"At the same time, we want to convey that Blizzard's success has never been attributable to any one person or small group of individuals, and I am confident that we have the teams in place to continue creating some of the best games in the world."
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Blizzard does not believe that these resignations will <u>cause any significant delays or have long-term negative effects on the "Diablo®" series or other projects in development</u>.
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The last line of that press release was patently ridiculous, since less than two weeks later [http://www.gamespot.com/news/6071481.html?tag=result;title;0 Blizzard announced] a new Blizzard North leader, and slipped in mention (underlined here for empahsis) that the second project they'd been working on was being shelved.