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During Blizzard's Q4 conference call they basically stated they don't plan on releasing HOTS until 2013 at the earliest. As quoted from the call,
"The company's first quarter 2012 outlook does not incorporate a new release from Blizzard Entertainment, but its calendar year 2012 outlook anticipates two releases from Blizzard Entertainment".
These two anticipated releases would be Diablo III and Mists of Pandaria for WoW, down from the three anticipated releases mentioned in their last conference call. Full link here: http://investor.activision.com/results.cfm
What are peoples thoughts about this? A year is a long time to wait for this and hopefully that means they have plenty of time to integrate features and make BNet 2.0 less bad.
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Actually I think Diablo 3 is the one delayed to 2013.
They recently said they were redesigning the entire skill system for Diablo 3.
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I bet its diablo that is delayed as well.... in all honesty, I wouldnt be surprised if they both got delayed to 2013. It's just a trend with many video games these days, especially ones from Blizz.
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First of all this is no confirmation it is still speculation, also I'm sure they talked about atleast two release from blizz.
If it's true I'm quiet happy with it, I hope that means they redesing some of those terrible units they showed at blizzcon (especially the new protoss units are just terrible).
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Italy12246 Posts
There's a thread to discuss the conference call already. No need to open another one.
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Oh snap... well, can we please get an exact, direct quote as to which game (HotS or D3) is definitely delayed and which one may still come out in 2012? 
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It will almost certainly be HotS in 2013, not Diablo 3.
And i guess WoW/Diablo are more important from a business standing, as they regularly earn money from those games (Subscriptions, Real money auction house cut, etc).
Will probably see HotS beta in Q3 or Q4 this year though.
Edit: There is also already a thread discussing the conference call
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I think HOTS will come sooner then Mists, tbh.
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Misleading title, they did not say that.
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i think i heard on the call they said they will release d3 release info in Q2 this year.
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I guess blizzard is one of the few companies who can easily delay their products but on the other hand the wait for it becomes unbearable. It has it's positives and it's negatives. Do people like it? I don't think so. But it is better than releasing a halfassed product.
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I could see HotS being delayed till 2013. Beta would come in Q3, this way pro's could play the Beta over the off season and, release in Q1 of 2013. Bring out HotS for the new tournament season
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when in its history has blizzard not delayed ANY release? lol
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Long life to the Carriers!!
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For people confused about the call... Diablo 3 has been confirmed for this year, aiming for a Q2 release. Of the remaining two titles, Mists of Pandaria will either come out this year or Blizzard will lose millions more WoW players. Anyone who has played WoW before knows it's simply not possible to run the same raid for over a year (which is what would happen if Mists of Pandaria isn't released in Q2/Q3 of this year).
So yes, while they don't specifically say "HOTS won't be out this year" it's very obvious that HOTS is the third wheel here. It could be released in 2012 but as of today they don't anticipate it.
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3 years to release an expansion? Talk about slow. And to think that some idiots were whining that Blizzard is charging full price for 1/3 of a game because it only had Terran campaign
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Wait... The release of the full game or the release of the BETA?
Because if it's the full game then I'm happy for the delay since balance is a very important issue.
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So we have to wait that long until they fix the Zergs? Alright.
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Stop posting "Facts" when they are not. They stated the following. "It may be out tomorrow or 2013". It basically means when it is ready.
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WHy you all rush to HotS? This game exist year and a half. Same way you will rewuest LotV. Let the game evolves, there is plenty unresearched strategies so far.
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silly to assume anything based on what they say since... they never give release dates. that said 2013 is probably close to the truth unless they do the beta sometime in the next few months
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..nothing is proven at this point. Ban OP.
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Whatever it means I hope they take as much time as they need to make HotS a better game than this is.
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On February 10 2012 22:33 Gackt_ wrote:
So we have to wait that long until they fix the Zergs? Alright.
And bnet 2.0? What happened to one expansion per 18 months?
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On February 10 2012 22:33 Gackt_ wrote:
So we have to wait that long until they fix the Zergs? Alright.
^ true story
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Id be happy if it came out 2013. Gives them enough time to think about better units than those crappy ones they presented (not all of them were crappy, but there were quite a few that were designwise not thought through for 100%)
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I thought they cancelled blizzcon so they had more resources to put towards getting all three out??
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Germany1536 Posts
I'm somewhat fine with HotS 2013 - D3 will be enough to play till HotS (and there's also DotA2, a yet finally improved Mappool, ...)
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fuck i already expected the beta
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It does seem to be a long time to spend on an expansion that isn't changing things around too much. Imagine if there were no campaign and the dev team spent all this time just working on multiplayer and the bnet interface...
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The title of this thread made me scared, don't write it as a fact!
Although, you might be right.
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SC2 BETA was from March - July. If they plan on releasing it next year, expect a beta in like June at the earliest.
I do hope they release this year tho 
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Misleading title. Should at least have put a question mark on the end.
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The only disconcerting thing is that they won't commit to what game is being released in 2012, if any of them. For all we know it could be the great Blizzard DOTA coming out in 2012 alongside Diablo 3. The other alternative is that it's like some sort of internal race, whichever team finishes their expansion first gets it out the door in 2012, but what if neither do (which is more than likely considering how slow Blizzard is)
Neither seem particularly far along if they can't say what game is coming out this year along with D3
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On February 10 2012 22:55 floor exercise wrote:
The only disconcerting thing is that they won't commit to what game is being released in 2012, if any of them. For all we know it could be the great Blizzard DOTA coming out in 2012 alongside Diablo 3. The other alternative is that it's like some sort of internal race, whichever team finishes their expansion first gets it out the door in 2012, but what if neither do (which is more than likely considering how slow Blizzard is)
Neither seem particularly far along if they can't say what game is coming out this year along with D3
Well, they sorta have. I don't think they would count Blizzard DOTA as a game so that leaves HOTS and MOP. WoW is already dying at a noticeable rate due to lack of content. Even if MOP is unfinished they still HAVE to release it within the next six months. There's just no way around it... people will not be content raiding Deathwing for another year, and Blizzard has stated 100% there will be no more content in Cataclysm.
That alone guarantees MOP will be out this year. As far as priority goes HOTS is last on the list. Diablo 3 will sell millions of copiest and MOP will sell millions of copies plus slow or halt the dying of WoW. HOTS will have the worst sales of the three by far and there's no way investors would allow Blizzard to push that out before the other two titles.
While it COULD be released this year I have never known Blizzard to release a game early, so when they say they don't anticipate it this year I can't bring myself to believe it will exceed their expectations as far as a release goes.
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What a terribly misleading title, this kind of shit shouldn't be allowed here.
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The full HOTS release will most likely be in 2013, but the Beta should come out in late 2012 or so, I can't imagine they'd wait a whole 'nother year before even the Beta is released.
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On February 10 2012 23:03 XenoX101 wrote:
The full HOTS release will most likely be in 2013, but the Beta should come out in late 2012 or so, I can't imagine they'd wait a whole 'nother year before even the Beta is released.
I'd imagine it'd be at least something like this... from a marketing perspective, it would be nice for the release or reservations to come out for the holiday season, no?
Although, to be frank, Blizzard doesn't half-ass games in order to rush and push forwards release dates. I'm willing to wait a little more for a more solid game, if they're consistently working on it. I'm not going anywhere
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This isn't really a bad thing.
If they would release HOTS right in the middle of the tournament season it would screw up a lot of things.
Releasing it around X-mas would be best.
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Wish it wasn't a whole year to release HotS, really want it out now.
Also, I'm reading D3 coming out in Q2
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:< I was anxiously waiting for HotS full release for this year.
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Diablo 3 has already been said to be a Q2 release, and I would assume HOTS comes before MOP, but nothing has been mentioned about this from what i know of.
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On February 10 2012 22:14 Zzoram wrote:
They recently said they were redesigning the entire skill system for Diablo 3.
Source? I really hope that is true because I actually do not like Diablo 3 at the moment despite spending hundreds (maybe thousands) of hours on Diablo 2. The game BADLY needs skill trees.
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Makes sense if you think about that Blizzard just announced a year long cup, to release the game just as it finishes
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Good... The multiplayer ideas shown were all terrible...
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On February 10 2012 23:17 Hall0wed wrote:Show nested quote +On February 10 2012 22:14 Zzoram wrote:
They recently said they were redesigning the entire skill system forDiablo 3. Source?
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4325959/Systems_Changes-1_19_2012#blog
Key quote (paragraph 2):
"In addition we’re working on major changes to the skill and rune systems that we’re not ready to talk about, but I promise you we can’t possibly ship without a finished skill and rune system. "
EDIT: this thread really needs to have title changed or closed or something, it's speculative information at best.
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On February 10 2012 23:15 LITTLEHEAD wrote:
Diablo 3 has already been said to be a Q2 release, and I would assume HOTS comes before MOP, but nothing has been mentioned about this from what i know of.
What on earth makes you believe HOTS would take priority over MOP? Blizzard is currently losing $2,250,000 per month due to lost WoW subs and that amount will increase until MOP is released. Meanwhile Blizzard is losing nothing by delaying HOTS. That's just the current situation... not even accounting for the fact that MOP will sell ten times as many copies as HOTS does.
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Good. Maybe they will use this time to redesign some of the new units/changes, some of them are just awful
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misleading title, PLEASE CHANGE! This is not what came out of the conference call, it was not confirmed.
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What an unecessary drama thread, it should at the very least have a question mark in the title. This is just pure speculations on your part, backed up by no facts.
It may aswell be WoW expo or Diablo 3 that is delayed.
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I don't mind if HotS will be released in 2013, but beta stage just HAS TO start in this year.
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lol its like they know sc2 is gona die like wc3 and they want to delay it as much as possible lol.
I dissapoint btw.
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I don't understand why there are so many illiterate people posting in this thread. Like, I understand you want HOTS now but it's dumb to get so angry and go into denial mode over this.
Fact: Diablo III slated for Q2 release
Fact: Mists of Pandaria out this year
You guys really need to stop being so delusional and going "oh well maybe d3 won't be out until 2013, not hots!" I mean come on now :/
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Title is not misleading at all, reading comprehension for the win. D3 = 2012 Q2, MoP = 2012 Q4, HotS = 2013...
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On February 10 2012 22:15 CaptainCrush wrote:
I bet its diablo that is delayed as well.... in all honesty, I wouldnt be surprised if they both got delayed to 2013. It's just a trend with many video games these days, especially ones from Blizz.
trend is to publish them too early, because theyre losing too much money durcing the developement process.
Have to give Blizz credits to not publish games too early.
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Lol what a worthless thread, the OP has absolutely no idea whether the 2013 game will be MoP, D3, or HotS. He offered zero evidence for it being HotS.
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You guys are scary. D3 is guaranteed this year. Blizzard has also said a kazillion times that MoP is coming out this year. Powers of deduction a-go-go!
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On February 10 2012 23:45 Gescom wrote:
You guys are scary. D3 is guaranteed this year. Blizzard has also said a kazillion times that MoP is coming out this year. Powers of deduction a-go-go!
Yeah. It's depressing the amount of people in this thread that can't read.
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I'd rather have them delaying HOTS for another year and giving us actual units that the races need instead of the shitty ones ATM.
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On February 10 2012 23:45 Gescom wrote:
You guys are scary. D3 is guaranteed this year. Blizzard has also said a kazillion times that MoP is coming out this year. Powers of deduction a-go-go!
You trust Blizzard's word on release dates? You must be new to Blizzard games.
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I wished to have these two expansion as fast as possible. I feel like they holding back units that will complete the races and (hopefully) create a really balanced game so that they can have smt to sell in these expansions. I really think three expansion strategy is affecting sc2 pro scene negatively.
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Sensasionalist topic much ? Can we stick to facts instead of throwing out wild attention grabbing topics just to get more reads ?
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I would be totally fine with a hots delay if the reason would be that blizzard themselfes think that a few months more time will make a better product. But somehow I doubt that that's the logic Blizzard.. or to be more realistic Activision - is taking
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