Monday, March 19, 2012
Diablo 3 Release Date.
Finally Bliizard announced Diablo 3's release date and there will be no more rumors. Diablo 3 picks up May 15 to meet gamers around the world and you can login Battle.net to pre-purchase the game today.
Beginning May 15, players around the world will be able to return to Tristram to discover the dark secrets of a fallen star and begin their quest to save Sanctuary from the impending demonic invasion. To secure your place as a barbarian, monk, demon hunter, witch doctor, or wizard right now, simply log in to your Battle.net account, and then purchase and download* Diablo III, and you'll be ready to play when the game launches.
$59.99 for standard retail and digital version; $99.99 for Collector's Edition
Retail version of Diablo 3 will be available to purchase in the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau on May 15 while the digital version will be available at the same day in the regions mentioned above as well as Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. Players in Latin American countries and Russia will be able to buy the game from local retailers on June 7. In addition to the English version, Diablo III will be fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.
World of Warcraft Annual Pass is another way to get Diablo 3. According to Blizzard, more than 1 million players have subscribed WoW for a year and got Diablo 3 (digital version) for free. WoW Annual Pass offer will end on May 1 and if you are interested in getting Diablo 3 in this way you can check out http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/annualpass for more information.
No PvP Arena for Diablo 3 at Launch
We should credit Blizzard for their commitment to offer fans the best Diablo 3 but it's really a bad news that when the game is about to release (or announce the release date), the PvP system is still far from satisfaction and thus, this system won't be included in the game at launch. But if you are not interested in PvP at all, you may be happy to see that Blizzard just delays a system, not the whole game again.
The announcement says: As we're counting down the days until we're ready to announce a release date for Diablo III, we've come to realize that the PvP game and systems aren't yet living up to our standards. Today, we wanted to let you know that we've made the difficult decision to hold back the PvP Arena system and release it in a patch following the game's launch. After a lot of consideration and discussion, we ultimately felt that delaying the whole game purely for PvP would just be punishing to everyone who's waiting to enjoy the campaign and core solo/co-op content, all of which is just about complete.
PvP will be added to the game through patch, and according to Blizzard, "multiple Arena maps with themed locations and layouts, PvP-centric achievements, and a matchmaking system that will help you and your team get into fairly matched games quickly and easily" are what you can expect to see in that patch. On top of that, a personal progression system will be implemented, too.
It's not something new that Blizzard dissatisfy with what they have created. Last month Blizzard redesigned Diablo 3's runestone system, and early this year, the developer made numbers of changes to the game including small tweaks such as removal of Scrolls of Identification and big change like character attributes. And just at the same time, Senior Producer Steve Parker left Diablo 3.
It seems that we are not going to see another delay but will you see a Diablo 3 without PvP Arena an unfinished game?
Source http://news.mmosite.com/content/a/2012-03-12/no_pvp_arena_for_diablo_3_at_launch.shtml
Source http://news.mmosite.com/content/a/2012-03-15/diablo_3_to_release_on_may_15.shtml
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