Karune confirms that SC2 will come out before D3

[Santrega]

D3 is still WAYYYY deep in development as well, they haven't even gotten the classes finished comletely let alone things like bosses.

Anyone who thinks that D3 might be out in 2010, please go watch the D3 panels from Blizzcon, you will be shocked to learn what little is really done on the game, they still have a LOT to go..

I'm wrong.. Apparently the cash cow gets all the attention :P

[supersonic]

Diablo 3 has been in development for going on 5 years now. They may still have a lot to go, but they have done a few things to make the game require less balancing time...

WoW is going to need more balancing, and its especially going to need several improved features to make people care to play the new game, or change what they are already playing. Yes, expansions do get made faster than full fledged games, but d3 has been worked on for years, this WoW expansion wouldnt have had the chance to be worked on for years because they were working on the full game, and WOTLK... They need to make 2 new classes, and several new levels, and if you read they are upgrading a lot of stuff.

So, seriously... I doubt d3 is going to come out after WoW's newest expansion. Cataclysm may be released near the same time, but isnt going to be finished before d3 unless d3 encounters some serious problems.

Check my post I just made

Also I'm serious when I say check out the D3 panels from Blizzcon 09, I think you will be surprised.. They talked about not even having started work on the bosses yet, or even remotely started on Battle.net integration.

And from how long Bnet has stopped SC2 I would say it's going to be at least half a year for them to do just that.

[Santrega]

Check my post I just made

Also I'm serious when I say check out the D3 panels from Blizzcon 09, I think you will be surprised.. They talked about not even having started work on the bosses yet, or even remotely started on Battle.net integration.

And from how long Bnet has stopped SC2 I would say it's going to be at least half a year for them to do just that.

Well, I changed my post above, but I dont think Bnet is going to really take much from a d3 perspective. I think that the majority of the features added for sc2 will need some very minor tweaks to give it a d3 feel, and wont need to deal with match making or smurfing, etc.

[Hav0x]

Well, I changed my post above, but I dont think Bnet is going to really take much from a d3 perspective. I think that the majority of the features added for sc2 will need some very minor tweaks to give it a d3 feel, and wont need to deal with match making or smurfing, etc.

D3 Battle.net is not going to use the same features, it's going to use totally different ones that will need to be developed from scratch. Morhaime confirmed on the live stream that SC2 and Cataclysm will be the 2 releases in 2010.

[supersonic]

Well, I changed my post above, but I dont think Bnet is going to really take much from a d3 perspective. I think that the majority of the features added for sc2 will need some very minor tweaks to give it a d3 feel, and wont need to deal with match making or smurfing, etc.

Ah you bring up a good point, I guess they are building it from the ground up for SC2.

I wouldn't say that the cash cow gets all the attention, D3 is a whole game, and Cataclysm is just an expansion, and they have been working on it since before WotLK. although they have been working on D3 for a while, SC2 has been under work for a little longer and it's not out yet either.

But I feel your pain, I liked D2 I thought it was pretty good, although I wasn't looking too forward to D3, after playing it however I can't wait for the game to be released... >_<

[Santrega]

D3 Battle.net is not going to use the same features, it's going to use totally different ones that will need to be developed from scratch. Morhaime confirmed on the live stream that SC2 and Cataclysm will be the 2 releases in 2010.

I'd like to know what kind of features are you thinking d3 will have differently than sc2?

[Hav0x]

I'd like to know what kind of features are you thinking d3 will have differently than sc2?

I don't know. All I know is that the director of battle.net said in an interview that there will be lots of new features added for D3 that do not relate to SC2.

[supersonic]

I don't know. All I know is that the director of battle.net said in an interview that there will be lots of new features added for D3 that do not relate to SC2.

But it will definitly be a shorter time adding new features than building Battle.net from the ground up like they did for SC2

[Santrega]

I don't know. All I know is that the director of battle.net said in an interview that there will be lots of new features added for D3 that do not relate to SC2.

That doesnt mean 2.0 needs to be remade from the ground up right? Of course there are a lot of things that wont relate to sc2, however, if you think of it from a programmers perspective... its a matter of changing what the buttons look like, and what the buttons do, not how the overall engine works?

Its more like a change of what the body of car looks like and giving it a few different features to fit what you want to come out of it, but for the most part leaving the original design alone.

[Hav0x]

That doesnt mean 2.0 needs to be remade from the ground up right?

I never said that it would.

Of course there are a lot of things that wont relate to sc2, however, if you think of it from a programmers perspective... its a matter of changing what the buttons look like, and what the buttons do, not how the overall engine works?

There will be far more changes than just what the buttons look like.

Its more like a change of what the body of car looks like and giving it a few different features to fit what you want to come out of it, but for the most part leaving the original design alone.

A better analogy would be putting an engine you already have in a totally new car. You still need to build that car from scratch, but you already have the technology to power it.