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Well, at this point it's clear they are messing with the game. Last year they slipped up and admitted they had been given more time to work on game systems because of the korean delay. So now that they've been screwing with runes and everything else they actually do have to put it back together again. So you could honestly blame the current delay on them reiterating a reiterated reiteration.

Either way it's definitely good news and I'm glad we can move forward.

excellent. now that it's okay'd for SKorea we won't have too much longer to go. they'll wait an appropriate amount of time to pretend SKorea had nothing to do with the delay then announce a release date.

That's true, some game companies don't give many details about what they're doing. Blizzard uses it as a form of marketing to hype their products. They're not doing it to simply be nice. They do it to increase profit. It works.

This tactic is biting them in the rear a bit with d3. That's why the community is such a mess. There's no room to complain about the community being angst-ridden when blizzard themselves caused it on purpose.

Anyone who's familiar with the political scene or corporate pr sees right through the way they've been behaving. It's 100% evident that they haven't been completely honest. This is why so many people are bothered and frustrated.

yeah d3 will be awesome and i'll be buying it. the debate around this topic has nothing to do with that.

blizzard has poor communication skills and terrible time management. if they didn't then none of this nonsense would ever exist because not only would all of us be better informed, but the game would already be out anyways.

it's not necessarily a d3 problem. it's a blizzard problem. anyone who was a WoW player knows this. what i'm stating here isn't an opinion. it's a provable fact. if you try to argue otherwise then you're ignoring the past decade.

apparently nothing is delaying d3 release. it's magically happening with no explanation.

they also said the 15th anniversary page was gonna be released early in the week. it was done on wednesday.

so "early 2012" means july

korean grb just delayed it again. looks like it's time for Blizzard to finally admit defeat, remove the rmah for korea, and release the game.

Why do people keep using official statements as a reason for why it's not the korean rmah? It's called public relations. They aren't telling the whole truth. What they are doing is technically telling you the truth, that the game needs some work, but not telling you why it's delayed. They game will always need work. There will always be bugs to fix. They will always be fine tuning things like runes. If the game not being "done" or having bugs prevented it's release it would never be released. What if the 2004 WoW team had waited until they "polished" the talent system until it's what we'll see in the MoP expansion? A 2012 WoW release.

Also, if you cite official statements as proof then you are contradicting yourself. Time and time again official blizzard representatives said the game was practically done. It wasn't until after the korean delay that they were forced to walk that back with political weasel words. So which official blizzard statements are you saying we should believe? The ones before the korean delay or after? If you believe the korean rmah isn't the reason for the delay then their corporate spin team is doing a great job against you. Maybe mitt romney should hire them for the 2012 election?

For months different blizzard reps were saying the game was ready and they mostly needed to test bnet servers and other minor things with the beta. It wasn't until after the korean situation that they stated they "had been given more time" to polish, fix bugs, or rework any systems like with runes. The korean rmah problem is *the* reason it's not already released.

But, hopefully when they do release it we'll have a kick ass rune system and maybe a few other things that would have been D3 Patch 1.1 instead of release. Also, I know they don't want to delay the game indefinitely because of korea. They've already delayed it a few months because of them, so I'm guessing that if the koreans still won't cooperate about the rmah they'll just release it to the rest of us anyways and give them a version with no rmah at all.

They wanted to release d3 in nov/dec, but couldn't because of the korean grb. I can't believe they want to wait all the way until summer to release it instead regardless of the rmah issue. They have to release it in feb/march at the latest.

I hereby claim the phrase "adrenaline mode" as my own

sept 22 korean GRB screwed over blizzard on the rmah. Michael Morhaime (bliz ceo) promptly hopped on a plane to s.korea to try and solve the issue

sept 23 Michael Morhaime posts an unplanned delay announcement (remember that one?)

You can try to believe the korean rmah has nothing to do with this, but you're wrong. All the evidence points to that being the case. Blizzard reps (including bashiok) are purposely being obtuse when addressing this issue because they don't want to tell the truth and make everyone even more angry at s.korea.

Yes, blizzard would delay a game for s.korea. They just did. If this had not happened d3 would already be released.

This doesn't mean I won't buy d3 and play it to death. It's going to be a great game. It also doesn't mean that the corporate spin machine doesn't exist simply because the company is blizzard. The korean rmah delayed d3 and they don't want their customers to believe that's the case. It's 100% classic corporate public relations.

if his definition of early means wednesday or later then I guess that means 'early 2012' is july or later.

I'll still do boss runs, but I'll also be doing full clears. I love this system.

what I want tomorrow: release date

what we'll probably get: a cryptic tweet that eventually leads us to an interview with an obscure blizzard employee we don't care about answering questions we didn't ask

you guys are making a valiant effort to not blame the korean rmah. i'm not sure why you're fighting it so hard when it's obvious that's what's caused d3 not to be released already.

any other bugs or game tweaks could easily be made after launch. blizzard doesn't sit on a game until it's 100% perfect because it's never perfect. you're trying to argue that when d3 is eventually released, that there will be zero bugs and they'll never tweak the rune system or anything else.

but of course they will tweak it. they'll probably make sweeping changes at some point too. there will be probably be known bugs still active in release. so that excuse doesn't mean anything.