Blizzard never was a creative company. Every units, every race, every class they designed in their games comes from popular media or Artworks. Here is a list of the ultimate sources of the games, litterature and movies they stole all their ideas:

lords of the rings (warcraft series). Dante’s devine comedy (diablo), starship troopers + stargate + Aliens (starcraft series).

And for the game units and system they stole a lot from warhammer, dune, command and conquer 3.

Also, when blizzard first brought Diablo 2, you could find data in the install about two classes that you couldn’t play yet! It means that they already coded the two classes in Diablo 2 but they made you wait for it’s expansion to let you play with them (druid and assassin).

So Blizzard already knew how to split a job already done, and to make customers pay twice for it.

In short, you give too much credits to blizzard, and accuse activision of corrupting them, while in fact, Blizzard is already corrupt from the start.

For me, the story and characters are more important than multiplayer. If they do it in three installments, it will most likely make the whole scenario longer, and better.

And who knows, maybe since they wont have to cram it all into one disk, the cinematics will be better.

Trenton Stahl
http://www.AdvancedApathy.com

@Make Note : Never underestimate the publishers and their meddling. Why do you think some franchises have become so stale over the years? Sometimes its the developers who truly lack inspiration to push forward the game, and sometimes its the publishers forcing the developers. Polyphony Digital, creators of Gran Turismo, will probably never ever make any other game because Sony won’t let them.