Diablo III Release "still a long way to go"
"I don't know how far out it is, but it's still fairly early in development. I think when people see it, it feels so polished and so finished, but the reality is we have a very small portion of the game done right now," Pardo explained.
He added: "A lot of the way we develop is: We wanna make sure the game is really fun and the visual fidelity we want ... we wanna make sure we have a small area that feels really done so we know what to build. So even though it looks really complete a lot of the content is just not there. We have a long ways to go to build each of the different acts in the game and put in all the quests and all the different monsters. We have a lot of development ahead of us before it will be something ... It will definitely be out after StarCraft II."
It looks like we'll be waiting for Diablo III for awhile yet. Let's just pray that Starcraft II comes out within the next few months.
Thanks gyrextt for spotting this in an interview I'd read but kinda skimmed over.
Ouch for HGL, but I have to agree. Any new start up game company should closely look at flagship for what not to do. They had some elements of Blizzard; great ideas, pushing a genera, using a great back story and somewhat decent story line. Oh but the failures, namely releasing too early and not fixing the massive bugs or unfun gameplay aspects.
This is the reason I will alsyays love Blizzard, they take their time no matter what. No artificial deadlines, I bet if there was a huge problem two weeks befor release they would postpone it until it was fixed. The down side is that they don't crank out games like crazy.
I will respect (and burn with a fiery hatred) for their disission to take really long development times to make a game great.:evil:
Because WoW( the initial WoW) was being made from scratch basically, maybe only extending story and all. It has WAAAY more content than Diablo franchise. And Diablo 3 was in development 4 years prior to the announcement. And it is being made with comeplety different graphics and chars and content, but nothing compared to the magnitude of the development of WoW.
People who think that it might come out next year are kidding themselves.
I agree 2009....not gonna happen....the only chance it does is that blizzard made sure they didnt announce the game until they knew they could get it out by then............2010 is a good amount of time and I think it will come out then.....but this is blizzard.....2011 is a possibility tho I think its stretching it a bit.
I hereby announce that it will be finished in 2010
I don't know man. WoW is a HUGE game that would naturally take a long time to make. Diablo is Diablo. It's a rather large game, but nothing compared to WoW.
Duke Nuke Forever WAIT huEHUehuHEUhe It really remenber me of starcraft ghost
And.. seven years to produce a RPG ? No matter how good will be D3 it's a very long time.
If they take to long to realese it like 2011, the graphics wich is allready poor for 2009 generation, will be become a joke. And remenber; they are planning to make more then one expansion set so if they release D3 in 2011 we will have exp sets around 2013 and 2014, right into the new MMORPG generation explendor, wich will cause D3 to have a low number of players (like D2 nowdays), so make a expansion would not be a smart move, and blizz allways do smart moves.
As I can see, Diablo 3 aren't a ''next gen'' game, but if they take to long to release it D3 will have to enter in a competition with ''next gens'' and will surely not be a HUGE sucess.
For those reasons i can't believe blizz are not plainning to realease it to 2009.