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Blizzard plots to delay Diablo III game & StarCraft 2 Expansions until fans are dead?

Blizzard plots to delay Diablo III game & StarCraft 2 Expansions until fans are dead?

Well, not exactly, but that’s what I’m beginning to think. I mean, the evidence is all here, and it’s starting to sound like one massive Blizzard conspiracy against their own fans for, I don’t know, supporting them? Anyway, my dark thoughts aside, while StarCraft 2, the upgraded Battle.net and World of Warcraft: Cataclysm are all scheduled to release next year in 2010, Diablo III, StarCraft 2 Expansion packs and Blizzard’s [unannounced] new MMO still show a release date of the “next few years”. This news was revealed during a presentation in New York where Thomas Tippl, Activision Blizzard chief financial officer, spoke about the strong business conducted by Blizzard games. He claimed that the division had a full pipeline of content, which he depicted in the following slide during his presentation:

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If nothing else reassuring, the above confirms that StarCraft 2 will, in fact, be released in 2010 next year, so at least that much is clear. However, while Blizzard will continue to support World of Warcraft in 2010 as well as the “next few years”, Diablo III was marked to be released in 2011 at the soonest, which definitely isn’t good news at all for all those gamers looking forward to it for so long. Hopefully we’ll have more news regarding these titles in the upcoming weeks, but I guess that’s like hoping for the Double Crunch burger to return to KFC – entirely <the word that starts with an “F” and now comes before prawn> unlikely.

[Credit to Kotaku for the picture]

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  • iLLyRiaN

    It is rather annoying to have all the delays, but I sincerely doubt it’s a conspiracy :razz:
    they’re just working really hard on having a perfect game, trying to work all the bugs out

  • madmike2010

    As always, Blizzard will only release their games when they feel that “It is ready”. It was only announced at last years World Wide Invitational. Think of ALL their games that have been released at least within a year after being announced (besides for the expansion packs for WoW)

    It has always been 2-4 years. I’d prefer to rather play a game that has as little amount of bugs as possible, than play a game where patches upon patches have to be downloaded to fix the bugs.

  • Nitrate

    Or they too busy playing WoW and it’s like uhm, yeah — we’ll work on that tomorrow.

    Look it’s already almost 2010 and we’ve…..

    … I’ll finish this comment tomorrow

  • Strega

    Jeez if we going to have to wait another year for Diablo that really sucks… :sad:

    They shouldn’t release stuff like they have so soon… Its building up a hype now yes, but they cant expect us to be crazed fans for an entire year…

  • 1Ns4N17y

    LOL Nitrate classic :mrgreen:

    I think it’s like iLLyRiaN says, they are trying to make a really decent game, as is usually the case with every Blizzard game. And like the saying goes- Good things come to those who wait :razz:

  • Nitrate

    Or… They are just toying with us :)

  • chay

    It’s that Jew of a CEO Kotick (who actually is Jewish), milking WoW for as long as possible before selling 3 different episodes of the same game and making a killing on Diablo 3…

    http://kotaku.com/5403762/so-how-much-did-bobby-kotick-make-from-modern-warfare-2#c16778224

    Just look at that evil grin. What a scrooge.

  • Nitrate

    Absolute joke. It’s a total viable reason for the delays though.

  • TheLegionaire

    according to mek one of ensidias (one of the worlds top guilds) gm’s there was an early ALPHA version of d2 at blizzcon and it was far from complete http://www.ensidia.com not sure which one of his blogs its under :>.

    Blizzard have 3 amazing abilities

    1) Making huge amounts of money (doh)
    2) producing legendary games
    3) Releasing as little information about their games as possible before they are released :>

  • Tody

    I’m not doubting Blizzard, I’m well aware of how good they are at what they do :razz: Don’t need to get all defensive on me people! (Yes, Madmike I’m talking to you) ;-)

    We’d all like a game to be the best that it can be, especially with titles such as Diablo 3, but then again, there is only so much time we can wait :grin:

    By the way, I was joking about the conspiracy thing. But you never know…