This short article is directed at those of you who are expecting the second (or perhaps first, but that's not the point) coming of Christ upon the release of Diablo 3. I want you to cast your mind back to the game Hellgate: London, in particular to the development team. You will notice that that particular team was led by some ex-Blizzard Entertainment employees, and guess which games they worked on there?
Of course it could be argued that now those rotters are out, D3 will be better off. It probably helps too that Blizzard lets its developers take as long as it takes to make the game good, whereas Hellgate: London was published by EA, whose strategy is to spew out as many games as possible and hope some of them turn into annual series.
So this small fact could mean nothing at all in the end, and D3 will be everything the fanpeople (lolol political correctness gone mad) want and expect. I would like to think that Blizzard, of all companies, can do this right and show companies like EA and assholes like Bobby Kotick that quality can, in fact, be more profitable than quantity.
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Agreed, I imagine SC II will be pretty perfect upon release and will be tribute to blizzards strategy of "making it good BEFORE its released" as crazy as that may seem.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the game looks solid, but I'm not sure I understand the logic behind the region lock and removal of LAN. Removing features and seperating the player base seem to me to be backward steps. I'm still getting it though.
ReplyDelete>It's still #8 on Nick's List.
ReplyDelete>the game looks solid
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