

According to recent rumors, Diablo III‘s release date will likely come in the second quarter, around April to June. And with the confirmation coming from Wilson, Diablo fans have a real reason to celebrate. In addition, Morhaime clued fans into the official Diablo III release date announcement, saying it was coming in a matter of weeks. 9.0 = matter of a week or two, 9.9 = early next week?” Jay quipped, “Don’t push it. When another fan had attempted to extract further information by writing, “How about a decimal place.

Wilson merely responded, “9”, but that was all that was needed to be said. blizzard, if your not going to do it right. after watching gameplay of it i am more pissed off then hyped up. i waited for so long for blizzard to make diablo 3. The Diablo III fan, Chris Wright, asked, “On a scale of 1 to 10, (1=not even close, 10=immenent,) how close are we to that all important #D3 announcement? :)” after being a huge diablo fan and spending an unbelievable amount of hours playing diablo2. Luckily, the waiting game is nearly over. In celebration of the first Ladder season for Diablo II: Resurrected, we will be hosting a special broadcast and competition between fan favorite content. And after the massive 600-employee layoff at Blizzard, we’ve been wondering if we would ever see Diablo III’s release in our lifetime. To back this up, Jay Wilson, Diablo III’s game director, encouragingly responded to a tweet from a fan just yesterday. The highly anticipated Diablo III has been gut-wrenchingly delayed many times before. “We determined that while some areas of our business had been operating at the right levels and could bnefit from further growth, other areas had become overstaffed,” wrote Morhaim “I also want to emphasize that we remain committed to shipping multiple games this year, and that our development teams in particular remain largely unaffected by announcement.” As Morhaime was quick to point out, 90 percent of the layoffs were non-developer roles. Thankfully we'll be playing D3 during our lifetime.įollowing the troubling layoff announcement, Blizzard President and co-founder Michael Morhaime took to the forums to make it clear that the cuts would have no effect on the release of projects including World of Warcraft, Blizzard DOTA, Diablo III, Starcraft II, and other unannounced projects. Luckily, the waiting game is nearly over. The highly anticipated Diablo III has been gut-wrenchingly delayed many times before.
