I haven't been a consumer of Blizzard products since Warcraft 2 and I never liked Diablo.

Actually I despise Blizzard for making WOW and thereby killing Dark Age of Camelot. =(

So what am I trying to say? I hope it's new IP, and with innovation instead of the refinement and constant use of clichés.

Every time Blizzard released a game, I was always sucked into it - really really hard.

I usually end up playing it until I become a complete wreck and I have to save myself from an abyss of game addiction. It's like a drug. It destroys my real life. I personally hope they won't release anything new for a while.

Besides, too many games too little time. I have over 10 games that I'm actively playing right now and I've recently ordered 4 titles. With the releases of Spore and Starcraft II, I'll be exhausted like a zombie. With Diablo III, I'm sure I'll be dead.

Interesting.

Another interesting note, if you do a whois lookup on diablo3.com, you'll note that Blizzard definitely owns the domain, though it was registered years ago. The more interesting thing is that the domain was updated(whatever a domain update entails) in the last 2 weeks, possibly prepping for a site launch?

A diablo mmo doesn't make sense as it'd just end up competing with wow. I hope its like the other games in the series just modernised for today.

Bear in mind that a Diablo MMO doesn't necessarily have to be similar in style and play to WoW. WoW is big on the whole open world, single-mob combat style of play(yes I know there are exceptions), whereas Diablo has generally been more of a dungeon crawl, mass-mob combat flavour. I see no reason why 2 very different styles of MMO's couldn't co-exist.

Still nothing to put out these rumours and "definite" announcements

It could mean nething. You see ice, either hell has freezen or the main environmental theme (WoW Expansion). Nething could happen, might wait and hopefully Blizzard doesnt screw people over (what they've done in WoW :P)

The #1 Goal of any game studio is to make money.  There are untold fortunes to be made with a well designed MMO.  Just because you wouldnt buy it doesnt mean that 10 million others (with yearly subscriptions and multiple accounts) wouldnt. :)

Blizzard is already developing another MMO that definitely shouldn't be Diablo 3. Instead of Blizzard having WoW and Diablo 3 as MMO's, they will probably have WoW, the unnamed MMO and Diablo 3 (not MMO) existing at the same time.