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brute on 14 September 2008

http://www.incgamers.com/Games/1935/News/Diablo-III-Release-Date-Rumour-Debunked/13753

Diablo III Release Date Rumour Debunked

14 Sep 2008 by Gunnar Petzall

IncGamers' Diablo III network site Diii.net reports that a rumour regarding the release dates of Diablo III and StarCraft II arose on the Battleforums fansite, and has gotten quite some attention around the web. A source of unknown credibility had told them that Blizzard had relocated the majority of the development team of StarCraft II to Diablo III, and that Diablo III was to be released before the famous RTS game.

Diii.net denies the chance of any such rumours to be true, stating known information about StarCraft II being a long way ahead in the development cycle over Diablo III. They also state the fact that Battle.net 2.0 will launch with the RTS game, making a DIII preemptive release unlikely as the Battle.net upgrade is said to be out before the action RPG game.

Our StarCraft II network site StarCraftWire.net also confirms that the development teams have not changed size. They claim they would not even have commented on this source if the hype had not evolved around it.

This rumour seems to be nothing more than a Diablo fan's wishes ending up in a news feed by accident or intentionally to create hype.



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O-D-C on 14 September 2008

hmm I stayed at a Novotel in France very nice.

OT: Im hoping for Starcraft II to relaese soon, but even if it dosent Red Alert 3 will give me my RTS fix.



brute on 14 September 2008

Starcraft 2 will most likely release in 2009.

By the way it seems Activision-Blizzard is advertising WoW again,maybe they lost some subscribers to the newly released games.



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vlad321 on 14 September 2008

That or they wanna get even more with the release of WOTLK.



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BottledSpringWater on 14 September 2008

I never knew this rumour even existed



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Ickalanda on 14 September 2008
brute said:
Starcraft 2 will most likely release in 2009.

By the way it seems Activision-Blizzard is advertising WoW again,maybe they lost some subscribers to the newly released games.

 

I think it's more of they want to get it hyped up more since Wrath of the Lich King is coming out in a couple months.

 

And @ the topic I never even heard about this rumor and always assumed that it would be more likely that StarCraft 2 would come out first seeing as it was announced almost a year earlier than Diablo 3.



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xbebop on 14 September 2008
Ickalanda said:
brute said:
Starcraft 2 will most likely release in 2009.

By the way it seems Activision-Blizzard is advertising WoW again,maybe they lost some subscribers to the newly released games.

 

I think it's more of they want to get it hyped up more since Wrath of the Lich King is coming out in a couple months.

 

And @ the topic I never even heard about this rumor and always assumed that it would be more likely that StarCraft 2 would come out first seeing as it was announced almost a year earlier than Diablo 3.

Also, Blizzard needs to take away some of Warhammer's hype.

 



Commando on 14 September 2008

Yeah it figures.


Good find!



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craighopkins on 18 September 2008

Is Diablo 3 a MMORPG or just a RPG?



vlad321 on 18 September 2008

We actually don't know yet. We have yet to see or hear anything of payment in Battle.net 2.0, but I doubt, or at leasst hope, there will be no reason to be paying for Diablo III other than the basic 50 bucks for the game.



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gamrReview's broken review scores: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=4170835