With no real explanation, Blizzard has announced that there will be no Blizzcon this year. While disappointing, this shouldn't be all that surprising seeing as they STILL haven't released Diablo III.
What's taking them so long?
Update: Apparently Blizzard's planning on releasing 3 games this year.
Here's what and EU community manager Takralus had to say on it. "A huge amount of energy goes into BlizzCon, we're set on channelling that into the three games we have coming out this year."
The Activision Blizzard Third Quarter Calendar 2011 Results Conference Call is about to start. I wonder if we'll find out anything good. Maybe the Diablo 3 release date. I guess we'll see.
It's supposed to start at 1:30pm Pacific/ 4:30 Eastern.
I think you can sign up here if you want to listen in.
I'll update this if I hear anything good.
****UPDATE**** New wow patch in weeks. Deathwing. New Raid finder.
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Open ended Diablo 3 experience???
Well, that's it folks.. No news on the Diablo 3 release date..
I think all we'll see new is a WOW xpac. Some new Panda Island. They'll have to add Pandas as a playable race because if they have pandas and you can't play as them, that would suck.
It would be really cool if they made the pandas faction neutral. That would be pretty kickass. Well, if you can play them that is. I could see that helping Battleground/Dungeon queues. This probably won't happen, but it would be nice.
Hopefully they'll have a new brewmaster class or some kind of new class. Adding just another race to the game without a new class would suck.
Overall, I'm really interested in seeing how they're going to try to raise the bar this year since they're a couple of really great looking MMO's on the horizon.
So what do you guys think?
I'll try to keep this up to date as the news comes in.
****UPDATES****
-Well, Blizzard is hitting back hard. Prepay 12 months of WOW and get Diablo 3 for free, Beta Key for the next expansion's beta, and an in game mount for WOW (Tyreal's Charger). They're calling this package, the "WOW Annual Pass".
-Just showed the SC2 xpac trailer. Looks like lurkers are back. Several other new units as well. Kerrigan looks ever more pissed.
New Expansion: Mists of Pandaria New Race: Pandaren New Class: Monk New Continent: Pandaria Level Cap: 90 Challenge Mode Dungeons PVE Scenarios Pet Battle System New Talent System
Written by HEMAposted in News September 23, 2011, 08:53:09 AM1439 ViewsPrint Page
As predicted by most of us, DIII has been delayed and is now scheduled to come out early 2012.
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While this news might not be a complete surprise, I know that many of you were hopeful that Diablo III would ship this year. We were too. However, this week we pulled together people from all of the teams involved with the game to decide whether we felt it would be ready before the end of December, and we grudgingly came to the conclusion that it would not.
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The upside of today’s announcement is that we will be running the beta test longer than we initially planned, which will allow us to invite more of you who have opted in.
Beta invitations are now being sent out for those who opted in. It will be done in waves as usual. There will be promotions and key giveaways for players to win who weren't lucky enough to get invited.
There is no NDA or restrictions for this beta. Share video, screenshots, feeds, etc.
