- If you are wondering, I contacted my XFire liaison around noon. No response as of 3pm.
- Also one of my Blizzard liaisons. Blizzard has not made any press releases concerning a Game Announcement.
Original Story
XFire either accidentally posted there would be a Game Announcement based on the rumors sprung from DiabloFans.com and Blizzplanet, or they know something and oops ... slipped it. Did XFire confirm there will be a game announcement?
As usual, I will communicate with my XFire and Blizzard contacts for a comment to clarify this new rumor. Stay tuned for updates.
At this point, this is still considered a rumor -- keep that in mind. Blizzard has not made any official announcements concerning a a game announcement at the Blizzard Worldwide Invitationals.
This is what appears at the XFire website:
Thanks, IG_The Blizzard Worldwide Invitational, to be held in Paris on June 28th & 29th is sold out! If you can't attend, Xfire will be on the showfloor, bringing the event straight to your computer!
Get behind the scenes with Xfire during WWI to:
- Follow the opening ceremony and discover what new game will be announced in our chat rooms together with hundreds of other Blizzard fans
- Learn what the pros think of the latest Starcraft 2 developments, including the Zerg race
- Discover the latest version of the 2nd WoW Expansion, Wrath of the Lich King
- Meet the Blizzard devs and ask them your questions
- Get to see exclusive pictures and videos from the event
- Follow the invitational WoW Arena, Warcraft 3 and Starcraft tournaments
Come back here starting June 27th for our first news udpates about the event. In the meantime, you can register for the chat rooms by entering your email address on the right hand side of this page.
just to fill you in man, it never did anything, although people always wondered why was that there in the first place.. if I recall also one Blizzard employee mentioned once that the gem was working perfectly, so there you go, as in the dark as everyone else...
If it isn't already in your files, then yes, you need space for it, or your computer couldn't store it.
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Sorry if this is off-topic, but it doesn't functionally change anything in the game. All it does is if you click it a bazillion times, "Perfect Gem Activated" will pop up and occasionally a message reading "Moooomooomooommoooo" or something like that. I've only gotten the Perfect Gem Activated one, though. Anyway, it's been proven that neither buttons actually do anything.
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What do you mean by that? I don't speak condescending bad English
I’ve been dying to find more rumours about Diablo3 that I’ve been everywhere on the web looking.
Found some interesting points. Like the fact that Pardo said the next RTS dev after SCII would be WarcraftIV last year in some interview.
And whilst looking at the Starcraft: Ghost entry in Wikipedia noticed that it was categorized as ‘vapourware’,
When I looked further into vapourware they had a list of software that is currently vapourware (eg. Duke Nukem Forever) and a list of things that, in the past, were considered vapourware (3G, Bluetooth, Windows Vista, Diablo 2) citing that these products were those that took extensively long to reach release.
Now if you think about Diablo 2 being vapourware at some stage during development, then you start putting 2 + 2 together. The original Diablo was awesome and to make a sequel better than the original, then you have to come up with a game like Diablo 2--- which they did- after long. Having said that, Diablo 2 was such an awesome game that many other companies ‘cloned’ it (Sacred, Titan Quest, somewhat HG:L). And seeing the great job these guys did – except somewhat HG:L – Blizzard would have to take a step back and say, “whoah, Titan Quest is a pretty rad game” or “HG:L (did) incorporate some of the key elements in skills development, how do we top that?”***
And then you jump to today, and ‘if’ they really have been working on Diablo 3. What sort of game would it essentially be? Would it be same sp1 with a little multiplay like D2? Or exactly the opposite?
That right there gets me thinking.
Will blizzard launch Diablo 3 as a World of -----? (and risk detriment to WoW)
Will they risk launching it as the same old hack and slash that’s been done over and over before?
The latter kind of justifies the near ten year waiting period we’ve just experienced. Knowing that blizzard actually wants to release an AWESOME game. Not just for their bank accounts but for us aswell, because, you see, Blizzard’s extensive ability to bring out awesome games, each broadly catering for different kinds of gamers, is both their success key and their curse. Because if they release one crap game, that nobody likes, interest in their future productions would decrease. Which brings me to the following:
It would make reasonable sense, if we do not get a Diablo 3 this year (although immensely disappointing)
And if (god willing) we do get Diablo 3, It is gonna be one kick-ass game (better be).
Just a thought. Just a thought.
***(any game tops HG:L, really, but their initial idea was pretty awesome)
Yeah I know... horrible marketing ploy and I'm sure plenty of blizzard freaks would be killed in the efforts to obtain a copy.
Yes, I know.
SC2 out of the problem
WoW out of it....
Leave Diablo ....
Thank Diablo I don't have to worry about those anymore. I just graduated last month ; )
I think it was actually 1500. There was a thread for it somewhere.