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Diablo:World and Q+A looks like an MMO see ya WoW

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Diablo:World and Q+A looks like an MMO see ya WoW

I think that's more about the Sanctuary world as a whole.

Hopefully it'll be worth the long wait.

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Diablo:World and Q+A looks like an MMO see ya WoW

Really ? thats what you managed to get out of that sentance ? Its not a game called diablo: World. They gonna talk about the diablo world. The world you run around in, in d3. The world were tristram is a village.

You think they would have revealed the name of a new diablo game in the blizzcon schedule ?

woke up, browsed the news - BAM. nice, i thought. but then.. 45 minutes for the big reveal and 45 minutes some run-of-the-mill panel with talk about some of those books they covered recently.

my two calls:

1. diablo XP2 / diablo 4 announcement and sneak peeks (they do have to fill those 45 minutes somehow). maybe some filler stuff like that netflix crap.

2. diablo 3 character(s) with some druid/assassin combo or amazon, some netflix crap, maybe even d1/d2 remaster.

i really hope they don't do the second one. that would mean that they'd really lost the last touch to this franchise and is a definite proof that they are milking every little penny out of it. it has to be the first. some sneak peek, some talk about what will roughly come, more info at blizzcon 2019.

oh my.

Can't wait main stage almost 1 hour long announcement hype

So knowing how long it will be we can make a prediction that there will be a lot of information to tell and show but what kind of material it could be thats a big question is it all about D3 or completely new project personally I don't believe stories about D4 so my guess is:

First trailer about new evil Mephisto? (5min) than talking about how it will effect Diablo world and what you have to do to stop it (15min)

Second sneak peak of new hero his story and trailer (2min) talking how it will be played show some new skills, items (15min)

Finally release date that could be very soon

D4 is way to much work. They will add 1-2 new classes, up level cap, new end game content ect...2020+ we can expect real d4 news.

Keep grasping at any straws you can . Dead game is dead .Netflix special? Cool i skipped cut scenes so I guess I'll watch a whole show about them? D3 on switch? Cool. A lesser version of a dead game. D4? Unless it's released this year and will complete with Poe good luck .

If you people think that Diablo will be on the main stage and the first thing up just to talk about Netflix and a new class, I want what you are smoking.

There will be a new Diablo game of some type announced, I have no doubt of that. If it was a new class or DLC or even D2 remastered, it would be a side stage event. This is the main stage and front and center; they're not using that to tell us we're getting a druid.

I believe we'll get the announcement for the new game, and a gameplay video. Blizzcon 2019 will debut a cinematic and demo. We may also see the announcement of D2 remastered, available by Christmas!

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Keep grasping at any straws you can . Dead game is dead .Netflix special? Cool i skipped cut scenes so I guess I'll watch a whole show about them? D3 on switch? Cool. A lesser version of a dead game. D4? Unless it's released this year and will complete with Poe good luck .

It doesn't really sound like you care about Diablo... soooo why are you on a fan site?

My guess?

Diablo 1 Remastered available now and Diablo 2 Remastered in 2019.

or

Diablo 2 Remastered as a playable demo on BlizzCon and released early 2019.

And finally, in the end, a cinematic announcing new Diablo game (4 or spin-off) to hype us all.

That's how I see it. It will be a new Diablo game for sure. Remaster of old one? I think that it will happen, though I don't know if it will work. There would have to be many changes to bring the old games to today's standards (from technical and QoL standpoint).

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Keep grasping at any straws you can . Dead game is dead .Netflix special? Cool i skipped cut scenes so I guess I'll watch a whole show about them? D3 on switch? Cool. A lesser version of a dead game. D4? Unless it's released this year and will complete with Poe good luck .

Shut your flytrap and get back into the cave you troll. Why are you even on this forum.

All panels are 45 minutes now, with some exceptions. When D3 was announced, they didn’t have as many games as they do now. Besides, it isn’t a question of time. You don’t place a franchise that hasn’t had a new game in 3 years at the main stage of your convention and make it the first panel unless you have something BIG to announce. We may not know what is coming, but it is more than just D3 news.

You can always say something during opening/closing ceremony or add something in those blank spaces. If you've had a 2h Diablo panel, what would that mean to you? Quite a big spoiler I think

Is the Saturday "Stay Awhile and Listen" panel anything new for 2018?

haha I can't believe that so many people hooked on D4 rumor this is madness!

So when Blizzcon starts and there will be no new game related to Diablo announced I imagine lots of burned down believers flaming Diablo team...

By the way Elusion gave so many proves that there will not be D4 and he is right 99%

Though it does seem sketchy in terms of the time allotted for it, Diablo's position front and center as the first panel after opening ceremony on the main stage would definitely indicate some major news. We know Blizz has been hiring for a Diablo project for the past few years and we have had strong hints that a big announcement is coming soon (can't recall when that was, it was an official statement). That is all good and solid.

My question is, has Blizzard learned? Because currently, I have no confidence at all the Blizz has what it takes to make a deep, lasting ARPG. If Diablo 3 is anything to go by, they keep pushing the same policy they've been pushing in other games. Take a genre, streamline it as much as possible, cut out all the "superfluous stuff" (read: stuff that gives a game complexity and depth and can keep you engaged once the lustre wears off) and make the game immediately engaging and fun to play at the expense of the game's longevity.

Diablo 3 is a discouragingly shallow game, with:

a) all the stuff lined up for you. These are the four sets/skills you will be focusing on with this class, these are the only supporting items for that given set that make any sense, go and play! Nono, forget about not playing with sets, here are your sets, this is the game...oh and we give you the sets for free if you play seasons. Remember when you had to make a build that's good enough to just "make do" with what you found, and completing the game was an actual challenge, instead of a thing you just kinda do in your first few hours? I do, it's called playing ARPGs that are not D3.

b ) a lot of the good stuff from ARPGs reduced to a chore (level up, bitches! it's just a waste of your time because the game starts at 70 and nothing before that matters, but do it anyway) and

c) the only thing holding the whole game standing at least for a while is super smooth and responsive combat and graphical polish. That is the one place where D3 holds a monopoly. No other ARPG has such a meaty combat as D3. But having streamlined the game so much takes away a lot of the deep engagement the genre can offer, and you're not going to spend endless months mindlessly levelling legendary gems if there's nothing underneath that that helps keep you engaged.

The game's longevity was kinda artifically prolonged by a steady supply of content for a while (updated legendaries, balance patches) under Josh after RoS release, but those stopped shortly after Josh's departure and the game has been limping on ever since. Now, I'm not saying that D3 is a bad deal. I can't count the number of hours I've spent on it over the years and it certainly didn't milk my wallet dry like F2P games like to do. But in the end, when you leave D3, you leave because you feel like if you level another fucking gem one more level, your brain will start leaking out of your ears to escape the horror. When you leave D2 or other ARPGs, it's usually with a feeling of accomplishment, after having beaten the game on the hardest difficulty, having killed that final bastard of a boss, and you'd be up to do it again at some point later. If you're done with D3, you're just done and fed up.

With essentially all of the D2 team gone with Blizzard North and the folks who at least tried to bandaid D3 with at least some content pretty much gone as well (none of them really fixed the underlying problems of shallow character building and itemisation), I don't see any indicators that the people who will be working on any future Diablo project, be it D4 or otherwise, actually have a clue as to how to make an ARPG. So a new game? Probably yes. A good one, though? Eeeh, saying I'm sceptical about Diablo's future would be an understatement.