Blizzard’s Chief Executive Mike Morhaime, the guy who announced Diablo III at the Worldwide Invitational last weekend, has spoken out about Warcraft, Diablo, and Blizzard in an interview on Eurogamer.
He talks about the origins of WoW, and it transpires the idea for the game first appeared back after Warcarft II. He also promises to support WoW for as long as enough people are still playing it, then goes on to describe some of the things they would have changed if they could do it all over again, and the difficulties Blizzard face in an evolving market.
He then discusses the PC game market, and disputes the rumor that it’s in decline:
I think that it is just completely dead wrong to think about the PC gaming market and conclude that it’s a declining market. It is far from declining. If you look at the numbers, there are probably more people playing games on the PC than any other platform. More than there ever have been before.
He also reveals that all Blizzard games go through a cycle before release:
During the process of developing it always comes to a point where you have the game getting over a hurdle, where it goes from being almost there to: okay, now this is really going great. They all go through this, I think it’s a necessary thing - where for a game to get to that next level, you have to have a point where everybody’s really focused and really playing the game and finding out what the problems are. And when you’re at that point, you get concerned. Every single Blizzard game has gone through that, and I think Diablo III hasn’t gone through that point yet.
Full interview on Eurogamer.net
