Diablo III!? (No Joke!)

[Healingpoison]

This was at the Blizzard site under the job descriptions:

http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/artist-ui.shtml

for those to lazy to look, it says that the teams behind Diablo I and II are looking for a user interface artist.

Some of the things they mentioned: "Item Icons", "Character Portraits", and "background screens"

What do you think? Is Diablo III secretly under way?

 

[Archian]

Diablo 3, now that would be seriously interesting ;D

 

[operator]

I've heard that a MMORPG Diablo is coming

 

[Healingpoison]

I will shoot someone if it has subscription fees

(see as it is Blizzard it probably will be)

 

[operator]

wonder how much the tophead of Blizz make in the year

 

[Shadow_Fox]

Well if you have read up on such things, blizzard says they are having a "major product annoucment" in 2007

August 24, 2006 - While our meeting with Blizzard Chief Operating Officer Paul Sams today at the German Games Convention mainly focused on The Burning Crusade, the upcoming expansion for World of Warcraft, we did ask him about what the future holds in store for Blizzard, and specifically about StarCraft 2.

"StarCraft is my absolutely favorite game of all time," Sams told us. "As you probably already know, there is no doubt that we will continue the StarCraft and Diablo franchise, and trust me, I will be the happiest person in the world when we announce StarCraft 2."

While Sams wasn't ready to spill the beans just yet, he did say Blizzard "will have a major product announcement in 2007," and that Blizzard was currently working on at least three other unannounced titles at the moment

(Read the Full Article http://pc.ign.com/articles/727/727892p1.html)
A "major product announcment", or unannounced titles, could easily be D3, or some form of DMMORPG, leaves us to guess until then..../

 

[ArcticInferno]

cooooooooooooooool! that so totally pwns! I never thought it would be true, but now I'm kinda convinced.

 

[Ralle]

well I think a Diablo III (i like wow as mmorpg) would be cool. But it all should be on ONE server!! Not all those different servers.. I mean.. differnet servers should have different places in the world. Like some town is one server.. and you connect to each one..

 

[Shadow_Fox]

Hmm, i guess it isn't practical to have one server, but it would be better....

 

[Ralle]

yeah very.. Then people could also be more in touch.. I know many people who want to play with eachother but who are on different servers.

 

[Healingpoison]

Also, it would be rather hard to turn diablo it to a mmo... wouldn't it?

I mean just the way it is built sort of

 

[Shados]

This was at the Blizzard site under the job descriptions:

http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/artist-ui.shtml

for those to lazy to look, it says that the teams behind Diablo I and II are looking for a user interface artist.

Some of the things they mentioned: "Item Icons", "Character Portraits", and "background screens"

What do you think? Is Diablo III secretly under way?

That's been there for months I beleive, or if not that then another job posting to work with the Diablo team on the front page. I remember lots of gossip about it ages ago.

 

[Ralle]

well I hope a D3 will be made

 

[ArcticInferno]

same. D3 woould be cool

 

[Ralle]

http://www.forums.hiveworkshop.com/showthread.php?t=6825
http://www.forums.hiveworkshop.com/showthread.php?t=5747
just noticed these threads about diablo 3 too

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I don't think it will be Diablo 3 as the Diablo team left Blizzard and as far as I know they had the rights for a Diablo 3, it might be another Diablo thing though, but not directly a "Diablo 3". But Blizzard ofcourse could have bought back the rights, who knows.

 

[Healingpoison]

I believe Blizzard has the rights to diablo.... and where do you get the idea that the diablo team left?

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

I believe Blizzard has the rights to diablo.... and where do you get the idea that the diablo team left?

Because they started a new company called Flagship Studios.

 

[Shadow_Fox]

Yeah hes right, blizzard north, the team that mainly designed D2 splintered off and created flagship studios, i believe.

 

[Healingpoison]

There making a game called London: Hellfire I believe. (I wikipediaed it)

 

[Shados]

Yeah we know, a FPS with Diabloesque random-generated maps. Boring.

-*meow*

 

[ragingspeedhorn]

There making a game called London: Hellfire I believe. (I wikipediaed it)

Yes they are and by the looks of it that game will be pure awesomeness.