diablo 3 no PVP at launch

trekkie · **Posted:** March 9th, 2012, 11:24 pm

As we’re counting down the days until we’re ready to announce a release date for Diablo III, we’ve come to realize that the PvP game and systems aren’t yet living up to our standards. Today, we wanted to let you know that we’ve made the difficult decision to hold back the PvP Arena system and release it in a patch following the game’s launch. After a lot of consideration and discussion, we ultimately felt that delaying the whole game purely for PvP would just be punishing to everyone who’s waiting to enjoy the campaign and core solo/co-op content, all of which is just about complete.

While we work on making sure PvP lives up to its full potential, we hope you’ll find some consolation in the fact that soon, you’ll be having a blast leveling characters, finding items, learning the classes, and perfecting builds…and that when the Arenas do arrive, you’ll be all the better prepared for battle.

When the PvP patch is ultimately ready, it will add multiple Arena maps with themed locations and layouts, PvP-centric achievements, and a matchmaking system that will help you and your team get into fairly matched games quickly and easily. We’ll also be adding a personal progression system that will reward you for successfully bashing in the other team’s skulls.

We know a lot of you are looking forward to PvP, and we’ll be focusing our post-launch efforts on making sure the Arenas are as brutal, bloody, fast-paced, and awesome as we know they can be. In the meantime, we’re in the process of putting the finishing touches on what we think is a truly epic campaign and co-op experience for launch.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/4574895

Adbot · **Posted:** March 9th, 2012, 11:24 pm

Ranging God · **Posted:** March 10th, 2012, 12:51 pm

I think that this is a smart thing to do. After Blizzard see how the games goes and such, I think they can make PVP better, much much better than it would be if they waited.

trekkie · **Posted:** March 10th, 2012, 3:13 pm

they should waited to release D 3 after starcraft 3

Ranging God · **Posted:** March 11th, 2012, 7:23 am

trekkie wrote:

they should waited to release D 3 after starcraft 3

Soooo, in like 12 years???? lol

trekkie · **Posted:** March 15th, 2012, 12:38 pm

The end is nigh! Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced that Diablo III, the next chapter in its critically acclaimed action role-playing game series, will be unleashed from the Burning Hells on May 15.

Starting that day, gamers with a thirst for fast-paced action and adventure will be able to purchase Diablo III at retailers throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the regions of Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. In addition, gamers in the regions above as well as in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil will be able to buy Diablo III digitally via Blizzard's Battle.net website.

Players in the listed Latin American countries and in Russia will be able to purchase Diablo III at local retail locations starting June 7. Digital availability for the Russian version of the game will also begin June 7. In addition to the English version, Diablo III will be fully localized into Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, European Spanish, Italian, Polish, Russian, Korean, and Traditional Chinese.

Blizzard also kicked off global digital presales for Diablo III today. Would-be wizards, witch doctors, demon hunters, barbarians, and monks throughout the world should head to http://www.blizzard.com/games/d3/

now to reserve their digital copies.

so May 15th. this shall be interesting

ryan1 · **Posted:** March 15th, 2012, 2:17 pm

I think it was a good move on their part. I don't know about anyone else, but Diablo has never been about the PVP for me. I always played either offline single player or coop with friends. There's no reason to delay a Diablo title for PVP issues.

Adbot · **Posted:** March 15th, 2012, 2:17 pm