Ultimately, one veteran Blizzard employee stated how the series would be in a somewhat better, or at least more focused, place right now if Blizzard hadn't made the decision to cancel that second Diablo III expansion: Afterwards, Blizzard shifted the to work on Rise of the Necromancerfor Diablo III as well as what would ultimately become Diablo IV/Project Fenrir. Unfortunately, its development was riddled with problems so the project was scrapped in mid-2016. Hades was 'a Diablo take on Dark Souls. would use an over-the-shoulder, third-person perspective.' Kotaku even says Blizzard was considering not calling this project D iablo IV due to how different it was. At this point, development on a project codenamed Hades began, led by Reaper of Souls Director Josh Mosqueira, and it was apparently quite different from what's come to be expected from the series.

We have fixed it, and Reaper’s really good.’ I think a lot of people felt like we’d figured it out and we know how to do this, and expansion two, whatever it would've been, would've been the highest expression of that… To have them pull the plug without really seeing how Reaper did really stung.'Īccording to Kotaku and its sources, after this second expansion was canceled, many developers from Team 3 were scattered to other projects around Blizzard, with a small team coming up with what would be next for the franchise. 'A lot of people felt stunned by it. I think a lot of them felt like, ‘We made mistakes on Diablo III, but we learned and we made Reaper to show what we could do. Another anonymous developer pointed out that people at Team 3 were very disappointed by this decision, as a second expansion for Diablo III could've honed in on what made the game great:

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