BLIZZCON IS ALMOST HERE

>20 year Diablo anniversary

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?

WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?

Shill

blizzard expect
ok

Weird Al

I expect mods to do their job and delete these threads.

Can anyone explain to me why are people here so salty about anything blizzard related?

Nothing because any money made on warcraft, starcraft, or diablo will get pumped into overwatch. overwtch was the biggest fuck you to fans ever

Nostalrius at the end

diablo 3 remasterd would be nice *light color praying hands.

because blizzard games are popular and especially popular with normies.

you should know by now that Sup Forums hates anything thats popular.

I don't expect anything, but I honestly hope that they wont announce legacy servers since I prefer private ones because the community is more fun.

someone knows where i can watch without having to pay? restream os something?

I cant believe theyre waiting until after their stupid event to give us done & free content updates.

Its not that big a deal and Im not that pissed, but it is pretty annoying after all that ARG shit.

blizcon hasnt started yet. wait your ass.

Project Titan?
WoW Legacy servers?

Diablo 3

Titan is Overwatch

necromancer for d3, pics were already leaked.

>WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
Nothing but more disappointing games.
>WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?
A new IP that doesn't suck.

That's for charity auction.

a lot of shit

>WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
trash

>WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?
blizzard announcing it is going out of business

18+ site kid

everyone older then 18 has been burned by blizzard

What? Nigga there's no content for Overwatch

there's been all kinds of hype surrounding diablo leading up to blizzcon. so many people are expecting d4 or a d3 expansion but i just know its going to be some bullshit cosmetic/pet/stash tab in 'celebration' of diablo's 20th anniversary.

i fucking love diablo but after the disaster that was d3 i expect the worst from blizzard. that way if it turns out good i can be pleasantly surprised.

It's cool to hate Blizzard, is all it really comes down to.

If isn't that, then it's bitterness over what they did to StarCraft and Diablo in terms of story presentation, opting for a more flashy over the top Hollywood feel as opposed to their original, gritty, more elegant storytelling which ultimately changes the entire tone of the series. Which I can certainly understand, I mean if something changes so much to the point where it's barely recognizable , I get being pissy over it especially if it's something you loved growing up.

In most cases it's the former though. People develop a distaste for that which they feel they're over-exposed to, and being that Blizzard games became more and more popular over the years, well, you know.

If they announced a new Diablo game or expansion with some of the stuff taken out of D2 I will be happy.

Some Warcraft stuff that isn't WoW would be nice.

In reality we will get Overwatch new character info shit, WoW 7.2 Shit. And probably a behind the scenes shitty video about Diablo for the 20 year anniversary.

Shut the f*ck up. Yes, I filtered that for you because you're a blizzdrone and that hurts you and Blizzard has to cater to babies like you on their games so they wordfilter it, all the while advertising that their games are esports when its playerbase can't even handle bantz and cant git gud on their own without the company's intervention via nerfs

Its mainly 2 things
First changing target
Second, changing how they made products

Back when i was playing WC2 and Starcraft with Diablo: hellfire, gamers were rather small group. hell, first blizzard internet page looked like made in ms paint whole

Storytelling in Diablo 1 was ok. Even that one in D2 where just player happened to be capable human and saved world. In first diablo you were just random adventurer who comes by for some action and gold

Starcraft aka wh40k prototype was really like grimdark. No happy ending. many characters killed, others without any hope. BW ending was nice with "noone wins" theme.

Warcraft 1-3 was ok. Really, i enjoyed books and games.

But then, something around 2004 broke in blizzard. They changed target. Lore changed from original concepts to "we're heroes choosen by fate, its destiny etc" with very cartoonish, theme for kids.

Just look at graphics (more cartoony) and lore. SC2 resembles actual WoW. And D3 changed too into "you're the nephalem, choosen one, savior of world".

And corruption theme present in every blizz game with some redemption.
Fucking "void" as main villian. Void of death angel in D3. xel'naga void in sc2 and new void gods in wow

D3 villian corrupted without redemption.. Sc2 kerry corrupted with redemption. Illidan corrupted with redemption. Even fucking garrosh in wod

Its look all the same. Same cartoony storytelling adressed to young people. I have it in most games and videos, so im expecting some mature content like "old ways". Hell, back in 2000 i would buy any blizz game without checking what is it because 'hah blizzard will surely deliver something awesome".. Now im buying blizzard games expecting them to be one of the olds. And every time im disgusted

>what do you expect
A bunch of boring panels, retarded questions about why can't characters be LGBT, breathers who ask things no one cares about. Some shitty expansion for HS, 2 new chars for OW, some Diablo expansion, Some stupid improvement to custom games for SC2, like 2 new maps for Hots and some stupid skins for heroes that already have like 10 skins.

Pretty much all I care about is DJ Hodor

I dont think Diablo games have the longevity they had 16 years ago anymore.

The demographic has moved on.

>Diablo 2 + LoD HD
>better sprites
>larger resolutions
>QoL changes like a shared stash

>Announcement of Diablo 4
>4 will be a mix of 1, 2 and 3
>Get to pick a class
>distribute stats like 1/2
>that class learns/upgrades skills/spells with spellbooks like from 1
>passive skill tree in the same shape as 2's skill trees
>runes to modify skills/spells like 3
>no retarded number inflation
>no muddy, washed out colors or too much bloom/fog
>bring back light radius
>bring back trading
>8 players per game

I hope they shut down D3 servers permanently and apologize for that shite

Blizzard games aren't very good yet somehow manage to be really popular.

Blizzard used to be about quality games, now they're all about profit and foot traffic like a casino

Warcraft IV

I'm so sorry, user. You clearly haven't been following Blizzard games lately if you still have such hopes.

>Hearthstone expansion
>Overwatch Hero
>WoW 7.2

Aka nothing at all worth your time. Blizzard won't even mention Diablo or Starcraft.

Also no metzen.

So whos running the "illegal lmao" stream this year?

Any links?

Kind of like valve, they used to make beloved games and now they make e-sports shit. I think blizz is worse because they actually ruined diablo and starcraft, valve had the sense to leave half life alone

Diablo 3 being mediocre happened.
Starcraft 2 shitting on its own lore and story plus being designed around Korean tournaments happened.
WoW killing any chance of having a new actual RTS game in the setting happened.
And now they got into the MOBA fad.

Blizzard died around 2005, or when Activision bought them.

>WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
OVERWATCH AND HOTS UPDATES
>WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?
WARCRAFT 4 FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK

>WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
An honest apology for Starcraft 2's campaign story.

>WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?
An honest apology for Starcraft 2's campaign story.

I wish we could ban Blizzard threads. It physically disgusts me seeing their abortion shit posted here. Laughing at the faggots who bought Legion at least. 12 years of getting cucked.

Let's pretend they do announce something about a new Diablo or D3 expansion. Would people even want to play it? D3 had a pretty lukewarm reception.

>WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
The Overwatch presentation gets "hacked" Watch Dogs 2 style; Sombra is revealed

>WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?
The Overwatch devs get booed off the stage for doing the above

>10+ million copies sold
>lukewarm reception.

Because Blizzard is a huge fucking emotional rollercoaster ride, its highs and lows represent the quality of their games and almost everything after the Activision merge has been relatively disastrous.

They're like the western version of Nintendo - highly polished games and IPs that can be enjoyed by the masses, young and old.

Even if Nintendo was capable of things like mood, tension, and mind fuckery in shit like Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. Both companies just flat out sucks now and go for the elementary childish shit. Before anyone replies that Mario was for kids all along, there's a difference between made for kids and made for any/all ages.

>Overwatch presentation
>Jeff Kapplan comes on stage
>talks up how many people play OW and how its successfulk and giving thanks and usual PR bullshit
>suddenly lights go dark
>Sombra skull pops up on screen
>"Oh no, it looks like we're being hacked!"
>everyone in the audience just yawns and rolls their eyes
>Kapplan procuresa keyboard from backstage and pretends to try and fight of the hack
>"Almost got it folks"
>some people get up to leave
>he's sweating profusely because he knows the joke ran its course three months ago
>"...and execute." or some cliche progamming tv show lingo hackers say
>presses enter
>lights return to normal
>SOMBRA RELEASING 2017 flashes on screen

Seriously

How did the Sombra thing get dragged on for this long?

They better have another character reveal.

yes, if all the Sombra shit has all been leading up to Blizzcon then it was entirely pointless and they should feel bad.

i have a feeling people started following the rabbit trail on the ARG a lot sooner than Blizz expected them to. Like maybe the kick off to the ARG was premature which led to it going on for fucking ever.

I dunno, there's still a lot of that old WC3 humor/charm in games like HotS and Hearthstone. I don't know why people act like it's supposed to be such a serious series.
Can't excuse Diablo 3 though.

Diablo genre jump

I don't think Blizzard can compete with the other ARPGs right now. They have so many big games they can't keep up with content updates against POE and Grim Dawn.
like this, they can't even put out a fucking hero they've been teasing since launch.

I'd like to go away from endless loot grind and get an actual good story mode.

meanwhile at the diabo panel

If valve was like blizzard they would have released half life 3 already as a f2p cartoony moba

Instead they just jew money off naive DOTA2 players and only give 25% of it to the tournament prize.

Not even 50% or 1/3

25%

TWENTY FIVE.

How gullible are valvedrones?

What if they made a Diablo hack n slash with Itagaki as director?

Not gonna happen. Hack&Slash games typically have less character, most of them only have one.

How you gonna incorporate that many classes into it?

They'd have to severely narrow it down to just three (melee, range, caster) or something.

>desperate blizzdrones actually believe that a diablo sequel is on the way
Loving every laugh.

It's dead.
The franchise name is tarnished, there's no long-term revenue potential, and it was simply a test vehicle for wow features.

Expect:
Hots, Hearthstone and Overwatch shit
Wish:
Wc4, Diablo 4, Stukov Commander for coop (with infested units)
What we're getting:
1 overwatch hero that everybody knows already, another shitty hearthstone expansion, another map for their dead moba, a diablo shirt and literally nothing for starcraft.

>tfw Blizzard's 2 worst franchises by far are Hearthstone and Overwatch
>both have complete garbage/nonexistent story and horrible mechanics/gameplay
>both are the 2 most recent titles out from Blizzard

That alone makes me nervous.

10 million? Nigga try 30 million

REMINDER that Diablo 3 is literally the 3rd most sold PC game of all time

reminder that a fraction of that came back for the xpac

It doesn't do anything to the game user, it doesn't matter.

honestly with how bad they shit the bed with Diablo 3 I'd say it's their worst offender right now

Diablo 3 was sold on the name alone.
It had the reputation of being one of the most loved game series of all time.

They can't do that again.

I'm hoping for A Warcraft movie sequel announcement.
Im mean it.

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Im partially just joking because genre fans get upset when you insit DMC and Ninja Gaiden games are hack n slash when Diablo, Gauntlet, and similar titles were classified as them way before

But on a serious not, if they were to pull something like that, its not hard to make each class play unique. If they only have 5 or so at launch that wouldnt be so hard.

source?

>d3 """sells""" 30 gorillion copies (most of which were free copies given away with wow)
>only 2.7 million come back for the xpac in the first week

Well that's hopeful.

However let me lay out what will actually happen

>Announcement of Diablo 4
>4 is 3 with increased meme content

And that's all folks.

what if it finally happens

That movie was terrible but you'll probably get your wish because of China

me too

the first one was fun

>WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
Diablo 3 with current graphics
>WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR?
Diablo 2 with proper graphics like that castlevania mockup

That's why you just rebrand it as Diablo 4. Diablo 3 also sold a lot on consoles and almost none would buy an expansion

Expecting Diablo 4 using D3 engine as base with all new classes and Necro will be first announced.

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>most of which were free copies given away with wow

yeah most of those 30 million came from a game with ~8 million subs, nice logic

See If you think a diablo sequel is coming up, you don't understand how modern Blizzard operates.

Warcraft 4

>Blizzard selling "Virtual Tickets" for Blizzcon

Will there actually be a way to see anything from Blizzcon without giving money to Blizzard?

No, top secret.
No one can possibly stream it.

Agreed. It was anywhere near perfect but it had its moments and in my opinion it was a good movie. Very much deserves at least one sequel.

none of that will happen for d4

more than 4 players is too much for consoles
they will never bring back trading, they have to monetize the game, so say hello to loot boxes
stats are way too video gamey
it will still be a 6 button game
it will still have wow art style

>Warcraft 2
>More of based Orgrim
>Zul'jin and forest trolls
>Lordaeron and Ironforge

Jesus Christ Warcraft 2 would be incredible

>>WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?
Diablo spinoff game for Mobile & PC

>>WHAT DO YOU WISH FOR
Diablo 4 or D3 expansion or Warcraft 4 or a new RTS or Diablo style IP

>Overwatch
>Content

Now I know you're lying.

I want a TES-esque open world Warcraft single player RPG

A good diablo style fps, never been done well and blizzard are likely the only ones able to pull it off

I haven't played Overwatch in a while. Have they added anymore content besides Ana and Eichenwald?

muh nigga

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New skins, intro and a pve brawl. That counts as content right?

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I imagine Blizzard being able to create a far better SP RPG than any TES game

Did people really forget Diablo 3 sold like 30 million copies?

Do you not know what a monstrous number that is?

This. Give us a kick ass singleplayer Warcraft rpg.