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Blizzard Buys Diablo3.com

Posted by Brian Leahy - Thursday, May 01, 2008 10:33 AM

There have been tons of rumors about the development of Diablo 3 over the years. More and more, however, it's looking like there could be an announcement at this year's Blizzard Worldwide Invitational in Paris.

Remember, StarCraft II was announced at last year's event.

Not only does the WWI end on the anniversary of the release of Diablo 2 and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction (June 29), now Blizzard has purchased Diablo3.com from the owner, Mockery.

The ex-owner of Diablo3.com says, however, "that this shouldn't be considered an announcement for the Diablo 3 game we've been waiting for all these years."

Diablo3.com currently redirects to Mockery's new site, DiabloFans.com, but will transition to Blizzard over the next few months.

We are hoping that we get an announcement on June 29th because Diablo is something we'd like Blizzard to get back to. For many of us (me), it developed our deep love of loot and mouse clicking.

What would you want out of Diablo 3? 2D or 3D? MMO or not?

Kotaku: Blizzard Snags Up Diablo 3 Site, Promises No Announcement Coming Soon




Comment(s)

Posted by cmdluke - Thursday, May 1, 2008 10:58 AM

a more gothic, heaven vs hell 3d mmo would be pretty cool. but, an mmo might not be the way to go cause it would pull many people from WoW. I don't think they want that.

Posted by pumpkinpunker - Thursday, May 1, 2008 11:03 AM

I don't think blizzard would mind pulling people away from one of their games to another because it is all money in their pocket and WOW is over-crowded anyway.

Personally, I prefer Diablo's lore and gothic feel to WOW and would drop WOW in a second for Diablo 3.

Posted by hetman - Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:05 PM

I hope they make another diablo. They should port diablo 2 to xbl and i would be happy with that also.

Posted by spotchlander - Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:53 PM

This would be awesome, but I still wouldn't pay a monthly fee to play it.

Posted by Ieyke - Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:07 PM

FINALLY Blizzard has decided to continue their one series that isn't crap.

Diablo III FTW!

Starcraft was ok, but SC2 looks useless.

Posted by bleahy - Thursday, May 1, 2008 1:38 PM

@Ieyke,

Don't you dare speak ill of StarCraft!

Posted by Murderface_D3 - Thursday, May 1, 2008 2:10 PM

Thank you for the recognition G4, we couldn't be happier (well almost) with this turn of events. All we seek from Blizzard is affirmation of our big red demon's presence within the walls of their sanctuary. Although this announcement may not satisfy some of the less faithful it is all we diablofans.com members need to maintain our persistence.

Posted by Bookshelf - Thursday, May 1, 2008 3:15 PM

i still play diablo 2 =D cant get enough of that game!!

it would be epic if this game really happend

Posted by Murderface_D3 - Thursday, May 1, 2008 4:05 PM

Thank you for the recognition G4, we couldn't be happier (well almost) with this turn of events. All we seek from Blizzard is affirmation of our big red demon's presence within the walls of their sanctuary. Although this announcement may not satisfy some of the less faithful it is all we diablofans.com members need to maintain our persistence.

Posted by Chaos_K - Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:33 PM

Well i was looking at the WoW forms a little while ago and i say that they had found that 10.4 million ppl would move from WoW to DIII

Posted by Chaos_K - Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:35 PM

Well i was looking at the WoW forms a little while ago and i say that they had found that 10.4 million ppl would move from WoW to DIII

Posted by Chaos_K - Thursday, May 1, 2008 5:38 PM

Well i was looking at the WoW forms a little while ago and i say that they had found that 10.4 million ppl would move from WoW to DIII

Posted by Chaos_K - Friday, May 2, 2008 5:46 AM

sry for the triple post
com had a glitch in mid game

Posted by Asrugan - Friday, May 2, 2008 10:26 AM

"The ex-owner of Diablo3.com says, however, "that this shouldn't be considered an announcement for the Diablo 3 game we've been waiting for all these years"

Translation, "As a result of getting a sweet deal on the domain I had to agree to a NDA"

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