From the famous article written by Jason Schreier. It details a lot of things like what happened to the first iteration of D4 and such, and it also reveals that the second expansion was scrapped before the release of RoS because the suits considered D3 as a massive failure. At that point the expansion could not have been any further than the concept stage.
The Ruins of Sescheron might have been considered to become a part o that expansion but by the time of the cancellation there still wasn’t much done for it, it was early in development. Any content released after that definitely were not part of the planned expansion. The necro went into development only because the first D4 got scrapped and left bunch of developers with nothing to do for while.
Can you link it, I am sure I have read it, but I’ll go through it again. The whole noise with the 2nd D3 expansion, as I remember, was that there was datamined stuff from one big D3 patch that hinted at the scrapped expansion. Some developers and articles claimed Necro was not part of it, but we had some other evidence it was, which I don’t remember exactly, because this was long time ago, but I can do the search again if I have all the links in front of me.
Atm I think they tried to bury the information that they turned the expansion into DLC with many sources claiming what you say, but we found out the truth somehow.
In late 2013 or perhaps early 2014, not long before the release of Reaper of Souls , Blizzard made an internal announcement that shocked the development team: Diablo III ’s second expansion was canceled. Team 3, the Blizzard department responsible for Diablo , hadn’t done a ton of work on this second expansion—they were mostly focused on Reaper —but it was planned as their next project. And now it wasn’t happening.
Not much, if any development had been done for the second expansion.
The tenuous grip you had on reality is almost completely gone now.
The barb is behind the logo, which is the focus. The logo is the focus. Not the barb.
Besides the logo, the most important part of that scene is the foreground. In the foreground is the TWO FLAGSHIP IP’S.
Arer you trying to tell me Blizzard is putting all their weight behind Diablo, and not Overwatch and WoW? Because you’re running a clownshow if you think that.
Wait. You can not conclude from this quote Necro was not a part from the expansion. I’ll go through my sources now to see where we linked Necro with scrapped expansion. If some other forumer knows this (Bagstone you reading the thread?), share the info please to save us time.
You know what? Find some forum in that people have no idea what BLIZZCON is. Post the picture and ask them to tell you what character got their attention first. Most will reply it’s the barbarian simply because he is in the center.
I already commented the art, saying Diablo got the central chair. To explain my words further based on the Blizzcon art: This year Diablo will get more news than OW and WoW. I’d say these are going to be weighted highly in favor of the Diablo franchise with it getting the most attention during and immediately after the event.
Ok, the following assumption is not a fact, but very highly possible:
ToBeRuined: In 2017 spring they said that they had to decide in 2016 summer whether to do expansion or a dlc. They did necro as expansion would've taken too much time. I wonder if that was a small lie reflecting to 2015 job postings.
Skelos: From one side as you said this was probably a lie and they just scrapped the expansion and turned it into a character DLC. From another side if it was NOT a lie and they developed a whole class from scratch this means they've probably done this with the idea to develop more in the future. It so happens that we will know which case is it after Blizzcon 2018.
(A). That’s not really setting the bar all that high.
(B). Activision: “Because we finally got rid of most of those annoying Blizzard developers.”
(C). Activision: “Because this year we are only allowing the press to attend physically.” (Anyone else has to buy an overpriced digital ticket and watch it on a stream.)
(D). Activision: “We are pleased to announce that Electronic Arts has purchased all the digital rights from the Blizzard franchise.”
I don’t post to get likes from the community. Stop acting stupid. Likes don’t even do anything except for that 200 req for trust 3, but I’m never going to get trust 3 due to the visitation and posts-read reqs. Besides, I had 200 likes way before you posted this nonsense.
If you’re so concerned with likes then you should look at what you’re posting and figure out why people are against it.
In this case, I post because I absolutely hate hype trains, and I hate this hype train in particular because it’s like the 5th go-round. It’s all hypothetical nonsense buffed up by taking things out of context, colored by what you hope is going to happen.
Plus, I just don’t see the point. I’d like a D4 as much as the next person - but when it’s announced has absolutely no impact on me, so there’s zero point in getting worked up about it. Even if it were to be announced this year, it would still be quite far away from release, and there will be plenty of time to plan buying it.
I can see getting a little excited when the game itself is going to launch, but getting excited about the (potential) announcement of it? Pointless.
Lol. I like you say you can’t conclude something from that quote, but this entire thread is based on you concluding something from a quote and artwork.
Wasn’t it the highest selling PC game of all time for a while? Or still is maybe?
Ya the critical response sucked from a lot of players and reviewers. But it wasn’t a failure. It just didn’t live up to the hype. I blame the decision to make it a console game, which forced them into certain design choices. But it’s whatever.
Hypocrisy and trolling is your speciality, not mine. Speaking things which one fears to backup is what trolls do. Enjoy the likes and the nonsense you write, but if you want to be taken serious start standing behind your words.
There is nothing wrong with people being personally hyped up for whatever their predictions are. And it isn’t troll, it is speculating at its best, learn to live with it. Has nothing to do with the sales of tickets. It is fan generated hype nothing more nothing less.
If they get the right developers for D4 and we can learn about the previous games. Then add in the devs vision for D4. Add to it the freedom that Blizz would give the devs of D4 to develop it the way that it should be to become a truly great Diablo game. Then your attitude might about D4 might change. Of course you would keep close track of its development much like I did with this game.
A potential announcement means that they could be a lot closer to releasing than we would think. Instead of saying oh well I won’t even give any potential announcements the time of day. I will look at D4 as never seeing the light of day until they tell me. That I know would be insane because I know that Blizz will make a ton of money off of D4 as does David Brevik. Since Blizz loves money they will no doubt want to make money off of D4. So it is not a matter of if they will make it, it is when will they make it. That when can be much sooner than you think.
This is exactly where it flopped. I have no doubt that throughout history there have been movies that could’ve been made into a franchise. Movies that might’ve been a box office success. But the reviews and criticism from viewers meant that there would be no sequels to the first movie.
Oh? Please point out where I’ve been a hypocrite or trolled you in this thread. Good luck with that.
Besides, you’re pretty much trolling everyone on the forum with this thread. “Hey guys look what’s gonna happen at Blizzcon!” “Do you have proof, Skelos?” “Uh… no. But please ignore that.”
Where have I not stood behind my words?
If anything, it’s you who haven’t. Remember when I asked you for a percentage scenario? Your response was “Oh… I need to wait for the schedule and floor plan.” So, yeah, don’t presume to tell me anything about standing by my words, Mr. Commitment Issues.
I don’t keep close track of game developments. Sorry.
Will I read about it? Yes. Probably close to the eventual release date, to decide whether I want to buy it on day 1. But I’m not going to hang on a developer’s every word.
Why don’t you tell me the last time Blizzard announced a brand new game and then released it within the year?
Overwatch was Blizzcon 2014. Do you know when it was launched? End of May 2016, so it launched ~18 months later.
It is not in a company’s best interest to ninja-launch a game, especially one as large as Blizzard. They’re smart enough to realize that people need to plan things out.
You had 99% probability of an expansion being revelead at Blizzcon 2016, but all we got was a necro dlc. Like? You basically destroy your own credibility with your own post and you don’t even know it. What’s worse, you try to slither you way out of it with some bs talk about it being part of a scrapped expansion, totally missing the point (as you usually do) that even should you have been right in this regard, you were still wrong in your prediction of a EXP reveal. Are you getting it still?
Also, it doesn’t really matter if you “stand behind your words” if you never learn when you are wrong rofl. So maybe you shouldn’t put so much emphasis on that.
EDIT. Forgot to add, this is directed at the guy with a speculation fetisch.
It’s nice you mention some time when I was wrong… But you miss to mention the number of predictions I made, which came out true. I’ll give you a hint: These are many more. I guessed precisely many Season launch dates in the past, just as “no D4 in 2016”. But you choose to focus on the prediction I got wrong. Ok. No problem. That’s a tiny percent from all that I got right.
I am 99.9% sure we are getting something at blizzcon this year.
What mike said is just a bonus and it is not why i am sure we are getting something.
After last year blizzcon total failure they gave us a response:
We have many plans for Diablo across multiple projects
which we’ll be revealing over the course of the coming year.
This response was the 2nd one of ‘‘A quick word from Blizzard’’.
They straight up said they will reveal them this year and they still haven’t so far so i guess it is all for blizzcon, the question now is what ? D2 HD ? D4 ? They already told us about the only thing nobody wanted so i don’t see what else it could be but i am pretty sure we are at least getting one of the 2 if not both.
There is another thing that is not exactly a proof but a good hint that something is coming is that they invited Quin69 to blizzcon, he is the 2nd biggest diablo 3 streamer (1st would be Kripp) and he didnt play diablo 3 for a while because of lack of content. So I don’t think they would invite him just for a d3 small patch.
Also before they give us more information about Diablo Immortal, i think they know they have to announce something we want that will make us hyped. If they just announce immortal release date things will get crazy, much worse then last year. Blizzard can’t be that stupid so they will announce something nice this year and right after they will reveal the date for immortal.