Blizzard: "Diablo III not until 2011"

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Originally Posted by AJ!

Yeah but why wouldn't you milk WoW?

There are millions of players and WoW brings in some serious income for Blizzard so it makes perfect sense to get as much as possible out of the game.

A game like Diablo needs a lot of development time because there is just so much that needs to be added. All the enemies and of course the items. They need to make 3D models now for all the different armour and weapons going onto a player and then theres all the gems, custom gear, sets and uniquie items, monsters

Diablo 2 was a massive game in terms of how much stuff there was in game. Think about just how many weapons, armour, locations and monsters there were in diablo 2 and you get some idea of how long its going to take to bring diablo into a new 3D engine.

They also need to work on the new and old characters that are coming into the game (heres hoping the necromancer and paladin are back in)

But I wants it.

They'll have plenty of time to milk WoW some more after Diablo.