D3 Announced. Whos coming back?

[blckshdwdragon]

Title.



Two decades have passed since the demonic denizens, Diablo, Mephisto, and Baal, wandered the world of Sanctuary in a vicious rampage to shackle humanity into unholy slavery. Yet for those who battled the Prime Evils directly, the memory fades slowly and the wounds of the soul still burn.



When Deckard Cain returns to the ruins of Tristram's Cathedral seeking clues to new stirrings of evil, a comet from the heavens strikes the very ground where Diablo once entered the world. The comet carries a dark omen in its fiery being and it calls the heroes of Sanctuary to defend the mortal world against the rising powers of the Burning Hells – and even the failing luminaries of the High Heavens itself.

Game Features
Explore a fully-realized Sanctuary – the living, breathing gothic fantasy world of Diablo III rendered in gorgeous 3D.

Battle the unholy forces of the Burning Hells with all-new character classes like the otherworldly Witch Doctor, or with re-imagined warriors from Diablo’s past: such as the fierce Barbarian.

Rain Hell on your enemies wielding the interactive environment as a weapon: lay cunning traps, turn destructible objects against your foes, and use environmental obstacles to your advantage - all powered by the Havoc physics system.

Experience the intensity of multiplayer Diablo III over an all-new, wickedly-enhanced Battle.net platform with numerous enhancements to make connecting with your friends easier – and cooperative gameplay more fun.

[nddwind]

I remembered my password to zelaron after all these years! woot!

I've been playing WoW for 3 years, 1st place in all brackets of arena and I'm going to quit WoW for this game. Thats how pumped I am to get back into diablo. Played D2 for like 3 years also before WoW came out.

[Randuin]

All of us

[NonGayMan]

All of us

What he said, imo. ^_^

[!King_Amazon!]

Wutz goin on in here?

[Xenn]

I assume I'll play

[quikspy67]

Oh my god i never thought this day would come.

[Willkillforfood]

Hello people :D. I'm very excited about this shit. Several of my real life buds are very interested also.

[Chruser]

I'm in.

[Randuin]

I assume I'll play

Holy fuck talk about coming out of the woodwork

[Willkillforfood]

Xenn's been coming on randomly for a while.

[Coriander]

I will play it.

[Vollstrecker]

Count me in. ;)

[HandOfHeaven]

I'm 100% certain I'll play.

[blckshdwdragon]

I wonder how long it will take for them to release DIII. My guess is a year and a half to two.

[-Spector-]

Yeah it'll be a year or two but I'm in.

[Dar_Win]

I'm thinking a year. The gameplay video looked pretty functional.

[jamer123]

ill try once i start d2

[Killah]

Holy fuck talk about coming out of the woodwork

I know right.....but I will def be in!

[sheerx]

I know I'm coming back.

[Asamin]

I think this will be the first game I will ever pre-order...... Wow..... But I do love Diablo that much. I have now been playing it for close to a decade. Since I was 6 i think.

[D3V]

So have there been any updates on this game? I haven't checked the website in a long time, i was just wondering if anybody knew of any new details on this game, anything would be beneficial at this point.

[Kazilla]

MOST RECENT UPDATES

09.04.2008 - Lore - Diablo Timeline (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/timeline.xml)
06.28.2008 - Classes - Barbarian (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/barbarian.xml)
06.28.2008 - Environments - Caldeum (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/environments/caldeum.xml)
06.28.2008 - Bestiary - Dark Cultists (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/bestiary/darkcultists.xml)
06.28.2008 - Lore - Deckard Cain's Journal (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/world/lore/journal.xml)

[PureRebel]

i'd say itll be ages considering how long ago they announced SC2 and look at it now...

[D3V]

Knowing blizzard they could very well release all 3 titles around the same time.

[Asamin]

Mucho money coming in at one time. Very clever!

[!King_Amazon!]

Their products would be competing, though. Bad business move. They would be better off spacing them out a few months at least.

[Asamin]

Good point. Maybe an average pay check apart so their fans have time to get the money to buy the next one.

[Kazilla]

Blizzard makes such an unheard amount of cash from WoW, anything else they release from here on out is just for shits and giggles. They probably created WoW to gross enough money to invest into Diablo 3 sence that is what people wanted in the first place ;).

[!King_Amazon!]

Unlikely that it's just for shits and giggles. Businesses rarely do anything for shits and giggles. There's no doubt that they're making Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 to make more money. That's what businesses do.

[Asamin]

You mean they don't have enough already? With 7 Mil players paying $15 a month, you think they could stop trying to make money already and just work on stuff the public wants.

1200 posts! Boo ya!

[!King_Amazon!]

Well, they have to pay to maintain their servers, pay their development teams, pay their executives, pay for advertising, etc. There's no doubt they are making a lot of money anyway, but nobody is ever satisfied with how much they are making in the business world. More money is always good.

[Kazilla]

With 7 Mil players paying $15 a month, you think they could stop trying to make money already.


$15.00 x 7,000,000 = $105,000,000.00/monthly

$105,000,000.00 x 12 = $1,260,000,000/annually

That is off of the monthly subscription fee alone. Not counting all the other forms of marketing they do.

[!King_Amazon!]

Right, but that's income, not profit. We don't know how much it costs them to run their company. It's not like there's $1.2billion going into the pocket of Blizzard's CEO just like that.

[Willkillforfood]

That's not even including the games themselves, which have probably been marked down. That's hundreds of millions more in income. Each expansion probably gives them at least $500 million operating income. Of course this is taxed to hell, but it's awesome.

[Asamin]

Isn't everything that is big bucks taxed to hell and back?

[Kazilla]

Either way, the average joe is still making $480 a week, while blizzard makes $26,250,000 a week.

[Asamin]

Either way, the average joe is still making $480 a week, while blizzard makes $26,250,000 a week.
Wouldn't it be nice to earn 26 mill a week.

[platnum]

I will be playing this game also.

[Willkillforfood]

Yea, I can't wait. I'll probably be out of college when it comes out, too :D>-<.

[-Spector-]

Wow out of nowhere Platnum shows up..

How's it goin?

[Asamin]

It was the same with coffeedagger. He just popped out of nowhere after not even visiting us for all summer.

[platnum]

Its going pretty good, it has been a while since i've been here.

[Hades-Knight]

I shall return, and we the originals, will begin our quest for the next dupe method, I invoke you Chruser, Xenn, TacoX, Killah, Grav, Randuin and all those who migrated from cheatlist in the early days of zelaron, we will rise again!

[Grav]

I forgot you exist. Get out of here.

[WetWired]

There was no original by the name of Hades-Knight. Why don't you go ride more knights, imposter?

[Asamin]

What do you mean. Is he the same way as those other people that joined with similar names to members so they got all the same stats?

[!King_Amazon!]

He used to be Knight-Rider

[D3V]

I shall return, and we the originals, will begin our quest for the next dupe method, I invoke you Chruser, Xenn, TacoX, Killah, Grav, Randuin and all those who migrated from cheatlist in the early days of zelaron, we will rise again!

So uh, where the hell you been douchecanoe?