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Diablo 3 Won’t Launch with PvP

Monday, March 12th, 2012

diablo-3-announcement1 Blizzard has confirmed that Diablo 3 won’t launch with player versus player combat.

Lead designer Jay Wilson said in a post on Battle.net that the PvP Arena system will arrive in a post-release patch.

“As we’re counting down the days until we’re ready to announce a release date for Diablo III, we’ve come to realize that the PvP game and systems aren’t yet living up to our standards,” he said.

“Today, we wanted to let you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to hold back the PvP Arena system and release it in a patch following the game’s launch.” (more…)

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Diablo 3 Launch Date Announcement “In The Near Future”

Friday, February 24th, 2012

diablo-3-announcement1 Blizzard has moved to assure fans that Diablo 3 is in “great shape” following some ominous sentiments expressed by one of its own community managers.

Earlier this month, Micah ‘Bashiok’ Whiple, a community manager at Blizzard, expressed concerns that the game might not meet fan expectations, causing a bit of a stir among forumites.

“I too worry that we won’t be able to meet the expectations people have built up for themselves. Part of my job is managing people’s expectations, so… eh… stop it. Stop thinking about how awesome this game could be,” he said. (more…)

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World of Warcraft Subscriber Losses Calm

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

deathwingelemental Industry leading MMO lost 100,000 active users in most recent quarter – 700,000 less than previous period.

Activation Blizzard reported a net loss of 100,000 World of Warcraft subscribers for the three months ending December 31st, according to financial documents filed by the company.

An aggressive marketing campaign featuring Chuck Norris during the quarterly period may have acquired enough new subscribers to negate further losses to its established user base.

Three months prior to the fourth calendar quarter, Activision Blizzard revealed that the longstanding MMO had lost 800,000 subscribers – seven per cent of its total user base at the time. That followed another exodus of about 300,000 customers in the first six months of 2011.

But Blizzard appears to have decelerated the reduction, ending the quarter with 10.2 million subscribers after seven years of business. (more…)

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Valve and Blizzard go to war over DOTA

Friday, February 10th, 2012

screenshot_277351_thumb_wide300 Two of the most successful PC developers of all time have gone to war over the use of the term DOTA (Defence of the Ancients).

In case you’re none the wiser, DOTA was a very popular fan mod for Blizzard’s Warcraft 3. In 2010 Valve hired one of the mod’s creators and announced it was working on DOTA 2. Blizzard wasn’t very pleased about this, especially as soon after it announced its own sequel, Blizzard DOTA. (more…)

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Diablo 3 February Release Date Reports Debunked by Blizzard

Monday, January 9th, 2012

diablo-3-announcement1 Blizzard’s community manager Micah Whiple, aka Bashiok, has said retailer listings suggesting Diablo 3 will be released next month aren’t official.

“Retailers will not know a date until it’s officially announced through a press release,” Whiple said on Twitter.

Over the weekend Best Buy and Gameplay listed the Diablo 3 release date as February 1, whipping up a bit of a fan frenzy.

Whiple went on to point out that the developer “can’t really keep every individual retail shop from making up a date” before reiterating the company hasn’t provided an official launch date for the eagerly anticipated dungeon crawler. “Any store or person claiming otherwise is guessing.” (more…)

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Blizzard Affair with Consoles Still Possible for Diablo III

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

diablo-3-announcement1 It has been an on-again, off-again relationship for Blizzard and consoles over the past couple decades. With offerings on the N64 in StarCraft 64 and Warcraft II on the Saturn and PlayStation, Blizzard is once again working on a possible offering for the current generation with Diablo III.

As of right now, the highly anticipated game is definitely coming out for PC, but the developer maintains that they are hard at work on coming up with something specifically designed for consoles, not some shoddy port.

“There’s a key difference,” said Blizzard lead designer Jay Wilson to Game Informer. “Certainly, a lot of things get brought over, but a port is trying to take a PC game and graft it onto a console. Our goal is to make a game that feels like it’s natively made for a console. If we make it, we want it to feel like a Blizzard game and that we built it for that platform from the ground up.”

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Chuck Norris stars in WoW ad

Monday, November 21st, 2011

deathwing02-1024x768 Did you know that there are 10 million people in World of Warcraft because Chuck Norris allows them to live?

Neither did we but that’s what Blizzard’s latest World of Warfraft TV advert says, and as we all know if it’s on the TV it’s undoubtedly true.

According to Blizzard’s official description, Chuck Norris – who as expected, plays as a hunter – didn’t break a sweat filming the newest World of Warcraft television spot. Instead, he made the director cry and then cooled himself with the tears.

Watch the video, or Chuck Norris will probably kick your ass, and no one wants that. (more…)

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WoW: Deathwing Raid Instance “Dragon Soul” Detailed

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

deathwing02-1024x768 Blizzard have become much better at getting information out about new instances, but the folks over at MMO Champion are just that much quicker. Data mining like pros, they have discovered what the next raid in Azeroth will pertain to.

Blizzard have released an interview, detailing parts of the encounter, so in this news post I will piece both pieces of information together for you lovely people.

*This post contains spoilers – Proceed at your own risk*

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Diablo 3 Auction House Uses Real World Money

Monday, August 1st, 2011

diablo-3-announcement1 The bombshell that was dropped in the most recent Diablo 3 press event is that the Auction House will both use in-game money and real world money.

Many of you that play World of Warcraft are aware of the Auction House and how it works; you place items on there at a certain value and hope to turn a profit. The profit has only ever been for your character in game, until now.

With the new system, you may be able to make a profit with your own money.

The Auction House will be split into a real-money and gold-based auction houses allowing players to decide on a per item basis which currency they will use.

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Diablo 3 Requires Constant Internet Connection

Monday, August 1st, 2011

diablo-3-announcement1 Blizzard has revealed that the long-awaited Diablo 3 will require players to be constantly connected to the internet, even after an initial authentication process has been completed.

Remember when you first heard stuff like how either Steam or StarCraft 2 require you to be online for authentication purposes? That the process to play or utilize either service offline can be a bit circuitous, but at least it’s still possible to be offline. But, Diablo 3 differs in that you must be online to play at all — not just for authentication.

Executive vice president of game design Rob Pardo notes that the wealth of improvements and features Diablo 3 brings to Battle.net necessitate the always-online requirement. Specific additions that he refers to include: (more…)

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