Vivendi was extremely hands off, from my experience at the time and from my discussions with the staff at various BlizzCon in 2006~2007. WoW’s Success Killed the Blizzard We Loved That studio’s staff have mostly gone on to work on separate projects, like Torchlight and Path of Exile. After that they were merged with “Blizzard South” or original Blizzard by Vivendi. The last thing they produced was in 2001 which was Lord of Destruction for D2. Blizzard bought another studio, renamed them Blizzard North and they worked independently from Blizzard. Let’s set something straight, Diablo is actually a Condor Games game. Forget Diablo, It’s Not a “Blizzard” Game So, with that said, with all the problems the 2020s have brought Blizzard, what is the solution to their woes? Go back to their glory years where WoW released, Diablo released, StarCraft and StarCraft 2 released, etc.
Blizzard had a long history with Vivendi and that spree of 1998 to 2008 was pretty much considered their golden years. Of course, this wasn’t the first sell of Blizzard… the gaming company had previously been acquired by Vivendi, Sierra-Online (via CUC) and Davidson & Associates just to sort of measure out a few. Veteran Internet users know of the turbulent time when Activision bought Blizzard and the gaming community exploded with anger.
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