Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime has announced that the highly anticipated Diablo III will be launching in early 2012. The company hoped to have the game ready by the end of 2011, but wanted additional time to improve things. Given Blizzard’s legendary level of polish, I’m sure that it will be well worth the wait. Here’s more from Morhaime’s blog:
For Diablo III, we were aiming to launch by the end of 2011. As we’re announcing globally today, our new target for the game is early 2012.
While this news might not be a complete surprise, I know that many of you were hopeful that Diablo III would ship this year. We were too. However, this week we pulled together people from all of the teams involved with the game to decide whether we felt it would be ready before the end of December, and we grudgingly came to the conclusion that it would not. Ultimately, we feel that to deliver an awesome Diablo sequel that lives up to our expectations and yours as well, we should take a little more time and add further polish to a few different elements of the game.
The upside of today’s announcement is that we will be running the beta test longer than we initially planned, which will allow us to invite more of you who have opted in.
I’m so psyched for this game! It’s going to completely own. I know that RPadholic smartguy is definitely down to play. Anyone else? Are you going to be among the millions — and millions (think The Rock) — of people that will buy Diablo III?
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This is one of those games I want to play so that I know what people are talking about, but don't want to spend the money on.
I never got into any of the Diablo games, though I might try this one and see if I can sell some pixels to some fools for real money.
You can do that in D2 as well.
The thing I liked about D3 was how the transactions were going to be handled in game and backed up by Blizzard and Paypal.