Diablo 3 game director: mod support would “add a couple of years” development time

Speaking with Jay Wilson at Gamescom, we’ve already heard bad news for anyone with poor internet connections and thrifty habits, though plenty of good ones for people who want to head online with friends and crack skulls until the cows come home. But what about tweaking and adding your own stamp to the game with a few mods? You’re out of luck, at least officially…

[Mario4life]

im sure someone will come up with a solution, look at gta4 for a great example, it had no mod tools, but some mods look amazing, never doubt the modding community

[evrfighter]

lol more like it would add years longetivity to the game. and we can't sell dlc

can't have that in this day and age.

grand master kotick won't allow it.

[reynod]

Looks like grand master Kotick can forget seeing the sales potential too. Not buying any more Activision titles.

[shayol33t]

Yeah, because blizzard has neither the money nor manpower...wait

[majiebeast]

Translated:With mod support we cant sell 15$ dlc.

[NiteX]

Blizz doesn't do DLC like some console game. They do a little something known as expansions. You know those PC addon games that cost $30-$40? They've only been around since oh I dunno maybe 20 years?

[majiebeast]

Maybe back in the day when they were still independant and not part of codovision.

[Basjohn]

@Majie

Still the way it is. Look Starcraft 2 or WoW. Blizz are pretty set on the expansion model. They might have made some unpleasant decisions lately but understand that the developers at Blizzard are very different than the CEO board at the Activision/Publishing end and because Blizzard brings in the "big bucks" they essentially get to set their own time lines and terms.

[smilydude13]

I'm not sure that's true. Sounds like a cop-out.

[Myze]

IF (big "if") this is true, the are the slowest big name developers out there, because that's ridiculous. Most likely, as most here seem to agree, this is complete BS.

Honestly though, this news doesn't really bother me as long as the game is good and fleshed out to begin with.

[grailly]

I thought it was a known fact that they are the slowest big name developers out there

[Basjohn]

True but also the only long lasting developer with not a single non-AAA game to their name. AAA in result not production cost mind you. Say what you will about their slowness or anal drm, but there is no developer with a perfect track record like theirs.

[majiebeast]

Naughty dog and Valve next!

[grailly]

I'm not complaining, I love blizzard, I still play starcraft 2 every other day. It's really cool that there are devs that can take all the time they want to make their product perfect, money helps with that though, same case for valve, ico team, and the behemoth(?)

ND not so much, they are just very talented

[beavis4play]

i'm wondering if this game will EVER see the light of day........this thing has been in development for a looooooong time.

[Dasteru]

Wow more pathetic news from bliz. First they take 6+ years to make a game (still with no firm release date) that should have taken no more than 2 years. heck the average FF game only takes 4 years and they are vastly more technically advanced than anything from bliz. And now they are claiming they would need 2 years extra to do something that any other company could probably get done in 2 weeks. Bliz is a good company that makes great games but damn do they take their sweet bloody time doing it.