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[cormack12]

Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/gaming...-is-underway-development-progressing-well/amp

In its recent quarterly fiscal report, Activision Blizzard confirmed that development on both Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 is “progressing well”. In fact, the former seems to have hit a significant production milestone, and is now being internally playtested “company-wide”.

As a reference diablo iii was play tested internally in 2011:

Diablo III Beta Likely For Q3, Team 'Working Hard' For 2011 Release

Blizzard president Michael Morhaime is "pleased to report" the developer has begun internal testing of the upcoming dungeon crawler; external testing is targeted for the third quarter ahead of a possible late 2011 launch.

www.gamedeveloper.com

And released in 2012

 

[Fake]

Don't matter much. Will have the same issues as Diablo 3 and Diablo 2 remastered in the day launch had.

 

[Yoshichan]

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[Spukc]

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[amigastar]

Honestly, i'm hyped for Diablo 4. What i've seen looks very good.

 

[Mephisto40]

Edit : Can't read

 

[amigastar]

Team 'Working Hard' For 2011 Release​

What? it's 2022

Read again, lol. It's about Diablo 3.

 

[omegasc]

Day 3 for me, as 1 and 2 will be just for trying to log in.

 

[RDaneelOlivaw]

Every time I hear anything about diablo 4, all it does it make me wish for Last Epoch to release and for Crate to make a GD2. I can dream!

 

[ThatStupidLion]

not going to fall for it. d3 got me. d4 will not.

 

[Robb]

Looking forward to it! Would be nice if it launched on GamePass day one next year.

 

[ANDS]

Played D3 on PC and enjoyed it. Loved D3 when it came out on console and put an ungodly amount of time into it. As good as other dungeon-crawlers are (and Grim Dawn is good), there's something about D3 that scratches the right "casual" itch.

Looking forward to it! Would be nice if it launched on GamePass day one next year.

. . .legit was about to say "My god this GP begging has got to stop! Why would they release this on Gamepass!?!" Strange new world we live in.

 

[IntentionalPun]

Crate to make a GD2. I can dream!

Such a shame they decided to focus on city builder #16464432.

So god damn many of those, and so few truly competent Diablo Clones.

 

[Sojiro]

No auction house this time? I remain casually optimistic with this game, and am not going to jump right in like I did with D3. I like D3 after Reaper of Souls, but I was there at launch and it was pretty rough with a lot of issues, and they had a god damn Auction House (worse even with a real money transaction side). Funny enough, the shitty Auction House paid for the cost of my game and then some, but I hope to god they never implement it back in again. The challenge for Blizzard though is the competition, Path of Exile is the king of this genre currently, and I hear good things about Lost Ark even though I personally have never tried it, so good luck to Blizzard, hopefully they can make Diablo IV something to be excited about, I am going to wait and see on it though.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

No auction house this time? I remain casually optimistic with this game, and am not going to jump right in like I did with D3. I like D3 after Reaper of Souls, but I was there at launch and it was pretty rough with a lot of issues, and they had a god damn Auction House (worse even with a real money transaction side). Funny enough, the shitty Auction House paid for the cost of my game and then some, but I hope to god they never implement it back in again. The challenge for Blizzard though is the competition, Path of Exile is the king of this genre currently, and I hear good things about Lost Ark even though I personally have never tried it, so good luck to Blizzard, hopefully they can make Diablo IV something to be excited about, I am going to wait and see on it though.

Back in the early days I thought the auction house was pretty cool (before they added real money). Rare stuff was actually rare and valuable. It was fun shopping for stuff to complete my build. And when I found something valuable but not useful for my build, it was fun to auction it and see how much I could get.

Honestly wouldn’t mind something like that. I think it would’ve been much better received if they kept it limited to in-game currency only.

 

[kraspkibble]

looking forward to it! immortal will hold me over until then

 

[Sojiro]

Back in the early days I thought the auction house was pretty cool (before they added real money). Rare stuff was actually rare and valuable. It was fun shopping for stuff to complete my build. And when I found something valuable but not useful for my build, it was fun to auction it and see how much I could get.

Honestly wouldn’t mind something like that. I think it would’ve been much better received if they kept it limited to in-game currency only.

No you are right, I didn't think of the benefit of the legit AH and lumped it into what the real money side was like. Honestly, an interface where players can trade/sell things to each other like the AH within the game would be a good thing, since with PoE most people would have a tab open to poe.trade for all their trading needs. Having a place built in to the game would be welcome, so yeah definitely would be ok with the AH being there, but keep the real money out of it.

 

[March Climber]

Honestly wouldn’t mind something like that. I think it would’ve been much better received if they kept it limited to in-game currency only.

I feel the same, but at this point that feels like asking to travel back in time to childhood.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Diablo Immortals is releasing June 3, 2022. I dont see D4 releasing in 2023 so close to it even if they are meant for different platforms.

 

[Mephisto40]

Seems ridiculous that they would release Diablo Immortal on PC, to then release Diablo 4 on PC a year later

 

[IntentionalPun]

Immortals looks great for a mobile game but there's no way it's going to scratch the full PC ARPG itch for PC players.

It's also an F2P game, if a PC player gets really into this and decides not to buy Diablo 4 why would Blizzard care if that person is spending money on the F2P stuff? It's seriously doubtful you'd have a great experience playing this game for a year straight and not spending some serious $$$.

So D4 releasing in 2023 still makes perfect sense. Most hardcore Diablo players would just emulate Immortals anyways, which is the stated reason for just releasing this on PC.

 

[Faithless83]

In before the female characters have better stats than the male ones.

I'm on a wait and see mode on this one, they managed to fix D3 eventually, but I don't know if they will pull this one properly at release.

We'll always have Path of Exile 2 to look forward to though.

 

[STARSBarry]

to be fair it might take longer this time round, the testers will need to be flagging all instances of women found within the test, it will take time to replace all of those with fruit.

 

[RDaneelOlivaw]

Such a shame they decided to focus on city builder #16464432.

So god damn many of those, and so few truly competent Diablo Clones.

That was almost verbatim my exact response. A huge audible GROAN followed by those words mentally.

 

[adamsapple]

The game is shaping up. Friends and families are playing builds of the game now.

 

[Lokaum D+]

15 years to make a diablo game, amazing

 

[DavidGzz]

Here come the haters! I for one, am VERY excited for D4. I say we are getting a March release! Maybe May at the latest. I can't wait!

 

[Shifty]

I'll observe from a safe distance until the World War Z login pileup sorts itself out, then check for vestiges of Diablo Immortal.

If the coast is clear, it'll be nice to play another ARPG. Grim Dawn is my only real frame of reference for the subgenre, but I had a good time with it.

I should probably give D2R a proper shot at some point seeing as it's sitting in my library, legendary game and all that the activision controversy at release rendered that one DOA for my co-op group, so my solo run didn't get far.

 

[amigastar]

Here come the haters! I for one, am VERY excited for D4. I say we are getting a March release! Maybe May at the latest. I can't wait!

Same here, i wouldn't say hate but being critical is appropriate, i hope for the best.

 

[Edgelord79]

Back in the early days I thought the auction house was pretty cool (before they added real money). Rare stuff was actually rare and valuable. It was fun shopping for stuff to complete my build. And when I found something valuable but not useful for my build, it was fun to auction it and see how much I could get.

Honestly wouldn’t mind something like that. I think it would’ve been much better received if they kept it limited to in-game currency only.

I know I’m in the minority, but I’ve always felt that having some sort of marketplace is important to these types of games.

 

[DavidGzz]

I know I’m in the minority, but I’ve always felt that having some sort of marketplace is important to these types of games.

For sure, there is a reason WoW, Overwatch, etc get way more patches and support than Diablo 3. They have continued revenue. Cosmetics revenue will help Blizzard care about continuing to support D4 for the long haul. Does it suck that games need this to get more support? Yeah. Is it necessary at this point for large devs to put time and money into a game that's been out for a while? Yep.

 

[Lady Jane]

The only thing that will be working on launch day is the in-game NFT marketplace