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Well, let's consider that Blizzard made their move in anticipation of PoE ( they deny it..but they do it for tons of games, and it's obvious ).
Necromancer release date for next week.
Season 11 start late July.
Presumably, Blizzard cut the cord quick on it's own "Beta" early because they want to push out before PoE expansion to keep player retention as high as possible ..and to make sure players actually buy their Necro Pack instead of jumping into PoE's new content.
That said, I can't imagine 3.0 releasing in July, even though we are already a month past a normal new League period. Pushing that out another 2 months seems excessive, which is probably why they are "going thick" with temp events in the meantime. But GGG tend to do this really....really....really slowly. Unless it's a microtansaction.
The people that would buy it though would always buy it regardless of anything else coming out, what'll happen is that now, they'll buy it, play it, get bored quick and get pissed that they had to pay out for what amounts to near nothing.
PoE will scoop up a load of pissed off d3 players at around the time the expansion comes out
That's a rather bold generalization, but still doesn't trip up the point made.
Of course they will buy it...because it's being released ahead of PoE expansion. If it was the other way around, they might not pick it up for weeks / months / at all, because the best form of purchasing is hype / impulse buying. In that time ...a larger consensus could form that points to them not wanting to buy it anymore. Heck, another game could catch their eye too.
The point being, that Blizzard made their move already, so it should be taken as indicative of them trying to move ahead of a competitive distraction. In a response, I don't believe GGG would release the expansion to overlap with that push ...less they get caught up in the same problem.
