Diablo 3 Release Date Slips
Posted 9 February 2012 by RushsterDuring the conference call today, Mike Morhaime confirmed that Diablo 3 has been delayed into a Q2 release date which takes it out of the previously stated “early 2012″ date.
Slide from ATVI Q4 Financial Conference Call
We began beta testing for Diablo III last year. After receiving feedback from the community and our internal teams, we have implemented changes to the game which we believe will greatly improve the game experience, and ensure that the final release will live up to our high expectations. We have also been testing the Auction House functionality. This testing will help ensure a smooth roll-out of this feature with the retail launch, so our players can safely and securely trade items with each other.
Given the popularity of the action RPG genre, and the keen interest in Diablo III, we expect this launch to be a big opportunity for Blizzard. We can also confirm that we are targeting a Q2 launch for Diablo III. We expect to announce more details about the release schedule in the coming weeks.
So there you have it, we won’t be seeing the game for a over a month at the earliest which will no doubt disappoint many of you who were expecting some good news this evening. We can only hope that Mike does come back with more details in the coming weeks because we have heard that comment in previous conference calls and then nothing materialises.
We’ll make sure the 
Diablo III release date page is kept right up to date so you can follow the developments.
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June 29th it is -.-
you got it all wrong man… they are targeting, that’s slang for maybe we’ll release it in q3, but really don’t get your hopes up for q2.
June the 30th it is…
Technically it didn’t slip, since as far as I know they never confirmed Q1. Shall we count April as early?
doesnt matter, fansites tend to exaggerate on this issue like all unserious pools of information often do (just look at blizz forums ~)
Actually they did say “Q1″ a couple times. But for the most part they had said “Early” so who knows what they really had in mind. I get the feeling that they have moved the internal target back multiple times now to accommodate more and more iteration and last-minute overhauling. For once I wish their corporate overlords would get involved and put serious pressure on them to be done with it.
Spelt Experience wrong
Q2!!! :’(((((((((
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HULK ANGRY
They’re soooo going to make all 3 releases this year.
I’m sure all the WoW-players are thrilled to have to endure 1+ year of the same instance… like Icecrown. That was really fun.
Heck even SC2s singleplayer campaign needs a push forward…
YES, I MAD
Blizzard’s project management sure blows.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeR6uYxU50
http://nooooooooooooooo.com/ :p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnrAZACQKbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAK0lXgBCdA
It’s like they don’t really start working on the game until the year it’s supposed to be released.
ye it looks like they are kinda like the average college student ; who does nothing but chilling and party / and than pull off all nighter 3 days before exam and learn more in 72 hours than in the 6 previous months….
eh.. accidentally deleted my post :/
Anyway, I made a comparison between Blizzard producing AAA award winning products, and a lazy college student…. regardless, you make a good point.
well but if you scale it up to multi million dollar company with multiple WELL paid employees i think the analogy is reasonable, we also dont know about the quality of the game yet; what if it truly is the Starwars I of Diablo ? I played WoW and Starcraft 2 ; but if you ask me Diablo 2 and Warcraft 3 were better products at the time than WoW and SC2 now. Battlnet 2.0 is a mess and the only thing that kept me in WoW until mid TBC were friends.
that being said ; i think Blizzard lost something since they are trimmed for Mass appeal, sure i and many other players want to play it and will buy it for the name and nostalgia alone ; but if it sucks we wont keep playing it.
well – maybe that works out for blizzard as businessmodel ; but it certainly is not the countenance that made Blizzard great gamedeveloper.
Blizz games have always been late though… now they just have enough money to be as late as possible…
@bloat
I knew plenty of good students that only studied during exam time, usually for 3-4 days… us average ones where more likely to read the course once a day before… it helped that you get multiple chances as long as you have enough points to pass the year.
its soo ****ing true x)
I used to worship at the Altar of Blizzard but they have REALLY dropped the ball. I’m beyond frustrated with this company and the bull**** they give us about them trying to release the game before 2011 ends, then were aiming for Q1 and now its Q2 which means (including the month of february, since its just started) we could be waiting nearly 5 months to play this game (Feb. – March – April – May – Game releases end of June – 5 ****ING MONTHS!) I’m infuriated to say the least. **** this game and **** Blizzard. Pull some overtime and get this game DONE NOW
hope you’re not mad, bro
relax ME3 is right around the corner, amalur may take some time if you’re into that stuff and Path of exile beta is really nice, that’s a real beta.
Anyone noticed Mike said that we will hear about release schedule in the upcoming weeks?
I am wondering is it going to be another one delay explanation from Mike..
They said the same about b.net balance.
It took 8 weeks.
Blizzard Week = Human Month
Yeah… They seem to be fond of throwing around the phrase “in the coming weeks” a lot lately. It makes me wonder if they even have a real definition of that other than “within the next couple months because that is technically the coming weeks, rite guise?”. It pisses me off how much they use their vague time-frame language so much and most of the time it ends up being something totally different than what you would logically think that the words imply. The only totally clear time windows you get from Blizzard are specific dates and it looks like that will never change.
He said there will be more info about release date in the coming ‘weeks’ not months
8 weeks = 2 months
Months can be broken up into several weeks. I take it to mean anywhere from next week to 2 months from now… Because it’s Blizzard and who the eff really knows with them?
i don’t feel anything. Blizzard overloaded and killed my brain cells responsible for being dissapointed a long time ago
So do I… It’s an odd feeling… I know I should be raging all over the place, but at this point, I just can’t muster the energy anymore… Blizzard are sucking the life from us!