It’s a really disheartening thing to see all these, but Blizzard might just have a reason why they had been delaying Diablo 3 for ages now.
As many would have known, Diablo 3 was actually stated for release about December last year, although Diablo 3 never really came out when the time came about. Starcraft 2, which was due to be released after Diablo 3 have also been pushed forward, and it will see it’s own release next year. However, it seems that there are some rumours floating around the web with regards to why Blizzard had delayed Diablo 3 to the next few years.
If you guys have been monitoring the MMORPG space, you’ll probably know that there’s an MMORPG called Torchlight Torchlight, a game which was developed by Runic Games and released a little less than a month ago and it seems that it has enjoyed quite a huge amount of success thanks to many Diablo players out there. Why so? Simply because Torchlight closely resembles to how Diablo 3 is being played out.
(sorry for the misinformation, and thanks Karry for correcting this!)
This is how Torchlight looks like.
Torchlight, dubbed as a Diablo 3 clone which emphasizes on the cute factor, is widely recognized as the cute version of Diablo 3. No matter how much people look at it, it looks like Torchlight can be closely compared to Diablo 3 (skills, battle style, environment) in terms of everything. And this definitely does not spell good news for Blizzard as such a game out there will definitely dwindle people’s interest in their own unreleased game. Why care about an unreleased game when you can experience it first-hand in another game?
And this is how Diablo is like.
Blizzard has since stopped announcing any kind of Diablo 3 information, and this might further increase the suspicion that Blizzard is indeed in the middle of working out a whole new system for Diablo 3. It does not make sense for them to continue on the same system which was literally used by another game, seeing that people probably wouldn’t want to invest in a 60 dollars game when they can have the same kind of feeling in 20 dollars game and they can experience it without waiting for another few years. The very fact that Diablo 3 was pushed further to the “next few year” date might just be an indication of what Blizzard is doing now.
Blizzard’s no strangers to changing ideas when some other came with another idea that came close to their. Before the release of Diablo 2 in 2000, there was a game called NOX which had released sometime earlier, and shared some similarities to Diablo 2. Then, Blizzard placed Diablo 2 into a one and a half year worth of development to change, and this might just repeat itself for Diablo 3. After all, Blizzard have high expectations for themselves, right?
However, these are just simply rumours and speculations. Although these are rather valid arguments at this point of time (and the very fact that Diablo 3 got delayed even further just further proves the points), I highly suggest you take the above with a grain of salt. Who knows, maybe we’ll see Diablo 3 with a whole new system when Blizzard decides to announce more details follow the release of Starcraft 2.
You can check out more screenshots of both Diablo 3 and Torchlight in the gallery below.
Via: MMOSite.
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