It would be very bad to not have one to announce. Okay, maybe it is not that bad, but it would be an unprecedented break in the pattern of the ages not to announce a new WoW expansion here. If there isn’t a new expansion announced for retail WoW the stock price will crash, there will be unrest in the streets, we won’t be able to trust anybody ever again, and the world will pretty much end. Yes, there will be all sorts of anniversary related things to talk about, with special panels and goodies and videos and whatever, and rightfully so, but there had better be a new expansion announcement on the list. Going down the list of franchises: World of Warcraft So it is time to go once again go through what I expect to hear, what I hope I will hear, and maybe a couple of things somewhere in between. This year though, this year has some potential. It wasn’t as dull as some made out, but it was a lot more details than big picture, and big picture is what gets attention. Hearthstone got a new expansion, OverWatch got a new hero and a cereal, Heroes of the Storm felt lucky just to get mentioned, StarCraft received the tiniest of nods, and if it had not been for the Diablo Immortal brouhaha there wouldn’t have been a headline worthy announcement out of the whole thing. WoW Classic was already known so, while we got to play a demo, the only big news was penning in the ship date to summer. It came a couple of months after a WoW expansion, so while there were some update items to reveal, there was no big Azeroth announcement. Last year’s BlizzCon was a bit less than thrilling. It is exactly a month away and I already want to start talking about it. In fact, I am more than a bit excited to see what it will bring. Blizzard Watch – covers a lot of the details/concernsīlizzCon is coming and there is nothing you can do to stop it.It would at least keep a few people satisfied until Diablo IV comes along in… did I guess 2022 back when they announced it? That sounds about right. If they could just manage that maybe? We shall see if I get what I want this time. I was good with the Diablo remake Blizzard did in conjunction with GoG.com. I want it to happen, and I want it to be… I’d settle for adequate. We shall see.īut I will be keeping my eye open for news on that front. Speculation about getting a remaster this year could be blue sky estimates. The French site says that Blizzard may have learned its lesson on that front, but everybody says that after a mistake and many go on to make the same mistakes over and over.Īnd this all might be very premature. I will no doubt buy it if it becomes available.īut after the Warcraft III debacle a lot of people will be giving Blizzard a hard look rather than trusting what they (over)promise, myself included. I would very much like a remastered version of Diablo II that played at modern screen resolutions without looking like something from 1977. This was quickly picked up by English language sites and the word spread.Īpparently the Activision studio Vicarious Visions is working with Blizzard on the remaster and the news has raised hopes that maybe the long awaited return of the game may come as soon as late 2020. Then earlier this week some news appeared on a French gaming site about the possibility of a remaster titled Diablo II Resurrected, which seems on point given the asset loss story. Still, that was definitely cold water on the embers of Diablo II nostalgia. That sounds bad, though for me that message is tainted by the fact the same few former members of the Blizzard North team seem bitter at how things turned out and have been up front and ready to crap all over everything Diablo related that Blizzard has done since they left. Long rumored, some of the team from Blizzard North, which created the game, have derided the idea, pointing out that they, through their own incompetence, lost some of the source code to the game and had to recreate it from local builds on dev machines and compiled binaries. I had pre-ordered it but asked for my money back once the situation became clear, though I will give Blizzard credit for being easy to get a refund from. The feature list seemed quite pared down.Īnd if that wasn’t enough, Blizz seemed really sensitive to the idea that somebody might make another DOTA from the scenario editor, so claimed ownership of all work anybody did there in the way that tone deaf corporate lawyers tend to do, which always manages to alienate fans. So we got something that was less of a game than the original. My pet theory is that somebody felt they had to kick it out the door when they did as it had been over a year since they had told people it was coming.
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