3 things will be for sure though:
1. it will be a mmorpg – they can only go so far with world of warcraft with their ideas throughout the warcraft lore/past etc and that means their say “120 people” looking after the development of wow and looking after the servers etc can be cut down to say “30 people” which means that 90 people have nothing to do except SC and DIABLO 3!!! and also the amount of people theyll lose from wow with warhammer means they wont be getting their annual 1.3 billion dollars from the wow franchise anymore so theyll need money from another mmorpg….diablo3….

2. the storyline will be unbelieveable – i mean look how d2 LoD ends? tyreal destroys the worldstone allowing safe passage from hell into earth and heaven same as heaven into earth into hell. mephisto’s and diablo’s soulstones get destroyed but what about baal’s? are we going to see another hero wannabe shoveing a random jagged bit of crystal into his skull like it turns him/her on or something? and the new storyline of the uber’s that have come out. it opens up so many possibilities. IMHO wat they will do and if they haven’t thought of this then they should read my idea, EVERY and i mean EVERY mini boss to big boss, (i.e the butcher, arch bishop lazurus, andariel, the countess,lilith, the list goes on) should be, if it is infact an mmorpg should be reborn from the pits of the abyss now that its open from the destruction of the worldstone and they should each be a big boss in a dungeon u must conquer.

3. IT WILL BLOODY ROCKKKKK!!!!!!!!

Diablo 3 WILL happen, there is no question. Back in the Diablo (original) days we all shouted for a Diablo II and 5 or so years after Hellfire we got it. LoD hasn’t been out THAT long and it revealed a massive ammount of new content. Not to mention the subsequent patches since 1.10 have unlocked quite a bit more (lets look at the new Ubers storyline in 1.11b).

But what do I know? I am, after all, just a little fan boy. (I do however own every Blizz game right down to the good old Vikings)

Blizzard gave SC: Ghost to a company called Nihilistic. Nihilistic really fucked it up. (look for SC: Ghost gameplay screenshots, it looks like early PS2..) So Blizzard took it back. They would have to start completely over, which seeing their projects now, doesnt seem too likely.

And as for Starcraft 2, sure they havent made an expansion for diablo since 2001, but SC reaches way back to 1998. It’s been expected to have a second one coming since 1999, it just doesn’t seem all too likely to happen soon.

And as for WoW, think for a sec, if the contract ends at 2010, and Blizzard wants to work on other games, they’ve got a fully active team that was working on WoW PLUS a shitload of cash in their pockets, it wouldnt be too hard for BLizzard to get a huge team working D3 and Sc2.

Have a look at how long they have been working on the other games, almost 10 years on WoW for example. Worst case scenario would be WoW having blocked off all of Blizz’s resources for meaningful time-spending on other projects >>> WoW released in 05, first real signs of DIII (trailers and such) might not be seen untill 2012/2013, planned release 2014, becoming 2015/2016 in the end. That is, IF it’s being developed at all and IF it’s not such a dramatic development as SC: Ghost.

But I must say the rumour-mill is so active, looks promising: Blizzard is known for stirring up rumours themselves 1-3 years before release, so who knows. Rumours like this one here are also decent indications of ‘it might very well be…’.

Quote: “so unless blizzard is getting together a completely new team”
Irrelevant, one of the major rumours included Blizzard looking for new employees to join the team that worked on D1&2; apparantly, the team you speak of already exists.

But, we’ll see….. BRING IT…..! NOW!!!!!!