Diablo 3 Expansion Could Be Announced At Gamescom

Diablo 3 Expansion Could Be Announced At GamescomDiablo 3 gamers, chances are you have already completed the game several times over, maxed out all your character levels and right now you’re probably just farming for more gear or have stopped playing the game entirely. Well if you were hoping for an expansion to the game, it seems that you might be getting some details about it come Gamescom 2013. This is thanks to a recent bout of emails being sent out to various sites that informed them that there will be a Diablo 3 discussion panel held at Gamescom, and in that email it reads that Blizzard will be making a “special announcement”.

It was previously speculated that Blizzard will only introduce the expansion in November at the developer’s own event, BlizzCon, which they normally do, so it is interesting that they might have chosen Gamescon to announce it. Blizzard’s own Nick Carpenter’s recent tweet seemingly confirms this as it reads, “wrapped another amazing cinematic. Can’t wait to show the world!” In any case hopefully we are looking at a Diablo 3 expansion here, as opposed to maybe a card game based on the Diablo universe, but either way be sure to check back with us during Gamescom for all the details!

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Diablo 3′s Auction House Had A Detrimental Effect, According To Diablo & Diablo 2 Lead Designer

Diablo 3s Auction House Had A Detrimental Effect, According To Diablo & Diablo 2 Lead DesignerWhen Blizzard announced the auction house feature in Diablo 3, we guess it would be safe to say that there were at least two sets of gamers – one that did not mind the auction house and actually welcomed it, and the other that felt that this would detract from the fun that comes with grinding levels and farming for hours to land that super-legendary piece of armor or weapon. Unsurprisingly it seems that even within Blizzard, not everyone was a fan of the auction house and Diablo and Diablo 2’s lead designer, Stieg Hedlund, felt that it had a detrimental effect on the game.

Speaking to PCGamer, Hedlund was quoted as saying, “I think it had detrimental effects on gameplay throughout […] They did want to reserve a certain tier of loot for the auction house, and therefore it wasn’t dropping in the game with the kind of frequency that people were looking for it.” Despite that, Hedlund also expressed his understanding of why Blizzard implemented the feature in the first place, which according to him was more like a reward to the game developers who put in a lot of effort and time into creating the game.

This is not the first time we’ve heard criticism of the auction house as former game director, Jay Wilson, had previously expressed how he thought the auction house had hurt the game.

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New Diablo 3 Teaser For Console Revealed, Gets Pretty Creepy

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Diablo 3 Teaser Trailer For PS3 Released

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Diablo 3 Will Not Arrive For Next-Gen Consoles Anytime Soon

Blizzard made the headlines earlier this year when they unveiled that Diablo 3 would be making its way onto consoles like the Sony PlayStation 3. It certainly is good news for PlayStation 3 gamers who don’t mind playing the game […]

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Blizzard testing WoW in-game purchases despite ongoing D3 debacle

Though the two are slightly different elements of in-game play, Blizzard has suggested a real-money transaction addition in World of Warcraft despite their less-than-stellar performance with real-money-trading in their other large-scale online game Diablo 3. This new system is said by one single developer on Blizzard’s team – alone in a forum, believe or not – to be part of an exploration of possibilities at the moment, and not quite solid as such.

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Though the full system may never make it to the public iteration of the game, testing said system requires that some current in-game elements be tagged with mention of abilities. In this case it was a discovery by an intrepid player and seeker of behind-the-scenes answers that discovered it. Combined with a forum mention of a 100% XP boost in a spell appearing on the game’s public test server, here resulting in the following response from Blizzard:

“We are currently exploring the possibility of adding a way for players in certain regions to make purchases directly within the game. As part of this process, elements related to this will be appearing on the PTR. We’ll provide additional updates on our plans as development progresses.” – Community Manager Zarhym for Blizzard

At the moment there’s been just one similar system in place for the World of Warcraft experience, that being the “World of Warcraft shop” which allows purchase of oddities galore, but outside the game itself. The difference here with an in-game system is the ability to hit the “buy” button without leaving gameplay.

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Meanwhile Diablo 3 has a system in place where real-money transactions can take place between players – and they’ve had their fair share of regrets. Though the systems would seem a bit different on the surface, both would have cash moving in through Blizzard first and foremost – so it’s instantly clear why the company would want to roll this all through major tests before any final unveil.

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Diablo 3′s Expansion Possibly Pushed Back To 2014

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Diablo 3 For PS3/PS4 Will Have Exclusive Uncharted And Journey Items

Today was a pretty exciting day at E3, what with Sony and Microsoft announcing additional details of the PS4 and Xbox One respectively, and if you were looking forward to more news about Blizzard’s Diablo 3 action-RPG arriving on console, […]

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Diablo III headed to consoles in September: PS4 and Xbox One still possible

As Blizzard Entertainment lets it be known that their decade-long awaited title Diablo III has been optimized for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, a release date is dropped well within the ream of next-generation console detail. With September third on the books, the devil-bashing game is set to bring web-connected-only action to both consoles with

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Diablo 3 Launching On PS3, Xbox 360 September 3

Activision Blizzard is announcing Diablo 3 will be made available on PS3 and Xbox 360 on September 3.

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