D3 by Flagship Studios

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D3 is coming, and here's the story from the latest PC Gamer:
Shout For The Devil
Since several founding members of the Diablo Team left Blizzard to form Flagship Studios, the future of Diablo 3 has been much topic of much speculation here at PCG...
It also said that it would be a while before it comes out. Too bad :(
 

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i really dont care how long it takes to get out ima buy it the first day it comes out and pwn everyone by playing 24/7 :p
 

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Mostly likely fake since blizzard has all legal docuements of any sequals (I think =/)
 

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Originally posted by sword tip
Mostly likely fake since blizzard has all legal docuements of any sequals (I think =/)
You think right. Blizzard itself as a company still has all the rights to the Diablo Franchise. Now, they could just change the name and all that good stuff, but why do that...Just because the development team left, doesn't mean they're going to pick the game up. It wouldn't come very cheap to them either if they wanted to.
 

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Evenif it does come are we really sure it will be on free servers as blizz has?
 

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It better as hell be, the main reason that people buy bliz game is because of the BNET feature.
 

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They could easily make the game Diablo 3 and just use a different name, and change a few underlying story elements to make it different enough to pass copyright muster.

That, or they could be suing for use of the name. The courts have been ruling a little more favorably for writer / creator intellectual rights in recent years...
 

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Yea lets make a completly diff game and try to say its diablo...if they even make a reference to Diablo without blizzards consent they can be sued and put ouuta business. Either blizz makes it or they sell flagship the rights, otherwise no diablo 3
 

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Hmm you Live in Tenneessee were at there?

BOT:I highly doubt that they would do that. They would keep it Blizzard =/
 

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Are you suggesting they name a game Devil 3? Then where did Devil 1 and Devil 2 go?
One more thing. We all know Blizzard or who ever makes Diablo 3 or what ever they call it will make an Expansion Pack. Blizzard has made an expansion to almost everything they have made. And it seems traditional that the D3 will own but it will have a few things held back like new chars and such cuz people are so money hungry they will wait a few months to release the expansion with all the other goodies in it. -sigh- But us people are so game hungry we will buy it right up.
 

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Originally posted by Zan_Toast
Yea lets make a completly diff game and try to say its diablo...if they even make a reference to Diablo without blizzards consent they can be sued and put ouuta business. Either blizz makes it or they sell flagship the rights, otherwise no diablo 3
Yeah..but do you think they are dumb or something?

It sounds like the way you are speaking, if a game has a sorc, barb, etc whatever, something named a GF, they could sue for it.

Maybe for a grandfather with the same pic ture :p

But many of the item names are just common sense names.....they cant sue for that eh?
 

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I highly doubt blizzard would sell the rights to the Diablo franchise...It's prolly they're biggest money maker
 

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How would we know? WoW isnt out yet? It could flop just like 95% of the other MMORPGS out there.

If its the biggest $$ maker, and they dont make it a trilogy.... then someone needs to be fired.
 

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You would think it would be in Blizzard's best financial interests to make a Diablo III. One wonders why they don't pull their collective heads out of their collective asses.
 
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