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Blindy. had this to say about Pirotess:
You seriously think any unannounced blizzard game is a year and a half out?
Do you seriously think that Blizzard is operating on the same type of budget that they have been for the last 15 years?
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
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Do you seriously think that Blizzard is operating on the same type of budget that they have been for the last 15 years?
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This is Blizzard we're talking about. Look at their WoW patch record. 4 content updates since Burning Crusade was released.
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...This is Blizzard we're talking about. Look at their WoW patch record. 4 content updates since Burning Crusade was released.
That's a pretty bad example. You're making the false assumption that they don't release major content updates any faster because they aren't able to.
In all probability, they deliberately pace content releases to give the player base time to fully work through the things currently in the game. Most MMO's pace content releases at about 3-4 months each, usually for this reason.
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That's a pretty bad example. You're making the false assumption that they don't release major content updates any faster because they aren't able to.In all probability, they deliberately pace content releases to give the player base time to fully work through the things currently in the game. Most MMO's pace content releases at about 3-4 months each, usually for this reason.
More than that, the content is taking longer to chew through than the time it takes for them to release more.
You can see this pretty well in sunwell, honestly; The whole island is basically a gold-farm to inflate the economy, but it takes at least a month and a half of an entire active server doing the dailies every day to unlock everything, give or take a few days (And a few large guilds).
I haven't ever felt like the content release schedule in wow has been too slow. :3
And Maradon, you're right, they're able to release content faster than they do. However, I think that the slow releases have more to do with the amount of "polish" they put on everything they release. From what I saw, most of BC's patches were bug free for the most part, or if there were bugs, they were fixed quickly.
I suppose D3 could come out sooner, but I really doubt it will. Starcraft 2 won't be coming out this year for sure (apparently the dev team is focusing on getting cinematics in and they're about 1/3 of the way complete with the single player campaign), and from reading various interviews, Blizzard expects Diablo 3 to come out after Starcraft 2.
Quote from IGN on an interview with Rob Pardo:
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So why announce Diablo now? We still don't have release dates for StarCraft II or World of Warcraft's Wrath of the Lich King expansion, which many were speculating would be announced at WWI, so why bring another high profile product into the public with yet another nebulous release date? "The announcement of our projects is usually when it's time for that game to be announced," said Pardo. "This project has been going for a while and it finally got to the point where it felt like it's time to announce the game. We kind of have this rule of, ideally, we announce a game a year to a year and a half before the game comes out. That's our theory, and then three years later [trails off]. We're getting to be a bigger and bigger studio so we can't just keep one game announced and everything else hidden. We have several games in development now."
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Willias who doth quote:
And Maradon, you're right, they're able to release content faster than they do. However, I think that the slow releases have more to do with the amount of "polish" they put on everything they release.
Oh, that's most certainly also a factor.
If nothing else, nobody can ever accuse Blizzard of releasing an unfinished product. It kills me that people will complain endlessly about buggy zero day shit and "paying for a beta" but when one developer refuses to do that, people bitch just as loud.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
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Steven Steve's ass must be crazy:
Blizzard has no trouble releasing polished products because all they do is polish products, haha.
You're polish product.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
