Diablo 3 release Date: May 15 2012

[Mitlov]

Blizzard is removing PvP from Diablo III, at least temporarily, in order to at least get the single-player and coop portions to the market. The PvP is apparently the hold-up.

Diablo III shelves PvP to make launch | Massively

[Voodooi]

Blizzard is removing PvP from Diablo III, at least temporarily, in order to at least get the single-player and coop portions to the market. The PvP is apparently the hold-up.

Diablo III shelves PvP to make launch | Massively

Ah, good.

I love PvP to death in MMO's, however I'd be willing to wait near the level cap to PvP if it meant releasing the game NOW! (lol)

[r3teng]

Considering that Blizzard hasn't made an official announcement, I just strongly doubt that the April 17th launch date is indeed legit. There just doesn't seem to be enough time from now until then unless we do hear an announcement this week possibly.

[Simon]

Assuming that Diablo 3 is going to be released on the 13th of April, I wonder how many people who actually stay in the game for a long time.

[KernalPanic]

Blizzard is removing PvP from Diablo III, at least temporarily, in order to at least get the single-player and coop portions to the market. The PvP is apparently the hold-up.

Diablo III shelves PvP to make launch | Massively

This isn't really bad news as quite frankly, the PvP in Diablo series has always kinda sucked.

Even on the odd chance you could find someone who wasn't cheating (or had an arranged match between friends), one or two classes were just so massively overpowered that every single player serious about PvP was the same two classes and build types. Anything else was guaranteed loss even knowing what items they had and which skills they were going to use and in what order.

Even watching was boring... oh look another MB Assassin vs MB assassin fight... wake me when its over.

Honestly, D3 might be altogether better if they just never make a PvP component. Due to Battlenet's rampant cheating, its never going to be worth anything unless they have an official watching the battle and monitoring cheat activity anyway.

[Simon]

Oh, and to add it on with the ability to access high end gear through the auction house, players would be separated into strong and weak just by gear.

[KernalPanic]

Oh, and to add it on with the ability to access high end gear through the auction house, players would be separated into strong and weak just by gear.

Yay, pay to win!
I'll be the guy doing solo runs in the most vanilla gear possible while selling everything D3 to the nuts willing to put themselves, their mom, and their grandma in the poorhouse just to be .00000000000001% better in PvP in an online game.

This is of course assuming the best gear isn't duped by the second week of release.

[Simon]

I might be doing MF runs as well just for fun, but I'm not really sure whether or not I want to buy the game yet.

[Getawayfrommelucas]

I am perfectly ok with them shelving PVP until the game is released. Its really not a big deal, HOWEVER - they need to release the game before i lose interest! I've been playing beta and..well..I'll just say it feels a little dated. I'll still pick it up because it's Diablo

[maxheap]

^^ same here, I think I already did lose the interest... but I will play it because of story, much like what I am doing for mw...