During the development of Diablo III, Pardo asked the team to build a new interface for the chat system, according to two people who worked on it. After a few months of development, the team had a check-in meeting with Morhaime, who was shocked that they had wasted their time and asked why they weren’t just using World of Warcraft’s system. “Pardo said: ‘Yeah, why would you guys do this?’” recalled one person on the team. “He threw the team under the bus.
