So what if we all went on to the official forums and started posting, "gee wiz, I guess South Korea had nothing to do with the release delay after all". Then Blizzard would see this and go, "Ha, they bought our rouse, now we can release the game without threat of them blaming the South Korea debacle." and announce release.
What do you think?
PS: This is just for a laugh, I never believed all those conspiracy theories.
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Pretty sure Blizz could care less about how the diehard fans feel. They know we are all going to buy it, and play it forever again. Might as well just enjoy the ride and the hype, hopefully they do some sick release date announce event. Like they did with LK for wow.
Or just drop the game in a 19 day timeframe, like wow again.
I think before the Korean incident that blizzard had some concerns with d3. There were things they wanted to change and improve. They decided to work on it as they could and patch in changes after release. This is something they'll probably be doing anyways for 2012-13. Then Korea happened. You get comments from blizzard reps like, "we've been given extra time to work on the game". So, they probably started tinkering with stuff that they had planned on messing with all along. So, it's true that Korea isn't what's currently holding the game up. But, Korea is what caused us to get a release date months later than intended.
They've already screwed with stuff too much and it has to be put back together. Korea getting solved doesn't change that, but it caused it in the first place.
If you objectively look at the behavior and statements of blizzard from Sept 2011 through Jan 2012 you cannot logically believe the tripe that Korea had nothing to do with the delay. But, it doesn't matter now. We're now waiting on them to finish screwing with things like the rune system. At this point Korea is pointless in terms of release date.
If you take the position that, "Blizzard will release the game when it's done" then you are also taking the position that Blizzard won't patch in changes after release. If Blizzard does patch in changes then it immediately invalidates that entire line of reasoning for why the game was delayed. If they only release something when it's finished then there would never be any need for patches outside of weird bug fixes that didn't previously exist.
I think before the Korean incident that blizzard had some concerns with d3. There were things they wanted to change and improve. They decided to work on it as they could and patch in changes after release. This is something they'll probably be doing anyways for 2012-13. Then Korea happened. You get comments from blizzard reps like, "we've been given extra time to work on the game". So, they probably started tinkering with stuff that they had planned on messing with all along. So, it's true that Korea isn't what's currently holding the game up. But, Korea is what caused us to get a release date months later than intended.
They've already screwed with stuff too much and it has to be put back together. Korea getting solved doesn't change that, but it caused it in the first place.
If you objectively look at the behavior and statements of blizzard from Sept 2011 through Jan 2012 you cannot logically believe the tripe that Korea had nothing to do with the delay. But, it doesn't matter now. We're now waiting on them to finish screwing with things like the rune system. At this point Korea is pointless in terms of release date.
If you take the position that, "Blizzard will release the game when it's done" then you are also taking the position that Blizzard won't patch in changes after release. If Blizzard does patch in changes then it immediately invalidates that entire line of reasoning for why the game was delayed. If they only release something when it's finished then there would never be any need for patches outside of weird bug fixes that didn't previously exist.
I think you're right on the money, except for the last paragraph. However since we will never know for sure, I also agree that this topic is dead. South Korea is no longer an issue at all so now all that remains is finishing the game whether it was truely the first "finished" product, or patch 1.1 or whatever that we are getting with release because of SK. It no longer matters, now we just have to wait for the game to be completed.
What we all know and can definately agree on though, is that this game WILL be worth the wait!
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So what if we all went on to the official forums and started posting, "gee wiz, I guess South Korea had nothing to do with the release delay after all". Then Blizzard would see this and go, "Ha, they bought our rouse, now we can release the game without threat of them blaming the South Korea debacle." and announce release.
What do you think?
PS: This is just for a laugh, I never believed all those conspiracy theories.
Or just drop the game in a 19 day timeframe, like wow again.
They've already screwed with stuff too much and it has to be put back together. Korea getting solved doesn't change that, but it caused it in the first place.
If you objectively look at the behavior and statements of blizzard from Sept 2011 through Jan 2012 you cannot logically believe the tripe that Korea had nothing to do with the delay. But, it doesn't matter now. We're now waiting on them to finish screwing with things like the rune system. At this point Korea is pointless in terms of release date.
If you take the position that, "Blizzard will release the game when it's done" then you are also taking the position that Blizzard won't patch in changes after release. If Blizzard does patch in changes then it immediately invalidates that entire line of reasoning for why the game was delayed. If they only release something when it's finished then there would never be any need for patches outside of weird bug fixes that didn't previously exist.
I think you're right on the money, except for the last paragraph. However since we will never know for sure, I also agree that this topic is dead. South Korea is no longer an issue at all so now all that remains is finishing the game whether it was truely the first "finished" product, or patch 1.1 or whatever that we are getting with release because of SK. It no longer matters, now we just have to wait for the game to be completed.
What we all know and can definately agree on though, is that this game WILL be worth the wait!