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Blizzard North Co-Founders Leave Company

Posted by simoniker on from the vivendi's-only-good-asset-going-byebye? dept.

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."

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  1. Obligatory by Scoria · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blizzard may soon encounter the chill of insolvency. ;-)

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  2. Does Blizzard hate Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Playing Warcraft III's expansion set, Frozen Throne, I came across something in a snow-covered Undead campaign. When I killed a penguin (the symbol of Linux) I was granted a Ring of Superiority! Is this Blizzard's way of saying the path to superiority is by killing Linux?

  3. Who do I boycot now?? by Ben+Jackson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am eagerly awaiting commands from Slashdot telling me whether I should be mad at the old Blizzard or the Blizzard founders.

  4. Freenet! by Marx_Mrvelous · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess my e-mail to Blizzard about their actions against Freenet tore the company apart! I'm sure glad tech support forwarded it to the head developers...
    Er...

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  5. The conversation went as follows... by Eberlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    1st Guy: "Aye matey?"
    3rd Guy: "Come on! Follow me!"
    2nd/4th Guy: "We're ready, master...I'm not ready!"

    Vivendi Universal: "Help Me!"
    4th Guy: "Time to Die!!!"

    Vivendi Universal: "uh...oops! Forgive me!"
    All 4 Guys: "Die!"

  6. Re:The wrong questions being asked by HunterZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's obvious: they depleted their gold mine and had to build a new base somewhere else.

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