Blizzard Cheekily Delays Diablo 3 to 2012

[MonkeyPunch]

Blizzard isn't the same company and this isn't the same franchise. It should have a new name.

Pffff. You can raise that complaint again when your game has turned in to first person shooter(slash 'em up in this case?) a la X-COM and Syndicate. In fact, just be happy it hasn't

 

[Mr.Amakir]

I don't care anymore, the Blizzard i once fell in love with is dead. Starcraft 2 was not the Starcraft-sequel i had expected. The games useless DRM, no LAN-support, region-locked multiplayer, a crappy new version of Battle.net and a terrible single-player story made an otherwise decent strategy game unplayable to me. The fact that Diablo 3 will require you to always be online and save data on blizzards servers is to me ridiculous and i will not buy the game, besides the guys who originally created Diablo now works on a game called Torchlight 2, follow the people not the studios!

 

[Inkidu]

Blizzard, should I just go ahead and spoil it for all the fans? Oh, really? Okay.

Okay people. Diablo III is a big practical joke by Blizzard. Do you really think that they would in good faith make it always online? Seriously, it's just a joke, they originally planned to end it after the second game. I mean you killed Diablo in hell... it just doesn't get any deader than that.

So... surprise! Diablo III is never coming out.

[/joke]

 

[jonyboy13]

They need to work on the PC port I see...

You won this thread.

It's not really surprising but this time I don't think anyone really care expect hardcore fanboys.

 

[Venereus]

How do they do it? Blizzard's "sequels" are just slightly improved remakes of the previous game, and they somehow manage to take forever to do that.

 

[Saviordd1]

I've pretty much stopped caring, the diablo clones are coming out faster then freaking diablo! I'll play them.

 

[00slash00]

who's surprised by this new...? anyone...? okay, good. honestly, i wasnt even expecting to see this game in 2012...and i kind of still dont

 

[Eric the Orange]

My initial guess was holiday 2012. We'll see how close my guess is.

 

[BanicRhys]

If this is true, I'm glad because I've still got to save up for a decent gaming computer before I can play the game.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Raise your hand if you didn't see this coming! *looks around empty air*

 

[Vault101]

They need to work on the PC port I see...

Zing!

With the controller announcement they showed their hand that this game was designed from the ground up for consoles.

And anyway there is no offline single player, no lan multiplayer. It isn't really diablo, it is more like blizzard's take on guild wars. Just remember kids, if you don't connect to their server you can't get their "important marketing messages".

D3 no, Torchlight 2 yes.

was torchlight any good?

 

[Strazdas]

i knew it.

but i support this tactic. its better to delay the game and make it good, like blizzard do, than to rush it out and make it crash enough times not to want you to finish it even (yes im talking stalker).

 

[Zwilorg]

They will never release any of those games in time! it is all a plot!

They know the world ends in 2012 that´s why they are delaying the damn games!

haha

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

They need to work on the PC port I see...

Zing!

With the controller announcement they showed their hand that this game was designed from the ground up for consoles.

And anyway there is no offline single player, no lan multiplayer. It isn't really diablo, it is more like blizzard's take on guild wars. Just remember kids, if you don't connect to their server you can't get their "important marketing messages".

D3 no, Torchlight 2 yes.

was torchlight any good?

I liked torchlight a lot but it wasn't perfect. It had a lot of interesting features such as the pet that runs back to town to sell vendor trash. It was an excellent spiritual successor to d2 even though the budget and dev team were much smaller so it didn't have nearly as much content.

But overall it was a great game and t2 is shaping up to fix all of the deficiencies.

 

[Alar]

I was already getting worried they might release a half-assed product, but this proved me wrong. Too bad I can't spend next Christmas playing D3, though.

My thoughts exactly... it looks like this won't be a very demonic Christmas after all.

 

[VanBasten]

The delay suits me quite nice.

With Path of Exile and Torchlight 2 coming out I wouldn't have found time to play Diablo as well anyway.

 

[(name here)]

I don't exactly understand the huge negative reaction here. Has Blizzard EVER made a deadline? This happens every time because Blizzard does not release games that are not polished.

 

[Bradeck]

Can we all stop calling the company Blizzard? It's obvious to anyone with half an iris that this is the cruel and ugly head of "EAlizzakotich". Pay 2 play services/microtransactions? Yup! Quickly rehashed story with no real expansion of plot? YUP. A new system by which trading items = more money for the EA? YUP.

I think we all need to take a step back and look at the timeline here against the choices made by blizzard's game industry. They are no longer "by the gamer, for the gamer". They have sold out, in an attempt to sacrifice more virgins to the Kotich alter.

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

That's fine. Take your time Blizzard, I have Skyrim and Batman in the meantime.

I think it's funny people are actually pretending they aren't going to buy this game.

 

[Creamygoodness]

I hope that they're taking the time to add a single player offline mode.