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Blizzard Has a Version of Diablo 3 Running On Consoles

Posted by Soulskill on from the push-button-collect-loot dept.

skade88 points out comments from Blizzard exec Rob Pardo, who says the company has internal builds of Diablo 3 running on consoles. It's been known for months that Blizzard has been working on something like this, but now we have the first indication of how far along the project is. Pardo said, "We're still kind of exploring it. We've got builds up and running on it. We're hoping to get it far enough along where we can make it an official project, but we're not quite ready to release stuff about it. But it's looking pretty cool." According to lead designer Jay Wilson, we'll start seeing information on "the next big Diablo thing" next year, which probably refers to an expansion.

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  1. Really Blizzard? REALLY? by kc67 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The game is lacking core functionality that it was suppose to have at launch, or shortly thereafter, such as PvP. They are working on porting this to consoles instead of adding features they promised players? I guess they are trying to milk this cow dry before it dies. It is really a shame, Diablo II was one of my favorite games of all time. Diablo 3 is embarrassing.

    1. Re:Really Blizzard? REALLY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Don't be an idiot. The people porting it to console likely don't even possess the same skillset as the people working on PvP (one is low level hardware programming and optimization and control design, the other is level design, game design, and scripting). Also, PvP in Diablo games was always tacked on and terrible. At best it just enabled griefing for 14-year-old assholes.

    2. Re:Really Blizzard? REALLY? by matrim99 · · Score: 2

      Seriously. I have no idea how PvP could work in D3

      PvP damage scaling.

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    3. Re:Really Blizzard? REALLY? by Psicopatico · · Score: 2

      Lack of PvP is not a deficency.
      It keeps the screaming whiney kiddos affected by the "I have a bigger e-peen than you, faggot" syndrome away, directly rerouting them to other games.
      Heck, the more I think about it the more I appreciate it.

      Other than that yes, game has flaws. Even important ones.
      And I don't think porting to consoles will solve them.

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  2. End goal: by amaupin · · Score: 2

    Bring the Real Money Auction House to a million new potential customers.

  3. Re:The game still has its flaws by spire3661 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    1000% spot on. The instant i saw the interface, i knew it was console bound.

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  4. Re:lol by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dawww look at the little Blizzard "fan" who wasn't around before World of Warcraft. (They've released a majority of their games on both PC and Console...)

    I think you missed the point that D3 is a total joke in the first place...

  5. Re:lol by durrr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not diablo 3.
    It's Isometric world of farmcraft and it really shows the generic cash addicted shit producers that blizzard have become.

    Play path of exile if you want a continuation of the awsome that was diablo 2.

  6. Re:lol by Dins · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Play path of exile if you want a continuation of the awsome that was diablo 2.

    Or Torchlight 2

  7. Re:First post, what about Linux by crazyjj · · Score: 2

    It will be in your stocking right next to a copy of Half-Life 2, Episode 3.

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  8. Re:The game still has its flaws by Tridus · · Score: 2

    Most likely they actually thought it was a good game. Internal feedback and a beta test aren't the same thing as what happens when millions of people hit it release and get pissed off. I mean it's not like the game was lacking in terms of polish, it's just that what they had wasn't all that fun.

    Time doesn't always give you a better product, just look at Duke Nukem Forever.

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  9. Re:The game still has its flaws by need4mospd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not "awesome" until I can play it offline.

  10. Re:First post, what about Linux by geekoid · · Score: 2

    Because it would cost more to port then the number of people who would be added becasue they use linux.

    They aren't stubborn morons. Calling people stubborn morons becasue linux isn't in their business interests is being a stubborn moron.

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  11. Re:The game still has its flaws by geekoid · · Score: 2

    They should have seen it coming, becasue many people told them it would happen. No hind site here, they were specifically told about these issue.

    I gave blizzard a lot of cred, and they chewed it all away with Star Craft II and Diablo 3.

    They had been one of the few studios I would buy product from immediately and pay full first release price.

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