part of the diablo team did hellgate london. part of the battlenet team went somewhere else.
the controlling thing is, the most of the main Blizzard dev group, is still in place- most particularly Enoyls...if you do not know his online Bnet name, his name is Rob Pardo. president of product development- course i know him as his everquest name(we played everquest on the same server-along with tigole-aka jeff kablan(lead producer of world of warcraft) and a few other blizzard Devs).
btw to show how much of a CASH COW World of Warcraft is... in the announcment of the merger they separate out blizzard revenue....over 1.7 billion dollars Annually just from wow...profit after expenses (servers. hosting. payroll. ~600 million)
Blizzard is Blizzard, they ain't changing their ways. the game will ship when its ready. period. MM had long conversations with both vivendi and activision when the deal was going thru and their contract with vivendi specifically states (paraphrasing) "we do things our way, leave us alone"
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