Diablo III Release Date Announced!

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15.5.12



Blizzard CEO and co-founder Mike Morhaime said:

QuoteAfter many years of hard work by our development team and months of beta testing by hundreds of thousands of dedicated players around the world, we're now in the homestretch. We look forward to putting the final polish on Diablo III over the next two months and delivering the ultimate action-RPG experience to gamers worldwide starting on May 15.


You can pre-order the game now on the Official Battle.net Diablo III website (linked below) or you can subscribe to an annual World of Warcraft pass to receive a digital copy of Diablo III for free (though you have been able to do this for some time).

More to follow!

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About 2 years to late
doesnt matter, at the end of the day im just happy its finally here
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Inb4 huge disappointment :P
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Like all the other Blizzard titles. Oh wait-
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What is all the hype about? And am I the only one who hasn't played the serie at all?
I only played Diablo II & LoD and I can tell you that it is one of the best games :D
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whats so great about it
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the multiplayer is sick ;)
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Well it was one of the first hack and slash games with such a great multiplayer. There was alot of content because after you had beaten the game you had a nightmare mode and hell mode which you could enter with the same character. And hell was really hard alone, only some classes can solo it and some even only after they farmed some great items, so you had to team up to beat it.

Best known for its item fever though. Every act (chapter) had an endboss who had a chance of dropping rare items. Alot of the fun in the game was working your way through the game and finding and identifying possible great items. The gameplay was alot of fun aswell :)

I really thought you had played the game aswell? Did I get trolled? :p
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d1 got the nightmare and hell mode as well only in b.Net or solo with the Expansion hellfire
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It did not have the vastly different environements, immense diversity in items or the completly different classes. So there was alot less to be done. The game was also alot shorter and easier overall.
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the dupe Bug in d1 was the best Bug never saw a bug like this :) was the best Bug ever
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:D you had a similar one in diablo II, but most of those got fixed and now you can usually see if an item is legit or not
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i think i've playd pixel gfx d1 shitload of years ago


seems interesting tho on sp
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sure is !
i have been playing diablo 2 LoD for few months now,with big pauses and reached ACT IV but cant improve cos my char is shit :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
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nope, never touched any of them
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The first one was pretty nice back then, but I couldn't even be arsed to try the sequel.
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I played the first one a few times aswell and liked it, but Diablo II and its expansion were ALOT better. Can't even compare them.
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and why is that?
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No you're not.
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A friend of mine make me play diablo2. hmm this was so shitty :X

flame off this is just my opinion.
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SHAME ON YOU
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i dont even know what is this game about
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I've only tried D2 once and was around 18yo at the time so it didn't rly strike me
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Good game finally releasing it in the middle of my MA thesis. Gonna have to wait over a month to play it. Not going out during the summer then I guess
Warming up my gamepad.
buy wow annual pass and you get d3 for free - LOL
Its pretty good for WoW players who actually play the game.
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yeah, because some of wow players would buy d3 anyway :P
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I would've done that annual pass myself if WoW wasn't so shit lately.
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jau, good post!
no summer for many nerds guess :)
Suggesting it will offer more than 20-30 hours of gameplay.
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Are you serious?
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Yeah, pretty much. I have very low expectations when it comes to new games to avoid disappointment.
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??????? really? maybe say something more random like humm3l will win EC or smth
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niiiiice :))
well, i can go outside in summer 2013 aswell
I bet they'll release new contents to D3 by then, so bb summer 2013
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ROFLLLLLLLLLLLL I choked myself
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AHAHAhAHAAH Made my day :DDDD
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HELL YEAH!!!!
diablo3 or gw2 :[
Not too sure either :s
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EVIL IS BACK ..HELL YEAHH
Money making game incoming.
YESSSSSSSSSSSS
DAFAQ u are so fast !?

just found out and then boom, when i wanted to check cf and post journal i saw u already did :(
btw i was first.
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oh ,soz then for descrediting
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Noooo I was first! But I had to find a transparent picture :(
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I get the game for free :D Well, kind of free
You got it for free along the WoW annual pass? :D :¡!!:DDdDd
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Really dont get this game.

Dont wanna hate, but I seriously dont see the fun in this game after watching some gameplay footage.

I will play some more ET and wait for GW2 :D
DUDE ITS DIABLO
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Hi demzor noeb
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couldnt care less !
EVIL IS BACK !
Shit game is shit
CU THERE
SPECIALEDITION PREORDER YES!
Will wait for reviews and after that probably buying it.
And how is this news worthy?

image: diablo-anniversary04-large
> gaming site
> game alot of people have been waiting for
> game finally gets a release date
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omfg =D
d2 was one of the best sp games ive ever played
btw all the nerds who are on the other side of the hype polarity can fuck off, its going to be awesome and you know it.
Indeed, weak-minded people trying to act cool through expressing their opinions on a gaming post. Why not just skip it?

I havent played any Diablo-game but I know this is a big thing. I guess I should give a try to the 2nd one but Im afraid I will get hooked up. :(
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mmh i dont think you will get hooked up on it, mp is almost dead afaik.
but singleplayer is really nice to play, and it doesent take that long =)
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crossfire, a blizzard communitY!
wow so many nerds
+1 news
never played it, can someone explain what this is for game?
Not main news imho.
finally =)
Exellent! I can plan my vacation now
have played alot of d1 and d2 in my days even tho i never realy liked them. Dno why realy. I guess they are kinda fun to play...
Prolly gonna buy this one :)
Too bad im going away for 6 months @ 14.5 : I 0.5 years too early?! (:D)
Instant jizz.
nice nice nice want to have have have

the beta was awesome already.

time to sell my perf ghost assa & bp nec + my barb who found the first perf torchs in this ladder.. fg fg fg !
lvl 60 in 2 days? challenge accepted?
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in diablo 2 oder diablo 3?

in diablo 2 I won't even need 8 hours :D
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d3 ofc :D
in d2 lvl 60 was like 2 hours for me
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ye d2 got ridiculous when it comes to lvling chars.

for d3.. no idea :( but my first char won't be about power lvling but enojying the game ;)
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the d3 beta was borrowed from a friend :( So I couldn't give it to you.. wow stuff on it etc..

for d3 we will have to party up mr. domi ! + maybe I can get some other d2 crossies like sanda,spirea,kittos,axte, kevin,.... :P
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do any of those guys except Kevin come online? =d
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haven't heared anything from them for ages.. but for d3 they will be online for sure !
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easy bash, made like 80 lvl with Poland syriusz in 1 day without bigger problem
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omfg, if its gonna be crap im gonna kill them. hardcore playing till dawn incoming!
only reason why I don't play Diablo or don't pay attention to it was back in 1998 when I failed at installing the game as a 6 year old in Nigeria.... xD
Finally :]
Oh whoa.. id actually be in two minds whether to buy this or not just because i know i'd be addicted to it again!
go ahead, you know you want it, just give it a try, you could stop any time *evil voice in your head* ^^
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haha :D When i was like 15/1 my gf broke up with me cause i used to play this game 24/7 :D
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Yeah about damn time!
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i hope with d3 WoW will finally die, it became a shame
i bet they gona move that releasedate again :D
was waiting since 2003. At fucking last!
I've been waiting for this game since forever it seems. Goodbye life at 15.5.12
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