to wait untill The wow hype dies down(hopefully they dont make yet another exspanision haha)
They will Def return to diablo..Just not untill wow starts to die down...
In those words ...Lets Get DIablo3 released IF any of u people know anyone who plays wow I command u to delete their account!! haha
I see what you are saying my Lord. One company using a single product until it is sucked dry of customers and move on to the other franchise for additional money. This will ensure cost saving but will decimate customer support.
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well i am new here , but i think they should release d3 because i think that wow and the other blizz games r dieing down and even if they weren't dieing dow they should still release it because they would still got lots of money. Personally i don't think even if wow and the other stuff was diening down that they would make that muach more money.
well i am new here , but i think they should release d3 because i think that wow and the other blizz games r dieing down and even if they weren't dieing dow they should still release it because they would still got lots of money. Personally i don't think even if wow and the other stuff was diening down that they would make that muach more money.
WoW is steadily increasing in popularity actually.
Oh i didn't know that wow was rising at all, ya diablo and starcraft sequels demand is going up. well i can't remeber the website, i think it was like gamespy or something, but they said that the release date for D3 was dec 31. the thing is that there were like 3 other sites that said TBA(to be announced). so i am not really sure when it is coming out, but i would that probably in like 1-2 years don't ya think?
that is the standard blizzard entertainment's game relase date. all of there game begin with a Dec 31 projected release date, then it gets shifted forward and back, depending on any number of things such as bugs still needing to be worked out.
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that is the standard blizzard entertainment's game relase date. all of there game begin with a Dec 31 projected release date, then it gets shifted forward and back, depending on any number of things such as bugs still needing to be worked out.
Oh i didn't know that hmmm o well... just trying yo lifet up spirits
our speculation is summer of 08 or near the xmas holiday. more likly near xmas because not only the hype but the mass buying of all items will ensure it is bought.
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it will most likely be around this new year, however they will show it to the world then. then a whole half year at least to ready the demand, and then release it into the public and watch as their so-thought over production of the game be torn off shelves and their entire inventory go drastically low. i think that blizzard will have a hard time distributing this product without people cannibalizing each other for one. fortunately i would emerge victorious, with probably 20 copies of the game which i would probably sell for higher prices here or other places. this gives me more money, and then i can quickly start preparing for hibernation of life as my body and mind focus on making my character godly.
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When they were doing D2 it was for the love of the game. Now all they see is dollar signs, its all they care about. They will take short cuts, make cheese story lines, etc etc all for the all mighty dollar.
While I will give it a shot and it might be fun but I don't expect it to be any where near as good as D2 was.
That is a waste effort to gain money when you focus all your man-power on one product. If they would evenly distribute the efforts on all products, you will have tripled your earned revenue. I fear if they continue to put all efforts into Warcraft, they will lose customers from starcraft and diablo. Losing customers results into lose of company. They know this. Trust me when I say that they will continue the starcraft and diablo franchise.
And for those who don't believe in my crudentials, look up Black Box Telecomm Networking services. I am a site manager in Oregon.
They will Def return to diablo..Just not untill wow starts to die down...
In those words ...Lets Get DIablo3 released IF any of u people know anyone who plays wow I command u to delete their account!! haha
WoW is steadily increasing in popularity actually.
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http://www.diablofans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17929
So u think it is real or not?....
that is the standard blizzard entertainment's game relase date. all of there game begin with a Dec 31 projected release date, then it gets shifted forward and back, depending on any number of things such as bugs still needing to be worked out.
Oh i didn't know that hmmm o well... just trying yo lifet up spirits
Oh, Baron Carloseus lead the way to our victory. If we fail we may rise again stronger. The Slayers will find the way.