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didn't, whoever does the Deckard Cain voicacting, say that he was done with his performance?
Wouldn't that state that the storyline is pretty much done from start to end? Now what could be left is the creation of the world and chars but is it realistic to assume that it is 2 years? I doubt that, since Blizzard wanted to announce games closer to their release unlike they did before.
So in this case it should hit the shelfs sometime around 1-2 Q in 2009 to keep the hype up. If the release is really 2010 then they shouldn't have announced it already, cuz that would just piss alot of people off on the information politic side. A release that far away would result in having 1 major news post each month - that would be more than sad.
I suspect that the game will be released around xmas of 2014 cause Starcraft 2 was supposed to be out the middle of last year and its still not here and its coming in 3 parts.
It is along way off but D2/LOD was and is the best game ever so expect this to be even better and since all other games take a back seat to these we have no choice.
Just hope no more new Witch Doctors show up I like to think that a Ranger is next.....
Just waiting for the next charactor is bad enough:O
Id kill for Summer 2010!!!!!!!!! Im wondering when this year sc2 will be released lol
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I suspect that the game will be released around xmas of 2014
That's a better guess than the folks dreaming of 2010 (and with an assumed target of 30 hours of gameplay plus Blizz-level balancing, a competing release of SC2.1 and 2.2, that is just a dream), but if they can't hit 2012, cancellation becomes more likely. The engine will just be too old at that point.
This wouldn't be such a bad thing for Blizzard's bottom line - WoW will probably have better margins than ever at that point, easily still making 600-700 mil sub revenue a year on a development budget which will probably have dropped to well under 100 mil annually by then (if not much less than that).
That's a better guess than the folks dreaming of 2010 (and with an assumed target of 30 hours of gameplay plus Blizz-level balancing, a competing release of SC2.1 and 2.2, that is just a dream), but if they can't hit 2012, cancellation becomes more likely. The engine will just be too old at that point.
This wouldn't be such a bad thing for Blizzard's bottom line - WoW will probably have better margins than ever at that point, easily still making 600-700 mil sub revenue a year on a development budget which will probably have dropped to well under 100 mil annually by then (if not much less than that).
Your ignorance is not better than anyone else in this topic.
2014 is a stoopid guess imo. There is no way it will take that long.
I expect SC2 to be out end of this year and Diablo 3 by end of next year. if not next year then end of 2011 MAX.
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The game has been in development for 3 years (more if we consider the art dated from 2003, and more again if we took the version bnorth began working on).
And now, blizz is telling us the game is still in early stage.
Jay "WoW" Wilson, who obviously never played d2/lod on bn more than 2 weeks and is only interested in pvm (pve), is still saying they are unsure about how they will implement some gameplay mechanims...
The game engine is nearly outdated already (not that I care, I have been playing d2c/lod for nearly 8 years) but if they keep on taking their sweet time, the game's graphic engine will be quite out of place (2010?).
I just don't get it
If you have or have not noticed, Blizzard has found a "backdoor" or "loophole" to get around the majority's opinion on their games graphics. Take WoW for instance, everything is cartoony, has cell shading, very few polygons etc) we all know by now(the game is 5 years old). Anyways, when blizzard creates their games, each game has its own unique style in graphics. They know that they cant compete with the other game that have cutting edge graphics, its obvious they put more time into the gameplay aspects of the game than visual effects; so they create their own style to keep the game from aging, and clearly its worked so far... everygame they have created is visually different from almost every other game. Blizz hasnt created any content that is visually groundbreaking; only mechanically. This example clearly shows that this process exists throughout all their games as they are still very popular... This is why it makes sense that it takes forever for them to produce games that are always addicting, some way or another groundbreaking with new concepts. They'd rather put more time into the user experience which is obviously more based off of game mechanics and concepts and not visual communication.
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I suspect that the game will be released around xmas of 2014 cause Starcraft 2 was supposed to be out the middle of last year and its still not here and its coming in 3 parts.
It is along way off but D2/LOD was and is the best game ever so expect this to be even better and since all other games take a back seat to these we have no choice.
Just hope no more new Witch Doctors show up I like to think that a Ranger is next.....
Just waiting for the next charactor is bad enough:O
OOOOO ya best game ever. Best char in the game Melee Met sorce
It won't be released in 2009, and it won't be released in 2010 either. Earlier in the year, Mike Morhaime's (Blizzard's CEO) comments about two releases in 2010 were leaked. Everyone knew Starcraft 2 would be one of them, but most assumed Diablo 3 would be the other. However, sadly this is not the case. At this year's Blizzcon, Mike Morhaime explicitly stated that Starcraft 2 and WOW: Cataclysm will be released in 2010, and not Diablo 3. Therefore, Diablo 3 is inevitably bumped to 2011.
Quite frankly, I understand that games take quite a while to be developed and that's more than reasonable. No one wants to play a sh*tty game. However, by officially announcing a game 2 (OR 3 IN THIS CASE) years out is just ridiculous. To reiterate my opinion, They shouldn't announce the game so early in the development cycle. It just pisses fans off. Especially in the case of Diablo 3, when we've been waiting for almost a decade.
I'm no marketing wizard, but I would think announcing a year out from release would generate plenty of excitement and hype for a game. I guess the suits at Blizzard HQ disagree.
I'm no marketing wizard, but I would think announcing a year out from release would generate plenty of excitement and hype for a game. I guess the suits at Blizzard HQ disagree.
Sad...
hmm
do you have an mmo with 12 million subs?
or an arpg series that sold 18million?
or a rts that sold 10million?
I'm thinking blizzard HQ disagrees because they have proven themselves
It won't be released in 2009, and it won't be released in 2010 either. Earlier in the year, Mike Morhaime's (Blizzard's CEO) comments about two releases in 2010 were leaked. Everyone knew Starcraft 2 would be one of them, but most assumed Diablo 3 would be the other. However, sadly this is not the case. At this year's Blizzcon, Mike Morhaime explicitly stated that Starcraft 2 and WOW: Cataclysm will be released in 2010, and not Diablo 3. Therefore, Diablo 3 is inevitably bumped to 2011.
Quite frankly, I understand that games take quite a while to be developed and that's more than reasonable. No one wants to play a sh*tty game. However, by officially announcing a game 2 (OR 3 IN THIS CASE) years out is just ridiculous. To reiterate my opinion, They shouldn't announce the game so early in the development cycle. It just pisses fans off. Especially in the case of Diablo 3, when we've been waiting for almost a decade.
I'm no marketing wizard, but I would think announcing a year out from release would generate plenty of excitement and hype for a game. I guess the suits at Blizzard HQ disagree.
Maybe, though the fact is that only a few of the important people in making that string of games from '96 to '01 are still there. In the case of the Diablo team, absolutely none of the leads remain.
It won't be released in 2009, and it won't be released in 2010 either. Earlier in the year, Mike Morhaime's (Blizzard's CEO) comments about two releases in 2010 were leaked. Everyone knew Starcraft 2 would be one of them, but most assumed Diablo 3 would be the other. However, sadly this is not the case. At this year's Blizzcon, Mike Morhaime explicitly stated that Starcraft 2 and WOW: Cataclysm will be released in 2010, and not Diablo 3. Therefore, Diablo 3 is inevitably bumped to 2011.
Quite frankly, I understand that games take quite a while to be developed and that's more than reasonable. No one wants to play a sh*tty game. However, by officially announcing a game 2 (OR 3 IN THIS CASE) years out is just ridiculous. To reiterate my opinion, They shouldn't announce the game so early in the development cycle. It just pisses fans off. Especially in the case of Diablo 3, when we've been waiting for almost a decade.
I'm no marketing wizard, but I would think announcing a year out from release would generate plenty of excitement and hype for a game. I guess the suits at Blizzard HQ disagree.
Sad...
I agree with this statement as well...
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Maybe, though the fact is that only a few of the important people in making that string of games from '96 to '01 are still there. In the case of the Diablo team, absolutely none of the leads remain.
Metzen and Morhaime and Pardo are the only ones who matter
(and Jay Wilson left Relic for d3 and look what happened to them in his absence)
oh and Bill Roper was lost! whatever will blizzard do without Hellgate London and Champions Online quality games!
Are you f*** kidding me? 11 years to make a slashing game? Well if the game take 2 more years from now, it has better be truly amazing or this is going to fail like "Duke Nuken Forever". And we all know Blizzard. They ALWAYS delay the release. it is probably going to take until 2012 or 2013.
And what kind of crappy marketing is this? How can Blizzard keep generating so much hype over a game that will take such a long time? Moreover, by the time they finish developing the game, the D3 engine may looks like crap compared to the competition.
This is madness. Forget it. I am truly switching to Guild Wars 2.
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Thread: Diablo III Release "still a long way to go" #205 08-30-2009, 02:38 AM
yes4me: it is probably going to take until 2012 or 2013 Thread: Will D3 Make History? #44 11-12-2009, 07:26 PM
yes4me: "will make history and will join the rank of famous games like "Daikatana" or "Duke Nuken Forever"
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But seriously, stop.
I suspect that the game will be released around xmas of 2014 cause Starcraft 2 was supposed to be out the middle of last year and its still not here and its coming in 3 parts.
It is along way off but D2/LOD was and is the best game ever so expect this to be even better and since all other games take a back seat to these we have no choice.
Just hope no more new Witch Doctors show up I like to think that a Ranger is next.....
Just waiting for the next charactor is bad enough:O
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Id kill for Summer 2010!!!!!!!!! Im wondering when this year sc2 will be released lol
If you want to arrange it
This world you can change it
If we could somehow make this
Christmas thing last
By helping a neighbor
Or even a stranger
And to know who needs help
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That's a better guess than the folks dreaming of 2010 (and with an assumed target of 30 hours of gameplay plus Blizz-level balancing, a competing release of SC2.1 and 2.2, that is just a dream), but if they can't hit 2012, cancellation becomes more likely. The engine will just be too old at that point.
This wouldn't be such a bad thing for Blizzard's bottom line - WoW will probably have better margins than ever at that point, easily still making 600-700 mil sub revenue a year on a development budget which will probably have dropped to well under 100 mil annually by then (if not much less than that).
Your ignorance is not better than anyone else in this topic.
I expect SC2 to be out end of this year and Diablo 3 by end of next year. if not next year then end of 2011 MAX.
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If you have or have not noticed, Blizzard has found a "backdoor" or "loophole" to get around the majority's opinion on their games graphics. Take WoW for instance, everything is cartoony, has cell shading, very few polygons etc) we all know by now(the game is 5 years old). Anyways, when blizzard creates their games, each game has its own unique style in graphics. They know that they cant compete with the other game that have cutting edge graphics, its obvious they put more time into the gameplay aspects of the game than visual effects; so they create their own style to keep the game from aging, and clearly its worked so far... everygame they have created is visually different from almost every other game. Blizz hasnt created any content that is visually groundbreaking; only mechanically. This example clearly shows that this process exists throughout all their games as they are still very popular... This is why it makes sense that it takes forever for them to produce games that are always addicting, some way or another groundbreaking with new concepts. They'd rather put more time into the user experience which is obviously more based off of game mechanics and concepts and not visual communication.
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Is it just that they don't want to compete with their own cash cow with their own games? And who can blame them?
ill tell you why
this interview took place almost ONE year ago
poeple shud stop worring about when this title will release
sink your teeth into this
Blizzcon O-nine - New Character announced
August twenty-ten - Realease date announced
so chill out
OOOOO ya best game ever. Best char in the game Melee Met sorce
Quite frankly, I understand that games take quite a while to be developed and that's more than reasonable. No one wants to play a sh*tty game. However, by officially announcing a game 2 (OR 3 IN THIS CASE) years out is just ridiculous. To reiterate my opinion, They shouldn't announce the game so early in the development cycle. It just pisses fans off. Especially in the case of Diablo 3, when we've been waiting for almost a decade.
I'm no marketing wizard, but I would think announcing a year out from release would generate plenty of excitement and hype for a game. I guess the suits at Blizzard HQ disagree.
Sad...
hmm
do you have an mmo with 12 million subs?
or an arpg series that sold 18million?
or a rts that sold 10million?
I'm thinking blizzard HQ disagrees because they have proven themselves
/agree :thumbsup:
Maybe, though the fact is that only a few of the important people in making that string of games from '96 to '01 are still there. In the case of the Diablo team, absolutely none of the leads remain.
I agree with this statement as well...
Metzen and Morhaime and Pardo are the only ones who matter
(and Jay Wilson left Relic for d3 and look what happened to them in his absence)
oh and Bill Roper was lost! whatever will blizzard do without Hellgate London and Champions Online quality games!
1997 Diablo1
2000 Diablo2
2011 DIablo3?? eh? ... WHAT?
Are you f*** kidding me? 11 years to make a slashing game? Well if the game take 2 more years from now, it has better be truly amazing or this is going to fail like "Duke Nuken Forever". And we all know Blizzard. They ALWAYS delay the release. it is probably going to take until 2012 or 2013.
And what kind of crappy marketing is this? How can Blizzard keep generating so much hype over a game that will take such a long time? Moreover, by the time they finish developing the game, the D3 engine may looks like crap compared to the competition.
This is madness. Forget it. I am truly switching to Guild Wars 2.
yes4me: it is probably going to take until 2012 or 2013
Thread: Will D3 Make History? #44 11-12-2009, 07:26 PM
yes4me: "will make history and will join the rank of famous games like "Daikatana" or "Duke Nuken Forever"