Edit: Mattheo got the 'more workforce = harder to manage' point before I finished writing this!
:cool: lol.....
I just wish more people understood those principles, would be less BStting about every issue dealing with Blizzard. Seems like everyone's favorite excuse nowadays is, Shit just throw some money on it. Or, can't the almighty Blizza just make it better with a flick of their golden fingers...
Cmon gentlemen, life just doesn't work that way.
It's litterally like the old folks say: Anything that's worth something takes time.
Which innevitably leads to the more annoying saying that goes: Patience is a virtue.....
Can't say they didn't warn us.!
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----------Brought to you by Diablofans.com Forums -------- Originally Posted by mattheo_majik
I LOVE being a SEX TON!!!
No doubt people would still play despite the apocalypse and all...
There aren't many of us Diablo fans (when compared to other games), but we're a devoted bunch ^^.
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1st: Maybe they will 'push back' diablo3, but well, they haven't announced/estimated the release for D3, so it can't really be pushed back until they announce/estimate one...
Hold on a min...I think I remember reading or hearing something around the lines that they wanted to release D3 in between SCII releases. I could not find a source but I still remember reading it somewhere.
Apologies if I'm repeating anything anyone else has said before. Some of the posts are just too hard to read. 80-word sentences do my head in.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm keeping most of my thoughts on the release date of D3 'til after Blizzcon. Much could be revealed, yes. I don't think otherwise that D3's release date will be all that affected. I've been speculating a D3 release date announcement somewhere in the first quarter of 2010, stipulating the actual release date to be no earlier than say Q3 2010. With that in mind, my prediction for D3's release might not be bothered at all by the Starcraft news. Plus, this will be a 'draft' release date. We all know Blizzard will cut and chop that date a bit more for our waiting pleasure.
d3 will probably release in 2012.. when the world ends.
lolz. I recently watched "Ancient Aliens" on History and heard about the end of the world in 2012. That sounds very scary and hopefully it is false. Lolz.. but it would be sad to say that our favorite game will never even get played when it releases.. in 2012..
You can't simply say: "They have tons of money, they can work faster!" The more people work together, the more complicated it gets to manage, and you end up having less control over it. Too many people working on the same game wouldn't necessarily make the game ready earlier, and it would probably generate more bugs, since too many people works on different parts of the game.
Injecting money in a game wont make it better... Hiring tons of developers isn't really a solution either.
Yea, this is true. There is also an interesting effect that comes with software development where if you increase the number of people working on an overdue project, you actually increase the time it takes to complete. It has to do ramp-up time to get new devs up to speed, which drastically decreases the production of people working on the project already because they have to share info. Its covered by Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month". It's an interesting read.
The thoughts in this thread of the next wow-expansion kind of scare me. I completely forgot about that. It would fit the timeline of other games to have that released in Q4 of next year. It scares me because that would put D3 off until probably spring/summer of 2011, seeing as they would probably give 6 months or so between titles.
I guess we'll find out in a few weeks at Blizzcon what we can expect. I wonder if they'll announce their next gen MMO. If they do, I wouldn't expect another wow expansion unless they announce that at the same time. Blizzcon will be interesting, thats for sure.
lolz. I recently watched "Ancient Aliens" on History and heard about the end of the world in 2012. That sounds very scary and hopefully it is false. Lolz.. but it would be sad to say that our favorite game will never even get played when it releases.. in 2012..
Don't worry, it isn't.
Much is yet to happen before the millennium begins.
On topic:
I could care less for SC2, As long as D3 is released before late 2011 I'll be fine, I can't play it until then anyways. (but for your guy's sakes I hope it comes earlier).
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Idk if people are actually reading the posts or just typing blindly, but it comes again.
The idea of a WoW expansion this early just seems foolish. It just seems WAY too soon, they haven't even released info on the Icecrown (Arthas) content patch yet. Until Arthas gets his socks rocked off we don't NEED another WoW expansion. Not only that, if Blizzard decides to, they may want to create yet another hero class (though I hope they saw how hard it was to balance the first one). That on its own will take a lot of time, because it would be yet another thing to add to developement.
Personally, I think it all comes down to Blizzcon 09. If they announce a major WoW expansion (expansion as in new CD, not content patch), then we will most likely see that by the end of 2010. However, if they don't release this Blizzcon, I got a strong feeling we will see D3 end of 2010. It has to be coming along quite nicely by now, but we will get a better look at that August 21st.
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There are no stupid questions, just a bunch of inquisitive idiots.
It all depends on blizzards fiscal year... If it ends in april as most company does then D3 still have a chance to be released at the end of 2010(tough slightly).. if it ends before that like january.. then pray for the mercy of a swift death it wont come out before 2011
SC2 - almost same thing as SC1 only with graphic upgrades. And will only have 1 campaign of the 3 races. And yet another delay. and why? because of B.net. oh yeah and no LAN. pffff
how about they just release the damn thing and let player decide about their own damn online experience. Its like their trying to force feed you their damn B.net.
I don't think this will delay Diablo 3 mainly because they are separate production teams. I don't see how one would effect the other....it's not like they go "well, SC2 just came out and even though D3 will be done in six months we have to wait to release it, you know one game a year thing"
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:cool: lol.....
I just wish more people understood those principles, would be less BStting about every issue dealing with Blizzard. Seems like everyone's favorite excuse nowadays is, Shit just throw some money on it. Or, can't the almighty Blizza just make it better with a flick of their golden fingers...
Cmon gentlemen, life just doesn't work that way.
It's litterally like the old folks say: Anything that's worth something takes time.
Which innevitably leads to the more annoying saying that goes: Patience is a virtue.....
Can't say they didn't warn us.!
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Originally Posted by mattheo_majik
I LOVE being a SEX TON!!!
Yep, they did; source
Amen
Play D3 while volcanos erupt, tsunamis ravage and meteors fall?
Epic! :thumbsup:
There aren't many of us Diablo fans (when compared to other games), but we're a devoted bunch ^^.
Same here... I prefer the Diablo universe, but I would've gladly played StarCraft2 intensively for 1-2years while waiting for D3
@Devour: Slipknot rules
1st: Maybe they will 'push back' diablo3, but well, they haven't announced/estimated the release for D3, so it can't really be pushed back until they announce/estimate one...
2nd: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/59859 <- Blizz doesn't seem to agree with you
As far as I'm concerned, I'm keeping most of my thoughts on the release date of D3 'til after Blizzcon. Much could be revealed, yes. I don't think otherwise that D3's release date will be all that affected. I've been speculating a D3 release date announcement somewhere in the first quarter of 2010, stipulating the actual release date to be no earlier than say Q3 2010. With that in mind, my prediction for D3's release might not be bothered at all by the Starcraft news. Plus, this will be a 'draft' release date. We all know Blizzard will cut and chop that date a bit more for our waiting pleasure.
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lolz. I recently watched "Ancient Aliens" on History and heard about the end of the world in 2012. That sounds very scary and hopefully it is false. Lolz.. but it would be sad to say that our favorite game will never even get played when it releases.. in 2012..
Yea, this is true. There is also an interesting effect that comes with software development where if you increase the number of people working on an overdue project, you actually increase the time it takes to complete. It has to do ramp-up time to get new devs up to speed, which drastically decreases the production of people working on the project already because they have to share info. Its covered by Fred Brooks' "The Mythical Man-Month". It's an interesting read.
The thoughts in this thread of the next wow-expansion kind of scare me. I completely forgot about that. It would fit the timeline of other games to have that released in Q4 of next year. It scares me because that would put D3 off until probably spring/summer of 2011, seeing as they would probably give 6 months or so between titles.
I guess we'll find out in a few weeks at Blizzcon what we can expect. I wonder if they'll announce their next gen MMO. If they do, I wouldn't expect another wow expansion unless they announce that at the same time. Blizzcon will be interesting, thats for sure.
Don't worry, it isn't.
Much is yet to happen before the millennium begins.
On topic:
I could care less for SC2, As long as D3 is released before late 2011 I'll be fine, I can't play it until then anyways. (but for your guy's sakes I hope it comes earlier).
Where there is truth, he must find.
Where there is destruction, he must rebuild.
Where there is love, he must protect."
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The idea of a WoW expansion this early just seems foolish. It just seems WAY too soon, they haven't even released info on the Icecrown (Arthas) content patch yet. Until Arthas gets his socks rocked off we don't NEED another WoW expansion. Not only that, if Blizzard decides to, they may want to create yet another hero class (though I hope they saw how hard it was to balance the first one). That on its own will take a lot of time, because it would be yet another thing to add to developement.
Personally, I think it all comes down to Blizzcon 09. If they announce a major WoW expansion (expansion as in new CD, not content patch), then we will most likely see that by the end of 2010. However, if they don't release this Blizzcon, I got a strong feeling we will see D3 end of 2010. It has to be coming along quite nicely by now, but we will get a better look at that August 21st.
It's possible, because wow is Blizzard's money spawner (lol)
But we all know, no company cares about money :rolleyes:
SC2 - almost same thing as SC1 only with graphic upgrades. And will only have 1 campaign of the 3 races. And yet another delay. and why? because of B.net. oh yeah and no LAN. pffff
how about they just release the damn thing and let player decide about their own damn online experience. Its like their trying to force feed you their damn B.net.