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Unfortunately we don't know how much earlier StarCraft II will hit beta started on 17th February 2010 and has been announced to be released on 27 July 2010. Blizzard decided to split the storesSC2 single player campaigns into three different games, but we have an inkling which made it possible to how close to completion that game isrelease sooner as the entire team will be focusing on one aspect at the time. With just the Terran single-player missions and [[Battle.net|Battle.net 2. The game has so far gone through most of it0]] developed right now, there's no cause to fear delays. Although Battle.net was the one major changes, with all units planned for issue to keep the game available and decently balanced. Minor tweaking is still from entering beta back in progress, but no massive changes have been done in the last few monthsApril 2009.
As Blizzard had decided to split the SC2 single player campaigns into three different games, this naturally speeded along since nearly the entire team can dedicate themselves to working on the main game, with just the Terran single-player missions and [[Battle.net|Battle.net 2.0]]. Right now, there's no major delay, although Battle.net was the one major issue to keep the game from entering beta back in April 2009. Blizzard has slated With StarCraft II to be released in the first half of 2010, and beta started on 17th February 2010. A long beta test is expected for StarCraft, as the complicated multiplayer aspects of the game will need to be extensively play tested and balanced, but not longer than late June 2010. Blizzard has also said, and confirmed on several occasions, that the game will be released in the first half of 2010. If StarCraft II is released in spring July 2010, if Blizzard's original estimates were somewhat accurate, about expansion and the game is confirmed to not be released in 2010Diablo III, <b style="color:white;">then we can expect Diablo III somewhere between early summer 2011 and December 2011spring 2012</b>.
We can wager a guess that [[Act I]] is relatively close to "completion", and [[Act II]] as well. At this time, Blizzard has said this is the order of the acts, but anything can change before release. The order of the acts might very well be something completely different.
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==Starcraft II First==
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[[Blizzard Entertainment|Blizzard]] has repeatedly confirmed that [[StarCraft II]] will be released before [[Diablo III]], but that D3 will be out before the first ''expansion'' of StarCraftII. Since Blizzard announced they want to create one expansion a year (roughly) after release, we can expect D3 within/around /after a year from SC2 release.
Estimates of a percentage completed are discouraged by Blizzard development teams, since there's no way to quantify the process in that fashion. They spent years working on the foundation of Diablo III: programming the game engine, trying out numerous different styles of art design, coming up with a plot and character concepts, etc. The hardware and foundational work takes as long or longer than adding in the content, which makes it impossible to estimate the overall percentage completed.
We can wager a guess that [[Act I]] is relatively close to "completion", and [[Act II]] is as well. At this time, Blizzard has said this is the order of the acts, but anything can change before release. The order of the acts might very well be something completely different. No hints have been made about Act III., we're expecting more information at [[BlizzCon 2010]]
===The Dol Rune Conspiracy - 09/09/09===
Circulating on forums first in mid-September 2008, and the idea is that the {{iw|Dol Dol rune}} holds the truth of the Diablo II release date. Through lots of mathematical formulas and Hex code, the date is was supposed to be 2009-09-09.
Besides being logically flawed all the way, it's obviously just a rouse. However, it has continuously been spread on fansites and video game sites up until today (mid January shortly after the end of 2009), when it became overly apparent it could not be true.
* '''[http://forums.diii.net/showthread.php?p=6802602 ~ Within Lies The True Secret Of Diablo ~]'''