One of the two men behind Blizzard has written a book revealing how one former CEO was the reason he left his own company.
I still remember when one of the founding developers of the Diablo series quit after too much corporate skullduggery and went somewhere else to make Torchlight instead.
The corpos he left behind, failsons and businessbros that they were, left a Twitter message regarding that founder's departure:
"FUCK THAT LOSER."
That's what pieces of shit were left in Blizzard ever after.
Kotick was an enjoyer of Little St. James Island, which may come as no surprise to some.
When something you love gets slowly corrupted.
I wonder if those "corruption" cliches in Blizzard game storytelling throughout the Kotick regime were a sort of subtle cry for help, the way Origin's developers cried for help during Ultima VII with EA-logo evil magic devices and the like and the massive dunking on Richard "Lord British" Garriot in the Serpent Isle expansion after he fucked them over and sold them out and had a cynically celebratory bonfire party where all their hard work on a Privateer sequel and other projects was set ablaze because he was cashing out.
