Now that i've got my laptop all situated, I'm definately going to grab Chrono Trigger emulator/rom and play the shit out of it :)

I was tempted to play Chrono Trigger recently, grabbed Sim City instead, that game is so awesome.

Yeah I hear yah on that.

I should try that one again, a long time ago my Emulator couldn't run it past a certain point.

I'm very skeptical of it being Diablo 3... From what I've been told. Hellgate: London is being made by the team who created Diablo 1 and 2, Hellgate is supposed to hold people over until they release Diablo 3.

It was the new WoW Expansion, heh. They ARE hiring for a 'Next-Gen MMO,' however.

WoW 2.

I'm still holding out for Diablo as an MMO, it's the easiest one to adapt to that format. I don't think we'll see a Starcraft MMO as SC2 is already coming out (but War3 wasn't too long before WoW either).

I'm betting on Diablo III or a new franchise as their next MMO.

Or WoW 2. They don't care about anything but their cash cow now.

That's how I feel, I just can't see why they CAN'T comprehend how much money Diablo 3 could make them in MMO format with the existing fanbase they have now, along with anyone from WoW that may make the jump and get both games.

Well, it's easier for them to release one or two expansions for WoW than to make a completely new game(Diablo 3.) And the money made probably wouldn't differ much between the two.

Yea, I guess they're gonna be slow on releasing anything with WOW out ...why take potential WOW subscribers away? They're making a lot more off WOW than they would diablo 3.

I bet Diablo 3 will come out closer to their projected end for WOW's big lifecycle and maybe even a World of Diablocraft ;).

I'm pretty sure they've said that there will be a WoW 2 eventually. It won't just be neverending expansions.

They must have Diablo 3 coming before 2010.

I pretty much gave up on gaming after hearing D3 wasn't coming out. I don't have the patience anymore, I spend most of my free-time energy consumption on my car :)

Sooner or later, they'll NEED a new game because the game engine will be so far behind newer MMOs that people will eventually be migrating to the newer, more colorful ones. Maybe not literally, but I think you know what I mean.

A WoW2 may be a possibility, as its universe does give a lot more diversity for MMO players (race-wise and faction-wise) where a Diablo MMO would have trouble with diversity as you can really only play as Human in a factional 1v1 (Humankind vs. Hell).

After thinking about it a bit more, I'm not so certain that the next MMO Blizzard puts out would be a part of the Diablo series. There are subfactions to the whole humankind thing, but so far those have been fairly straight-lined regarding class, so they'd have a lot more world development to go before this would be ready Lore-wise.

Well i'm always sure they can implement new factions, etc... But you do bring up a good point. Blah.

Well, they've got multiple human factions if I remember correctly. The Necromancers were from somewhere, the Sorceresses were from somewhere else, the Barbarians were from Mount Arreat and the surrounding plains, etc...

If it were me, I'd be more inclined to add additional class choices to those existing factions, like adding Shamanistic healers to Barbarians, Clerics of Trang'Oul for Necromancers, and other such nonsense. Diablo as an MMO is possible, but it'd take a considerable amount of work to make it very diverse, especially in the Race category, meaning it won't have as broad an appeal right off the bat. If they DID add in other Races, Lore-nerds would be outraged since that would be a fairly sizable deviation from the status-quo of the world (would probably be worse than the announcement of Death Knights for World of Warcraft).

It can be done, but the world may be too limiting to achieve a true "successor" to World of Warcraft once it starts dying, but it could still be an excellent game if done correctly.

Or they could just not make Diablo 3 an MMO and make it not suck. There's a thought.

I can't tell if you misunderstood me or are paraphrasing me. :confused: