Blizzard's release schedule leaked?

I'm disappointed at Blizzard. I could understand a game like Duke Nukem taking forever to release, but not Diablo. I doubt this whole wait is mainly due slow development of gameplay and/or game polishment. Surely Blizzard is sitting on its butt, taking its time, figuring ways on how to make the most out of these games, economically speaking.

The one thing I noticed is that the schedule says that the next wow xpac comes out in Q2 2012. Thats about a year and a half after cata. In a interview, they said that players might not have to wait two years for the next expansion like they usually do.

sorry Blizzard, I have a life to get to, I cant wait around for you to decide when to release your next game.

Well I wouldn't mind if they would just say release date 2050 and be over it

The whole leaked thing is getting old fast

I really hate all that secrecy within Blizzard's policy. It's just stupid.

Hmm, when Diablo 2 came out I was a young man. When Diablo 3 comes out, i will be an old man.

I figured they were gonna give a first look or maybe a trailer on the SC2 expansion at the last blizzcon. Apparently not.

Why they don't work on making games like SC2 and Diablo 3 bigger and then bring earlier games like SC3 Diablo 4 etc instead of making like 2-3 Expansion pack per game ?

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Really getting sick of this TBA.......

I just get sick and tired of all of the speculated release dates. Would be nice to see something solid for a change. Looking forward to getting it though.

@ NFSruler : My friend, what do GT5 and Duke Nukem have to do with my earlier comment? Perhaps I'm missing something? @ mandy007 : I didn't say D3 would be coming out this year. I know it's been pushed back to next year. I don't think Blizzard purposefully puts out games far apart on purpose though. They do it the way they do simply because quality games take even an experienced team a long time to complete. @ rolo107 : I agree there is more content that needs to be finished, that's clear, but, as Vengeancekael pointed out, SC2 and WoW Cataclysm both came out/are coming this year.

@ Vengeancekael : Where did Blizzard respond to the rumors? I do know, as we can all see for a fact in Blizzards jobs listing that they ARE hiring a "Lead Designer, Console" for D3. That's a fact, as if it wasn't there wouldn't be a listing for the job they are wanting to fill. I agree they haven't "Officially Confirmed" it, the job listing wouldn't be there if they weren't porting it over. If the job listing points to the fact that they'll be porting it over, then they would push back the PC release to make a multi-platform launch. When I was in my 20's I did professional beta testing in house at EA Tiburon in Orlando Florida and I did some testing for Microsoft making the "MechCommander" series. The latest project I've worked on was "Elemental:War of Magic" for Stardock (my name is in the credits as RavenX) . Having been in the "Industry" I can tell you first hand companies have pushed back and delayed games in the past that were completely done just so they could maximize profits in a related area. This leads me to at the very least surmise that Blizzard would indeed push back the release until they see whether or not a console port would be possible. Even for a company as big and powerful as Blizzard, the name of the game here is "Money", my friend.

Think the Diablo III release date is very realistic. I bet they have the closed beta running in June. Yes I want to sign up to it too!

Titan? is this the rumoured game that is going to be annonouced very soon?

@ runtheplacered Marketing strategy/schedule is entirely different than procrastinating. Well... somewhat. Delaying or picking a release day when a product is finished/nearly finished is typical in order to figure when sales might be best. Procrastination begs the staff to be lazy as all hell for as long as possible if they know how long they can be lazy. Anyone in a modern workplace would LOVE to be able to know they had deadline extensions added at the end of a project, since they're otherwise going to sit around and do nothing until absolutely forced to.

christ I almost died of a friggin heart attack. imagine when they'll actually......... announce diablo 3 release date? i think i'll need a day off then.

Brazilian servers? Well, I'll finally play the trial and give this game a chance...

Its doubtful that this is real Blizzard is like Nintendo very tightlipped. If this were real then I doubt we would have seen it. WoW expansions are always 2 years apart and always in the 4th quarter, which is winter time.

Oh damn! I made that on Paint during my Accounting class. Did that get leaked to the internet?! Boy do i feel terrible! (; This is a bunch of bull crap.

fake, all wow expansions have had their releases 2 years between each other. Also Blizzard would never do 2 big releases during the same quarter. Sale numbers are too important, they want all their games to top the charts. SC2X and D3 at the same time wont happen, WoW X5 (if that would ever happen) and Titan wont happen.

guess someone at blizzard is gonna have an unmarry xmas lol

@madSomnambulist, "It's a sad day if a company ever officially sets up a procrastination-based release schedule instead of one actually based on when stuff is done." You apparently have no concept of what 'marketing strategy' means.

Well, it could be fake but I still believe in the fact that those name in the picture exist and could be out at any moment, diablo3 seem to be almost done so next year could be a good time on that release, next wow expansion not impress about they making another one to keep the game up (wouldn't be mad but put something else on it please) and about that Titan never underestimate the Blizzard Company maybe they want to be involve in something else then just Mythological Histories and Barbaric fights, I guess we'll just have to wait for couple more years to see what happens.

If this is valid i wouldnt want to see 2 WoW expansions in 2 and a half years.... Also Diablo3 all speculations were Q3 to Q4 2011 so in a way is valid. About Titan , dont think blizzard would ever release 2 games on exactly same Q. Especially if both were mmorpgs... That would hurt each other. Something that i doubt Blizzard would ever do. The "bad" thing is that as it seems we will never see a WARCRAFT 4 game soon enough. More likely will be a STARCRAFT 3 since wow seems go strong even into 2014-2015.

So what's left? Ysera and Alexstraza? 5 dragonflights equals five expansions i suppose.

I don't know, but all I got from the article is 2 more expansions for World of Warcrack and I wish they would come out with something else....

Minecraft is really made by Blizzard, Notch is just a coverup.

@RavenXavier GT5 would like to have a word with you. As would duke nukem forever.

I think the schedule is probably fake. But like the article says, we'll see. It will be kind of interesting actually to see if the upcoming games match anywhere close what the schedule says.

If they gave us at least a demo for diablo 3 now, it would last us until the full game release and also help them gain feedback from people about the product so far.

Silly Blizzard, your games end in "craft", with the exception of diablo. No way is blizzard making a new franchise!! But I would love a MMO borderlands, since borderlands reminded me of a FPS diablo. It was a never-ending quest for killing stuff for new loot.

Hey come on Blizzard cant keep plans on dates there games will be launched, we all know that lol This is one of there strong points no dates makes great games for blizzard :)

fake, diablo 3 will be release in 2030

no warcraft 4 for the next 6 years?

Vengeancekael I agree but the fact still remains the same as cataclysm is just a expansion where as diablo 3 is a massive title, dont you agree?

i see fanbois got to work in thumbsdowning poor megakick and Nosnitsttam for posting their non abusive opinion.

two diablo 3 expansions? oh goodie.... phoenix sounds like a phone game, to me. and assuming some1 in blizzard typed the schedule, notice how they treat sc2hos and sc2lov, as expansions.

Super excited for "Titan". Blizzard quality in a 1st-person MMO would get my money.

wow this would suck, i cant wait for dianlo 3 to be released q4, i wanted to be in q1 damn it

love how i got thumbs down for pointing out that blizzard only EVER says "when its done" when they're asked about release dates. i love blizzard and their games (minus WoW) but i do not like the massive wait for games.

@megakick: did you even play starcraft 2?

I'd say higher odds of being real if it wasn't tripping over itself with anything even close to being in the same quarter. I think a better news story here might be "Blizzard settings itself up to be lazy through 2015?" ... It's a sad day if a company ever officially sets up a procrastination-based release schedule instead of one actually based on when stuff is done.

really i don't care for either if i want to play a new gen dungeon crawler i can play vindictus and starcraft 2 60 dollars for one campaign and sum updates, ripoff.

this is fiscal year and quarters? then it make sense. 3 game spread from holidays to early spring.

@Nosnitsttam yea if it's real, then it's just there so blizz can please acti-blizz share holders. We all know blizzard doesn't release a games on the same qrt which this list shows 3 games going out the same qrt.

Gamespot, you damn fools, Q4 2011 IS December 1st 2011 - March 31st 2012, so it makes a lot of sense.

Blizzard needs to just tell consoles to go suck it like they always do, every PC or Mac(if there is such a thing) gamer plays Blizzard games and we dont need the pure console gaming tools. As for this being real idk... but if it were i dont think it would matter, everything will be released later than expected anyhow im sure.

i wonder whos gonna win the longest game in production medal. Duke Nukem forever, or Diablo 3? Gran Turismo 5 just lost it........thank you PD ;-) :D