Blizzard announces Diablo 3

It’s a good thing you can’t pirate this game, otherwise I’ll have to suffer playing this with squatter filipinos who are the worst and least classy of players out there

when this diablo 3 be released? please i can’t wait another year… release it!!! set it free!!!

Cant wait for the release of this game. they keep on extending its release date

no! sana madelay pa, papasok pa lang ako college… mahirap iwasan yan! T.T baka tumambay lang ako sa dorm at maglaro niyan nakow.

wala pa sa torrent… damn, i think i have to buy licensed one.

is diablo 3 an online game?

Read this from another fansite.

Now, prepare to be surprised by some of the reasoning behind this “news”. Diablo 3 release date has been a hot topic and we’ve all heard the usual Blizzard rhetoric that Diablo 3 will come out WHEN the game is ready.

First, some background: a guy who played Diablo 2 for years got a DOL rune and experimented with it until it crushed the game. He got an error message … a series of meaningless numbers. Or are they?

64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39.

So why is this significant in ANY way? OK, this is the geek part: 64 69 61 62 6c 6f 20 33 20 20 30 39 2f 30 39 2f 30 39 is hex for : Diablo 3 09/09/09. That means that if you translate the hexadecimal code, it gives you Diablo 3’s release date.

Now, the critical part. How likely is that Diablo 2 developers knew in advance when Diablo 3 will be released? NOT LIKELY. At the same time, if I were head of development at Blizzard and I was a bit of a numerology freak… I’d pick EXACTLY this date. Why?

Well, it’s pretty obvious. 09-09-09 represents 666 if you turn it upside down. The number of the beast! (cue the Iron Maiden song here)

You decide if its true or not.

kailan ba labas sa pinas yan cant wait!!!!!

can’t wait when it would be released???
addict mode has wake up!!!!!!!

Actually, give it 2 to 4 years.
Activision Blizzard is a business, they need to do a very good timing for their products. Being “Blizzard”, the risks are high to eat a chunk of their other customers.

I explained it briefly on gameshogun.ws (click my name).. basically:

StarCraft II = Sci-fi genre
World of Warcraft = Fantasy/Medieval genre
Diablo III = Fantasy/Medieval genre

I play WoW and I broke the news to our server. Guess what most Diablo fans said? “Goodbye WoW, hello D3!”

That IS a bad sign for Activzard/Blizzvision.

If I am the board or top brass of the company, I’ll say this:

“Delay it more. Concentrate on WoW. MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION is more important than ONE-TIME PAYMENT, and don’t forget, these LAN games are prime targets for piracy.”

Second point, they still have SC2 to release.
Third, they still have Wrath of the Lich King (and they already started for WoW’s 3rd XPAC by now).

Yep, D3 was started on 2004. It does look like to be ready ;) But that’s Blizzard, their success has always been with their good timing of releases ^^

Besides, if they want to make money, they will release it far between releases of their other products.

Consider:
Customers Budget
Lifespan of each product releases (pag sawa na 50% then release the next product)
Competitors (we can’t deny the fact that Online Games and LAN Games do compete with each other)

3 years time? from the looks of the gameplay, they should release it a year & a half from now. graphics isn’t that heavy but i have to say… it has improved so much that i was amazed about this witch doctor’s skills including the wall of zombies! man that was “Sweet”!

it’s about time that i have to say goodbye to D2 LOD…

i’d forget every PC games & focus on this one. because i know some grew to love Diablo saga.

Cheers!!!

It also requires a Physics Card …. doh

ah, the joy of having enough time to devote to playing. :(

ciao!

My first dSLR could wait. I’m buying a new rig for this one instead. :D

next adsense payment = new rig for diablo III