Is Blizzard Developing Diablo "Sequels"?

[Gxas]

http://us.blizzard.com/diablo3/?rhtml=y nuff said

Yeah, Diablo 3. The thing we've known about for a loooong time now. Still doesn't explain why they said "sequels".

 

[acosn]

Having a single race campaign is inferior to campaigns for each race even if each is individually smaller. The only reason they can get away with it now is because SC1 is so popular. If they had does this crap originally SC1 wouldn't have sold nearly as well.

And yet creative control is in the hands of Blizzard, and not you. They know what their story is, and you don't. If they really think 25-30 missions does a better job portraying it than 10 they'd know a hell of a lot better than you.

Oh, and I think it still would have sold well. In the greater scheme of things most people bought SC for it's online play.

Illegal is not the same as immoral. So the answer is so what if it is "illegal"? My computer, my rules, if I want to run a private server and me and my friends choose to connect to that private server who are you to say I "shouldn't"?

The completely obvious "secret" is that the only purpose of forced online activation and forced phoning home is to destroy the ability to rent, resell, and loan out a game.

Be that as it may those are all things you have agreed to not do under the terms of agreement that you accept to play the game. Is it immoral to resell / rent out / loan your game? No. Is it to agree to something and then change your position at your own convenience? Yes.

Having 3 people in the same room connect to B-NET is unnecessary if we just want to play together. If connecting to a server doesn't add any value then I'm not doing it. And if your poor design choices would force me to connect to your server because you stupidly didn't include the ability to run multilayer on my local network then you don't get my money.

And for a historical example of how well that worked out look up Hellgate London.

Hellgate London failed because it was a bad game. There's isn't much else to it. Fighting through such exotic locales as a dry river bed, a ruined city, and the sewers gets boring after the third time.

And if you don't want to connect to battle.net that's fine. It's more or less going to function identically to steam except that it's for blizzard games. Its absolutely comical how people hit the panic button when unobtrusive DRM gets foisted on them before they even know what's actually in it. In the greater scheme of things while I will say that PC gaming companies need to do a better job getting their games exposed they also have every right to protect their product.