Could be. We shall see.
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@MissCheetah,
Just out of curiosity, why do you think the wings are tied to a Blizzcon announcement? I get the logic in terms of not revealing them until they announce the…announcement (assuming they are in fact connected)…but I actually have a much more pessimistic perspective - namely, Diablo is not a priority, the wings simply aren’t ready now and won’t be ready until the end of December.
I couldn’t help but notice that they mentioned every other franchise, including Hearthstone (which also has a Dec 31, 2019 date for its “extra”), with an individual blurb, but somehow decided to basically throw in a tiny mention of Diablo III at the almost last possible instant. What possible logic is there to that? Also, I’m forced to take Blizzard’s blatant incompetence regarding their recent treatment of Diablo at Blizzcon into account here - until proven otherwise, the safer bet to me is they just don’t care. Remember, we’ve seen Diablo take a huge backseat at past Blizzcons - remember the time when the event map had the Diablo activity practically in the bathrooms? Or when they announced there was nothing happening for Diablo, practically a first for any franchise at Blizzcon? Or last year’s [insert not nice word for…whatever it was]?
Happily prepared to be wrong, but I’m just not sure why you feel strongly that it’s tied to an announcement - hoping you can convince me otherwise…
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I tried very clearly to say an announcement, not necessarily a Diablo related announcement. We will just have to see. I am opting to just remain hopeful, but calm and prepared for it to be not related to Diablo. Even art assets, take months to do. There is no way in the world they would leave anything Blizzcon related until the last minute. No way. The only reason not to share right now, is because it would provide a clue to whatever one of the announcements is.
That was actually when they had the Tavern/Inn thing and did the Lightning talks there. It was cool. Nearly everything is by the bathrooms there given there are many. The only reason to have a BIG area on the floor dedicated to one game is if there are demo stations, or it is an esports stage. D3 has no esports hence no reason to have a big dedicated area. All the panels for D3 are up on the shared stages, like for the other games.
I agree. These things are ready way before today’s announcement. They’ve simply chosen to keep them a secret.
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I get that, and maybe I’m just not fully understanding how this works…but they announced the wings won’t be ready until on or before 12/31/2019, which means they still have almost two additional months to get those art assets done if need be. Also, they already announced the wings will be available - just not how. There’s no reason to have to rely on an announcement of any kind - they could simply be waiting until the next patch or something much smaller in scope to indicate how to get them.
Also, I agree that even if it is tied to an announcement, it might not be a Diablo announcement. I readily admit that what bothers me (more then it probably should) is that, even assuming you’re 1000% right and its tied to an announcement, why do they basically mention Diablo as a throwaway franchise here?
I’ll concede that one - you make an excellent point!
You bring up a good point, that game items tend to be added during a patch cycle, not just randomly.
Some are in game now, some will be added in a future patch, and some will be added in a patch after the announcements.
I see December 31, 2019 as a “worst case” date (the last of the year) so they can’t get dinged if a patch is delayed a week or something happens. It prevents some 
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Agree 100%!
In thinking about this more, I guess it really does bother me that they barely mention Diablo at all. You know that announcement/post was reviewed, revised, and reviewed again by multiple people. Is it really possible that in drafting and reviewing this announcement, literally no one at Blizzard thought, “Diablo isn’t really mentioned” and didn’t think to bring it up internally? Or be concerned? Or, you know, do something about it?
If they wanted to keep whatever a secret, they could have literally had Diablo III appear just like every other game on there and then said exactly what they said here and it would have still kept any secret thing they have going on a secret.
Instead, despite everything that has happened, they once again manage to make it seem as if they do not care about the Diablo franchise. “Hey everyone, for every other game, you get all this cool stuff… oh hey Diablo III people get wings we don’t even have until later let’s move on goodbye.”
I know this is just the fanboy in me talking and that all I want is something Diablo-related that I can actually be excited about, and that this is such a small thing…but if Blizzard can’t even pretend that they care about some of these easy, softball-type things, I can’t have all that much faith that they are able to handle the larger, more important stuff.
But then the barb from the art could be related to D3 and they don’t want that obviously.
There are a couple ways to view the Vticket rewards/references.
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They don’t care about Diablo the franchise at all. Meh, some wings later when we get around to it.
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Diablo rewards are related to something that will be announced there and will be included in a later patch.
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Not using “Diablo 3” as a header means something besides Diablo 3 maybe? D2 remastered? A new Diablo game?
I am sure people will have fun speculating and trying to find hints and clues, to prove whatever version they want to believe.
For now, I am just going to go with a fairly neutral stance.
Also Enjoy those RIBS! 
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Our forum icon changed btw. To compare it with the old just view the cache in google.
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We really do not need Nev to start the hype train, the forum members do that on their own. 
Remember all the Druid hype over the Fiacla-Géar wings: “Don’t let a druid see you wearing these wings, as they may think you killed one of their brethren.” It turned out to be nothing.
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Assuming everyone read the D3 updates since the last Blizzcon, they realised that they might have neglected the PC and MAC users. Nevalistus made it clear that they were including them more in different ways. This seems like they are following through. As for the object included, I look at it like that saying ‘10% of something is always better than 100% of nothing.’
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You’re right. Saw it earlier.
Last time we got an in-game goodie for D3 via virtual ticket, we waited almost 2 years for its stupid pathfinding to be fixed - the mini Diablo pet.
Btw do we have a few new forum avatars with Diablo or I just haven’t noticed these before?
I am sorry, but if you are paying 49.99 for wings, that is on you, not on Blizzard.
Nothing is being forced here, the choice is on you.
No new ones that I know of. The forum did get a silent update though. See those two very faint buttons with the Blizz symbol and arrows next to the reply and tracking/watching buttons under the scrollbar? They now navigate between Blue posts in the thread. They weren’t there a couple days ago.
The forum avatars do appear to have gotten a slight resolution upgrade though.
Looks like we got like 2 or 3 Diablo portraits.
Last week i was looking at a new portrait and now that you asked this i’ve noticed that some new ones seem to have been included. The diablo logo portrait was at the very beginning of the last row, if I’m not mistaken, and now he’s three spaces ahead.
You people need to stop tryharding. It’s just wings.
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Yes, I think so. It would be good if other people confirm since we can’t objectively find out this.
Edit: Looks like I can’t find only the second one from above at old forums aka 1st and 3rd are old.
Edit 2: Second one is old too.
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