there will never be a new diablo game

blizzard fired the development team of diablo because blizzard made wow world of warcraft so blizzard didnt need the d2 development team anymore so the people who made diablo made the new game called guild wars what they are trying to do is get more people to play guild wars and not wow they are trying to beat blizzard basically so thats why there hasent been a new diablo game

What the hell are you talking about?

Just because you fire the original team that made the xpac or original doesn't mean they cant just make a new one now. It's all a bunch of code....

It will come eventually. With blizzard, patience is a must.

Umm, punctuation is our friend.

Umm, punctuation is our friend.

Well said. Even with punctuation though, that's a whole bunch of bullshit.

Well, they aren't doing a very good job considering 3.5 million people play WoW.

To correct you, not all delevopers of d2 were fired. just only a select few. I mean think about it, even if we didn't know that, then who's been releasing the patch updates? They do have a D2 team, it's just been severly downsized. Yes I do believe that the Diablo Series will expand to new games, but with the success of WoW, we could see the world of d2 go Pay-2-Play also.

and that would be gay pay-2play diablo that would be lame un less teh game was like wow but cant exactly say it would cuz then it wouldnt be diablo

Everyone at blizzard north was fired.

Michael Dashow Leaves Blizzard - Flux [22:23:PST]

Michael Dashow, an artist who did a great deal of the original character design (Sorc and Barb) and tons of other artwork for Diablo II, maintains his own website. His last art project to be released by Blizzard is the new v1.11 Lilith/Andariel wallpaper, and if you check out the D2 artwork section of his page you can see a bit more info about the painting.

My last Blizzard desktop: I was asked to come up with something cool for the Diablo 1.11 patch, possibly something with Andariel... "Be sure to make her sexy but not TOO sexy, if you know what we mean..." I knew what they meant. Phil Shenk's original design for Andariel is basically topless, a fact that's easily overlooked when she's at screen resolution in the game but is harder to conceal in a giant desktop. Fortunately there were also some redesigns of a PG-13 version of the character done for the possibility of making an Action Figure, and I checked those out to get some ideas on... um... mammary concealment.
Anyhow, you can see the full piece at the Blizzard website here.

This desktop was released the same day as the Diablo 1.11 patch, and the same day that the entire staff of Blizzard North was let go. And two weeks after I fortuitously resigned from Blizzard Entertainment. So that about wraps it up for this page...!

And yes, he said that everyone at Bliz North was fired. Technically, they were offered "relocation packages," meaning they could choose to move to the smoggy hellhole that is Irvine and work in cubicles at Blizzard HQ, or they could stay in the Bay Area and find work elsewhere. Feel free to insert your own, "Another 2 year delay in D3 development." gloomy thought here. Thanks to Jonas for the news tip.

From diabloii.net

the D2 team was SEVERLY downsized yes, but no i doubt D3 will come out, in case u havent noticed all of the new job positions on blizzards site, most of those are either for D2 or Starcraft Ghost, obviously people don't seem to like blizzards people, because Blizzard is losin people fast. Also, why do u think Blizzard is doin patches and not d3? because d3 would be to much new coding for, COMPLETELY new items, maybe a char or 2, skill changes, quest changes, another act, all of that, and they just dont have the coders to do it

It would be a completely different game, and apparently all of the work they were doing on it was thrown out because it was shitty.

"There's a completely unsourced and unverified rumor about D3 today, and it's not good news; at least not if you wanted to play the game, someday, rather than watching your children do so. This comes from game gossip site Kotaku, and thanks to Justin for the tip:

Rumor has it that the current work on Diablo 3 was canceled and that the game is going to be completely reworked.

My tipsters tell me that Blizzard North’s work on the game was, to put it kindly, below expectations. While this is mildly disappointing, it’s nice to know that Blizzard still so zealously guards their name.

We don't have any opinion on the veracity of this item. Also keep in mind that Bliz has never confirmed that they are working on Diablo III at all, so any talk about it is just speculation. We do know that virtually everyone who had a large hand in designing D1/D2/D2X has long since left the company, and with Blizzard North closing and lots of the employees leaving the company, they had to be planning a major review of all ongoing projects.

The rumor item goes on to mention the widely-rumored June mass hiring of some of the WoW Expansion team by NCSoft, if you want to delve into more game-delay speculation tied to personnel issues. It's a shame that the business aspect is taking such precedence over the design of the games, which is all most of us really care about in the end."

From Diabloii.net

Looks like Blizzard is making a crapload of money off of World of Warcraft and just think D2 is a clinging child they need to beat down. They don't want to work on a new Diablo 3 game because that would take away profit, and they see WoW lasting awhile, so they are going to stick with that.