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IIRC the original Diablo 3 got cancelled around 2005 and had been in development since late 2001. After the corporate suits saw how WoW was raking in money with monthly fees, they probably weren't keen on the idea of selling big expacs with months worth of content anymore. Frankly, it's amazing we even got SC2 and D3, but in the case of D3 they included the whole auction house shit so SC2 was pretty much the last time we got a standalone release with expacs and no major jewery. I imagine them canning Blizzard North's original D3 had something to do with this all as well.

North's version actually looked pretty cool, and it was basically being designed as D2 but with an MMO sized world. Shame they got screwed out of finishing it.