Diablo 3 News Watch
The goal of this thread is to put the rapidly growing amount of news and rumors that are building up around Diablo 3 possibly being announced at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitational.
Re: Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational
Last year Blizzard announced Starcraft 2, this year many rumours are floating around that a Diablo 3 announcement is going to take place.
It would make sense to use this event to announce what millions of fans have been waiting for.
Also, i would like to point out that June 29th is the Diablo 2 release date anniversary. What a perfect day to announce the next Diablo.
Re: Blizzard Job openings
There is a large assortment of job postings for some "Top Secret" game. Many of the postings begin with this "The team behind Diablo I and II is looking for a". It's obvious that they are working on another game, and hopefully the team behind Diablo I and II are working on III lol.
New job postings as of 3/14 - 4/5 of the job listings that day were Diablo related.
New Position - Lead 3D Level Designer
The team behind Diablo I and II is looking for a skilled lead 3D level designer with experience building levels using Maya or other similar 3D level building tools. The ideal candidate has experience creating levels in a senior or lead role on a shipped game. We would also like for this candidate to have excellent analytical understanding of competitive online play with various Blizzard Entertainment games and mods (real-time strategy, World of Warcraft, Defense of the Ancients, etc.). The lead level designer needs to be able to create fun and interesting environments that look and play great while managing and mentoring a team of additional level designers. For more information, check out the posting.
New Position - Senior 3D Level Designer
The team behind Diablo I and II is looking for a skilled senior 3D level designer with experience building levels using Maya or other similar 3D level-building tools. The ideal candidate has created levels on a shipped game. We would also like for this candidate to have excellent analytical understanding of competitive online play with various Blizzard Entertainment games and mods (real-time strategy, World of Warcraft, Defense of the Ancients, etc.). The senior level designer needs to be able to create fun and interesting environments that look and play great while mentoring the junior members of the level design team. For more information, check out the posting.
New Position - 3D Level Designer
The team behind Diablo I and II is looking for a skilled 3D level designer with experience building levels using Maya or other similar 3D level-building tools. The ideal candidate has created and distributed levels in the fan/mod community, or has industry experience on a shipped game. We would also like for this candidate to have excellent analytical understanding of competitive online play with various Blizzard Entertainment games and mods (real-time strategy, World of Warcraft, Defense of the Ancients, etc.). For more information, check out the posting.
New Position - Associate 3D Level Designer
The team behind Diablo I and II is looking for a skilled associate 3D level designer with experience building levels using Maya or other similar 3D level building tools. The ideal candidate has created and distributed levels in the fan/mod community, or has industry experience on a shipped game. We would also like for this candidate to have excellent analytical understanding of competitive online play with various Blizzard Entertainment games and mods (real-time strategy, World of Warcraft, Defense of the Ancients, etc.). For more information, check out the posting.
More to come...
It was moved to the Diablo 2 forum.
IMO - disbanding Blizzard North and moving that team to the Blizzard main base was the best move they made - you will see that Diablo III will be LEAPS and BOUNDS past Diablo 1 and 2. Nowadays, Blizzard probably doesn't want just a better Diablo game than the last from Blizzard North, they want something EPIC.
Activision and Vivendi Games has discontinued its membership with the Entertainment Software Association. This information comes in the wake of yesterday's announcement that Activision and Vivendi would not attend E3 this year.
Source:
http://www.joystiq.com/2008/05/02/breaking-activision-and-vivendi-discontinue-esa-membership/
Blizzard is holding its OWN press conference on the first day of E3, I believe. I'm not quite sure how to take this news, but in trying to put a somewhat positive spin on it, I'll go right down that path saying they're gonna announce Diablo3 at this press event. We can dream, right?
Or maybe Activision Blizzard plans to launch their own ESA version the way they now have their own BlizzCon and WWI apart from E3, TGS-like events.
Negative, there's nothing against Mature rated games being present at E3. Especially since E3 has gone "invitation-only" the past couple years. Besides, the ESA fights for gaming rights and would hardly impose restrictions like that on their comrades. Keep in mind, this is more than just pulling out of this year's E3; they've completely dropped their membership in the ESA altogether. I've been digging around, but since the news is still fresh there's mostly only speculation. It seems a few publishers are pulling out of ESA and/or E3, possibly due to poor relations between investors and dissatisfaction with the ESA's current president. Either way, it'll be interesting to see what this means for Act/Bliz and the gaming community in general.
This is very interesting, i'd like to see where they are going with this. when is E3?
lol, If it takes another 9 years then I dont think it will happen at all.
:slaps himself for even saying such a thing:
I don't know what you meant by "usually", but as far as I know those guys don't like to do that. Have you forgotten about Seoul? I was anxiously waiting for Starcraft2, and all I got was a rumor in a Korean website, translated by Google. I would like a major announcement as much as the next guy, but I don't think its gonna happen.
yeah, if we hear something it will be in the next few weeks.
1) If WoW lost money to Diablo, it would only be losing it to the same company, so they really wouldn't be losing any at all (unless Diablo was free.)
2) People happily play both franchises (myself excluded- I hate WoW, it's crap.) While that may change considering how you pay 15 bucks a month for WoW and then on top of that an added fee if the next Diablo were p2p, people would still choose one or the other if they weren't able to do both.
Your 1st statement saying Blizz wouldnt lose money if WoW plarers played a new D2 instead of WoW is not correct. While they would be bringing in the same money as before, they will be losing money because of the costs to make the other game. SO if they spend 10 million bucks on a new Diablo today while WoW was running strong and half the WoW plarers switched to the new Diablo, they in fact would be worse off.
Now if WoW was dieing then yes they would need something to hold their customers form playing a game with another company.
About people playing both games...well if they are both PTP then most wont pay for both. I read an article about that and it said about 76% of game subcribers only subscribe to one game.
Before WOW was released the last game made by them was for Warcraft 4. Then after WOW they made some expansions to it and finally they came out with Starcraft 2 plus another expansion for WOW.
Yes WOW is really popular but what about the fans that like Diablo and Starcraft.
Cause WoW is so successful.
I don't play wow but I am looking forward to d3/sc2 :thumbsup: