Diablo 2 - In Their Own Words

Usgamer has a lengthy retrospective up on Diablo 2. They interview David Brevik, Max Schaefer, and Erich Schaefer who recount the battles with Blizzard, crunch-time, and the stories behind some of Diablos mechanics. Fifteen years after its original release its a good time to look back at this memorable game.

And when we made Battle.net, we knew the Internet existed and all this kind of thing, but it was like, if someone wants to hack their game, it's fine. They can ruin their own experience. But, then we realized, oh, crap, they can take that hack and they can put in on the internet, and now everybody has it. It wasn't just one person who was going to ruin their experience. So there was a real desire after seeing some of the feedback and seeing what was going on with the hacking to fix this in a real way.