People are assuming it's going to be the 19th. Here's why that's a bad idea. Marketing.
You don't announce something huge on the same day that you release a ton of information about a completely different title. That's bad marketing. You never want one game to overshadow the other. Have you ever seen Blizzard announce something for two titles on the exact same day?
The 19th is the NDA lift on the MoP press tour. That means that all the websites that have to do with gaming will begin to release information about MoP on that day. That's a massive marketing tactic by Blizzard. They would not want any other game to overshadow that information.
It's like saying "Hey, look at this game over here! Oh wait, look at this game right here!". That's a seriously bad move. If they announce a release date for D3, it will not be on the 19th.
I'm hoping for today as much as the next guy... but by that logic couldn't it be 26th just as well?
that would mean around 3 weeks to give them to work on the arena system more...I think that would be really valuable to them to get it ready for ship.
Except they won't do that as they've officially stated PvP is not in the shipped product ;-)
People are assuming it's going to be the 19th. Here's why that's a bad idea. Marketing.
You don't announce something huge on the same day that you release a ton of information about a completely different title. That's bad marketing. You never want one game to overshadow the other. Have you ever seen Blizzard announce something for two titles on the exact same day?
The 19th is the NDA lift on the MoP press tour. That means that all the websites that have to do with gaming will begin to release information about MoP on that day. That's a massive marketing tactic by Blizzard. They would not want any other game to overshadow that information.
It's like saying "Hey, look at this game over here! Oh wait, look at this game right here!". That's a seriously bad move. If they announce a release date for D3, it will not be on the 19th.
I'm hoping for today as much as the next guy... but by that logic couldn't it be 26th just as well? I mean I know Jay Wilson said 9 on a scale of 1 to 10 but we have no idea how big that scale is measured in days/weeks xD
It does look a bit silly.. but you can always transparent-dye the helmet :-) The shoulders hmm... well they're not the only model thankfully, there has to be *one* shoulderpad set that looks half decent I hope..?
As for the other classes, gotta say they all look bad-ass to me. Love the Barb's Sauron style, and the wizard with the crown/armor/dress thing going on. Really battle-mage-ish. And the WD has a cool thing going on too.
I've played each class both genders to max in beta now and I still can't really decide between Monk, Wizard, DH or Barb. The WD I like only slightly less, too, but it's just because Voodoo/dead things aren't really my taste. Haven't found much balance issues (as in, one being very OP/UP compared to the other). I find it really hard to say anything sensible about balance anyway, considering we're looking at the first ~33% of the first act of the first difficulty.
To be honest, I'm not fuzzed about balance at all really. The game doesn't pit classes against eachother as seriously as for example WoW, and there's no pecking order - as in group making - either, which requires said balance. Just pick a class, throw spells around and kill stuff in the way that seems most fun to you. They all work!
Now the problem for me is just picking a class to level first ;-) I reckon it'll be monk or wizard, since a mate of mine is already playing Barb and I hope we can lvl together.
I'm not really sure what the deal is with all the 'group' stuff. Feels like people expect the game to be a lot like most MMO's out there. Granted, I can't speak from fact either as I too have no idea for example how difficult Inferno will be, but I feel pretty safe in saying you won't need a group with specific specs to get through it. That's pretty much against what Diablo has been in the past. Of course it's a new game and all, but the game's always been about hack&slash, killing mobs in as fun way as possible. And we've already heard Blizz say time and again they want players to customize and play how they want, rather than how they should. This leads me to believe a lot of builds will be viable. Sure, some specs will be easier than others but I don't think many group-oriented stuff will be needed at all. More so because the game is doable both in Single player and multiplayer. Needing a group to get through Inferno would be plain silly. I dunno, but it just gets on my nerves a bit that people seem to keep trying to fit D3 into a gametype like WoW or other MMOs, like that other thread about Damage meters for example...
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Well 4:17 PM GMT has come and gone and no news so... no
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Except they won't do that as they've officially stated PvP is not in the shipped product ;-)
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I'm hoping for today as much as the next guy... but by that logic couldn't it be 26th just as well? I mean I know Jay Wilson said 9 on a scale of 1 to 10 but we have no idea how big that scale is measured in days/weeks xD
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As for the other classes, gotta say they all look bad-ass to me. Love the Barb's Sauron style, and the wizard with the crown/armor/dress thing going on. Really battle-mage-ish. And the WD has a cool thing going on too.
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To be honest, I'm not fuzzed about balance at all really. The game doesn't pit classes against eachother as seriously as for example WoW, and there's no pecking order - as in group making - either, which requires said balance. Just pick a class, throw spells around and kill stuff in the way that seems most fun to you. They all work!
Now the problem for me is just picking a class to level first ;-) I reckon it'll be monk or wizard, since a mate of mine is already playing Barb and I hope we can lvl together.
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