I don’t believe Blizzard will release DIII sooner than SCII, even if there are more people working on DIII. Cause IMHO I believe that the SCII fan base is bigger than that of DIII, thanks to the almost entire Korean population. If they’re smart, which they probably are, they’ll release SCII mid/end 2009 and DIII by the end of 2010. You don’t want to release them too soon after each other, cause there are plenty of people who will want to play both games, including myself, but both take a long time to master!

I don’t believe Blizzard will release DIII sooner than SCII, even if there are more people working on DIII. Cause IMHO I believe that the SCII fan base is bigger than that of DIII, thanks to the almost entire Korean population. If they’re smart, which they probably are, they’ll release SCII mid/end 2009 and DIII by the end of 2010. You don’t want to release them too soon after each other, cause there are plenty of people who will want to play both games, including myself, but both take a long time to master!

I agree, this is a bit of a far fetch and it’s unlikely that Diablo III will be released anywhere near StarCraft II.  Not just because of the time spent on development but, as Zidane mentioned, the two games could impact on each other’s sales.

I agree, this is a bit of a far fetch and it’s unlikely that Diablo III will be released anywhere near StarCraft II.  Not just because of the time spent on development but, as Zidane mentioned, the two games could impact on each other’s sales.

Diablo III can be release before Starcraft II even with less people and with less time. Why? Because Starcraft is a very high competitive multiple game and require iterative balancing. When you change a unit in any way the whole thing has be rebalance. Having 3 races that build, fight and move differently is a hell harder to balance than having 1 zillion weapons fit all fit in a database for speed/damage/level balancing. Moreover Diablo III will have imbalance like Diablo 2 had, they will be fix later. I didn’t say that Starcraft II will be perfectly balanced but the importance is a lot more important since they want tournament and reach hard core RTS gamer.

Diablo III can be release before Starcraft II even with less people and with less time. Why? Because Starcraft is a very high competitive multiple game and require iterative balancing. When you change a unit in any way the whole thing has be rebalance. Having 3 races that build, fight and move differently is a hell harder to balance than having 1 zillion weapons fit all fit in a database for speed/damage/level balancing. Moreover Diablo III will have imbalance like Diablo 2 had, they will be fix later. I didn’t say that Starcraft II will be perfectly balanced but the importance is a lot more important since they want tournament and reach hard core RTS gamer.

[QUOTE=zyo;6529]Diablo III can be release before Starcraft II even with less people and with less time. Why? Because Starcraft is a very high competitive multiple game and require iterative balancing. When you change a unit in any way the whole thing has be rebalance. Having 3 races that build, fight and move differently is a hell harder to balance than having 1 zillion weapons fit all fit in a database for speed/damage/level balancing. Moreover Diablo III will have imbalance like Diablo 2 had, they will be fix later. I didn’t say that Starcraft II will be perfectly balanced but the importance is a lot more important since they want tournament and reach hard core RTS gamer.

I’d just like to point out that the original unpatched Starcraft was greatly unbalanced, a fleet of twelve battlecruisers practically slaughtered any balanced force for example, and this was retail not beta or such. It took many years before Starcraft became a largely balanced game. It wasn’t a great tournament game, but it advanced and became better, and had a local cult of followers who helped immortalise the game as well as having at its core a solid gameplay experience.

[QUOTE=zyo;6529]Diablo III can be release before Starcraft II even with less people and with less time. Why? Because Starcraft is a very high competitive multiple game and require iterative balancing. When you change a unit in any way the whole thing has be rebalance. Having 3 races that build, fight and move differently is a hell harder to balance than having 1 zillion weapons fit all fit in a database for speed/damage/level balancing. Moreover Diablo III will have imbalance like Diablo 2 had, they will be fix later. I didn’t say that Starcraft II will be perfectly balanced but the importance is a lot more important since they want tournament and reach hard core RTS gamer.

I’d just like to point out that the original unpatched Starcraft was greatly unbalanced, a fleet of twelve battlecruisers practically slaughtered any balanced force for example, and this was retail not beta or such. It took many years before Starcraft became a largely balanced game. It wasn’t a great tournament game, but it advanced and became better, and had a local cult of followers who helped immortalise the game as well as having at its core a solid gameplay experience.

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Starcraft 2 will be out before D3, I’m pretty confident in that.  D3 also has a semblance of balance, not to mention item stats, character stats, levels, skills, monsters (hp, damage, etc), difficulty levels, item drops, magic affix levels/rarity, etc.  All these aspects take time to iron out, not unlike the balancing of units in Starcraft.  It’s these aspects that make D2 incredibly addictive, and D3 will need to match this.

Considering the time that SC2 has been in development (or at least announced) as opposed to D3, I strongly believe it’s Blizzard’s plan to release SC2 before D2.

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Starcraft 2 will be out before D3, I’m pretty confident in that.  D3 also has a semblance of balance, not to mention item stats, character stats, levels, skills, monsters (hp, damage, etc), difficulty levels, item drops, magic affix levels/rarity, etc.  All these aspects take time to iron out, not unlike the balancing of units in Starcraft.  It’s these aspects that make D2 incredibly addictive, and D3 will need to match this.

Considering the time that SC2 has been in development (or at least announced) as opposed to D3, I strongly believe it’s Blizzard’s plan to release SC2 before D2.