back in the days, Diablo 1 is created by Blizzard North then just before the release of the game, Blizzard BOUGHT Blizzard North.. after the critical successful of Diablo 1, Diablo 2 and Diablo 2 - Lord of Destruction is still developed by Blizzard North Team until there was a huge controversy within the company.. Blizzard North Team left the company for good and now they created another company known as Runic Games (the creator of Torchlight 1 and Torchlight 2) (this explained why the gameplay of Torchlight is quite similar with diablo games)..

In all, basically D3 is CREATED by greedy matafuker Blizzard employee NOT BLIZZARD NORTH TEAM.. it is a different team.. that is why the changes between classic Diablo (D1 and D2) with D3 is so huge significant..

As for the controversy, u can wikipedia Blizzard North for more details..

This post has been edited by rockroll5022: Jul 17 2012, 12:48 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_North

its called condor, and before blizzard "bought them over", diablo NEVER EXIST. please get your facts straight.

if no blizzard, no blizzard north, no diablo.
condor may have been a no-body, we will never knew.

also, saying it is not made by blizzard because another division (which is haha, called blizzard 'north') made it, is as retarded as saying battlefield series is not made by EA but by DICE because DICE is under EA. (in this case publisher/developer relation)

ohh i just realized that my bad.. however what i am trying to say is that the team behind the game development.. for blizzard there will be several teams example starcraft team, warcraft team and diablo team.. when the whole diablo team quitted, blizzard asked other team to continue make diablo games which changes the landscape of the game.. just like battlefield is under EA sport.. if whole battlefield team quitted, EA asked maybe FiFA team to make battlefield games.. it really changes the whole game.. know what i mean?

the whole team didn't quit'ed (lol quitted, sorry english nazi kicking in), there are still blizz north people in blizzard's staff list or even working in the diablo3 team. (eg: good ole wyatt cheng!)

also, people come and go in a company, you're delusional if you staffs/teams (or even companies) last forever.

the whole issue isnt even due to (for the most part) people/teams leaving.
its blizzard trying to cater to too much crybabies (be it premature release of the game, nerfs/buffs that are towards the masses where most of them dont even know wtf they want)

Phuck cares about Blizzard North.

Honestly speaking, I didn't spend more than 200 hours on D1/D2/LOD.
I completed TorchLightI two years ago. I think I spent less than 100 hours on TorchlightI.
I still kept the save game as there were rumors that there would be Torchlight expansion. It seems it never came.

I have already spent 400 hours on D3 now. And more hours to come.