Stampers leave Rare

[Paco]

Even if they don't directly program the games, as the founders and leaders of the company they have a huge impact on what the company does... I'm sure you don't want to admit this because you don't want to think of Rare going the way of those three companies (or others; I could have mentioned Ken Williams and Sierra, for a really, really clear case...)... maybe it won't; Blizzard has lost some of its early members and keeps going. Some of the founding members are still there, though (Allen Adham is still President, I believe), so they haven't lost ALL of their early talent...

Two people who have been with the company for 19 and 14 years, repsectively, took over as the successors. They had to have learned a thing or two from the Stampers, and seeing as how they were employeed so long it is evident the Stampers liked those two.

I haven't admitted anything except the impact of this event is not apparent. As I said before, it could be bad or it could be good. Calling it either way at this point is premature.