The questions Ive had for a while (and not gotten any answers to my tweets @Jay and Bash) is this:
Will we have to wait untill Midnight PST?
My situation:
I have the wow pass.
I have the CE preordered.
If I can play right at midnight eastern, I'll wait to go pick up my CE untill I need to go for a drive to wake my self up - reset for more playing (proly about noon) and instead, use my wow pass download to start playing right away!
If I have to wait untill 3AM eastern, then I may as well go grab the CE at midnight from the store.
Then tell people to stop asking them on twitter and forums. They're just answering questions, and as vaguely as they possibly can. If nobody asked them they wouldn't make comments like that.
Was the tagging of Friday's pvp post with "Sign of Release" or using the term "days" to describe how far away from an announcment in response to a question? No? No.
Ok, I can't wait any more.. I'll check back later on thiseveing.. Good luck with the waiting guys.. maybe the beta reset delayed the announcment.. and it will come tonight.. I can dream
Nothing wrong with excitement. As you say it's a fan site, it's only natural, and heck I'm part of it as much as you or the next guy. But this douche a few posts up saying he'll stop his WoW payment, bombing Blizzard, and so on if he doesn't get a release date announced this week, those are the peeps grinding my gears. =\
And fact still remains that Blizzard has said nothing that indicates a release this week, next week or even the week after. "On a scale of 1-10, it's a 9", how does that even say it should be this week. All this theory of press releases usually coming on mondays, the whole MoP thing next week etc., while sounding very logical, is not confirmed by anything Blizz has stated, as far as I can see. It's only interpreted as such by the vast majority of people. Of course, that gets people excited. That's not bad per se, that's just hype. But people going mad when their specific interpretations prove false is just rediculous.
Actually.. I should appologize, I hadn't seen all the un-believabl douchbaggy replies over the last few pages.. I thought you were talking to everyone who was excited about today in general
As to the 9/10 comment.. that does not mean anything at all.. except they are close. It was that, added with the tagged post on friday "Sign of release" added with today being the Last monday that makes sense for another two weeks. And saying "Days till release annoucement" .. All that certainly pointed to today.
It's not really Blizzard's fault people stalk everybody's twitter and thinks a tweet about baking banana bread on Thursday means they are going to announce the date on Thursday. This weeks press event and March 19th have absolutely nothing to do with Diablo and these dates were announced back in January. They are specifically to talk about Mists of Pandaria. Maybe we will get a surprise? Who knows? But to EXPECT one is setting yourself up for disappointment.
I'm just as angry there is no release date yet but at this point I'm not going to get my hopes up on every Monday and get pissed off when the office closes. There's no way the game is coming out in April and May is looking pretty grim at this point.
This! Although.. yes I was hoping for one today, but if there's not one today it might be tomorrow, or the day after (or whatever, some monday, I don't care). People feeling somehow 'entitled' to a release date simply because the company said they're 'counting down the days'... God.. It's just an expression, stop taking every god dang comma these folks spit out so literally. I'd not want to be in Blizzard's shoes right now, with the development stress of the game on one hand and a bunch of spoilt brats whining that their precious game's been delayed by a few days on the other...
I get tired of people coming on this forum (A diablo 3 Fan site forum) and going back to that same old silly line about us acting like we "are entitled" to a release date. No.. we are not entitled to anything, its not like we own anything that gives us a right to anything here at all.. but to come on here.. to a fan site.. and try to say "stop being excited, your not entitled" is just silly. This is a FAN site for a game that IS NOT EVEN OUT YET. Those of us on here are going to be and are going to get excited over stuff like today. Today was/is a day very reasonably worth getting excited about for all the reasons that have been laid out in this thread over the last few hours.
Does Blizzard "owe" me a release date? No.. of course not. But I dang well will get excited about stuff like this.. thats why I hang out here (And have been since back in July).
They don't say anything (as usual) to not disappoint us.
But this time (and why Im especialy antsy / irratated / was sure it was today) Jay said 9/10 almost 2 weeks ago, then he makes a news post "Couting the DAYS" 3 days ago, ohhhh.. and that news post is tagged "sign of release".
Ohh lets throw in the whole "in the comming weeks" we got way way back at the conference call, then again in Mike Morhiems msg to the comunity..
It all adds up to very reasonably getting our hopes very high today..
Cataclysm release date was announced at about midday and I expect that same for D3. As is it is about 9:30 AM in California so I expect a couple hours before the announcement.
I was trying to find on the intarwebs what time of day the releases happened on the previous Monday announcments. I couldn't find it. I was thinking 9AM made the most sense as it gave the whole day for further hype / word spreading. Also, when the big system change article went up, it went up right at 9am pst on the dot. So I was just assuming.
here is hoping later in the day can happen.
Would love to see a link to the time of day SC2 or Cata's press release hit.
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Will we have to wait untill Midnight PST?
My situation:
I have the wow pass.
I have the CE preordered.
If I can play right at midnight eastern, I'll wait to go pick up my CE untill I need to go for a drive to wake my self up - reset for more playing (proly about noon) and instead, use my wow pass download to start playing right away!
If I have to wait untill 3AM eastern, then I may as well go grab the CE at midnight from the store.
I needs to know!
My thoughts exactly
"you'll know as soon as I'm allowed to say. And no, I'm not allowed to say when that is."
Seems like they do know, and are supposed to hold it for a bit for some reason. Aka panda tour
It was in response to a question about the Ferret (Picks up gold) pet for the DH and the "Drops more loot" skill for the Barb on the offical boards.
And I didn't think you could delete tweets? Or am I behind the times?
Of course classes are in their intense balance testing phases right now, so there's really no saying what may change before release.
Ths as off like 5 min ago.. hard to immagine a release date being days away if classes are still in "intense balance testing" still
Tears.. lots of tears. I was sooo sure this morning when I woke up! That cup of coffee tasted sooo good!
Late may..
Was the tagging of Friday's pvp post with "Sign of Release" or using the term "days" to describe how far away from an announcment in response to a question? No? No.
Actually.. I should appologize, I hadn't seen all the un-believabl douchbaggy replies over the last few pages.. I thought you were talking to everyone who was excited about today in general
As to the 9/10 comment.. that does not mean anything at all.. except they are close. It was that, added with the tagged post on friday "Sign of release" added with today being the Last monday that makes sense for another two weeks. And saying "Days till release annoucement" .. All that certainly pointed to today.
I get tired of people coming on this forum (A diablo 3 Fan site forum) and going back to that same old silly line about us acting like we "are entitled" to a release date. No.. we are not entitled to anything, its not like we own anything that gives us a right to anything here at all.. but to come on here.. to a fan site.. and try to say "stop being excited, your not entitled" is just silly. This is a FAN site for a game that IS NOT EVEN OUT YET. Those of us on here are going to be and are going to get excited over stuff like today. Today was/is a day very reasonably worth getting excited about for all the reasons that have been laid out in this thread over the last few hours.
Does Blizzard "owe" me a release date? No.. of course not. But I dang well will get excited about stuff like this.. thats why I hang out here (And have been since back in July).
But this time (and why Im especialy antsy / irratated / was sure it was today) Jay said 9/10 almost 2 weeks ago, then he makes a news post "Couting the DAYS" 3 days ago, ohhhh.. and that news post is tagged "sign of release".
Ohh lets throw in the whole "in the comming weeks" we got way way back at the conference call, then again in Mike Morhiems msg to the comunity..
It all adds up to very reasonably getting our hopes very high today..
Now.. not so much.
26th it is... 9/10 my butt.. sign of release my butt.. Argh
I was trying to find on the intarwebs what time of day the releases happened on the previous Monday announcments. I couldn't find it. I was thinking 9AM made the most sense as it gave the whole day for further hype / word spreading. Also, when the big system change article went up, it went up right at 9am pst on the dot. So I was just assuming.
here is hoping later in the day can happen.
Would love to see a link to the time of day SC2 or Cata's press release hit.