User:Flux - Revision history

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	~~[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]~~		See {{iw\|User:Flux Flux's user page}} in the Diablo III section of the wiki.
	See ~~the [[Flux~~\|Flux ~~article]] for discussion of~~ Flux ~~the webmaster, fanfiction writer, strategy writer, and Diablo community personality. This page is a partial, off-the-cuff autobiography that~~'s ~~not meant to convey an objective appraisal.~~

	I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the ~~title.~~

	In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.

	I shared news duties with Elly and Gaile, and was the primary content writer for Diabloii.net from 1999-2003. Features I introduced and managed included the Fact of the Day, Hardcore Graveyard, Strategy Section, Items Section, Screenshot Galleries, Articles Section, and more. I especially enjoyed turning out some holiday-themed D2 fanfic, with a new story [http://www.diabloii.net/halloween/index.shtml each Halloween]. Real life started to intrude in 2003, when I moved from San Diego to the Bay Area to live with my girlfriend, and I had less time for or interest in Diablo II. I continued to update sporadically through 2003, but by 2004 I had pretty well retired from working on this website.

	I returned to fansite involvement in 2006, when Elly convinced me to run the network's new [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/ Hellgate: London site]. I enjoyed that project, felt anticipation for the game, and it was fun to see all the old gang from Blizzard North in their new studio. Unfortunately, when HGL was released in a buggy, unfinished state on Halloween 2007, fan interest dried up and my hoped for payoff (a share in the ad revenues of a busy fansite) for my year and a half of part time work, vanished.

	I returned to working on Diabloii.net in early 2008, and am now managing the wiki and assisting Elly in refurbishing the rest of the site, which will shortly relaunch in an entirely new design and a modern, web 2.0 structure, as we tune up for the upcoming/eventual announcement of Diablo III~~. Or perhaps Diablo Online?~~


	~~=Personal=~~

	'''February 2008:''' In real life I'm a recent college graduate, a applying grad student, and an aspiring novelist. I separated from Malaya, the girlfriend I moved up here to live with, in late 2006, but I still live in the North Bay, about 15 miles north of San Francisco and 30 miles north of the old Blizzard North offices. Since 2002 I've maintained [http://www.blackchampagne.com a personal website] that features my writing, a daily blog, and years and years of wandering discourse on news, human psychology, politics, culture, and much more.

	~~'''July 2008:''' The D3~~ wiki ~~is underway with the game (finally) announced. And there was much rejoicing~~.

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	[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.		[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]
			See the [[Flux\|Flux article]] for discussion of Flux the webmaster, fanfiction writer, strategy writer, and Diablo community personality. This page is a partial, off-the-cuff autobiography that's not meant to convey an objective appraisal.

			I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.

	In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.		In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.

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	I returned to working on Diabloii.net in early 2008, and am now managing the wiki and assisting Elly in refurbishing the rest of the site, which will shortly relaunch in an entirely new design and a modern, web 2.0 structure, as we tune up for the upcoming/eventual announcement of Diablo III. Or perhaps Diablo Online?		I returned to working on Diabloii.net in early 2008, and am now managing the wiki and assisting Elly in refurbishing the rest of the site, which will shortly relaunch in an entirely new design and a modern, web 2.0 structure, as we tune up for the upcoming/eventual announcement of Diablo III. Or perhaps Diablo Online?

	It's somewhat debatable just how much of a "Diablo" title the inevitable sequel will be, since virtually the entire Diablo II team has long since moved on (to Flagship Studios and elsewhere). It's strongly rumored (I'm just reporting here, since I can't repeat information I was told in confidence by ex-Blizzard North employees.) that all of the years of prep-work on Diablo III were dumped in 2004, when Blizzard North shut down, and the current version of the Diablo sequel was all but begun from scratch in 2004-2005, by an entirely new team at Blizzard Irvine. There's still no official word about the Diablo sequel, and it's widely-speculated that the ongoing mega-success of World of Warcraft is causing some production issues, since Blizzard understandably doesn't want to release a new game that would cannibalize their own magnificently-successful, $15 a month MMORPG.

	~~WoW or not, there will be a Diablo sequel at some point, and you'll be able to count on this website, or some future version of it, to cover the game like no one else.~~

	=Personal=		=Personal=

	'''February 2008:''' In real life I'm a recent college graduate, a applying grad student, and an aspiring novelist. I separated from Malaya, the girlfriend I moved up here to live with, in late 2006, but I still live in the North Bay, about 15 miles north of San Francisco and 30 miles north of the old Blizzard North offices. Since 2002 I've maintained [http://www.blackchampagne.com a personal website] that features my writing, a daily blog, and years and years of wandering discourse on news, human psychology, politics, culture, and much more.		'''February 2008:''' In real life I'm a recent college graduate, a applying grad student, and an aspiring novelist. I separated from Malaya, the girlfriend I moved up here to live with, in late 2006, but I still live in the North Bay, about 15 miles north of San Francisco and 30 miles north of the old Blizzard North offices. Since 2002 I've maintained [http://www.blackchampagne.com a personal website] that features my writing, a daily blog, and years and years of wandering discourse on news, human psychology, politics, culture, and much more.

			'''July 2008:''' The D3 wiki is underway with the game (finally) announced. And there was much rejoicing.

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	~~=Unnecessarily Detailed Bio=~~

	[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.		[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.

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			=Unnecessarily Detailed Bio=

	[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.		[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.

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	WoW or not, there will be a Diablo sequel at some point, and you'll be able to count on this website, or some future version of it, to cover the game like no one else.		WoW or not, there will be a Diablo sequel at some point, and you'll be able to count on this website, or some future version of it, to cover the game like no one else.

	Personal: February 2008: In real life I'm a recent college graduate, a applying grad student, and an aspiring novelist. I separated from Malaya, the girlfriend I moved up here to live with, in late 2006, but I still live in the North Bay, about 15 miles north of San Francisco and 30 miles north of the old Blizzard North offices. Since 2002 I've maintained [http://www.blackchampagne.com a personal website] that features my writing, a daily blog, and years and years of wandering discourse on news, human psychology, politics, culture, and much more.		=Personal=

			'''February 2008:''' In real life I'm a recent college graduate, a applying grad student, and an aspiring novelist. I separated from Malaya, the girlfriend I moved up here to live with, in late 2006, but I still live in the North Bay, about 15 miles north of San Francisco and 30 miles north of the old Blizzard North offices. Since 2002 I've maintained [http://www.blackchampagne.com a personal website] that features my writing, a daily blog, and years and years of wandering discourse on news, human psychology, politics, culture, and much more.

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	[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|~~frame~~\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.		[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|thumb\|300px\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.

	In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.		In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.

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	I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.		[[Image:Visit-aug07-9.jpg\|frame\|right\|Lunching at Flagship Studios, August 2007.]]I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.

	In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.		In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.

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	I returned to working on Diabloii.net in early 2008, and am now managing the wiki and assisting Elly in refurbishing the rest of the site, which will shortly relaunch in an entirely new design and a modern, web 2.0 structure, as we tune up for the upcoming/eventual announcement of Diablo III. Or perhaps Diablo Online?		I returned to working on Diabloii.net in early 2008, and am now managing the wiki and assisting Elly in refurbishing the rest of the site, which will shortly relaunch in an entirely new design and a modern, web 2.0 structure, as we tune up for the upcoming/eventual announcement of Diablo III. Or perhaps Diablo Online?

	It's somewhat debatable just how much of a "Diablo" title the inevitable sequel will be, since virtually the entire Diablo II team ~~have~~ long since moved on (to Flagship Studios and elsewhere). It's strongly rumored that all of the years of prep-work on Diablo III were dumped in 2004, when Blizzard North shut down, and the current version of the Diablo sequel was all but begun from scratch in 2004-2005, by an entirely new team at Blizzard Irvine. There's still no official word about the Diablo sequel, and it's widely-speculated that the ongoing mega-success of World of Warcraft is causing some production issues, since Blizzard understandably doesn't want to release a new game that would cannibalize their own magnificently-successful MMORPG.		It's somewhat debatable just how much of a "Diablo" title the inevitable sequel will be, since virtually the entire Diablo II team has long since moved on (to Flagship Studios and elsewhere). It's strongly rumored (I'm just reporting here, since I can't repeat information I was told in confidence by ex-Blizzard North employees.) that all of the years of prep-work on Diablo III were dumped in 2004, when Blizzard North shut down, and the current version of the Diablo sequel was all but begun from scratch in 2004-2005, by an entirely new team at Blizzard Irvine. There's still no official word about the Diablo sequel, and it's widely-speculated that the ongoing mega-success of World of Warcraft is causing some production issues, since Blizzard understandably doesn't want to release a new game that would cannibalize their own magnificently-successful, $15 a month MMORPG.

	WoW or not, there will be a Diablo sequel at some point, and you'll be able to count on this website, or some future version of it, to cover the game like no one else.		WoW or not, there will be a Diablo sequel at some point, and you'll be able to count on this website, or some future version of it, to cover the game like no one else.

			Personal: February 2008: In real life I'm a recent college graduate, a applying grad student, and an aspiring novelist. I separated from Malaya, the girlfriend I moved up here to live with, in late 2006, but I still live in the North Bay, about 15 miles north of San Francisco and 30 miles north of the old Blizzard North offices. Since 2002 I've maintained [http://www.blackchampagne.com a personal website] that features my writing, a daily blog, and years and years of wandering discourse on news, human psychology, politics, culture, and much more.

82.41.176.69 at 23:33, 28 February 2008

2008-02-28T23:33:43Z

New page

I began working on this website in the summer of 1998 (yes, that long ago) when my interest in Diablo I and Hellfire brought me to Elly's old D1/HF site, long before she'd secured the diabloii.net domain name. That site was very basic and just hosted on an extension of a gaming cafe she ran, but it was the only decent online source of Hellfire information, and when I started sending in emails with comments and corrections, Elly was always quick to reply and update the info. It wasn't too much longer before Blizzard North announced that they were working on Diablo II, and as I read the pre-game info and saw the early cinematics, I grew more and more interested in the title.

In those early days of the Internet, there weren't a lot of fansites and there was very little pre-game hype or fan activity for even the biggest titles. When Elly started putting together a fansite for Diablo II, and she asked me to help out on it, I wondered what we'd find to write about, with the game so far from release. (Imagine if we'd known the title would be delayed 18 months?) Needless to say, we managed to find quite a bit, gained a considerable online audience, and came to the attention of the D2 team, who invited myself, Elly, and our third early writer, Gaile Gray, to [http://www.diabloii.net/features/visit/index.shtml visit their offices] in San Francisco in December of 1999, as Diablo II moved towards the beta testing phase. We were the first and only fansite so honored, and I was fortunate enough to be invited back several more times (including a chance to advance test the long-awaited v1.09 patch in 2003) before the founders left (to form [http://www.flagshipstudios.com Flagship Studios]) and the company folded.

I shared news duties with Elly and Gaile, and was the primary content writer for Diabloii.net from 1999-2003. Features I introduced and managed included the Fact of the Day, Hardcore Graveyard, Strategy Section, Items Section, Screenshot Galleries, Articles Section, and more. I especially enjoyed turning out some holiday-themed D2 fanfic, with a new story [http://www.diabloii.net/halloween/index.shtml each Halloween]. Real life started to intrude in 2003, when I moved from San Diego to the Bay Area to live with my girlfriend, and I had less time for or interest in Diablo II. I continued to update sporadically through 2003, but by 2004 I had pretty well retired from working on this website.

I returned to fansite involvement in 2006, when Elly convinced me to run the network's new [http://hellgate.incgamers.com/ Hellgate: London site]. I enjoyed that project, felt anticipation for the game, and it was fun to see all the old gang from Blizzard North in their new studio. Unfortunately, when HGL was released in a buggy, unfinished state on Halloween 2007, fan interest dried up and my hoped for payoff (a share in the ad revenues of a busy fansite) for my year and a half of part time work, vanished.

I returned to working on Diabloii.net in early 2008, and am now managing the wiki and assisting Elly in refurbishing the rest of the site, which will shortly relaunch in an entirely new design and a modern, web 2.0 structure, as we tune up for the upcoming/eventual announcement of Diablo III. Or perhaps Diablo Online?

It's somewhat debatable just how much of a "Diablo" title the inevitable sequel will be, since virtually the entire Diablo II team have long since moved on (to Flagship Studios and elsewhere). It's strongly rumored that all of the years of prep-work on Diablo III were dumped in 2004, when Blizzard North shut down, and the current version of the Diablo sequel was all but begun from scratch in 2004-2005, by an entirely new team at Blizzard Irvine. There's still no official word about the Diablo sequel, and it's widely-speculated that the ongoing mega-success of World of Warcraft is causing some production issues, since Blizzard understandably doesn't want to release a new game that would cannibalize their own magnificently-successful MMORPG.

WoW or not, there will be a Diablo sequel at some point, and you'll be able to count on this website, or some future version of it, to cover the game like no one else.