Thu, Jan 05, 2012 | 17:39 GMT
Diablo 15th Anniversary website goes live, firm “almost done” with Diablo III
Blizzard has gone live with a 15 year Anniversary website for Diablo, which offers up a timeline, game overview, a retrospective, various developer interviews, and more. In one of the interviews, Diablo III director Jay Wilson states that the studio is “almost done with Diablo III,” which is a “fitting celebration of the 15th year anniversary for Diablo.” Wilson concluded the talk on D3 stating: “We are getting it to you as soon as we can.” Check out the website through the link. Thanks, Blue.
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Posted in: Activision Blizzard, PC, RPG
Tags: diablo, diablo 2, diablo 3, jay wilson
6 comments
#1
DSB
05/01/12, 5:45 pm
Unless they’re keeping some kind of “super build” out of the beta, I find it hard to believe that they’re nearly finished. It feels a lot like Torchlight at the moment. Bare bones stuff (that’s a skelePun).
#2
Erthazus
05/01/12, 6:14 pm
I didn’t played Diablo III beta but if it is something like Torchlight than Blizzard is in big trouble.
Starcraft II was already an ok game.
Cataclysm was underdeveloped + full of bugs and with latest 4.3 patch content there are still a lot of issues with it.
Mists of Pandaria looks already like a huge patch with another 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 content + one land and casual talent system.
Blizzard under Activision is slowly dying in my eyes. I can’t see even polished products from them anymore.
Or maybe the most talented staff is hard at work for the new MMO…
#3
Gheritt White
05/01/12, 6:32 pm
Bear in mind that Diablo 3 isn’t coming from Blizzard North (i.e. Condor Games), so it’s bound to feel a lot different anyway.
If this isn’t good… man. A decade’s wait and for what? I still hold out hope.
#4
deathgaze
05/01/12, 6:42 pm
DSB: If recent similarly run betas are any indication, the beta is probably only being used to test their online infrastructure and to iron out any compatibility problems. I doubt that they’re pulling opinions and suggestions for improvement from external sources like beta testers at this late stage in development.
#5
DSB
05/01/12, 7:11 pm
@4 Yeah, that would make sense.
Still, it feels extremely empty, with very little of the story elements that made Diablo II worthwhile. If they have a far grander build laying around, it would make more sense to me if they were rolling that out for a stress test.
#6
YoungZer0
06/01/12, 9:07 am
Nah, game was dead to me as soon as they announced it had to be Online-Alltime to play. Not going to finance this kind of bullshit behavior from developers.