History Trivia / DiabloIII

** With ''VideoGame/{{Torchlight}} II'', released later the same year and created by many of the folks behind ''VideoGame/DiabloII''. They're both great games, but they're [[DamnYouMuscleMemory just similar enough, yet just different enough]] that it's tough to enjoy both.
** With ''VideoGame/MarvelHeroes'', which has been described as "Diablo with superheroes" and even has the team behind the first 2 Diablo games working on it. The MH team enjoys taking lighthearted jabs at Diablo 3 in some updates and notes.

* NoExportForYou: A very odd edge case. The Japanese [[UsefulNotes/Playstation3 Playstation 3]] port of ''Diablo III'' was outsourced to [[Creator/SquareEnix Square-Enix]] who localized the text and included local voice acting. However, Japanese text and voice are not (and will likely never be) available in the PC client for III because Square-Enix likely owns the rights to both and for whatever reason are not willing to license it back to Blizzard. This likely led to the Japanese localization/voice direction of ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' and ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'' being handled entirely by Blizzard in-house. [[note]]While you can switch the text to Japanese immediately, unless you originally downloaded either of the latter games in Japanese, the voices default to whatever your default download language was on PC. To get the Japanese voice-acting in game, you have to download the data through the Battle.net client first in the game options menu by selecting it then hitting OK, clicking through the confirmation box indicating there will be an additional download, then updating it, after which it will be available to select thereafter.[[/note]]

** The UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch ''Eternal Collection'' port was originally meant to have a Transmog [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFAULCf3Mfg based on Link]], curiously based on the classic green-clad Link as opposed to the more recent blue-clad Link from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'' which had gotten more focus around that time. For unknown reasons, it was removed and replaced by the ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' Ganondorf costume that the game ultimately came with, but the removed Link costume was still accidentally leaked at the [=GamesCon=] of that year.

* IKnewIt: In February 2018, Blizzard [[https://twitter.com/Blizzard_Ent/status/968727468675809280 posted]] a video of a nightlight in the shape of the eponymous villain being ''switch''ed on and off, and many fans took it to mean that they were working on a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch port. Blizzard denied that a port was in the works and that the video was just a "conversation piece", but it didn't stop people from speculating. Sure enough, a Switch port would later be announced for real. Once again, Blizzard staff asserted that the "lightswitch" video was just a coincidence and had nothing to do with the port, though some remain skeptical about that claim.

* NoExportForYou: A very odd edge case. The Japanese [[UsefulNotes/Playstation3 Playstation 3]] port of ''Diablo III'' was outsourced to [[Creator/SquareEnix Square-Enix]] who localized the text and included local voice acting. However, Japanese text and voice are not (and will likely never be) available in the PC client for III because Square-Enix likely owns the rights to both and for whatever reason are not willing to license it back to Blizzard. This likely led to the Japanse localization/voice direction of ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' and ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'' being handled entirely by Blizzard in-house. [[note]]While you can switch the text to Japanese immediately, unless you originally downloaded either of the latter games in Japanese, the voices default to whatever your default download language was on PC. To get the Japanese voice-acting in game, you have to download the data through the Battle.net client first in the game options menu by selecting it then hitting OK, clicking through the confirmation box indicating there will be an additional download, then updating it, after which it will be available to select thereafter.[[/note]]

* NoExportForYou: A very odd edge case. The Japanese [[UsefulNotes/Playstation3 Playstation 3]] port of ''Diablo III'' was outsourced to [[Creator/SquareEnix Square-Enix]] who localized the text and included local voice acting. However, Japanese text and voice are not (and will likely never be) available in the PC client for III because Square-Enix likely owns the rights to both and for whatever reason are not willing to license it back to Blizzard. This likely led to the console ports of ''VideoGame/DiabloII'' and ''VideoGame/DiabloIV'' being handled entirely by Blizzard in-house. [[note]]While you can switch the text to Japanese immediately, unless you originally downloaded either of the latter games in Japanese, the voices default to whatever your default download language was on PC. To get the Japanese voice-acting in game, you have to download the data through the Battle.net client first in the game options menu by selecting it then hitting OK, clicking through the confirmation box indicating there will be an additional download, then updating it, after which it will be available to select thereafter.[[/note]]

* RoleReprise: Creator/MichaelJGough reprises his role as Deckard Cain for the third time.

* NamesTheSame:
** The [[https://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/monster-hunter Monster Hunter]] Legendary weapon shares its name with [[VideoGame/MonsterHunter a certain Capcom hit franchise]].
** "Death Blossom", the name of one of the Wizard's Arcane Torrent runes, is also the name of [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Reaper]]'s Ultimate ability and an attack from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter''.

* ImageSource:
** LighterAndSofter (bottom)

* FanNickname:
** [[spoiler:Leablo]]: [[spoiler:The Diablo-possessed Leah at the start of Act IV]].
** [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]]: The female Wizard, due to being voiced by Creator/GreyDeLisle, Azula's VA, and having very similar personalities. Blizzard may have noticed this, as "Azulae" is one of the standard names for the female Wizard.

* DemandOverload: The disastrous launch was a particularly infamous example of this, because even people who just wanted to play the single player campaign could not play because of the required internet connection. The most common login error, Error 37, even became a [[http://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/negative-trending-topic-diablo_b22654 trending topic]] on Website/{{Twitter}}.

** After the release of ''Rise of the Necromancer'', the Amazon and the Druid were considered for future DLC, but it was ultimately abandoned.

* RoleReprise: Creator/{{Michael Gough|Voice Actor}} reprises his role as Deckard Cain for the third time.

* RoleReprise: Michael Gough reprises his role as Deckard Cain for the third time.

* RoleReprisal: Michael Gough reprises his role as Deckard Cain for the 3rd time.

* DevelopmentHell: You can [[http://www.ign.com/wikis/diablo-3/Development_Hell visit it]]. Seriously though, it was in development for 11 years, including multiple reboots and the closing of Blizzard North in 2005.
** Even after release, the game director quit the industry and any aspects were redesigned and tweaked. Conceptually, the game wasn't truly done being "developed" until ''Reaper of Souls'' introduced Loot 2.0 and closed the Auction House.

* TrollingCreator: Creator/{{Blizzard}} had to put up with constant complaints about how "cartoony" and "colorful" ''Diablo III'' is compared to its predecessors. As a pisstake to that section of the fanbase, they put [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeQzJC-vS40 this level]] into the game.