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**nobbie** · 06-02-2012, 14:20

Originally Posted by Torian

If your source is right, we'll get a release date this week - anything else wouldn't make any sense...

Not necessarily. If you rent storage space at a transshipment point - which is what we are talking about here - you have set date when the freight has to be delivered to the wholesaler. I have trustworthy information that this is in early March. If you miss that date, you have a maximum period of 60 days to discharge your cargo from the transshipment point. However, you pay expensive additional fees from day 1 on, and after that 60-day period, it has become so expensive that you could throw the Diablo 3 boxes as well into the sea. So, this is more a theoretical worst case scenario at this point.

Blizzard did already cancel once before November/December 2011, because they knew that they would surpass even that 60-days period. If everything goes well, we should see Diablo 3 on shelves by April (at the latest), as the OP's source said. The very least I expect this week is a note from Morhaime at the conference call saying that the release date will be announced later this month. My hope is that we get a simultaneous Battle.net Balance live release/Diablo 3 release date announcement either today or during the conference call.

**nobbie** · 06-02-2012, 14:30

Originally Posted by nitoo

IOh, also they wanted to start the big pre-launch AD campaign last week but they had to delay it just a bit or something. The source being someone working in an big communication agency in Paris in charge of the Blizzard stuff.

Yup, I can confirm this. It's coming very soon, though.

Don't despair, it IS coming either late March or April, 100%. ^^

**nitoo** · 06-02-2012, 14:34

Originally Posted by nobbie

Yup, I can confirm this. It's coming very soon, though.

Do you have any clue as to what the problems with the CE might be ? I found that very intriguing, and can't really see what could possibly be the issue with them...

**MathewPoland** · 06-02-2012, 14:35

Ok, it's official you two are starting to give me a nerdgasm... And you know what happens when a Diablo freak gets a nerdgasm for no reason? Well, all I can say it's 100% confirmed that it gets messy.

But in all seriousness - I don't believe you two, sorry. Even though - I hope the game comes out soon.

**nitoo** · 06-02-2012, 14:43

Originally Posted by MathewPoland

But in all seriousness - I don't believe you two, sorry. Even though - I hope the game comes out soon.

Like I said, at the end of the day, I myself won't 100% believe anything until the actual release date announcement words are bestowed upon us mere mortals. So It's totally OK in my book.

But when we DO finally get those words, I'll be all like :

"La merde devient réelle." /rollingcigar

**Risingred** · 06-02-2012, 14:50

Originally Posted by nitoo

"La merde devient réelle." /rollingcigar

I only know a small amount of words in french but I think I understand that one. lol.

Blizzard is kind of backed into a corner, and if we're going to go balls-out on speculation I'm willing to bet that Parker was in fact fired from Blizzard due to mismanagement. It seems like they're cutting corners left and right to get this game out, after realizing how ridiculously long it's taken them to get what they have today, which there is no excuse for.

Sure, you may accept an excuse, but are their stockholders going to? Nope. Nothing conspiracy about it, they have an obligation to please their investors. Especially with WoW circling the crapper.

**nobbie** · 06-02-2012, 14:54

Originally Posted by nitoo

Do you have any clue as to what the problems with the CE might be ? I found that very intriguing, and can't really see what could possibly be the issue with them...

Nope. I just know that the ad campaign is coming a bit later.

**nitoo** · 06-02-2012, 14:57

Originally Posted by Risingred

I only know a small amount of words in french but I think I understand that one. lol.

Blizzard is kind of backed into a corner, and if we're going to go balls-out on speculation I'm willing to bet that Parker was in fact fired from Blizzard due to mismanagement. It seems like they're cutting corners left and right to get this game out, after realizing how ridiculously long it's taken them to get what they have today, which there is no excuse for.

Sure, you may accept an excuse, but are their stockholders going to? Nope. Nothing conspiracy about it, they have an obligation to please their investors. Especially with WoW circling the crapper.

Anyway yeah, 100% agree with everything you said. We arrived at a point where, well... they simply can't do much of this back and forth thing, whether it is in the development or more general communication and PR area.

Like you said, they're kind of backed into a corner now so it's all just inevitable. And nothing, not even one or two weeks of delay will change that (at the very worst, it would just mean that shipments had a few quirks which can always happen).

**MathewPoland** · 06-02-2012, 14:58

Ok, and does any of you have any idea what they are doing with the runes?

Truth or not, it might be quite an interesting read.

**Risingred** · 06-02-2012, 15:00

Originally Posted by MathewPoland

Ok, and does any of you have any idea what they are doing with the runes?

Truth or not, it might be quite an interesting read.

No clue. The game files give no indication at all as to what they're doing. That's all I have to go by.
In the emulator, and in the code itself, they're still using the unattuned rune system which we know is outdated.