Bilzzard's an incredibly busy company these days. Not only is it constantly maintaining recent, impressively popular projects such as Hearthstone and Overwatch, but it's also thinking about the future - that's why it's been hiring for something related to Diablo for quite a while now.
Spotted on the developer's jobs page, the newest posting asks for a game director who can "lead the Diablo series into the future". Of course, the big debate is whether Blizzard's working on an expansion to Diablo III or a new game entirely. For our money, the wording of this particular listing suggests that it's a new title, but only time will tell if we're right.
Are you ready for more Diablo? Would you rather have a new game at this point, or do you fancy another expansion first? Hunt down some goblins in the comments section below.
[source us.blizzard.com, via twitter.com, twitter.com, diablo.blizzpro.com]
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Another expansion would be great. I have really been wanting a reason to jump back in to D3.
Honestly I don't mind either. What ever it is, Blizzard makes great fun games, so I can't wait for it!
Would like to see a new game. I know it is a proven formula but I would love to see them change it up somewhat, it feels a little antiquated at this point. Actually I would love to see a new title, I know we just got Overwatch but it isn't really my thing. Regardless of what they do it is guaranteed that it will be quality.
I'm not personally very keen on Diablo 3 - I just find it to be endless fighting and I don't find the fighting to be anything special in the first place. Just my opinion, though. I respect other people will have different tastes.
Bring it on!!
Would prefer a new game tbh, needs to be rebuilt from scratch to sort out the online issues on console. Diablo 3 was fantastic, just the hacked items got out of hand. It's probably not as bad now, since I'd expect the number of players playing online on console has dropped off.
I know it won t be Diablo anymore, but I would love to have a Diablo 4 with the same structure in contents and loot but with a combat system closer to 3D action rpg like Dark Souls... Not necessarely so difficult....
Although read this a moment ago so I doesnt look like they are staffing up, more like maintaining the current team..
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/venturebeat.com/2016/07/01/diablo-iii-director-josh-mosqueira-exits-blizzard-hunt-for-his-replacement-begins/amp/?client=safari#
@Cron_13 Unfortunately that hacked items Blizzard has no control over since they are Sony and MS servers not Blizzard's own servers.
@Grawlog I can't blame them not going the always online route on console, look how much backlash they got with the PC version when it was first relesed.
@Tasuki plenty of games like destiny, the division are online only so that's no excuse. Poor implementation, the hacked items, duping etc ruined the game for online play. Shame too because those first few weeks of launch were so much fun.
@Grawlog I think they used D3 to test the waters in the console business since the last game they did for console was the SNES era, yeah there was Diablo on the PSONE but IIRC that was a port that Blizzard had someone else do for them. With what they learned from D3 it helped them with Oerwatch since Overwatch was originally made for consoles.
@Cron_13: Yeah but Blizzard has no control with the servers. On PC if you dup items you get banned . But on console Blizzard cannot ban players because they are Sony and MS servers and it would be up to them to ban the players PSN/XBL account which Sony or MS won't do for various reasons.
@Grawlog How could they when they would have to ban their PSN or XBL account. They would have to ask MS or Sony to do it which they won't because it wold mean a lost of money for them.
@Grawlog @Tasuki
I wonder how they are going to continue the story. Both the world stone and black soul stones are smashed. They running out of stones to keep them all in lol. Their spirits are supposedly floating around and that's when they going to call Ghostbusters!
@Tasuki duping isn't even server side issue on diablo 3, it's client side.
D3 is my most-played game of all time in it's many forms (PS3 & PS4). This year, I've gone back to D3 PS3 (vanilla) so I can finally reach base endgame. I have 10 characters on the verge of Inferno and couldn't be more absorbed. On PS3 UEE (RoS), I'm still collecting all 44 legendary crafting mats and other items. These's new content on PS4 that I have yet to check out, as well. Each version of the game, for me, is a totally unique and playable experience.
Looking back, I wish they had ported D2 + LoD to PS2 (back in the day) so that all the games would be present on Sony consoles (D1-3).
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