Diablo III release date announced!

15th May is the magical date where Diablo III is finally ready and will be released for all Diablo fans to enjoy, finally! It will be coming to stores internationally on 15th May, or you can pre-order it online on Battle.Net. There is however, no mention of the release date for the consoles, which probably means it will be arriving to the consoles in the near future. 

If you're a hardcore fan, there is the collector's edition you can purchase for $99.99. It includes a behind-the-scenes blu-ray documentary, a 208 page art book, a soundtrack CD, a 4GB USB drive that comes with Diablo II and its expansion, Lord of Destruction, as well as various cosmetics bonuses for your characters in Diablo III.

So finally, Diablo III is ready, despite having various features such as PvP to be cut out from the game at the last minute. The core campaign and co-op should be solid, seeing how much time Blizzard has put into this game. What I'm interested to find out more is the real-money auction house, and whether it will make or break the game. I guess we'll find out on 15th May.

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PvP removed from Diablo III for launch!

Blizzard have recently decided to remove PvP from Diablo III so that it can be released earlier. They stated that the PvP game and systems were not living up to their standards, and hence decided to hold it back an release it at a later time as a patch and hopefully not a DLC. Cutting features off Diablo III to push it out quicker probably means the release date is just around the corner, but Diablo fans probably will not be too happy about that

For a game that has been in development for so long, not being able to nail down PvP really says something about the development team. And so much for being a "We'll release it when it's ready" company. This announcement probably means that Blizzard is just removing certain features just so that it can be labeled as "ready". Oh Blizzard, what a disappointment. 

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More bad news for Diablo III fans

It has been recently made known by Blizzard's Community Manager, Bashiok, that Diablo III is going to have these features:

1. Diablo III will only support 4 players.
2. Diablo III will not have built-in voice chat at launch.
3. Diablo III will not have any higher resolution textures in the final game.

First of all,  Diablo III has 5 classes, and possibly more in the future, multiplayer support for only 4 players? And no higher resolution textures? What the hell are they thinking? Bashiok also did mention that changing the graphics to an Ultra setting wouldn't make any difference at all.

All of the changes sounds like Diablo III is being made catered for consoles, and all they want is money.

I'm not even sure if Diablo III will be good any more. But one thing I know for sure is that Blizzard won't be getting any of my money.

Image source: http://gamerant.com/diablo-3-console-port-trung-80193/

Diablo fans rejoi.. never mind.

If you have been anticipating for Diablo III this year, bad news. Diablo III has been pushed back to Q2 of the year. We've all been waiting for more than a decade, so let's hope that Diablo III will prove itself to be one of the best MMOs of 2012.