{"id":480283,"date":"2003-07-01T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-01T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diablo3.ingame.de\/?p=480283"},"modified":"2003-07-01T14:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-07-01T14:21:00","slug":"interview-mit-bill-roper-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/interview-mit-bill-roper-3\/480283\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview mit Bill Roper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gegen\u00fcber Gamespot<\/a> sagt Bill Roper, dass die Entscheidung, Blizzard zu verlassen, auch f\u00fcr ihn \u00fcberraschend schnell gekommen ist, als eine Folge mehrerer Ereignisse und Vorf\u00e4lle, die sich in k\u00fcrzester Zeit abgespielt haben. Tats\u00e4chlich ist es so, dass sich die Gruppe morgen fr\u00fch zum ersten Mal treffen wird, um ihre weiteren Pl\u00e4ne genau zu besprechen. Alles was sie bis jetzt mit Sicherheit wissen, ist, dass sie ein neues Spiele-Projekt starten wollen.<\/p>\n

Weiter sagt Roper, dass es eine \u00e4u\u00dferst schwierige Entscheidung war, Blizzard zu verlassen, da ihnen jeder dort ans Herz gewachsen ist, au\u00dferdem meinte er: \u0084ich will Diablo spielen\u0093.<\/p>\n

Auf die Frage, welche Rolle Vivendi bei der Entscheidung spielte, r\u00e4umte Roper ein, dass sie einen gr\u00f6\u00dferen Part ausmacht, da es f\u00fcr ihn und seine Leute nicht m\u00f6glich war, Mitspracherecht in dem Ausma\u00df zu bekommen, wie sie es sich vorgestellt h\u00e4tten. Aber er betonte auch, das er sicher sei, dass Blizzard den guten Kampf weiter f\u00fchren wird und weiterhin gro\u00dfartige Spiele entwickeln wird.<\/p>\n

Wiederholt erw\u00e4hnte Roper, das die Gruppe mit Spannung in die Zukunft und die sich bietenden M\u00f6glichkeiten blickt. Die Vier haben bis jetzt sehr eng zusammen gearbeitet und eine \u00e4u\u00dferst kreative Einheit gebildet. Wenn sie nun ihr eigenes Projekt starten, mit viel kreativer Freiheit, dann, so ist sich Roper sicher, werden sie so viel neue Ideen haben, dass sie sich zusammen nehmen m\u00fcssen, um \u0084die Grosse Idee\u0093 rauszukristallisieren.<\/p>\n

Als erstes m\u00fcssen sie dem Kind einen Namen geben, und dann werden sie eine WebSite machen. Wir k\u00f6nnen also damit rechnen, bald mehr \u00fcber die Zukunftspl\u00e4ne der neuen Firma zu h\u00f6ren.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Hier k\u00f6nnt Ihr die Zusammenfassung in englischer Sprache nachlesen<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

We speak to former Blizzard North vice-president Bill Roper about the sudden departure of the studio“s management and these former Blizzard employees“ new plans.<\/p>\n

Earlier today, Blizzard Entertainment revealed that the Blizzard North cofounders Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer, and David Brevik, plus Blizzard vice president Bill Roper, have left the studio responsible for the Diablo series, which has sold more than 10 million units worldwide. The four held the key management positions at Blizzard North, with Brevik as president and the others holding vice-president titles. We talked with Bill Roper on the phone this afternoon to get his perspective on the group“s departure and their plans to form a new game company. <\/p>\n

As surprising as the announcement may be for fans of the Diablo games, it may be even more surprising to know how quickly the group made the decision to leave. Roper said that the departures were the result of a series of very quick events. Indeed, the first time the group will meet to discuss their company plans in depth will be tomorrow morning. But what they do know for sure is that they want to start a new game project. <\/p>\n

Roper said, „We made a very difficult decision. We love everyone at Blizzard… at the San Mateo office and at Blizzard in Irvine.“ And in addition to this personal well-wishing, he did reveal other reasons for wanting to see Blizzard North continue on, and said, „I want to play Diablo.“ <\/p>\n

Asked what role Vivendi Universal“s corporate management had to play in the decision, Roper admitted that was a big part of it: „We wanted to have a level of involvement [in deciding the studio“s direction] that was not going to be made available. For the interests of the people that we work with, we should have been able to talk to the people that make the decisions and that knew what was going on.“ But in further describing Blizzard“s situation, he said, „It“s the same challenges we always faced. I have absolutely no doubt that they will keep fighting the good fight. We tried to leave them in a good place, and I honestly expect that Blizzard will continue to make great games.“ <\/p>\n

The group“s future isn“t limited by employment contracts or non-compete agreements. Roper said that there“s nothing „to stop us from approaching this any way we“d want.“ Lacking such legal constraints, the new game company may hire current Blizzard employees at some point in the future. <\/p>\n

Roper repeatedly mentioned how very excited the group is at the possibilities that lie ahead. The four have worked as a very tight knit creative group, according to Roper. The Schaefer brothers are artists by training and Brevik is a programmer, and all have been project leads and designers as a part of Blizzard“s philosophy that has developers wearing many hats. <\/p>\n

Starting over as a „lean and mean“ company will grant them new creative freedom. In fact, Roper is sure that they“ll initially come with too many ideas and will have to trim back to find the great one. He also admitted, „We“d love to be talking with publishers“ and mentioned that interested parties could get in touch on the company cell phone at 650-207-6030 (serious inquiries only, please). <\/p>\n

The company“s next steps are to decide on a name and set up a Web site. We can expect to hear more concrete details on the company“s future plans very soon.
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Und auch hier wieder vielen Dank an Tarnele f\u00fcr die \u00dcbersetzung \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gegen\u00fcber Gamespot sagt Bill Roper, dass die Entscheidung, Blizzard zu verlassen, auch f\u00fcr ihn \u00fcberraschend schnell gekommen ist, als eine Folge mehrerer Ereignisse und Vorf\u00e4lle, die sich in k\u00fcrzester Zeit abgespielt haben. Tats\u00e4chlich ist es so, dass sich die Gruppe morgen fr\u00fch zum ersten Mal treffen wird, um ihre weiteren Pl\u00e4ne genau zu besprechen. Alles… Interview mit Bill Roper<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-480283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-diablo-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetdiablo.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}