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    Diablo 3 Update July 2016

    UPDATE JULY 2016.

    From my knowledge the expansion was delayed, but was expected to be released last year at Blizzcon 2015. It has been confirmed here at Forbes. I was right from beginning that the expansion was to expect from 2015, yet Blizzard decided to delay for unknown reason have been confirmed by Forbes.
    Forbes Welcome

    There is 2 scenario left.
    1. Second Diablo 3 Expansion is released at GamesCom or Blizzcon 2016.
    2. The Diablo 3 is infinity dead and they will focus on D4, but that is far away we could think possible 2019?

    Yet there is indicators that the D3 expansion will come out at GamesCom 2016.
    - They have invited TOP Diablo 3 streamers to Gamescom
    - There have been a leak with up to 16 tourment
    - Devil's hand leak (feature)
    - Act 6 and act 6 boss in data leak with latest 2.4.1 patch
    - X2_NAME strings in data patch
    - Blizzard hire new D3 game director and staff (Old game director & staff leaves blizzard.)

    These are a really huge indicators.

    As you can see on this data from last patch 2.4.1 there is ACT 6 the VI sign in one of the datasets pictures.

    Diablo 3 Update July 2016-diablo_3_patch_250_new_shield_act_icon_01-buffed-jpg

    The source confirm the data leaks and screenshots here at BUFFED.DE a big gaming site for Diablo.

    About this streamer Rhykker who joined D3 way later then the rest is a guy who try to get easy credit, saying that D3 was not expected to be released by Blizzard in 2015 as Forbes have confirmed that, so its factual wrong what this guy is saying. He really don't know what he is talking about, he just try logically explain everything but that not how the real world works, he have no meta skills.

    The main article have this information added to clarify.
    http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/news...ed-2016-a.html

    UPDATE JULY 2016.
    Last edited by sgurb; 07-11-2016 at 06:26 AM.

    Diablo 3 Update July 2016
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    Blizzard may be working on a 'new' gamemode

    Devil's hand is actually an alternative game mode/feature, which Blizzard originally intended to release with Reaper of Souls. It was accidentally shown in the adventure mode screen during RoS beta which confused some people on the official forums. Here is a forum reply from an official Blizzard poster:
    This is actually the case here. It seems the description of Adventure Mode from a previous build somehow wormed its way in to this particular patch. =( I apologize for any confusion this may have caused.
    As you can see the original post has already been deleted but is fortunately still available through web archives. Even though they claim that Devil's hand was nothing but an early version of adventure mode, there are datamined files widely contradicting this claim.

    Here's a screenshot of the adventure mode screen at that time where you can see the Devil's hand listed as a game mode similar to bounties. It seems like Devil's hand was meant to be a open world mode where you would collect specific items and turn them in to gamble for rewards. This theory is supported by these strings:

    OpenWorldDevilsHandWarning - {s1} has started a devils hand quest for {s2} in {s3}! The world is about to be reset.

    Conv_X1_DevilsHandIntro
    MenuLabel - The Devil's Hand
    Line0 - What is the Devil's Hand?
    Line1 - A threat. A riddle. A game of cards where there are winners—and corpses.
    Line4 -To join the game, you must bring us artifacts. When you deliver a set, we will deal you in.
    Line2 - And who is "we"?
    Line3 - The Covenant of Shadows. We search the lands for these artifacts. They are very dangerous, and we know how to keep them... safe.
    Line8 - Will you play?

    DevilsHandItemPickedUp - You found a Devil's Hand item!
    Click this button to find out more about it.
    DevilsHandSetComplete - You have completed a Devil's Hand set!
    Return to Thenia in New Tristram to redeem it for a legendary item.
    DevilsHandSetComplete_title - Devil's Hand Set Completed
    DevilsHandRedeem - Click a card to reveal one of the random rewards. You can keep it or choose to look at the other card. If you do, you must keep the second card.
    DevilsHandRedeem_title - Redeeming Devil's Hand
    Please note that OpenWorld was a placeholder tag for adventure mode at that time. There are many more strings related to Devil's Hand mode which reveal that some parts of the planned mode were reused in various parts of the game:

    Treasure_Goblin_C_Unique_DevilsHand - Aspect of Greed

    DevilsHand_03_01 - Icon of Wrath
    DevilsHand_03_02 - Icon of Greed
    DevilsHand_03_03 - Icon of Sloth
    DevilsHand_03_04 - Icon of Pride
    DevilsHand_03_05 - Icon of Lust
    DevilsHand_03_06 - Icon of Envy
    DevilsHand_03_07 - Icon of Gluttony
    Wyatt Cheng actually confirmed all this at Reaper of Souls launch party, saying that the mode overlapped too much was cut out in favor of the other modes.

    Now to the interesting part, patch 2.4.1 indeed seems to contain new assets for Devil's Hand implying that they may be revisiting the idea for a future release:



    Now, it's unsure whether these are upcoming features or, I hate to say it, cancelled ones. Blizzard did previously release a couple of purposeless zones, which seems very odd considering level designers aren't usually used for small patches but rather expansion packs or new games. I'd like to believe that they are still working on the game and bringing a major content updates in the form of patched or even an expansion pack, but we'll see.
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    Yes I am aware of the Devil's hand for some time, we will see.

    Regards zones, I think Blizzard have many zones ready (the artwork). What I know that both the concept of Skovos Isle and the Druid/Amazon 7th class is already finished and likely they already have the art graphics done, that is ALOT of graphics and as we know graphics is very costly and time consuming there is no way Blizzard would throw that away that would just be pure stupid. That lead to further support of the game.

    Second thing is they are not going to trash diablo 3, its like saying goodbye to customers, shooting your self in foot, Blizzard would never be interested in such move that we know form WoW, D2 and War3. Thinking from strategic business perspective.

    As written here:
    Nobbie's Gaming Blogs: Diablo 3 Expansion 2: Skovos and a new Druid-based Hybrid Class?
    Last edited by sgurb; 07-12-2016 at 05:51 PM.

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    Diablo 3 is just 4 years old... It would be very unusual for Blizzard to abandon a game this early. Let's hope for the best

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    Some new information about the possibility of Diablo 4 announcement at Blizzcon: clips.twitch.tv/nl_kripp/. Note that Kripparrian is friends with David Brevik, a former Diablo designer for left Blizzard to work for Grinding Gear Games. He seems pretty confident about the rumor, ranking his confidence at 9 in the scale of 1-10.

    I know this is a long shot, but at least it's something.

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