Blizzard not worried about losing WOW fans to Diablo III News
PC News by Tom Bramwell
Blizzard has said that it is "hoping" that World of Warcraft's monstrous fan-base will take an interest in its latest game, action-RPG Diablo III, but that it isn't concerned about losing monthly WOW revenue.
"No we're not afraid of losing WOW subscribers to Diablo III," lead designer Jay Wilson said during a press conference - following the game's unveiling at Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational event in Paris this weekend.
"There's not as big of a crossover as we expected between the two communities," senior exec and Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce offered on the same subject, "but we're certainly hoping that the WOW community will be interested in DIII."
Diablo III was unveiled in some style at the Blizzard WWI event, which we reported live. The publisher not only revealed the game, but released screenshots, a sword-whetting cinematic trailer and a massive 19 minutes of gameplay footage.
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It already did Diablo on consoles with the original Diablo on the PlayStation, which I bought just to play co-op when 2 PCs at home was all but a dream... Now me and my brother will probably buy a copy each, since we both have our own gaming PCs :)
As for a 360 version down the line... with big co-op plans they seem to have, yeah, why not! I can never have too much Diablo. |
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callum9999
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Is there a reason why all these stories are being split into loads of seperate articles?
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Makes you wonder, Battle.net has been free for yonks but I could imagine it would make more sense if they expand that WoW sub into a battle.net sub, so £8.99 a month gets you WoW and some of the extra online modes of Diablo and SC (so properly hosted games for the rank/ladder system to be played on). Else they'd shoot themselves in the foot as I doubt I'll have time for WoW when SCII hits.
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Imo Diablo III will act as a black hole to all the other games in the market (PC and consoles as well).
I remember my experience with Diablo II as a times in that barely played another games, and in this times I has no Internet. Diablo III probably will kill most of my interest in keep playing another games, except ocasionally fps matches. Simply: Starcraft II + Dawn Of War II + Diablo II = consoles doomed. |
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