Blizzard is ready to deploy the first expansion to Diablo 3, Reaper of Souls, sometime in Quarter 1
2014. In many ways, it is less an expansion than it is a "do over". Many of the things that some
players complained about most harshly have been overhauled and retooled to make this Diablo 3 the
successor that everyone wanted.
This is not to say, however,
that Diablo 3 in its current iteration is a bad game. It's not. It's just
that it became so much of a grind to continually have to slog through the story to raise new characters
and the auction house was too much of a necessity for a player's success or failure.