ok Seriously.... people need to do some fucking research around here, BLIZZ SAID D3 WILL BE ON B.NET, HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER PAID TO PLAY ANY BLIZZARD GAME OVER B.NET?!!!
NO?!! i thought so...
and before you try to tell me World of Warcraft, do MORE research.. wow is NOT RUN ON BATTLE.NET U FOOLS, THERE ALL RUN ON PRIVATE SERVERS. so seriously stop all this OMG IF ITS P2P IM GONNA QUIT BLIZZ FOREVER..
and if you REALY still dont get it or believe me, take a little trip to battle.net and goto the warcraft section... tell me if you see a WoW section in there... NO? yeah thats because its not played over battle.net, only starcraft, warcraft, and diablo are.
sorry of this sounds a little harsh, but after reading hundreds of the same goddamn threads\reply's to a question thats been answered 100 times over, im getting a little fed up. come up with some GOOD questions and speculation...
ok Seriously.... people need to do some fucking research around here, BLIZZ SAID D3 WILL BE ON B.NET, HAVE ANY OF YOU EVER PAID TO PLAY ANY BLIZZARD GAME OVER B.NET?!!!
NO?!! i thought so...
and before you try to tell me World of Warcraft, do MORE research.. wow is NOT RUN ON BATTLE.NET U FOOLS, THERE ALL RUN ON PRIVATE SERVERS. so seriously stop all this OMG IF ITS P2P IM GONNA QUIT BLIZZ FOREVER..
and if you REALY still dont get it or believe me, take a little trip to battle.net and goto the warcraft section... tell me if you see a WoW section in there... NO? yeah thats because its not played over battle.net, only starcraft, warcraft, and diablo are.
sorry of this sounds a little harsh, but after reading hundreds of the same goddamn threads\reply's to a question thats been answered 100 times over, im getting a little fed up. come up with some GOOD questions and speculation...
149 days...i hope its near that number..blizzard is not stupid, they are not loosing players from wow..i mean the will loose some, but the effect of the players that arent playing wow and want a single player game (p2p free) diablo will be greater than the loss..its pure marketing, and dont worry they will make a lot of money
The only people they are really losing are people (like me) who were only playing wow because there was no D3
I really hope this is not true, they need to fix up the look of the game a bite and make sure that its really is the a true continuation of the Diablo series because I really don't want to be disappointed. I don't mind waiting 2 or 3 years for them to make thing right.
Rai, im talking to everyone that has posted a reply with anything in it like "OMG I HOPE ITS NOT P2P, ILL QUIT AND SO WILL ALL MY FRIENDS" if you posted anything like that, then yes im talking to you, if you did not, well then i guess im not... seriously ive read every comment from page1 to the last page, including all the other threads since d3 was announced. you tell me how many times you see that almost exact phrase... Someone needed to say it..
haha u must be kidding mate!!! 2 or 3 years..i would die until then! i give them 1 year and after that i will...get mad and still wait
They'd lose alot of their gamers... 2 - 3 years is enought time for kids to go on and focus on college / work / etc. Theyre VERY lucky to have the fanbase they do, so theyre going to work very hard and quickly. Alot of you need to be OPtimistic... I mean.. the main complaint is the Contrast... NOT the gameplay, NOT the storyline.. but the frikkin lighting.
Anyway... I think that SC2 will come out soon, and in the sc2 package will be a small advertisement for diablo 3.. which means it'll be coming soon after sc2.
I really hope this is not true, they need to fix up the look of the game a bite and make sure that its really is the a true continuation of the Diablo series because I really don't want to be disappointed. I don't mind waiting 2 or 3 years for them to make thing right.
I have 100% faith in Blizzard. Remember that there was an actual Diablo 3 game that was more or less done by the Bliz North guys that was scrapped for not being good enough.
The fact is that if they had released that early D3 it still would have sold a million copies even if it was not good enough.
Instead they started all over again and risked letting the energy of the series die out in this world of Halo 3 & GTA 4. In a business world where they insist that one strikes while the iron is hot, Blizzard will only strike when the hammer is ready to strike!
I am not aware of many other companies that would allow years and years to go by in between releases, especially for a series as hot as Diablo. But Bliz cares not for high initial sales due to a product that was rushed for the X-Mas market. They care more that the game is done in such a way to capture the heart and soul of the gamer so that we will wait a decade or more for the next part!
It's funny to think that when I first started playing Diablo (D1 that is) I was the sort who would have typed in leet speek (I pwned yur a$$ ya noob!), but these days I try to post with as much proper grammer and spelling as I can and totally avoid flame wars with other users.
Think about that...When Diablo 4 comes out a bunch of the younglings 'round here could have families, corporate jobs, etc.
I have all those (and the etc. as well) now, but when I was playing D1 I never would have thought as much!
It's not out in 149 days. They put up job posting for D3 on the blizzard website. No way they're going to give time for people to submit, review, hire, work on D3, debug, finalize, package, and ready for shipment in 149 days people.
It's not out in 149 days. They put up job posting for D3 on the blizzard website. No way they're going to give time for people to submit, review, hire, work on D3, debug, finalize, package, and ready for shipment in 149 days people.
I'd say 1 year at least.
I agree. I think becuase the game demo film looked so polished that it makes one think the whole sheebang is almost done.
But I can also believe that they may only have one act done. They may be pretty much done with the graphics engine and enough design elements to have created that demo, but that hardly means the whole game is coded and being debugged as we speak.
I can believe that the whole story, on paper at least, is all done. All that is left is to put what is on paper to computer and make sure it plays nice with B.net.
And I'd guess that will take 1-2 years.
But just knowing that it is really being worked on and not some back burner project is pretty freakin sweet!
this wouldn't and will not happend.
If this is true - D3 should be most preordered game ever ... IMAO.
anyway - if they are about to sell it cheep , but make the holy place ( battle.net ) payed - then they will get nothing but alot of leave-out fans...
Not really. It will not be an mmorpg, so the massive work put onto developing constant updated content, along with the server maintenance, so charging $14-15 monthly will indeed leave a lot of displeased fans.
On the other hand, I would gladly pay 5 bucks each month to have some sort of tech support and a completely hack free game. SOJ anyone?
With all the money that blizzard has floating around, I don't see any reason the game shouldn't be released in time for christmas. Budget and number of an employees is no concern and it was for D1 and D2. There is no reason not to release this in the next 6 months. Get your ass to work blizzard! I'm jonesing over here!!
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Diablo 2 being the best sellling game of Blizzard, I bet that Diablo 3 will be the fastest and best sellling PC game of all times because of the success of Diablo 2 and the high quality of D3
Besides it will beat WoW for the number of players worldwide because it won't be a monthly fee game as WoW
I would say the game is able to be bought around the 20th december. A lot of people would buy it for an x-mas gift, and since most of the world got vacation these days, there will be a lot of people there.
I am sure blizzard a soon finished with the game. The trailer showed they had already done most of the work. And I guess also some of the next parts of the game is finished too. They are right now just making the finishing touch, and then going to look for bugs etc.
As far as I know this game has been under construction for a few years now, even before Starcraft 2 was started.
its been in development for 4 years from the current team. but blizzard north had been working on it for 2 years prior. whether all their work was scrapped or not is a guess.
i just dont think people understand that the first 20% of a game does not equal in length of development time the next 20% of a game. They have said theyve got the first act completed...i can honestly see them being done with the rest of the acts in 3 months, i
see the addition of the new battlenet and other online options taken up the most time in where the developing team is at right now. I cant see any reason this game wont be in an almost finished state come january next year.
That is just a big fail. I know a lot of my friends are playing WoW now, but they all think about quitting the game, course it starts to bored them, and nothing news is happning. They don't want to buy the new expansion course, they simply don't want to lvl up their chars again.
Diablo III are going to steal a lot of WoW players, and I guess we will see about 2 million players stepping down with WoW and going for Diablo III. Or maybe even more. WoW starts to bored people. Face it now wow noobs! It is the truth, and not something I just say course I don't like WoW
funny... my big fail was just SUPPORTED by what you said.
i said MOST of WoW players are too "proud" to go to another blizzard game, by that logic less than 50% of the 10million current subscribers ( 5million duh) will abaondon WoW for another blizzard game.....
you went even furth by saying up to 20% will leave WoW.... so how am i the big fail here when you just strengthen my prediction.
NO?!! i thought so...
and before you try to tell me World of Warcraft, do MORE research.. wow is NOT RUN ON BATTLE.NET U FOOLS, THERE ALL RUN ON PRIVATE SERVERS. so seriously stop all this OMG IF ITS P2P IM GONNA QUIT BLIZZ FOREVER..
and if you REALY still dont get it or believe me, take a little trip to battle.net and goto the warcraft section... tell me if you see a WoW section in there... NO? yeah thats because its not played over battle.net, only starcraft, warcraft, and diablo are.
sorry of this sounds a little harsh, but after reading hundreds of the same goddamn threads\reply's to a question thats been answered 100 times over, im getting a little fed up. come up with some GOOD questions and speculation...
Easy tiger.
The only people they are really losing are people (like me) who were only playing wow because there was no D3
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Indeed yes! And from what I recall the D2 CE was the only way to get the soundtrack CD as it was not an item that was for sale otherwise.
And the skelly on the CD cover & disc is a pretty cool image. I suspect some bands out there wish they could have used it for their CDs!
They'd lose alot of their gamers... 2 - 3 years is enought time for kids to go on and focus on college / work / etc. Theyre VERY lucky to have the fanbase they do, so theyre going to work very hard and quickly. Alot of you need to be OPtimistic... I mean.. the main complaint is the Contrast... NOT the gameplay, NOT the storyline.. but the frikkin lighting.
Anyway... I think that SC2 will come out soon, and in the sc2 package will be a small advertisement for diablo 3.. which means it'll be coming soon after sc2.
I have 100% faith in Blizzard. Remember that there was an actual Diablo 3 game that was more or less done by the Bliz North guys that was scrapped for not being good enough.
The fact is that if they had released that early D3 it still would have sold a million copies even if it was not good enough.
Instead they started all over again and risked letting the energy of the series die out in this world of Halo 3 & GTA 4. In a business world where they insist that one strikes while the iron is hot, Blizzard will only strike when the hammer is ready to strike!
I am not aware of many other companies that would allow years and years to go by in between releases, especially for a series as hot as Diablo. But Bliz cares not for high initial sales due to a product that was rushed for the X-Mas market. They care more that the game is done in such a way to capture the heart and soul of the gamer so that we will wait a decade or more for the next part!
It's funny to think that when I first started playing Diablo (D1 that is) I was the sort who would have typed in leet speek (I pwned yur a$$ ya noob!), but these days I try to post with as much proper grammer and spelling as I can and totally avoid flame wars with other users.
Think about that...When Diablo 4 comes out a bunch of the younglings 'round here could have families, corporate jobs, etc.
I have all those (and the etc. as well) now, but when I was playing D1 I never would have thought as much!
I'd say 1 year at least.
I agree. I think becuase the game demo film looked so polished that it makes one think the whole sheebang is almost done.
But I can also believe that they may only have one act done. They may be pretty much done with the graphics engine and enough design elements to have created that demo, but that hardly means the whole game is coded and being debugged as we speak.
I can believe that the whole story, on paper at least, is all done. All that is left is to put what is on paper to computer and make sure it plays nice with B.net.
And I'd guess that will take 1-2 years.
But just knowing that it is really being worked on and not some back burner project is pretty freakin sweet!
Not really. It will not be an mmorpg, so the massive work put onto developing constant updated content, along with the server maintenance, so charging $14-15 monthly will indeed leave a lot of displeased fans.
On the other hand, I would gladly pay 5 bucks each month to have some sort of tech support and a completely hack free game. SOJ anyone?
lmfao......
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(But I want to!)
im hesitant in doing so.... because i must be a moron.
10million wow > 5 million diablo 2
and most of WOW fans are too "proud" to go to another blizzard game if one was released.
or am i missing something here?
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its been in development for 4 years from the current team. but blizzard north had been working on it for 2 years prior. whether all their work was scrapped or not is a guess.
i just dont think people understand that the first 20% of a game does not equal in length of development time the next 20% of a game. They have said theyve got the first act completed...i can honestly see them being done with the rest of the acts in 3 months, i
see the addition of the new battlenet and other online options taken up the most time in where the developing team is at right now. I cant see any reason this game wont be in an almost finished state come january next year.
i predit it being out by next years june.
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funny... my big fail was just SUPPORTED by what you said.
i said MOST of WoW players are too "proud" to go to another blizzard game, by that logic less than 50% of the 10million current subscribers ( 5million duh) will abaondon WoW for another blizzard game.....
you went even furth by saying up to 20% will leave WoW.... so how am i the big fail here when you just strengthen my prediction.
Sign for a Darker Art Direction in the dungeons/caves/etc.
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