Leaked/Rumor: Blizzard future release dates + Diablo 3 due Q4 2011
 

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Following one of the largest leaks in game developer history, Blizzard China General Manager Ye Weilun has left the company for reasons that have not been revealed. The leak, which occurred last week, included a bevy of sensitive information such as confidential financial data and budgets, personal subscriber data and the company’s product roadmap for the next four years. The roadmap, shown above, reveals Blizzard’s timeline for upcoming releases like the third and fourth installments of the company’s popular World of Warcraft franchise, the third Diablo game and a new title called Titan. Blizzard’s leaked financial data and its subscriber database are rumored to have been delivered to one or more of the company’s competitors. Former sales director of Nokia China Dai Jinhe has replaced Weilun as General Manager of Blizzard China.

http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/03/blizza...ser-data-leak/

An internal document of blizzard release date have been leaked on the internet, and it states all futher blizzard product release date including diablo 3.

Battle.net 2.0

BNET2 – Well, that’s the Battle.net we now use on WoW.
BNET2MapMarket – This is pretty self explanatory, but I’m a little surprised by the timeline.
BNET2 3rd Parties – The end-game with Battle.net is as far as I know to compete with Steam. One of the best way to do that would be to use the new platform to distribute a popular game, and if that game was an upcoming Call of Duty title the Activision/Blizzard merge would suddenly make a lot of sense, right?

Starcraft 2
Nothing really new here, but I have no idea what SC2 Phoenix is.

Diablo 3
Target release date in a year makes sense. The 2 expansions aren’t really a surprise but I wouldn’t take it as a confirmation, that’s usually the kind of stuff you mention in company meetings with the higher-ups to make everyone happy.

World of Warcraft
WoWMobile – Done/in-progress with the mobile Auction House and the upcoming extra features.
WoW Cataclysm – Well, we all know about that.
WoW Brazil – Portuguese translation of the game. I already heard a couple of rumors about that and at this point I’m 99% sure it’s true, this is one of the reason why I think this document is legit. (The 2 others being the TCG Game and Titan)
WoW X4 – 4th expansion in a year and a half sounds very plausible.
WoW TCG – TCG Game, this part will probably remind you of one of my old posts … The Future of World of Warcraft: TCG
WoW Movie – I’d say the timeline is off because the document is a few months old, before Sam Raimi decided to work on other projects before the Warcraft movie (but I still want to believe).
WoW X5 – 5th expansion a year and a half later, nothing surprising.

Titan
Next blizzards expansion.

Blizzard fanboy Rule #1: Don't believe in Blizzard's release dates.

+2 years to each of those dates = actual release date *IF LUCKY*

only for their Marketing. this is from the trenches of Blizzard itself

i've always wanted to jump on the diablo hype..would i need to play 1&2? Diablo 3 won't be a monthly thing like WoW right?

hold the phone, do i see a WoW movie? :facepalm:

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Try Torchlight. If you like it, you'll like Diablo.

I can't wait for Diablo 3!!
Out of all the blizzard games, D2 was the one that hooked me.

I thought D3 is coming out AFTER the complete SC2 after the protoss and zerg expansion? I guess not.

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investor conference call was today

-the game should go into beta by Q3


http://www.diablofans.com/

beta in july 1

PC gaming's never been this hot in a long time with Diablo 3 and Battlefield 3 coming soon.

what about the release of sc2?

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must.. get.. beta key...