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- r0ck3tm4nn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Oh man, when Diablo 3 does come out...someone's gonna be screwed out of a sweet URL name...
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The only argument I disagree with is that they say "Diablo 3 is a license to print money". Unless you've been under a very large rock the past year, Blizzard already has a license to print money, it's called World of Warcraft and it pulls in almost as much cash in a month as Diablo 2 has pulled in overall. The only question now is, is it worth it to sacrifice programmer power for a game that is going to generate more publicity than revenue? I imagine Blizzard has discussed the possibility of making Diablo 3 a MMO considering the success of their last shot at it.
- ikonoclasm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Do you really think Blizzard is going to bite itself in the ass by releasing D3 any time in the near future? WoW just passed 6.5 million accounts worldwide. They'll slowly start developing D3 now, but we're not going to actually see it for a long time.
While not wanting to villify Blizzard, you can't expect them to let up on the cash-cow that is WoW right now. They'll wait until growth slows dramatically, then start developing D3. In the meantime, I assure you they're much more focused on providing content and stability to WoW's ravenous population. To do otherwise would be a huge mistake on their part. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I believe blizzard is not in game making just for the money. Blizzard seems to really care about the quality of the product, with support for their games long after they have been released (WC3 for example). They truly are game enthusiasts, and know how to make fun games.
- k3n85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I should eat my words when i say "Diablo 3 would be heaven on Earth"
- warfang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8They'll either be sued or make tons of money off that domain name.
- nato64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If Blizzard was smart (and something tells me they are) they'll know not to put all your eggs in one basket. If WoW is all they they do, they've lost casual gamers like me who would LOVE a Diablo 3, but don't want to devote the time into a game like WoW.
- davidv, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8If you listen to the gaming steve podcast that guy is always saying "I know for a fact that Diablo 3 is being worked on right now" :P
- sonofalink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Now featuring improved graphics system capable of 1024x768 resolution!!!!"
- Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7All I want is World of Starcraft.
- WVUChrisF, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I really hope this happens. Keep your fingers crossed everyone. :crosses fingers:
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://www.hellgatelondon.com/
bilzzard north, the guys that made the diablo series, was originally their own company- until they were bought by blizzard and had thier name changed to blizzard north. when vivendi universal bought blizzard, there were arguments between them and blizzard north, and basically the people who made diablo I and diablo II left blizzard, and started working again in a new company that they all created, flagship studios. It's bascially blizzard north without the rights to the diablo franchise.
The game they are currently developing is Hellgate: London, wich is basically a futeresque Diablo game. - phpirate, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I sure hope so. They've been working on these ***** warcraft games (sorry, I never liked the series) for way too long. It went warcraft III, warcraft III exp, WOW, WOW exp, and apparently a warcraft movie now. Meanwhile they haven't even touched the starcraft series for 10 frigging years (promised us SC: Ghost, but never delivered). At this point I'd even settle with diablo.
- krazytom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Whelp, there goes another 2 years of my life.
- RAiNsTorm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5But, amazingly, some of us out there do not like WoW. So right now Blizzard is making $0 from me and a number of friends who find no joy in WoW. There are many more than 6.5 million people in this world, and many gamers who do not like WoW. D3 would open my wallet, though, and most likely a large number more. That is the point of making games, not making one really popular one and hoping to ride that wave for the next 5 years.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@Dainbramage
"I believe blizzard is not in game making just for the money. Blizzard seems to really care about the quality of the product"
I would have agreed with you pre-WoW but now I wholeheartedly disagree. Diablo and Starcraft were awesome games on their own, but were a zillion times better thanks to Battle.net which is a free online matchmaking service Blizzard has run for more than 10 years now. I loved Battle.net and actually taught myself a lot of french by playing exclusively with francophones. Zut alors!
But WoW is the opposite methodology. They charge $15/m, have tons of scheduled and unintended downtime, sell you the box or distribute it on ad-ridden Filefront, force users to send eachother patches via Bittorrent, and new patches come in VERY slowly which prevents you from playing the game at all. In my opinion the WoW Blizzard is not the same old Blizzard I've known and loved since the WC2 and Blackthorne and Lost Vikings days.
Plus Bill Roper left Blizzard North along with most of the original Diablo team so who knows whether the sequel will be any good. After getting bored to tears with the Titan Quest demo I'm skeptical that there's any innovation left in this genre.
For details on the horrible experience I had with my WoW trial check out:
http://demodulated.blogspot.com/2006/06/world-of-morepatch.html
Though my blogger name is Brian Damage so maybe I'm just your grumpy doppleganger. - Cynoclast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Headline infers certainty from speculation. Hence its a lie. I'll believe Diablo III is coming when Blizzard says it is, and not before.
- squison, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Flagged for spam. It's submitted by the site owner, the job postings could be anything from people working on new WoW content, Starcraft 2, or some new franchise. Blizzard always has 2 or 3 projects going at once, no ***** they're working on another project than WoW. They'd be stupid if they didn't.
Btw, starcraft2.com has been registered by Blizzard since 1999. - chamblah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Moocat
IN regards to pulling programmers from WoW to work on D3: Diablo is developed by Blizzard North, which is basically a different department that the folks that worked, and are working, on WoW.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_North
But after reading that Wiki entry it seems that Blizz North is not around. Though I am sure I had read a post last year on the WoW forums by a community rep stating that Blizzard North folks are the ones working on Diablo stuff.
/shrug - Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Jesus christ, their home page just lists job openings that could just as well be increases in capacity for upcoming WoW expansions, or why not a Starcraft 2, or an entirely new franchise.
And of all sites that think it'll be out, of course diablo3.com does to drive renewed interest in their site...
Damn this story sucked -- it's pure speculation unless confirmed, which the sensationalist title doesn't seem to be about. Marking as incorrect, and if I could double mark, it would be lame too. - Umaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, seems a couple people that run other blizzard sites, or are in the gaming PR industry all seem to say they have heard stuff relating to diablo 3 being made.
- threemagic, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Are you on crack?? WoW rules the MMORPG's.. and when I say rules, I mean it's dominance is scary. They have over 50% of the MMORPG players! That's a ton!
Jesus Christ that was the lamest statement I've ever heard.. it almost has to be sarcasm. - billisdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I almost doubt it. Yes, it makes sense, but at the same time, you realize that even if it became a best seller like StarCraft the money that any ordinary shelf-style game could make Blizzard would be absolute chump change next to WoW.
Waiting for the comments to ask "Will it be a MMORPG? I WANT MY WORLD OF DIABLOCRAFT" - posure, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is just a couple sentences stating the obvious. There are no actual REASONS that Diablo 3 is coming out in this article, just stating that Blizzard made alot of money with Diablo...except that they make alot of money with all of their franchises.
- pollardito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"If that was true, there would be mac and gnu/linux ports..."
it works on Mac's just fine. afaik, all of Blizzard's products have shipped with Mac support since at least the original Diablo - drozonivich, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3there is nothing here that says D3 "is" coming. This article is nothing more than overzealous hype.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I disagree. Good software companies don't release one product then ride it out til it's finished. They keep producing.
Blizzard cares about the people who play their games. You can see this in the long term support and patch releases they have for their games. Now, they seemed to have fallen short on Starcraft: Ghost, since they wanted to create a great gameplay experience, but really the problem was the hardware it was bound to, which had become dated.
Blizzard knows it has fans for its Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo titles, and I am sure they will continue these series. - KyotoWolf, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4WoW does suck big time...
but arent all the former diablo employees making other games? - DougieD, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Grandpa, sales don't mean ***** in terms of critical success. Hillary Duff has sold 5.5 million CDs to date; does that mean that she's a great artist?
- Mace37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21. The job listings are for game developers. Blizzard is a video game company, all of their employees for all of their games are going to have the same job descriptions
2. They probably have intentions of making a D3, but it may not be for 10 years. They're going around buying these domains because clowns like this guy are doing the same (I'm sure if it wasn't taken, blizzard would have purchased that site too).
3. "license to print money" is a horrible argument. Just because someone should/can doesn't mean that they will.
4. "unnamed projects" are just that. They could be starcraft ghost, or the blizzard gremlin, blizzard solitaire or whatever. It's probably not Diablo.
5. Blizzard has a history of announcing the games waaaay before they're ready. Diablo 2 was announced to ship in what, 96? 97? So if they haven't announced it yet, it's at least 10 years away.
This article is crap. There's nothing there of any value. - akkuma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Blizzard is going to release a new game, be it D3 or something else. I am sure a large majority of the WoW players were simply Blizzard fanboys as the MMO market has never been this large before. I can also bet that there are plenty of Blizzard fanboys who cannot afford a monthly fee or simply don't want a game with one.
Why wouldn't Blizzard cater to that group? I am sure plenty of their players wouldn't mind something else to play too. Perhaps the only fear from Blizzard is that a good chunk of players would simply leave WoW for their new game permanently and play it for several years like all their others, thus reducing the cash cow called WoW. - MalDON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That article didn't point in any direction of diablo 3. All I saw was a bunch of diable 1 and 2, nothing to get excited about people. besides, blizzard sucks anyways. Yes I said it. WoW sucks.
- Moocat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@ chamblah
I did not say anything about pulling programmers, this is because they would obviously hire new people to work on it. The thing is, even with the mountain of money they have, they still have to allot resources to different areas, and the question being whether they would put resources toward a new game when they could allot "more" resources to an already thriving game. This includes money AND people, meaning they would have to decide whether to hire 10 new programmers for Diablo 3, or 10 new programmers for World of Warcraft expansions. - warfang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Plus over time you know eventually WoW will have to end, and when it does Blizzard needs some other games to keep afloat.
- Rayonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Diablo 3 wouldn't be an MMORPG, but they probably can't keep it the exact same as Diablo 2.
Some ideas of how they might change it:
*) Mandatory-but-free online play realm, like Guild Wars.
*) Emphasize party dynamics more, a little like Dungeon Siege.
*) Big, non-linear world, kinda like Oblivion.
*) More large-scale battles, like what was simulated in the D2 expansion.
I don't know about any of that, but it seems like a straight-up sequel to Diablo 2 wouldn't have a place in today's market. - BitwiseMcgee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As long as the soundtrack is by Matt Uelmen, I'm so there
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Uelmen - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Now, they seemed to have fallen short on Starcraft: Ghost, since they wanted to create a great gameplay experience, but really the problem was the hardware it was bound to, which had become dated."
Is that really the problem? I figured they got scared away by very stiff competition like Metal Gear and Splinter Cell. - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Blizzard knows it has fans for its Starcraft, Warcraft, and Diablo titles, and I am sure they will continue these series."
I sure hope you're right. I love my WOW, but my RTS hand is twitching, and I can't satiate the thirst. I need Starcraft like Tyrone Biggums needs crack. - Unicron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't believe there's only one comment in this thread the mentioned Hellgate:London. It's made by the Diablo team, so who cares what blizzard makes, it's not like Diablo was insanely addicting because of the back story ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellgate_london
Looks absolutely amazing - djjohn87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thank You
- joshPB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am excited about this. I have been a die hard diablo II fan for quite some time and I am starting to get bored with it. I think a better graphic engine and longer game play version is due.
- NBarnes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/09/08
- Mace37, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll digg you up for that one. I'm impressed, do you mind if I use that some time?
- Stri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet, Diablo was the first game I played on the net and I love it. Diablo 2 took an age of my time. Roll on D3
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope D3 does not turn into another Guild Wars. The beauty of Diablo is the ability to solo the game or play as a team, and I really like that feature. Heck, I still play D2LOD quite a bit.
- torano, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wouldn't expect D3 anytime soon. But, it's fun to get excited about these things. I knew I should have bought diablo3.com 5 years ago. :D
- Mr.Chainsaw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh yeah tottally.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"But, amazingly, some of us out there do not like WoW. So right now Blizzard is making $0 from me and a number of friends who find no joy in WoW. There are many more than 6.5 million people in this world, and many gamers who do not like WoW. D3 would open my wallet, though, and most likely a large number more. That is the point of making games, not making one really popular one and hoping to ride that wave for the next 5 years."
But there's 6.499 million people like me who love wow, and essentially purchase the equivalent of a full game every three months from Blizzard. That's like a game company creating a best seller every three months. Call me crazy, but I think non-WoW gamers like you are on the bottom of their priority ladder, at least for now. - terminalpariah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@maiku00: not to mention all the talented staff that left Blizzard to form Arenanet. Guild Wars is awesome and I'm sure that Hellgate: London is going to kick ass but I don't have very high hopes for Diablo 3 or Starcraft 2.
- endgame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll ask my buddy Tom who works at Blizzard.....Yea right he NEVER tells me anything in fact he has asked me to stop asking him those questions because he cant say anything.
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