Poll: Patch 1.04 won't come until way after 25th Sep 2012 (MoP Release Date)

[PearlOrion]

It makes no sense that Blizzard will allow Diablo 3 (a subscription-less game) to compete directly with, bleed sales and subs from with WoW:MoP which is Blizzard's cashline, cash cow and golden goose for the past 10+ years.

[Dreamcrusha]

their focusing most of the time on MOP, when MOP releases then they can spend most of the time towards d3 which i hope

[Kiroptus]

I dont think it will come before MoP and even some time after it.

The blizz conference call made it clear that Diablo 3 is pretty much a stepping stone for other blizzard games, while they may fix some issues within the game, there are other priorities and I cant see them focusing on anything else than MoP which is quite near to be released.

[DeathLimited]

Diffrent teams work for Wow and D3 patch will be up as soon as it's ready.

[nolan16]

Diffrent teams work for Wow and D3 patch will be up as soon as it's ready.

+1, I highly doubt most of their programmers work on more than one game. The Diablo team is probably hard at work on Diablo (as there are several issues to solve, mostly desing).

My guess would be the patch comes in early-mid September. I for one have quit playing until 1.04 as I'm sure many others have. Hoping they don't screw up this patch as I may be done if the itemization doesn't get better with a better end game system. I think it was pretty silly to give everyone a level cap of 60 that could easily be reached in a week. Also, with the itemization there just doesn't seem to be any sort of developement of planning needed. There are no breakpoints to reach or items needed to do "x", all the items are just res all, main stat, vit with the exception of crit, ias, and LoH on items that can spawn those mods. Res all practically has to be on every piece of gear or it is trash. Despite ilvl 50-60 uniques being rare and not dropping often, they are still almost always bad.

[Kiroptus]

Its not a matter of workpower, that blizzard has enough for sure. Its just that its not good business to re-attract people back through an overhyped patch to an ARPG game without subscription when WoW expansion (which is top priority for them) is right around the corner.

[Dacar92]

Its not a matter of workpower, that blizzard has enough for sure. Its just that its not good business to re-attract people back through an overhyped patch to an ARPG game without subscription when WoW expansion (which is top priority for them) is right around the corner.

The only trouble with that logic is that many D fans don't even play WoW. Yes, you're right that they're hoping to attract people to WoW thru MoP but those who play D and don't play WoW likely won't be swayed by MoP. So that still leaves a bunch of D fans with no game to play and frustration builds.......

[Kiroptus]

Well, the idea is to bring as much as possible of this 10 million userbase to WoW. In a business sense it is much better to have people trying out MoP than staying at D3, I just dont see them giving them too much love to D3 while a WoW expansion is so close.

[Karth]

Well, the idea is to bring as much as possible of this 10 million userbase to WoW. In a business sense it is much better to have people trying out MoP than staying at D3, I just dont see them giving them too much love to D3 while a WoW expansion is so close.

Visibly snubbing the D3 market while publishing a new expansion for a more profitable game is not going to cause players to think "maybe I should go back to WoW" (under the questionable assumption that many D3 players actually played WoW) it is going to make people think "maybe I should go play games made by another company."

Car companies don't stop producing passenger sedans because they make more money from luxury cars; they don't compete with each other enough to worry about. The big competition is other companies not their own products.

[Kiroptus]

Yes but in the car analogy there are many other types of cars to go by, blizzard always plays safe and only delves into genres they have total domiance of, there isnt any other MMO bigger than WoW, and there isnt any other ARPGs (which is pretty much a forgotten genre, PoE needs a lot of polish and BL2 and TL2 are not out yet) so players can satisfy their loot hunting desires.

They stated that they want those D3 players to migrate to other blizzard games and the only "other game" that they are releasing is MoP. There is a reason why the annual pass was something only done in D3, although its not big, there is a certain overlap between D3 and WoW and some players were torn between those games without much options if they were fans of the genre, SC2 didnt get an WoW annual pass because they are nothing alike.

The fabled 1.04 will either come soon or will take some time after MoP to be released. It might not even be that much of a big patch anyway, the silence of the devs speaks for itself. We will see, but I do believe that this patch will either just come out after MoP or that will not be that much of a big patch anyway or ,in a worse case scenario, both.

Btw, granted how much time they are taking to fix things (like the day-one trade window scam) and how much of that 9 month beta feedback was ignored, I would say that D3 is already pretty snubbed by them.