Diablo 3 Release Date Leaked – Jan 17th?

GameFront is reporting on a website that is understand for game leaks and refers to a email sent to the web site owner back in August from a Blizzard source that reveals everything that was announced at last weeks Blizzcon. The email is dated Aug 17th, which naturally be photoshopped, however if you look at the image upload date, it was 2 months ago.

The email shows that Blizzard was originally supposed to announce the Diablo 3 launch date during Blizzcon, however in late September it was delayed to early 2012, and so that’s largely likely the reason why it wasn’t. The email also shows that the tentative backup date was originally set for Jan 17th. Does this date remain as the backup release date? I don’t understand, but it’s a very good estimate at worse.

Looking at Blizzard release schedule over the last decade we can see every game and expansion has been released between Nov 14th - Jan 16th and June 29th -  July 5th. Thus a Jan 17th backup date is lookin more as well as more legit. That’s enough to convince me and if it’s definitely not exactly the 17th, I doubt it is much further out.


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