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Blizzard: At least 2 major releases 2012, hots?13? - Page 7

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Gwaltgw
Profile Joined September 2010
United States44 Posts
November 17 2011 08:08 GMT
#121
Are they still following this leaked product slate at all? If so, the 2 major releases are diablo 3 and hots, with the wow expo coming later.

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MethodSC
Profile Joined December 2010
United States928 Posts
November 17 2011 08:14 GMT
#122
Summer or fall 2012. The game seems pretty well along.
theBOOCH
Profile Joined November 2010
United States832 Posts
November 17 2011 08:26 GMT
#123
I'm pretty sure HOTS will be out before Mists. The way they talked about it at Blizzcon, it seemed like it was high priority along with Diablo 3. Also, Pre-order is available for Diablo 3 and HOTS, but not Mists. Pre-order for WoL didn't happen until well into the beta, so I feel this one is pretty close to being launched. Honestly, I kind of expect beta to launch over the 2011-2012 holidays with the game launching no later than summer 2012.
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nihlon
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden5581 Posts
November 17 2011 08:29 GMT
#124
Yeah I bet it's D3 and Hots.
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HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
November 17 2011 08:39 GMT
#125
I think they are saying Mists of Pandaria might go to 2013.
It's not that long when they announced it.
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Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-17 08:50:02
November 17 2011 08:47 GMT
#126
Hmmmm it might not even be mists of pandaria? Didn't the quote say 2 majors releases, one is D3 the other is going to be the new call of duty?

However there usual timeline suggests to me, it will be the standard 3 games 3 quarters from blizzard themselves.

D3 - Spring 2012
Panda - Summer/Autumn
HOTS - This time next year (start of nov-1st week into december)

Then again like they said in the overall posts, WoW has been losing subscribers and theres lots of MMORPGs that are being anticipated to come out, the likes of SWTOR is out the end of this year (couple of weeks i beleive) and GW3 will be out by summer next year, that leaves Panda expansion needing to be out late next year to try and bring back those people who will leave WoW to play those games, they need to intice them back some how...not with some unkown patch to add a new heoric or 2
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Sinedd
Profile Joined July 2008
Poland7052 Posts
November 17 2011 08:55 GMT
#127
They should'nt rush with the release

I think 2013 sounds good
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bubblegumbo
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Taiwan1296 Posts
November 17 2011 08:56 GMT
#128
HotS is probably delayed to help promote the popularity of D3 and to implement the custom map online shop features, also after seeing how ridiculously overpowered the new units are, they'll need all the time they can get to balance the game,
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TheDraken
Profile Joined July 2011
United States640 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-17 09:33:16
November 17 2011 09:31 GMT
#129
On November 09 2011 10:05 Sufinsil wrote:

Kotick added, "...we have a strong product pipeline which features a minimum of two highly-anticipated new titles from Blizzard Entertainment..."


i think that's the important thing to look for. as much as i hate when people pick apart sentences that likely weren't carefully worded, i think that HOTS is not a "new title" in blizzard's mind. it's just an expansion. a game like D3 is a totally new title.

with all the content blizzard has released about HOTS, it doesn't really feel like it will take a year to prep it for beta. at this point there isn't really much else for blizz to do other than balance the units and maybe finish up the campaign (which they've obviously spent the most time on).
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zeehar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)3804 Posts
November 17 2011 09:37 GMT
#130
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PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
November 17 2011 09:52 GMT
#131
On November 09 2011 10:18 blade55555 wrote:
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On November 09 2011 10:16 hmunkey wrote:
They could count HotS as a major release I guess, but I don't know why they would. I guess it's major in the sense that it'll sell around half a million to a million copies, but I'd expect Blizzard to reserve that designation for something much bigger.

In all likelihood HotS just isn't what Activision-Blizzard considers to be a "major release."


Well in February sc2 had sold 4.5 million copies so I am pretty sure HOTS will sell at least half of that, and a lot of people will buy it just for the campaign (a ton of people don't play competitively you have to remember that).


And how many people will buy more than 2 copies?

I'll need to eventually buy 3 lol >.>
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papaz
Profile Joined December 2009
Sweden4149 Posts
November 17 2011 09:53 GMT
#132
On November 17 2011 17:08 Gwaltgw wrote:
Are they still following this leaked product slate at all? If so, the 2 major releases are diablo 3 and hots, with the wow expo coming later.

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Things are getting delayed looking at that product slate. D3 is not in Q4 in 2011 but obviously it was intended to be since Mike felt the need to make a statement about D3 being released early 2012 instead.

Starcraft 2 X1, also not in Q4 2011.

And just seeing Titan 2013 Q4 is just LOL.

Blizzard will maybe announce Titan in 2013 but hardly release it then.

WoW movie in Q4 2012? Rofl...
PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
November 17 2011 09:58 GMT
#133
They have a working alpha so it wouldn't be impossible for them to have a HotS beta early next year.
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PredY
Profile Joined September 2009
Czech Republic1731 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-17 10:01:53
November 17 2011 10:01 GMT
#134
i hope not
dont want to be building marauders for one more year
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leXus30
Profile Joined May 2011
United States11 Posts
November 17 2011 10:06 GMT
#135
WoW is dead when will they realize that?
Darksoldierr
Profile Joined May 2010
Hungary2013 Posts
November 17 2011 10:10 GMT
#136
On November 17 2011 19:06 leXus30 wrote:
WoW is dead when will they realize that?


When the last 10 million players stop playing it
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HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
November 17 2011 10:14 GMT
#137
@ poll 2:
Answer should be "soonish"
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
November 17 2011 10:43 GMT
#138
hopefully not too soon, end of 2012 would be nice!!!
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Linwelin
Profile Joined March 2011
Ireland7554 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-17 10:58:55
November 17 2011 10:58 GMT
#139
On November 13 2011 13:33 FoeHamr wrote:
I think Diablo will be early 2012 - like January or February. I think/hope that HoTS will go into beta around Diablos release then retail will be sold in July or August. Mists of Pandaria will probably be released next year, Cataclysm took about 2 years to make, I would assume MoP would take about that long as well.


Cataclysm took 2 years because they had to remake all the "old" world because..well..of the cataclysm. Blizzard also said that they want to release WoW expansions faster than before and the last WoW raid of the expansion is coming soon.
That being said, I think Diablo3 will be released early 2012. It's not that easy to predict the WoW expansion and HoTS yet, because we don't know anything about the betas of these two games(when they will be available etc).

Oh and of course, they said "at least 2 releases"
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