Blizzard North Co-Founders Leave Company

Thanks to several readers for pointing out a Reuters/Yahoo story discussing the departure of four key employees from Warcraft and Diablo developers Blizzard Entertainment. The article elaborates: "In a statement, Blizzard Entertainment said Blizzard North co-founders Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer and David Brevik, along with a fourth employee, Bill Roper, 'resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities.'" With Bill Roper often the public face of Blizzard, and the Blizzard North co-founders being the original Diablo developers, this is a big deal for Blizzard owners Vivendi, as well as gamers everywhere, especially as Blizzard "is widely seen in the games industry as one of the most attractive assets of VU Games, which has been languishing on the auction block for months."

Comments

Re:Does Blizzard hate Linux?

[WeblionX]

Yeah, and while you're at it, buy another tin-foil hat, just incase. @_@

Re:Obligatory

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

Most average game fans don't know that, though. Here's hoping this damages the reputations of both Blizzard North and Blizzard *craft. Legal or illegal, corporate actions can have consequences they don't want. Hooray for Consequences.

I'm done buying anything from the thralls of Vivendi in any case, but I'll have a look at what the four guys who left wind up doing.

the problem is?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does that meen blizzard will go back to quality games over polygone shit like WC3?

Re:Language troubles

[Overly Critical Guy]

Please read back through the entire thread and realize at which point you were exposed.

I already told you what was happening.

Next.

Re:Language troubles

[Overly Critical Guy]

"Every now and then?" You're the obsessed Anonymous Coward who replies to my posts. You give me power.

Re:Language troubles

[Overly Critical Guy]

Sarcasm is clearly over your head.

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