Diablo 4? Blizzard offering hints to die for
The clues are out there.
Blizzard likes to keep itself busy. The new Legion expansion is out for World of Warcraft, and the Starcraft 2 trilogy is done except for some minor mission packs. Overwatch is a huge success, as is Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm is rolling right along. So what does that leave? The Diablo franchise, of course, and there are some hints that Diablo 4 could be making an appearance at BlizzCon next month.
At the heart of the speculation is a Diablo-themed bag of role-playing dice that is part of the the BlizzCon 2016 goodie bag. The bag includes a 4-sided die (aka D4), but it is unusable because of what was first thought to be a printing errorinvolving the 4s and the 1s on the die. Two ones and a 4 pop up when the die lnds a certain way. While printing errors do happen, people began to notice that 1-1-4 could be read as 11/4, or November 4, which happens to be the first day of BlizzCon. Hmmmmm, a D4 with a 11/4 printing error ...
But wait, there is more. David Brevik, who worked on the original series before branching out on his own, recently tweeted a picture of the Libra constellation and " "For 20 years, Diablo-like games have evolved & surprised us. I'm proud to be the adviser for the game that pushes this genre to new heights." Brevik left his previous gig at Gazillion Entertainment in January of this year to start working on "other opportunities." What could the constellation mean? In sidereal astrology, Libra covers Ocotbr 16 to November 15, the latter dates agan covering BlizzCon.
To add to the mystery, Brevik and former exec Bill Roper were both at Blizzard at the same time earlier this month. Also, back in July, Blizzard had been looking for a game director for an unannounced Diablo project.
Granted, this could all be a wild goose chase designed to get more eyes on the first day of BlizzCon 2016. There are not any substantial panels planned for the Diablo series, but that doesn't mean that we might not get a teaser trailer and a promise of more info later.
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replyJohn Keefer posted a new article, Diablo 4? Blizzard offering hints to die for
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Except for Diablo 3 being in the url and in the tshirt design.
http://gear.blizzard.com/blizzcon-2016-diablo-apparel-accessories/diablo-3-realms-of-evil-tee-
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I could see a new expansion. Give me a necromancer and I'll be happy.
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They did not. They did so for StarCraft 2, which may be what you're remembering. But that's the only time they've ever announced future expansions along with the initial release.
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I thought they announced awhile back they are working on a new MMO
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I'm with you - I like Overwatch, but love Diablo
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Por que no los dos?
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Your assumption I'd call into question is that the transient MMO market is worth pursuing for a company that already owns the #1 MMO.
Sure, there's a large-ish demographic of people who will buy an mmo and play it for the first 1-3 months then shelve it. We see that every time a new MMO comes out, so that market is fairly well known and understood at this point. The question is whether or not it's worth the expenditure for Blizzard, and whether or not their developers are sufficiently interested in working on it when they can just try something new in the next WoW expansion. -
The MMO market is completely different now. It'd be a huge risk.
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giant MMOs are pretty much dead and for good reasons
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Playing D3 again lately and I'm surprised there's no option to pay to get more storage. I usually don't buy DLC, but I would totally pay for that. Or take it even further, give us a "castle" area where we can hang all our shit. Diablo is all about the loot, so let us accumulate it in a neat way if we want to.
Castle DLC : 14.95$ for basic storage
Class add-on to hang all the set pieces of a given class : 7.95$
Completely optional, you can also just salvage everything.
The alternative right now is to carefully manage which piece is not worth keeping and which piece is. It's anxiety-ridden and not fun. Right now we're at the end of a season and everyone has to figure out which pieces to keep and it feels like work. It's a chore.-
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I'm not sure if China ever had a real money auction house and how it might have been received. I don't think they ever had one. I could be wrong tho. I just think after the USA anger over the AH, blizzard just decided to not bother with future micro trans. I think it was for the best.
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I don't know the requirements because I stopped playing the game around the time that stuff was introduced, yet I'm also not sure why anyone but a dedicated player would really need all that extra stash space.
Not saying more space for all wouldn't be nice, but at some point I realized I was hoarding a lot of items for multiple characters for no reason. It was always stuff I'd save thinking I'd use at some point later, but I'd never touch it in the end. It's freeing to go in and dismantle all of those items, plus the real draw of the game is in finding new items. I really only need enough space for my current gear and maybe the side set stuff I'm looking for at any time.
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Diablo 4, where you play as any of the mobs trying to stave off the invading Nephilim. Start as any low level monster (quill rat, zombie, etc) and have the choice to level up (special traits) or shift to a new monster type. Raid and/or raze villages, gather mana across multiple players to summon a greater demon, etc...
Then offer a F2P mode where you can login via web or smartphone app to play as the expendable heroes. Random quick fights against the monsters of another timezone.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they just called it Diablo. And kept iterating on it like Warcraft, Overwatch or Hearthstone. That model seems to be doing well for them
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Just give us an updated D2: LOD with perhaps another act please
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