Why we still can't play it then?
If it is as ready as they are implying, ship it. How long has it been since we've seen a game actually release "early"? Now wouldn't that be refreshing. Also, with 10.1 WoW coming soon, would probably benefit them even more during the lull leading up to the new content. I guess they are aiming for end of RFWF release but why?
Pretty bold statement. The beta felt like a technical alpha. Gonna be a few months of beta testing from the payers.
Maybe in the next 50 days we will get the overlay
As someone that spent 200 hours in the CBT end-game beta, I don't know what blizzard is smoking.They didn't even make a single change to the useless crafting.They didn't fix mounts looking rediculous and out of place (you didn't even get to test them, only we did in internal CBT)The UI is 5x too big. All social/achievement/character windows take up your ENTIRE screen, instead of 5-10% like WoW or D3.When they say "Development has finished", perhaps they are talking about development for consoles. Because the discs were already burned 2 months ago.I'll wait a few years to see if they add pay2win, because the systems for it are definitely in the game. There's no hurry to play Diablo 4, just get it on sale for $10 in a few years. Everything resets each season/3months. The game has no trading, no leaderboards, so you're not competing with anyone and there's no sense of permanence or progression.Don't forget, the game also has a 'private profile' option, so no one can inspect you or even see if you played the game for longer than a day.
Ironically I havent hear the term gone gold since diablo2.... maybe world of warcraft but certainly not recent blizzard games. considering the collectors box doesnt even come with a copy of the game and the majority of the people just do digital now anyways and games come out unfinished what does going gold even mean anymore? it used to be "this is what the release product will be forever" but now its just released unfinished broken product and we will patch it after weve banked a ton of money
What's the point of telling us the game is finished and ready to release when we have to just sit here and wait 50 days for nothing? I don't understand the point of this. "Hey guys the game is finished, but sorry you have to wait 50 days first".
Gone gold with no overlay map included day one, lol. If they were smart they would do 1 more beta weekend with all their fixes/patches and the servers running at 100%. See if the game stays up and the servers can handle the load. This would in turn provide a better launch in June. Plus give them more feedback they can use to tune the servers and patch even more fixes into the game.
Everyone thinking the beta was the most up to date version