David Brevik, Erich Schaefer og Max Schaefer er blandt de originale skabere bag Diablo hos Blizzard for over 20 år siden, og siden da har de alle tre forladt virksomheden har laver nu andre projekter rundt om i verden.
For nylig satte de sig dog ned med PC Gamer for at tale lidt sammen om dengang, og det Blizzard er blevet til nu. De blev først spurgt om hvorvidt de følte Blizzard havde ændret sig lidt på seneste, men her var svaret ret så klart.
"It's not 'sort of' changed, it has completely changed, siger Brevik, og tilføjer at det faktisk kun er Senior Art Director Samwise Didier og vicepræsident Allen Adham der er tilbage fra deres tid.
"The old Blizzard is gone. When we quit, there was like 180 employees total. There's thousands now. The whole empire is different, and Activision didn't have any influence. At that point it was just Blizzard and then some anonymous corporate owner, Vivendi or whoever. That was it. And so now [Blizzard is] a video game empire that has to appease shareholders and all that sort of stuff."
Desuden siger Max Schaefer:
"I think the biggest thing is we didn't talk about shareholder value. We didn't talk about Chinese government and what they might want. The only thing we ever talked about was what we wanted to do and what the fans would like. It's obviously not the case anymore, for better or worse. I don't blame them. They're a giant corporation."