Post by Jimbo @ 07:57am 10/05/11 | 32 Comments
The 3rd quarter reference in the earning's call today was a calendar quarter, meaning that we're aiming to launch the Diablo III beta between July 1st and September 30th. Keep in mind that it's our current goal, and of course that can change as development continues.Company-wide internal testing of Diablo 3 started at Blizzard last week.
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Posted 08:46am 10/5/11
I would sell my soul but I traded that in a while ago for my WoW account.
Posted 08:52am 10/5/11
Now we're 8 years on and I'm working at a university when the Diablo 3 beta is about to come out ;P
Gotta be honest, I barely think I've even seen any screens of D3.
Frankly I've been too busy playing 3DS games (and portal) and eagerly awaiting Zelda: OOT for 3DS to even pay attention to any other upcoming releases.
Posted 09:43am 10/5/11
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Posted 11:01am 10/5/11
Cool story bro!
Posted 11:37am 10/5/11
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Posted 04:02pm 10/5/11
I think TOR is doing a pretty good job of disrupting itself. I blame EA.
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Posted 06:40pm 10/5/11
better yet, Going to*
Posted 07:10pm 10/5/11
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Posted 12:21am 11/5/11
I know 3/4 of my guild and a s***load of people from others who wont renew their account while they are playing D3. (me included)
Posted 02:27am 11/5/11
Posted 04:54am 11/5/11
Multiplayer dungeon running (PvM) with their new fangled randomised dungeon map thingy is a top priority, though. That's likely to be what they will focus on, in this closed public beta.
Posted 06:34am 11/5/11
The StarCraft 2 multiplayer beta was almost the total MP experience that was launched, sans a few maps.
If the D3 multiplayer contains the core story (like the D1 and D2 MP) then imo that's what we'll get.
Posted 06:40am 11/5/11
Multiplayer arenas will let them load test battlenet, let them test their network code under different conditions and in different regions, and let people play with all the classes, all the skills, the runes, all that stuff and give feedback on them. Makes the most sense to me.
Posted 06:44am 11/5/11
Thats my point though, D3 has multiplayer modes that do NOT contain the story, so thats what I'd imagine they will be offering. Very few public betas ever offer the campaign part of the game in beta, its just wishful thinking to expect that here imo.
Posted 06:47am 11/5/11
Releasing multiplayer arenas doesn't let them test the core game. How will people level their character and get gear to test the arena? I don't think they'd bother to put in a gear / stats trainer but I guess I could be wrong.
And yeh, sure its marketing, but a Blizzard public beta is also a huge stress test. Arenas are not going to flog the servers in quite they way they will need floggin to gauge how it all works with eleventy bazillion screaming fans. Its also not really going to provide much of an insight to tthe game, as the arenas are just a side order.
I'm happy to throw down a twenty that I'm right Khel, and that the beta includes some of the MP story / campaign :)
Posted 06:55am 11/5/11
Could just be like playing on the PTR with wow, where you can use pre-created levelled up characters. Then you just spend your points on whatever skills you want and runes and stuff. I dunno, this is just pure conjecture on my behalf, but it doesn't seem like a bit problem to overcome, and its not like levelling up is a mechanic that really need extensive testing.
Sure, I'll take that bet. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but I don't think I will be :P No campaign in public beta, thats the stance I'm taking.
Posted 07:43am 11/5/11
Just to clarify though ... I agree that there will be no single-player campaign, which may be slightly different to the MP campaign (it was in the other games).
IMO the public beta will include normal MP content and not just arenas. I'm not sure how that will line up with what we call 'campaign' content, but you'll party up and go kill mobs PVE-style, gain xp and loot s***, not just generate a character and bash people in arenas.
Posted 08:46am 11/5/11
someone give me next weeks lotto numbers
Posted 09:34pm 11/5/11
Also, I am excite.
Posted 10:49pm 11/5/11
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Posted 09:26am 12/5/11
they said that they hope this will start to canabalize wow as they see it as unavoidable and they would like for their own game to replace it