The news comes from an invitation sent to media today that reads, "We're making a special announcement that's sure to capture the attention of the Heavens, Burning Hells, and all the shadowed places that lie between."
According to the wording of the email that Blizzard sent to the press, this is very likely to be Diablo3 related.
I don't even know how they can entice and bring back burned consumers? I'm interested in seeing the expansion, but honestly; D3 has remained on my shelf as the biggest purchase I've made this year.
I mean... what can they do to make the game so much more fulfilling?
On August 02 2013 10:12 Torte de Lini wrote: I don't even know how they can entice and bring back burned consumers? I'm interested in seeing the expansion, but honestly; D3 has remained on my shelf as the biggest purchase I've made this year.
I mean... what can they do to make the game so much more fulfilling?
i have heard a lot of good feedbacks about diablo 3 as a CONSOLE title. This project could very well be aimed toward the lauch dates of the new generation console as far as i know.
Not sure if this is going to be the expansion, or the console game. The guy in charge of the cinematics recently tweeted saying he had just rapped up a new cinematic and couldnt wait to show it to people in the near future. So..it could just be that they made a new movie for the console game for hype, but it looks more like a new expansion.
On August 03 2013 00:59 flexgd wrote: 1.0.9 is my bet
I've been losing hope for 1.09. Through interviews, I feel they've been scaling back expectations for itemization and suggesting that a lot of the important changes will happen "in the future", ie. in the form of an expansion. I hope there is a lot of blowback if they try to get people to pay them to fix a broken game (sc at least).
I haven't played this game in months now and feel no desire to to even bother playing... If they announce some huge changes mainly with itemization etc. I might give it another shot but if they are stupid enough to go right to the expansion and expect people to pay for it after the abysmall failure that is D3... Well then the Diablo series is dead to me, which sucks considering diablo 1 and 2 where my entire childhood pretty much
Personally I already summed up my thoughts for D3 in this post (if by summing up my thoughts means I sort-of-raged at the fact the reason I practically purchased the game, PvP, was cut from the game's release):
On August 02 2013 06:41 Amestir wrote: After a year we finaly add PvP! Surprise.
PvP was already added. And it sucked.
they said 1 million times they make d3 as custom game, no esport, challanging title, if persons not listen, isnt their fault is it ?
I don't think you watched pre-release content where they actually showed off a PvP arena, and mentioned plans to include something similar to WoW's Arena ranking system. And then scratched it from the game without mentioning it.
Such as this, which was released at Blizzcon 2010. :
and this, where a PvP Matchmaking system is mentioned in the first minutes (2011):
And remember this game came out mid-2012, so perhaps you should at least know the facts before telling someone that they don't listen properly.
On August 02 2013 10:12 Torte de Lini wrote: I don't even know how they can entice and bring back burned consumers? I'm interested in seeing the expansion, but honestly; D3 has remained on my shelf as the biggest purchase I've made this year.
I mean... what can they do to make the game so much more fulfilling?
They've already improved the game a lot since launch. You should definitly check it out again. And remember, only a small minority of the 12 million pc sales complained. It's telling that still over a million people play this game every month. that's a pretty big number. Also, Loot 2.0 is coming a bit after Blizzcon (patch 1.09) Or before that which should make it a lot more interesting. Also, if the expansion fixes a lot of the more harder to repair stuff (the story in the expansion being decent) etc sure. They can bring a lot of consumers back.