Plenty of time for playing games that aren’t made by Blizzard.
Straight from the CEO Mike Morhaime himself, the next installment to the eSports franchise, StarCraft II, is being aimed at the first half of 2013, meaning the game might not come out until June.
While Battle.net gets an overhaul, the multiplayer aspect of Heart of the Swarm is in closed beta, and despite the content being mostly complete, the balancing of the three races in regards to the new unit compositions has been mixed. Unit changes, additions, and removals have been commonplace with each balance patch and it might take a while for the kinks to worked out barring switching back to the Wings of Liberty metagame.
In the Diablo III area, the expansion which most of us were expecting anyway, has been officially confirmed to be in the works. No timeline has been set yet, though Blizzard might prefer to release it before every person on the planet gets bored with the game and quits.
Source:
Joystiq
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I think they have quite a bit to go with the base game, but I am actually a tiny bit excited about the D3 expansion. I think they have learned a lot from there mistakes from launch and they are still improving. However, it is all about timing. I don’t see this expansion hitting until the holidays of 2013 with a gap between the SC2 expansion’s release. I believe by then they should have PVP out and a much better handle over the game by then. Of course no oneis saying the game is in a perfect state right now though. They still have a lot to go moving forward.
As for the SC2 expansion, I already pre-ordered that one with my bro. I feel that they have a much better idea of how the Starcraft universe works compared to Diablo atm, so I didn’t need any reassurance there.