Yeah, as Hux said, SCII has a GIGANTIC fanbase. I see it discussed essentially 24/7 on 4chan, Twitter, Facebook, and pretty much anywhere I go online.

I'll tell you something interesting I've noticed, though: A lot of SC players do not play SCII, and a lot of SCII players did not play the orignal SC. For a while I was shocked at how many SCII players I'd talk to on Twitter or whatnot had never played the original, and assumed that was the exception, but no, that's actually the norm.

I think there was a massive changing of the guard in terms of the playerbase of Blizz games, and I think that WoW was sort of the enabler here. Back in the days of Starcraft, Diablo 2, and Warcraft 2/3, Blizzard was... well, I'm not going to say niche, but they weren't exactly mainstream either. It was still considered pretty geeky to be into their games. Fast forward to a couple of years into WoW and suddenly everyone in the gaming world knows who Blizzard is, and that brought a lot of new blood into first WoW and then into SC2 and I think that's going to be the case with Diablo 3.

D3 isn't going to attract most of the old players. It will attract the SC2 and WoW people.