Let ' s face it, the first day of Blizzcon has brought some wonderful news.





World of Warcraft is bringing back legacy servers pretty much for free and everyone is falling back in love with it. Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm are both receiving new playable characters respectively, which is obviously something welcomed by their communities. And after all these wonderful news, it had come to be the time for the Diablo panel.





And we all know how that ended up.





Diablo related positions listed under the "Unannounced project" category. While this tells us absolutely nothing, the fan-base began to dig its own grave with speculations and theories about the possible upcoming Diablo game. No one thought that maybe the time span between the first listing and Blizzcon would not necessitate an actual announcement there. To understand why the ceremony has been such an infuriating failure, we need to travel back in time, all the way to the beginning of the year. Here we can see Blizzard posting job offers for variousrelated positions listed under the "Unannounced project" category. While this tells us absolutely nothing, the fan-base began to dig its own grave with speculations and theories about the possible upcominggame. No one thought that maybe the time span between the first listing and Blizzcon would not necessitate an actual announcement there.





And then came the Blizzcon announcements, goodie bags and finally, the schedule. And did anything stir more of deep waters in any fandom before than the schedule for 2018 ' s Blizzcon.





But first things first, the they made it sure that there was something huge coming for Diablo fans. The goodie bags contained a Diablo figurine, and the announcements hyped up the conference while admitting that something was indeed coming this year. All of this to tell the fans to lower their expectations mere weeks before the conference, when the tickets have been bought.





Now to the schedule.





Diablo-related panels. Combine this with the job listings, goodie bag hype and everyone had the right to think that a new Diablo project was indeed coming, except for Rhykker, who has ' s misprinted D4s. Some of the more observant have taken notice, that there has been a huge gap after the initial ceremony, as well as an unusually high amount of-related panels. Combine this with the job listings, goodie bag hype and everyone had the right to think that a newproject was indeed coming, except for Rhykker, who has believed this since Blizzcon 2016 and its misprinted D4s.





By the way, Diablo 4 hype is not anything new or exclusive to 2018. In 2016, the fans have been misled by one of the employees tweeting "Diablo fans are going to lose their $#/7. " The tweet has since been deleted and said employee fired. The hype it has created, however had stayed until the conference.



That year, we got the necromancer expansion, which, obviously, did not live up to the hype, since it has not brought many new things to the endless tiring grind that Diablo III has become.