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As with all Blizzard titles, the release date is, "When it's done." They do not make estimates in advance or give hints, at least not publicly. Any listed  Diablo 3 release dates, such as the ones found on are often given/guessed at by media sources and especially by software sales sites, are not official merchants. These dates have no authority and are gross estimates, or are simply manufactured in order exist solely to boost spur interest/pre-orderssales. * [http://diablo.incgamers.com/categories/category/release-date/ News items related to Diablo 3's] release date.* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/search.php?keywords=release-date Screenshot gallery of] (incorrect) estimated * release dates.
==Starcraft II First==
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There were some rumors in 2008[[Blizzard Entertainment|http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/d3-release-date-rumors/] that Diablo 3 was further along in the development cycle than Starcraft 2. Blizzard]] has repeatedly confirmed immediately denied that [[StarCraft II]] will , they always said Starcraft 2 would be released before [[first, and it was, on July 27, 2010. With Diablo III]]3 still nowhere near beta testing at that point, but that D3 will be out before the first 's as thorough a rumor debunking as you'expansion'' of StarCraft II. Since Blizzard announced they want re ever going to create one expansion a year (roughly) after release, we can expect D3 within/around/after a year from SC2 releasesee.
StarCraft II beta started on 17th February 2010 and has been announced to be released on 27 July 2010==Diablo III==[[File:Fanmade_Diablo_3_game_box. Blizzard decided to split the SC2 single player campaigns into three different games, which made it possible to release sooner jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Diablo 3 game box as the entire team will be focusing on one aspect at the time. With just the Terran single-player missions and interpreted by [[Battlehttp://s93.net|Battlephotobucket.net 2com/home/sirashington sirashington].0]] developed right now, there's no cause to fear delays. Although Battle.net was the one major issue to keep the game from entering beta back in April 2009.
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No one at Blizzard has ever yet given any hint of a release date, or schedule, or estimate, or anything of the kind for Diablo 3. Their only public comments on the "when" question are terse official statements that Diablo 3 does not have a release date, whenever a new rumor pops up and gains enough traction that they feel it's necessary to restate the obvious.
With StarCraft II released in late As of July 2010, if Blizzard's original estimates were somewhat accurate about expansion and Diablo III, <b style=fansite Diii.net had tagged more than twenty-five news items with [http://diablo.incgamers.com/categories/category/release-date/ the "color:white;release date rumor">then we can expect Diablo III somewhere between early summer 2011 and spring 2012</b>keyword], showing just how often this sort of thing pops up.
This assumes that the statement made back in 2008 about Diablo III being released before StarCraft II's expansions still hold truehttp://diablo. Seeing as the two development teams are both Blizzard, one could argue the "delay level" of them would be equal, and from a release point of view, it makes more sense to release their new game before an expansion anywayincgamers. Whether or com/blog/comments/no-d3-in-2010-not Blizzard is still aiming for "one expansion per year" -even-for StarCraft II is unknown.-playboy-bunnies/
==Diablo III==
[[File:Fanmade_Diablo_3_game_box.jpg|right|thumb|350px|The Diablo 3 game box as interpreted by [http://s93.photobucket.com/home/sirashington sirashington].]]
As for Diablo III, the demo was very playable and seemed well-polished when the public was first given a hands-on opportunity at [[BlizzCon 2008]], and even more so at [[BlizzCon 2009]]. The [[D3 Team]] has repeatedly cautioned overeager speculators though; they say they have a great deal of work yet to do on it, and while what's been shown looks great, they're showing only a tiny fraction of the total game. Production was said to be well into Act 2 as of fall 2008, but with an estimated 4 acts to complete, they are nowhere near finished.
==Estimated Progress?==
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]]
 
==Related Information==
You can read more about the [[system requirements]], [[Beta Test|beta testing]], price/payment methods and age [[rating]] on the '''[[Diablo 3 Basics]]''' page.
 
 
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