Official Blizzard Quote:
Did you know that Blizzard Entertainment was originally founded under a completely different name? What is the significance of Jawassic Park in the context of Blizzard Entertainment's art culture? Whatever happened to Orcs in Space? These and many, many more questions are answered in the full-length video we've just released on the Blizzard 20th Anniversary site. Clocking in at almost an hour, this video features candid commentary from the people who have spent the last two decades creating the games that helped make Blizzard Entertainment the company it is today.
Head over to the anniversary site and check out the Blizzard Retrospective Video now!
You're correct. They pretty much spent the entire time gloating over how awesome WoW is. Pffft.
Good video, nonetheless. Really quite interesting to see the history of the company.
Blizzard North was pretty independent within Blizzard (even though i'm thankful they didn't proceed with their original plan for Diablo 1) and did their own thing, pretty much creating a genre.
But this is going a bit off-topic so i'll stop talking about that specific part of the video
Funny how they don't miss a chance to belittle that team all those years later.
But I can see why they ignored Diablo II - none of the people interviewed had much to do with it and it is clearly the best thing they ever released. I still wonder if they will cancel D3 knowing it can never measure up.
I think that Diablo III will be the peak of how they belittle the previous team. Not only will it measure up, but it's going to set the standards extremely high for any opposition.
Well, it will have been at least nine years since the Flagship guys left, with billions of revenue since then, so it is kind of a mixed statement.
But I guess if you want a title like WoW to dominate, destroying all of the competition can be done both inside and outside the walls.
I think that's just a reference to the stop-motion style stuff of the old Sinbad movies, which probably helped inspire some of the design of things like the skeletons. But whatever works as an excuse to piss on the grave of Blizzard North one more time, right?
This can go very very off-topic. We both know each others' opinions. Let's wait for the beta and the release before we continue. Till then we're just throwing assumptions at each other.
Jawa wall was epic.
And yes I am a Blizzard fan all the way