Blizzcon 2010: Diablo 3, WoW Details
Blizzard Entertainment kicked off its annual BlizzCon expo with a bang and some rumbling with news on Diablo III and the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, Cataclysm.
Chris Metzen, senior vice president of creative development at Blizzard, was the host of the keynote. After a lot of playing to the audience, and a little bragging on Blizzard's part (20 years of operation, 12 million WoW players, etc), he announced news on the next WoW expansion.


Cataclysm is scheduled to go on sale December 7, but current WoW players can download the purchase and software in advance, so as soon as it goes live on the 7th, they can begin playing immediately. The software will sell for $40, or $80 for a Collector's Edition box set.
Metzen then announced the final Diablo III class. Four of Diablo III's five classes have been revealed, and the opening keynote was the launch pad for the fifth class. Via a highly rendered video, the Demon Hunter class was introduced as a cross between a traditional RPG ranger and a vampire hunter. It used all ranged weapons, including dual crossbows in the video.
Finally, Metzen announced Diablo III would also feature PvP play, from single player to three-on-three play. He concluded his keynote with a very loud, bass-heavy animation of Deathwing, the main dragon in Cataclysm, that featured a lot of Zeratul-like preposterous dialogue and serious subwoofer action.
StarCraft 2 fans were tossed a bone, but one without much meat on it. No details on the StarCraft 2 expansion, but Blizzard does plan to release four new maps to Battle.net in the coming months. All of them are themed, one is a double entendre and the other three play on popular games. Auir Chef (Iron Chef, get it?) is a Protoss level, Left 2 Die evokes "Left 4 Dead," StarJeweled plays on BeJeweled, and Blizzard DotA is a poke at Defense of the Ancients from Valve (which in turn comes from WarCraft III).


Or when a company doesn't come out with a game until they think it is perfect.
Heard of "Valve time?"
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
Blizzard works on "Blizzard time" as well
It will be done when it's done.
so i heard the next starcraft expansion is not going to be announced for a long... long... long time. this is what happens when a company has too much money
Or when a company doesn't come out with a game until they think it is perfect.
Heard of "Valve time?"
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time
Blizzard works on "Blizzard time" as well
It will be done when it's done.
Diablo will probably be out around Christmas of 2011, or the beginning of 2012.
Yes, we all know about how Blizzard(and other companies) takes their time to make sure they get their products right. The problem is that Blizzard will not be able to take their sweet time forever. Eventually, Activision will grow tired of having to wait so long for a product, and the company will start slashing people from the payrolls and bring in people who will release games at a much faster rate, which will(probably) result in lesser products.
At some point, the amount of time is takes Blizzard to go from concept to finished product starts get ridiculous.
Possible, yes, however I'm not so inclined to agree with you there... Yes, I am not a fan of the Activision/Blizzard merger, and I do feel Activision is pretty much just there for the money - but I still think they will let Blizzard do what they do best - make that money.
Lots of products faster doesn't always mean more money.
Of course the same can't be said for actually released/in beta games.
Can you give a link referring to the use of the starcraft 2 game engine being used for any of the diablo 3 stuff? I'm not saying its impossible but based on watching each D3 video it looks more like their more or less putting you at eye level in the D3 engine with some editing/higher detail(such as the fire on the demonic symbol in the DHunter video).
How on earth can you say that when months after the merger Blizzard enabled buying things with real money in WoW? Activision crippled them from day one. Remember "Starspawn", the free multiplayer copy of SC that you were allowed to share with eight friends? Blizzard is not the same company anymore, period.
The only real difference will be the single player campaign. Since
Blizzard also made it clear that the multi-player will be linked
through the 3 titles its unlikely that any new units will be introduced
due to this fact. Just wanted to clear that up.
if you screw around too long don't think your competitors won't find a way to beat you to the punch.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/8111798/gaming-fan-breaks-leg-in-dance-competition
People break bones everywhere all the time. It's irrelevant and not worth mentioning.
Try telling that to Activision. That's the name of their game.
Why? You listened to the likes of Gamestop didn't you?
There's no point in pre-ordering a blizzard game until it's in beta. You also miss out on bonus swag that some stores give with their games.