No date for Diablo III means no time soon
For a while there I was hoping Blizzard would spring a holiday surprise on us and drop Diablo III just before the end of the year. I realize it would have been crazy – this season is already packed with blockbuster titles for every platform and Blizzard likes to be everyone’s primary focus when it launches a new game. It makes sense, then, that we won’t see the game this year. Or next. But probably the one after that.
Speaking with TechLand, Rob Pardo said Blizzard isn’t even approximating a release date yet. “We always announce all of our games too early,” he said. “We realize that and go, ‘You know what? Next time we’re not going to do that.’ And then we always fail at that. But I’d rather fail at that than fail at making the game great. I think it’s safe to say that, yeah, [Diablo III] is not going to be out next year.”
On the one hand you have to respect his position. It’s pointless to claim a release date if you’re just going to push it back again and again. On the other, though, it’s tough to see the point in talking so much about the game when we could be two years from release. The game already feels overdue, and it’s not like the gameplay or the graphics are so earth-shattering as to be considered even excellent in two years or more.
I’d call this the next Duke Nukem if it were anyone but Blizzard and anything but Diablo.
Diablo III in 2011 (Updated)
Yes, as you may recall, Blizzard's hack'n'slash RPG Diablo III most likely won't even get a 2010 launch window, which means we'll probably see it some time later.
Today Activision officially confirmed during a presentation that Diablo III is set for a 2011 release, right after the company launches its games StarCraft II and World Of Warcraft: Cataclysm in 2010.
All I can say is, it better be good.
Thanks, VE3D.
UPDATE: Diablo III still has no official release date and Blizzard notified us that there have been no official confirmations from Activision on a StarCraft 2 launch date.
Diablo 3 attendu pour 2011
En 2010 nous aurons deux jeux Blizzard, mais pas de Diablo 3.
Il y a quelques jours nous apprenions que Blizzard repoussait la sortie de Starcraft 2 à 2010. Dans la foulée Mike Morhaime et Bob Kotick (Activision) annonçaient que la firme d'Irvine sortirait bien deux jeux en 2010 sans toutefois dire lesquels.
A présent on apprends que le CEO Mike Morhaime aurait confirmé la sortie de Starcraft 2 et de la nouvelle extension de WoW nommé "Cataclysme" pour 2010. L'info aurait été lâchée lors d'une interview de BlizzConLive dont de nombreux sites se font fait l'écho (IncGamers, GossipGamers, ShackNews, Blendgamers et d'autres...). Pas besoin d'en dire plus, Diablo 3 ne sortira logiquement pas avant 2011.
Il va donc falloir s'armer de patience pendant encore un an et demi au moins. Cela dit avec Blizzard tout est possible...
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