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Is anyone old enough to remember what Electronic Arts did to Origin and Vivendi to Sierra? Origin and Sierra -- two of the greatest game developers that pioneered and once ruled the video gaming industry -- are now dead and forgotten, because they were making so much money that their corporate bosses (EA and Vivendi respectively) decided to move in and took control of the company directions. See what happened when corporate suits took over the creative side of the business and decided they could do better than the creative people in making games. Corporate suits are basically business people who become resentful that they can only do numbers and like to *think* they also have talents in creativity, and they are always looking for opportunities to meddle in other people's creative works so they can prove that they can also be creative if they want to be.

Back to EA/Origin and Vivendi/Sierra. Origin and Sierra fought against the takeover for awhile, before their founders (Richard Garriott of Origin and the Williams of Sierra) were ousted from their head-of-the-company positions. EA and Vivendi immediately replaced the outgoing heads with puppets and lapdogs who would follow the corporate decisions. Soon afterward, Origin and Sierra were no more.

My prediction: Blizzard will be dead in five years.