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Blizzard Entertainment became part of a unit within a much larger company whose principal businesses were in unrelated industries: hotels, realty, and shopping clubs.
Working under this management umbrella apparently caused friction at Blizzard. A team of 11 software developers left Blizzard in to start their own company, citing a lack of creative freedom as their reason for leaving. The seceding designers also hinted at problems with Blizzard's parent. These sentiments were echoed a few years later when the founders of Blizzard North left the company. Yet despite some apparent chafing in its role as a small cog in a big conglomerate, Blizzard continued to turn out best-selling products which became increasingly profitable.
Cendant explained the sale by saying it wanted to shed its noncore businesses. Havas was a division of the French conglomerate Vivendi S. Vivendi had a leading share in the telecommunications market in France, and also ran Universal Music Group, a global music company comprised of several well-known labels. Blizzard was yet again a small part of a large conglomerate with several other principal businesses when it joined Vivendi in It may, however, have been a good thing to get out from under Cendant, which soon began to unravel under charges of accounting fraud.
Cendant's chief financial officer pleaded guilty to several criminal charges in and testified against his boss, company founder Walter Forbes, and Cendant's vice-chairman E. Kirk Shelton. Meanwhile Blizzard continued to do what it did best. The company released a sequel to its hit Diablo in , called Diablo II. Diablo was so popular that Blizzard needed to do next-to-no marketing in order to promote the sequel, which sold more than a million copies in its first month of sales. This was astonishing, given that the entire computer game market was estimated at million units sold annually.
The computer game market had grown tremendously by , with the number of games sold tripling between and The market continued double-digit growth in , at a time when other media such as books, movies, and recorded music, showed flat or declining sales. Rowling's Harry Potter children's book series.
While the Potter books were an obvious juggernaut, Diablo II had a comparable though lower-profile following, and revenue was also similar. Then in , Blizzard came out with an expansion set for Diablo II called Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, and this too sold more than a million copies in its first month. By the early s, massively multiplayer online games had reached new popularity.
Yet despite the evident success of the subsidiary, Vivendi announced that it wanted to shed its entire games unit, along with its Universal movie studio, Universal Music, and Universal theme parks, in order to raise cash to pay off debts. Friction between Blizzard and Vivendi caused four top game developers to leave Blizzard in Uncertainty about the sale evidently made things difficult at Blizzard, and more key designers left the company over the next two years, including Blizzard cofounder Allen Adham.
In , Blizzard released its most successful game by far, World of Warcraft. The game broke all previous sales records for a PC-based computer game.
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