Blizzard: Diablo 3 release is 'way out'

Don't expect the highly anticipated PC title to hit stores any time soon.

Speaking to Wired at the recent Blizzcon 2008 event, Blizzard executive vice president of game design Rob Pardo has stated gamers shouldn't be holding out for the release of Diablo III in the immediate future and was unable to offer even the vaguest release window.

"I don't know how far out it is, but it's still fairly early in development. I think when people see it, it feels so polished and so finished, but the reality is we have a very small portion of the game done right now," Pardo explained.

He added: "A lot of the way we develop is: We wanna make sure the game is really fun and the visual fidelity we want ... we wanna make sure we have a small area that feels really done so we know what to build. So even though it looks really complete a lot of the content is just not there. We have a long ways to go to build each of the different acts in the game and put in all the quests and all the different monsters. We have a lot of development ahead of us before it will be something ... It will definitely be out after StarCraft II."

Regarding its release date he concluded: "It's too far out to really say for sure. It's a ways out."