Starcraft II Delay Won't Affect Other Blizzard Titles.

We recently posted about the Starcraft II release date delay, and there was some concern that it could potentially cause the release of other future Blizzard titles (including Diablo 3) to be delayed as well. Fortunately, that's just not the case as Blizzard president Mike Morhaime had the following to say during Activision's quarterly earnings call:

"I'd just like to reiterate that we haven't announced any release dates on any future titles, and I'll also reiterate that the move of StarCraft into next year does not impact the schedule," he said after being asked whether or not we'll see two Blizzard games next year twice by two separate analysts.

"So, it would be correct to conclude that you could expect two releases of Blizzard next year, but I would not make any conclusion on what those titles are going to be." -(source: VG247)

So there you have it... no need to worry about the Starcraft delay affecting Blizzard's release schedule. All this news really does is make us wonder what other game they're going to release in 2010. Will it be another World of Warcraft expansion, or could it finally be Diablo 3?

(thanks cwain)

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Soo much ambiguity ! Geez I love blizz ?_?. Seriously, this is only confirmation of something we discussed and already new. My guess is that we'll get this kind of redundant news over and over again until we get to blizzcon. After blizz, 3 months will pass until we get any new information. Still, I'm glad they proceed that way... the less I know about the game the more goodies I can discover when I actually play the game ^_^.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
$50 says Diablo III will be released in 2010, near October.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
I'll take that bet, Lt Venom. Past performance indicates future results. In this case, most Blizzard titles are pushed back beyond their intended release date for several reasons, and I have a feeling Diablo III is going to be one of them. I mean, looking at where they are conceivably at (Given their last progress report marker, the numbers of current employees working on the D3 development team, ect ect), I have a feeling we'll see it around late Q1, early Q2 of 2011. This is my current speculation.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Wow... a news thread because of the other News topic about SC2 delay, which was created after some other topics about -both- of these news, WHICH were locked to not have multiple topics talking about the same thing.

One of these locked topics was precisely about this article. And now we get a news topic for it, and quite a while later.

This is not a whining post... just saying thats what happened.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Well...comes as no surprise to me...I figured it would not effect the other franchises. Nice to have a confirmation though.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
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Nice. If you win the bet you can use that money to buy the game

Precisely!

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
It will be Starcraft 2 and a new WoW Expantion announced at Blizzcon, Wrath of the Lich king just had 3.2 released and 3.3 will most likely be in january ish with new expantion out in sept or so.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
I highly doubt diablo 3 will be out next year. I'm guess its another wow expansion. Probably will be announced this blizzcon, if anyone cares.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
d3 probably at summer 2011

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
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I highly doubt diablo 3 will be out next year. I'm guess its another wow expansion. Probably will be announced this blizzcon, if anyone cares.

Not me.

I'm hoping we're talking about major titles here and not just an xpansion when he says "we may have 2 in a year".

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
I'm thinking, either SC2 chapter 1 and SC2 chapter 2 or SC2 Chapter 1 and D3. Now out of those, the first is far more likely. I just hope it isn't a WoW expansion, not that I'm bashing WoW, I just wish the limelight would go to other equally (or more, depends who you are) awesome titles.

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Posted Aug 11, 2009
Seeing how wow is progressing forward with, as already noted, 3.2 released and 3.3 being released in probably something close to 6 months, I don't think Blizzard would want to keep wowlpayers waiting too long for a new expansion, given 3.3 and the takedown of Arthas is going to be fairly easy.

I would, however, love to see D3 being released in 2010, and I truly hope it is, but if they release 3.3 for wow in Q1 2010 I don't think we'll see D3 that year.

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Posted Aug 11, 2009
This so going to delay diablo 3 because i read that d3 was going to came after starcraft 2.

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Posted Aug 11, 2009
Okay this is just a random thought or opinion, wich ever way you want to look at it. If I remember correctly and if I'm up to date with the latest gaming news etc. StarCraft 2 will be launched in 3 parts Wings of Liberty and then 2 expansions... The delay is due to Battle.net not being up to scratch yet. Something tells me we'll be seeing 2 SC2 releases next year and D3 will only follow in 2011 if we're lucky... But that's just an opinion....

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Posted Aug 11, 2009
Good to know. Thanks Blizz :thumbsup:

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Posted Aug 11, 2009
99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999998% sure SC2 + D3 same release date LMFAO and they both r in same box YEAAAAAAAAAAAA
$119.99 + taxes CND

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Posted Aug 13, 2009
Quote from "Zoltrix" »
It will be Starcraft 2 and a new WoW Expantion announced at Blizzcon, Wrath of the Lich king just had 3.2 released and 3.3 will most likely be in january ish with new expantion out in sept or so.
This. ^

But seriously, no matter what he said, two, one, or three. They are going to have as many releases as they have ready at that point. He just pulled that number out because it is pretty obvious that at least SC2 and the new WoW expansion are going to be out in the next year. That's almost 99% sure, so nobody could call him a liar.

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Posted Aug 13, 2009
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BlizzCon 2009 is only a week away, and (despite the odds) I'm betting that Diablo III will be the second major Blizzard title released next year.
That would be the fastest game release Blizzard has ever done. By a double, considering for how long they have been seriously developing it. I mean, come on. Up until a few months ago, they only had a single dungeon that was good enough to show on screenshots (as said by Bashiok).

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Dimebog: They probably have more of the game completed than they would lead us to believe. Keep in mind that Blizzard has been holding back a great deal of information for Blizzcon.
"Probably"? No. Unless you are saying that they are lying to people on purpose. But I wonder what that purpose might be.

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