Bashiok Responds on Release Date and Teases Info Update
Posted 10 February 2012 by RushsterBashiok will no doubt be on the frontline after this evening’s Q2 news, and he hit the boards quickly with:
Can’t we just enjoy each others company?
Update: Yes, sounds like he is. Now play nice everyone!
…We’ve only ever said “early 2012″. And we just decided we’d need until Q2 this week. Seems like the conference call was as good a place as any to announce that.
Following the last patch it was inevitable another update from Jay (or someone) would be coming due to the lack of info on skills and Runes in Jay’s last update so at least we have something to look forward to in the interim.
In the meantime, as you’d expect, the news has not been received with open arms although the forums (view thread) seem a little calmer than the comments in the news items below this one but on the other hand the Facebook page is um, very angry to say the least – they tend not to hold back on Facebook I find.
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We will see… Q2 it is. This got me slightly more optimistic, if Bashiok says that release is not that far (he is implying it), it probably means something.
“it probably means something.”
It means this game is going to come out rather unbalanced with little time for the new changes to be bedded in properly before release.
Expect 2 or 3 patches within the first 2 months to fix up bad balance problems.
I don’t see why balance issues are all that big a deal if they exist – PVP is barely even in the game. Balance issues might make more people play one or the other classes just to make things easier on themselves, but that doesn’t really affect anyone else’s experience.
Let the PR spin machine begin…
We can enjoy each other’s company if they’d go ahead and send me a blasted beta invite.
Hey Bashiok, how ’bout no? I don’t want to be your friend. I want to be your customer. Release the damn game!
I refreshed Bashiok’s twitter 10 seconds after the Q2 bomb dropped during the conference call and he already had 30 new tweets. Probably in the 100s now.
I guess making an 180 degree turn on every aspect of the game every month or so isn’t so good for meeting your deadline. They should’ve got their act together long time ago.
Yes, but you forget the benefit of 360 degree turns every 2 years…
Of course, Blizzrd Irvine can earn 2 years worth of salary for what equates to doing… completely nothing in the end!
Godspeed Diablo 3.
http://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/4044504453?page=4
So freaking lame how Bash ended this thread. All the people were asking him if he thought May/April was early 2012. He didn’t reply but closed the thread. Speaks for itself I guess.
Well, I’m sure a lot of people would consider April still in the ‘early’ range but may is pushing it… That’s pretty much summer then and more like the ‘mid’ part of the year. So if it happens in April they were still on target…
“…And we just decided we’d need until Q2 this week…”
Interesting.
Better be some damn groundbreaking changes to both the rune and skill systems to have them justify this delay.
But I honestly doubt it.
Now you have to actually temporarily tattoo the runes on your skin and have a camera read them while playing in order to apply them skills… and to learn a new skill you have to do an interpretative dance that boss monsters do as their death animation… obviously you need a Kinect to play…
duke nukem?
What rational discussion is he referring to? You targeted late 2011, then Q1 2012. Now you are telling us Q2 2012… a rational person would have stopped giving weight to your targets by now and would not appreciate a flippant attitude.
They have to know what a disappointment this is to their fans. Why not be more contrite? Why not offer some carrot of new information besides, “new info to come in the weeks ahead!” That doesn’t soothe our anger. That doesn’t remove any of our frustration.
Nah. Instead they expect us to believe this Q2 business is actually “for real” this time. I think it’ll be out in Q2, but considering they “missed” the target the past two times…. They shouldn’t be surprised when people are rude or pissed off… seriously.
But then again, would anyone actually be surprised if it got pushed to Q3?
It’ll be the last month of Q2.
Yip. How about some new screenshots of Act 2 or even some glimpses from Act 3?
What would it cost them? Nothing. What would it gain them? A modicum of pacification for the restless fans.
The glimpses of Act III didn’t turn out so hot but I agree with you. I’d like to see screenshots from Act II, maybe higher-res images than what we got in the BlizzCon videos for the oasis and the archives.
They did it for D2 and there wasn’t any perceivable downside.
Does someone still believe him/them?
So basically they will bring it out around june 29th for the anniversary of D2 and LOD. im hoping april/may but i doubt it seeing as they have to go gold and then ship to stores and then wait a lil and then release . that process usually takes a month, and i think they will still be making tweaks until mid march. i just wish they would give europe some beta keys. i have been following the game since the day before it was announced due to the fact i had some weird dream that it was going to be, but even i am starting to feel the strain of the wait :S.
If I were on the Blizzard staff, I’d be working my ass off right now just to avoid having to deal with the ravening fans going bat **** crazy on us anymore. Not that it isn’t justified…