Max Schafer, the co-founder of Runic Games and the former head of Blizzard North, has talked about the first plans for Diablo III and revealed that Blizzard actually wanted it to be an MMORPG, just like World of Warcraft.
The Diablo franchise was developed by Blizzard North many years ago and, after two very successful installments, work began on a third iteration, Diablo 3.
According to Schafer, the initial plan was to make the game an online experience, just like the team at Blizzard’s central headquarters were doing with World of Warcraft.
"When I was working at Blizzard a million years ago we were working on Diablo III and it was an MMO. We were going to do the Diablo version of World of Warcraft,” Schafer told
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