Yahoo Games recently posted a newsbit on Activision-Blizzard's plans for the coming years, with an interesting tidbit built in:
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Blizzard is also working on Diablo III, the third game in their hit role-playing series. It's currently planned for release in 2011.
With no official word directly from Blizzard, this may be more speculation than fact, but it's definitely more than any information we currently have on a release date. You know: nothing
Kudos to ForeverBARB for posting about this here, and I would like to remind everyone that if you find any Diablo or Blizzard-related news, we encourage you to report it to the news staff (the folks in green) so that it can be put on DiabloFans as soon as possible. Thanks!
I always thought it would be 2011. Unless bliz had some other games waiting in the pipeline then why delay until 2012? I've no doubt that they could finish it by the end of 2011 if HQ told them too :biggrin:
EWWWWWW finishing a game for a deadline rather than polishing it off and THEN announcing a release date
I hope they release it 2011 for me so that I can get used to the idea of playing it before Year 12 of highschool, or it's seriously gonna fuck some shit up for me
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Looks like my New Year's wish doesn't even stand a slight chance of coming true.:confused: (2010 release)
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I'm thinking 12/21/2012, because it would be really badass if it matched up with the Mayan apocalypse. Plus Diablo III's release date essentially marks the end of my social, school, and other lives.
You guys are so silly, everyone knows they are going to release it on December 21st 2012... Even the Mayans predicted this! When D3 is released everyone will become so addicted and stop doing any work and eventually the world will decay from 7 billion addicted D3 players.
What a silly and useless post. Gamespot had release dates posted for 2008, 2009, 2010, doesn't mean they're real. Just because there's "nothing else to go by" doesn't mean that yahoo is right. If I were to suddenly spew out that d3 isn't coming until 2013, I would have no less credibility than yahoo saying it's 2011. I'm not saying it won't be 2011, but this wasn't even close to newsworthy.
"Omgosh, someone on the internet thinks it will be 2011? Great, lets make a news article about it and give everyone the wrong idea and let them think there's any sort of concrete release date." People come here to find out new things about Diablo 3, not speculations. When people read this, they're going to mistake this for fact since it was big and important enough to make it onto what was ONCE a reliable and awesome information site about Diablo 3.
Awww....that's sooo sad. Tell me- which part of the word 'speculation' didn't you understand in the OP?
And yes, in case you were lost on an island somewhere in the pacific, we got like...no news at all for quite some time.
Now you are back to civilization, why don't you go and spew your rage at blizz...and save us from your whining.
I read somewhere that the Starcraft release date is confirmed (?) wouldn't this mean that D3 is next, or at least alot closer?
This was back in 2008, but Blizz mentioned that Diablo will be released AFTER SC2, but BEFORE SC2's first expansion. They also mentioned that for SC2 they are planning to release an expansion pack a year.
If you take what Blizz said, word for word, it'd be anytime between 7/27/2010 (SC2's release) and 7/26/2011 (1 year time frame).
But, since the first SC2 expansion probably won't be released anytime this year, and the recent conference call didn't mention anything on D3 this year, I'd say if what Blizz said is true, D3 would be released sometime between Jan/June 2011.
Purely speculation. Here's hoping we'll get some more info... if it is being released in 2011, then we should be getting some more info after sc2 release (i think.)
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With no official word directly from Blizzard, this may be more speculation than fact, but it's definitely more than any information we currently have on a release date. You know: nothing
Kudos to ForeverBARB for posting about this here, and I would like to remind everyone that if you find any Diablo or Blizzard-related news, we encourage you to report it to the news staff (the folks in green) so that it can be put on DiabloFans as soon as possible. Thanks!
But they do tend to use a same date after the holidays year after year so who knows...I do think it will be out 2011 though.
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I hope they release it 2011 for me so that I can get used to the idea of playing it before Year 12 of highschool, or it's seriously gonna fuck some shit up for me
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Shush, damn werehamster! Or you'll curse that game into 2012.
Reliable sources (card readers and crystal ball gazers) have confirmed a 2011 release date!
Sadly enough though, unless we get some real/substantial news before the end of this year(am counting on you Blizzon!), 2012 could be very well real.
(2010 release)
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But, I wont get my hopes up after trying for so long to finally accept that it wont be until 2012 (probably) ........
pretty much.
Just a heads up.
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"Omgosh, someone on the internet thinks it will be 2011? Great, lets make a news article about it and give everyone the wrong idea and let them think there's any sort of concrete release date." People come here to find out new things about Diablo 3, not speculations. When people read this, they're going to mistake this for fact since it was big and important enough to make it onto what was ONCE a reliable and awesome information site about Diablo 3.
Awww....that's sooo sad. Tell me- which part of the word 'speculation' didn't you understand in the OP?
And yes, in case you were lost on an island somewhere in the pacific, we got like...no news at all for quite some time.
Now you are back to civilization, why don't you go and spew your rage at blizz...and save us from your whining.
This was back in 2008, but Blizz mentioned that Diablo will be released AFTER SC2, but BEFORE SC2's first expansion. They also mentioned that for SC2 they are planning to release an expansion pack a year.
If you take what Blizz said, word for word, it'd be anytime between 7/27/2010 (SC2's release) and 7/26/2011 (1 year time frame).
But, since the first SC2 expansion probably won't be released anytime this year, and the recent conference call didn't mention anything on D3 this year, I'd say if what Blizz said is true, D3 would be released sometime between Jan/June 2011.
Purely speculation. Here's hoping we'll get some more info... if it is being released in 2011, then we should be getting some more info after sc2 release (i think.)