Diablo III Senior Game Producer Steve Parker announced via Twitter he is no longer working at Blizzard Entertainment. He didn’t specify the reason.
"Hey Twitter, I’m no longer working at Blizzard or on D3. I’ve had a great 5 years there and those guys are going to do an amazing job with Diablo.”
It’s unknown if his departure has a connection with the recent announcement of System Changes, or if the game is pretty much ready (except for the cleaning up process), and thus his work is finished and he’s moving on to other projects.
In a later tweet, Steve Parker commented “Thanks! Looking forward to bigger and better things.” Follow up comments via Twitter don’t show any hard feelings with the studios prompting to think he departed for personal reasons, and to explore other career opportunities.
Found this to be a little interesting. Not sure I really want to read to much into it, but w/e up to you guys =P
I'll do the reading too much into it for you then. Release is incoming!
On a serious note, why not keep him to maybe produce the expansions? He already has knowledge on D3 so it would make sense to keep him for the expansions.
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I'll do the reading too much into it for you then. Release is incoming!
On a serious note, why not keep him to maybe produce the expansions? He already has knowledge on D3 so it would make sense to keep him for the expansions.
according to the article, he may have left on his own.
Just like Bashiok said, I think Twitter is really messing up the fanbase. Please, stop trying to read between the lines. This has no connection to Diablo 3's release date (just like any other Twitter post, which has let everybody down for some reason).
Senior producer on Diablo Hmm maybe he just got another offer from another company, and he's tired of just waltzing around explaning why the game isn't out yet to all of his executives?
well we are right up to their Q4 results meeting... if we see a time when jobs switch around in a company, now is the time, so it very well could have nothing to do with a release. But as the article states, we dont know if blizz let him go, or if he walked away for better things on his own...
I think it's a dumb idea if they let him go. I would want the expansions to be produced by the same guy because he already knows where the focus lies. This implies of course that they have yet to actually produce anything for the expansions which, who knows they could have.
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nah, at this point, I doubt he has much he could do to speed anything up... Other than rune and skill system, which im sure the team is already working on. And (at least that we know of) there is nothing else... I dont see that delaying at all imo
People need to stop just reading and assuming what they want to believe.
There's absolutely nothing indicating he was "let go", that he left because of "delays", or that he was even remotely unhappy. Maybe he was given a better offer somewhere else? Maybe his wife has a career and got relocated? Maybe he's tired of game production, and wants to produce something else? Maybe he just didn't like his job? Maybe he had an affair with a co-worker, and got the fuck out? I know everyone here assumes working for Blizzard would be all smiles and rainbows, but I doubt it really is, especially as a producer. I can't imagine the stress and pressure that some of these people need to deal with. And for what? An ungrateful community that does nothing but tear their meaningless Twitter posts apart, and form their own baseless conclusions like displayed here? If it was something controversial, Blizzard wouldn't have allowed a potential PR disaster to unfold over Twitter.
Senior positions are based on experience, not necessarily the time he spent with the company. Who here is even certain he was involved in D3 from the start? You can enter a company as a "Senior".
I could go on, but my point ultimately comes down to this. Stop with the conspiracy theories. A guy left a company for reasons unknown, with nothing indicating they were negative (or positive). I'm sure thousands of people in America a day, quit their jobs. Nothing to be surprised about.
I'm not trying to be offensive, nor am I "mad bro", but how some peoples heads work just baffles me beyond belief.
It seems to me there may have been a conflict in the workplace, and he was asked to leave, with dignity.
Case in point. Based on what? Your overzealousness and impatience for a game that you want to come out sooner than later?
Fact is, not *everyone* at Blizzard is as interested in the games they develop as you are. Not everyone cares so much, that they would quit their job because of the direction a project is going. People leave jobs. Oh my.
The candidate must enjoy seeing a project from inception to completion and delivering games on time with the highest quality.
I chuckled a little.
Anyway, from what I can tell, this seems to be an amiable departure, but there really isn't much to go off of. I hope everything is alright, both with Steve Parker and the state of Diablo III. I wonder if there will be any follow up information related to this in the near future.
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Found this to be a little interesting. Not sure I really want to read to much into it, but w/e up to you guys =P
On a serious note, why not keep him to maybe produce the expansions? He already has knowledge on D3 so it would make sense to keep him for the expansions.
Uh-huh. Just like losing the lead producer, lead artist and a veteran programmer three years ago has nothing to do with why the game still isn't out.
So..can't say to much without that.
I mean, why make that comment when the game isnt even released?
Almost to me like he is saying he disagrees with the current direction.
It seems like something I would say if I was trying to leave a company, peacefully, yet still give them a jab to the lips on the way out the door.
Possbility one: The game is in clean up mode and finalization and he was offered another job and jumped on it before his work was done with blizzard.
possiblity two: got tired of all the crap and walking in circles the devs are doing and just bailed
possiblity three: they found someone else that can do his job better, and they gave him the oppritunity to walk out with some dignity
possiblity four: Jay and Bashok touched him in his No-No place.
possiblity five: personal health/family reasons
we can speculate all we want we might never now.
This is my impression too, combined with the "Bigger and Better things" comment which I'd bet was made in spite.
There's absolutely nothing indicating he was "let go", that he left because of "delays", or that he was even remotely unhappy. Maybe he was given a better offer somewhere else? Maybe his wife has a career and got relocated? Maybe he's tired of game production, and wants to produce something else? Maybe he just didn't like his job? Maybe he had an affair with a co-worker, and got the fuck out? I know everyone here assumes working for Blizzard would be all smiles and rainbows, but I doubt it really is, especially as a producer. I can't imagine the stress and pressure that some of these people need to deal with. And for what? An ungrateful community that does nothing but tear their meaningless Twitter posts apart, and form their own baseless conclusions like displayed here? If it was something controversial, Blizzard wouldn't have allowed a potential PR disaster to unfold over Twitter.
Senior positions are based on experience, not necessarily the time he spent with the company. Who here is even certain he was involved in D3 from the start? You can enter a company as a "Senior".
I could go on, but my point ultimately comes down to this. Stop with the conspiracy theories. A guy left a company for reasons unknown, with nothing indicating they were negative (or positive). I'm sure thousands of people in America a day, quit their jobs. Nothing to be surprised about.
I'm not trying to be offensive, nor am I "mad bro", but how some peoples heads work just baffles me beyond belief.
Case in point. Based on what? Your overzealousness and impatience for a game that you want to come out sooner than later?
Fact is, not *everyone* at Blizzard is as interested in the games they develop as you are. Not everyone cares so much, that they would quit their job because of the direction a project is going. People leave jobs. Oh my.
The candidate must enjoy seeing a project from inception to completion and delivering games on time with the highest quality.
I chuckled a little.
Anyway, from what I can tell, this seems to be an amiable departure, but there really isn't much to go off of. I hope everything is alright, both with Steve Parker and the state of Diablo III. I wonder if there will be any follow up information related to this in the near future.