all you guys saying "but its been in development so long" i dont think it has...i think you will find they have only started developing it when we first started hearing about it maybe about 3-4 months earlier...they were probably focusing their time and money into world of warcraft for a while save them a bit of work now that they are working on World of Warcraft, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, Cataclysm AND the unnamed MMO you expect them to get Diablo 3 out in 6 months? wow don't make it easy for them or anything

Back when everyone was claiming we'd see Diablo 3 next year, who was saying this....

"OK, 2009 or early 2010 belongs to Starcraft. Then there's the next WoW expansion which will probably be near Christmas. This means that the EARLIEST you'll see Diablo 3 will be in 2011."

Oh wait, that was ME saying that, and everyone told me I was wrong.

Folks, I keep trying to explain it... as someone that's been around since the first installments of Warcraft and Diablo, there's one other thing I've seen that Bliz does well besides making pretty games... they're GREAT at taking forever to do so. Diablo 2 was at least three years late. It was so late that many promised features were removed, and the fifth act that should have been included was scrapped and turned into an expansion pack that we paid another $50 for.

I'm not surprised that D3 isn't coming out until 2011. As a matter of fact, what will surprise me is IF Diablo 3 makes it out in 2011.

I agree. By that time, graphics for games should be better than what they are now and may need to update them for D3. And it's been in development for way too long IMO. It was less than 2 years time between Warcraft 3 and WoW's release dates(July 3, 2002 and Nov. 22, 2004 respectively). But Diablo 2 was released back in June 29, 2000...according to D3's new release year of 2011, that puts it at 11 years since D2 was released that we'll see D3. I know Warcraft is Blizz's cash baby, but come on! There's more than just Warcraft! As a side note though, the only thing I can see as an interesting idea is that with a release date of 2011, after checking the release date of the original Diablo game, it would be released in time for celebrating Diablo's 15th anniversary.

Edited, Nov 12th 2009 4:02pm by Phantomhart