Boss HIRES his godchild(Mr Wilson) and move WoW art-team to work on. Mr Wilson:OK guys just recycle, recycle.
Mr Wilson contact CMetzen: Mr Boss requires a service and promises his undying friendship if you would do him a small favour. Write D3 story in one day then works with cinematics-team, BlizzCon is next month,dude.
CMetzen: Tell your boss he can ask for anything else, but this is one favour I can't grant him. .
Mr Wilson: Mr. Boss never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood?
CMetzen: huh, Ok. (after BlizzCon Metzen realized his salary was DOUBLED)
Mr Wilson: Godfather, we dont have any idea about Diablo...1 and 2 how was it??
Mr Boss: Damn!! but you have lucky your my godchild, just BUY CODE CHEAP go for sourcecode from Torchlight(ex-BlizzNorth).
Torchlight guys rejects Mr Wilson's offer.
Mr Boss contacted ex-BlizzNorth team: we were family guys, Im gonna make An offer you can't refuse.
after get the code...Mr Wilson moves some WoW Devs to work on torchlight's code.
Mr Wilson: No guys! NO!...Mr Boss said WoW recyle...Daddy needs more bling and recycle!!!
two weeks later BlizzCon sucessfully presents his proyect D3 and Mr Boss move back all teams to work on next WoW codename:"fight the dota"(something with pandabears).
then Mr Wilson starts pimping D3 beta with his pals...
After a couple of years D3 was launched, then cain dies and we just FACEPALM'd alot.
video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBsrYvv_7W8&feature=plcp
pretty much summarized on this:
Boss HIRES his godchild(Mr Wilson) and move WoW art-team to work on. Mr Wilson:OK guys just recycle, recycle.
Mr Wilson contact CMetzen: Mr Boss requires a service and promises his undying friendship if you would do him a small favour. Write D3 story in one day then works with cinematics-team, BlizzCon is next month,dude.
CMetzen: Tell your boss he can ask for anything else, but this is one favour I can't grant him. .
Mr Wilson: Mr. Boss never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood?
CMetzen: huh, Ok. (after BlizzCon Metzen realized his salary was DOUBLED)
Mr Wilson: Godfather, we dont have any idea about Diablo...1 and 2 how was it??
Mr Boss: Damn!! but you have lucky your my godchild, just BUY CODE CHEAP go for sourcecode from Torchlight(ex-BlizzNorth).
Torchlight guys rejects Mr Wilson's offer.
Mr Boss contacted ex-BlizzNorth team: we were family guys, Im gonna make An offer you can't refuse.
after get the code...Mr Wilson moves some WoW Devs to work on torchlight's code.
Mr Wilson: No guys! NO!...Mr Boss said WoW recyle...Daddy needs more bling and recycle!!!
two weeks later BlizzCon sucessfully presents his proyect D3 and Mr Boss move back all teams to work on next WoW codename:"fight the dota"(something with pandabears).
then Mr Wilson starts pimping D3 beta with his pals...
After a couple of years D3 was launched, then cain dies and we just FACEPALM'd alot.
Aren't you thankful?
PD: pm me if wanna get the source links.
That was called "The Grandfather".