Diablo IncGamers' month-by-month review of 2009 continues with another 30 days of memories. Yes, it's time for June, when students everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere breath a sigh of relief, several days before growing bored at home with nothing to do.
June was an empty month when it came to new official info. Bashiok kept busy in the forums, but we saw no new Diablo 3 previews or interviews, no bestiary updates, no new screenshots, etc. There was a lot going on in the community despite that, including the build up to the one year anniversary of Diablo 3's public debut, when fans everywhere hoped that Blizzard might do something cool to celebrate and commemorate than the design team or their PR extensions.
Regardless of that, June was a fairly busy month and this one went long.
Via Diablo’s global director of community Adam Fletcher, Blizzard is introducing new measures to improve the quality of season launches in the future. Across both Diablo 4 and the aging Diablo 3, fans of Blizzard’s games should all benefit.
If they didn't let the cellphone guy touch the 3rd one in first place, they wouldn't have to dance around like clowns trying to make money.
We've been asking for less "boring" seasons... "boring"... not "buggy"... same ol' rehashed content just a different color is not working.
Who says a dud game can't have a video game comeback?
Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky have to be up there. We're lucky and cursed, equally, to have games that can be updated now. For folks old enough to remember the Sega/SNES into PS1 and even 2 eras, if a game came out that was half baked (*cough*Angel of Darkness*cough*) that was it, no redemption. At the same time, having the option for updates shouldn't be an excuse for half assing games.
I remember when the Nintendo Seal of Approval meant something.
All those games had to release without bugs.
Diablo III still works on modern PlayStation and Xbox consoles, and remains hugely playable a decade after initial release.
I'm still surprised and disappointed they did nothing for the anniversary. they could have just released an Abd al-Hazir chapter or something....
That Barbarian painted diarama was very nice, meant to pick one of those up.
really getting tired of d news now... the game will never come out! :lol:
It's funny how much new stuff can happen in a community that is of interest even though the developer is fairly quiet...
That was a year since announcement? So we are a year and a half after announcement. I don't know whether that feels about right or not. Some times I think it was years ago and other times maybe a year.