A few years earlier, Morhaime had nixed a second expansion for Diablo III in favor of quickly moving to the next game under Josh Mosqueira, but when Mosqueira quit Blizzard and his project, Hades, was canceled, Team 3 was left leaderless. Morhaime called up a couple of old friends to see if they might be interested in taking the reins: Bill Roper and Dave Brevik, who had resigned from Blizzard North all those years ago. They talked for several months about the possibility, but Brevik sniffed out some of the same politics that were hounding Adham and the conversations fizzled. “That’s not why I
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