Diablo 3 officially delayed

Binh Nguyen 26 Sep, 2011 at 11:16am ET Article published in Gaming

Blizzard has a history of pushing their release dates back so they can polish their games as much as possible. And now, it has happened to Diablo 3—which has been pushed back to ‘early 2012’. In a statement, CEO Mike Morhaime said,

With every game we make, the temptation is always very strong to launch as soon as possible. However, we didn’t put so many years of work into Diablo III to release a game that was almost ready.

To the lucky few that were able to get into the beta, Blizzard will extend the beta to get more testing in:

The beta test is going very well, and we look forward to making the most of the extra time we’re taking to deliver an experience that lives up to our vision for the game and the expectation of our players. Next year is going to be an incredibly busy one for Blizzard, and we hope an incredibly fun one for Blizzard gamers.”

Does the news shock you at all? I am still looking forward to playing the game when it lands in 2012. I just hope to get my hands on a beta code before the game is released.

Comments

26 Sep 2011 ~ 12:34pm shwaip Do not want
26 Sep 2011 ~ 12:50pm Jokke Want.
26 Sep 2011 ~ 12:51pm Thrax I'm shocked that a Blizzard game was delayed.
26 Sep 2011 ~ 2:32pm TiberiusLazarus I'm shocked you're shocked.
26 Sep 2011 ~ 2:45pm edcentric So what is the betting line?
Anyone willing to take at stab at 'how late?"
26 Sep 2011 ~ 2:48pm Thrax I'm betting on the dads'n'grads season: March-May.
26 Sep 2011 ~ 2:49pm pigflipper So, "Early 2012" means, what, mid-late 2012 at the earliest?
26 Sep 2011 ~ 3:03pm UPSLynx I think they might hit Holiday 2012. That's a very conservative guess, of course.
26 Sep 2011 ~ 3:54pm sharkydart just knowing that this will be real at some point, is enough for me to keep waiting patiently... executing a hostage every hour until I get my beta key. (the hostages I will be executing will be my sorrows I will be drowning.)
26 Sep 2011 ~ 4:53pm Chooch I predict that it will be a summer release.
26 Sep 2011 ~ 7:36pm fatcat as long as it is the complete game and not that starcraft 2 bullshit i'll be happy with anytime Q1-Q2 2012
26 Sep 2011 ~ 9:44pm Koreish It won't be. There will be an expansion. Every Blizzard game has an expansion.
26 Sep 2011 ~ 10:01pm Tim I've never played Diablo and don't want to. Blizzard's policy of "it's ready when it's ready" may be annoying, but no one can ever say that they put out a poor quality game.

Blizzard loves to use words like "soon" also. I remember when the Starcraft 2 beta was down for a couple weeks between beta stage 1 and beta stage 2, Blizzard saying it would be available "SOON" would drive me crazy!
26 Sep 2011 ~ 10:04pm fatcat

Koreish wrote:

It won't be. There will be an expansion. Every Blizzard game has an expansion.

expansions are a little different than taking a game, dividing it by 3 parts, and then selling each part for PROFIT!!!
27 Sep 2011 ~ 5:44pm Tim Do you think all those people at Blizzard working on these games work for FREE? I wouldn't! All right then.
27 Sep 2011 ~ 6:06pm UPSHitman ugh!
27 Sep 2011 ~ 11:25pm Koreish

fatcat wrote:

expansions are a little different than taking a game, dividing it by 3 parts, and then selling each part for PROFIT!!!

No, no. You just don't understand that Blizzard is trying to give us the full story of the starcraft universe.

Oh wait no they fucked that up with Wings of Liberty.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/2228426678
27 Sep 2011 ~ 11:27pm Thrax Jesus taco dick, somebody needs to learn the value of TL;DR.
28 Sep 2011 ~ 1:35am UPSLynx Makes my eyes hurt just to look at that. Holy crap.
20 Oct 2011 ~ 3:36am TheAlertHusky Jeez this was "unexpected."
27 Oct 2011 ~ 2:17am jayfordroland I am disappointed for the delay..I am playing Diablo since it's first release..