Rare diablo expansion

[Krovvy]

Originally Posted by LordNevar

You really don't read anything do you. Once again you fail at life, and need to just give up.

"Diablo: Hellfire is an expansion pack that Sierra On-Line (now known as Sierra Entertainment) produced for the computer game Diablo. It was released in 1997 and developed by Synergistic Software, a Sierra division."

"Synergistic was acquired by Sierra in 1996. They maintained their identity as an independent development group within Sierra for several years. They were closed in early 1999 as part of a Sierra's restructuration plan."

I think that about sums it up.

Exactly, apparently it was so far from Blizzard's standards that they don't talk about it. :alien:

[LordNevar]

Originally Posted by Ned Plimpton

I just like how Lord Nevar is trying to be a badass about it, but it seems like he doesn't realize that both Blizzard and Siera are owned by Vivendi.

The fact that Vivendi owns Blizzard and Sierra has nothing to do with Diablo:Hellfire, since once again someone not doing any research on the topic just jumps in with invalid information. So I will break it down a little bit better for you.

1996:
Sierra acquires Synergistic Software.

1997:
Sierra was given the license to develop an expansion pack to Blizzard Entertainment's role-playing game Diablo named Hellfire. Blizzard was busy with developing an ultimately cancelled game entitled Warcraft Adventures and didn't have the time or resources to develop the hotly awaited expansion. Sierra handed development duties to its subsidiary Synergistic Studios. Released in November 1997, the game flopped due to a lack of marketing, and Sierra and Blizzard never worked together again.

1998:
Cendant Software sold its consumer software operations, including Blizzard, to French publisher Havas. In the same year Havas was purchased by Vivendi. Blizzard became part of the VU Games group of Vivendi Universal

2000:
At the end of June 2000, a strategic business alliance between Vivendi, Seagram and Canal+ was announced and Vivendi Universal, a leading global media and communications company, was formed. Havas S.A. was renamed Vivendi Universal Publishing and became the publishing division of the new group, divided into five groups: games, education, literature, health and information. The games division included Sierra On-Line, as well as Blizzard Entertainment and Universal Interactive Studios.

Looks to me that Vivendi had nothing to do with either of these companies till after the fact, so explain to me again what Vivendi has to do with any of this?

Official source and refrences supplied by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Entertainment

[Ntrik_]

Originally Posted by LordNevar

It's called research, if you actually did it sometime you wouldn't look like so much of a retard when you post.

That's plagerizing, not a research.

[LordNevar]

It's plagiarism if you don't supply your sources and just call the work yours.

I'm done in this topic, all the facts and relevant information is there. If you don't like it than oh well, it's the facts. Not my fault that people post incoherent facts without atleast looking it up to see if it's true or not.

[little-cheeze]

but you didnt do that before, and is there any reason why you need to argue in everyone of my threads?

[Chris]

Sierra was a distributor for the expansion.