Companies such as Blizzard and Valve are rightly applauded for ensuring the quality of their games by delaying or cancelling them as necessary. People also see

Companies such as Blizzard and Valve are rightly applauded for ensuring the quality of their games by delaying or cancelling them as necessary. People also seem to conveniently forget that Vivendi Universal were actively trying to offload Blizzard a year or two prior to the release of WOW, because the studio was hemorrhaging money as a result of this philosophy. It's a good way to be when you're continually producing titles that knock people's socks off - which 3D Realms weren't. You can defend many things, but the fact is, they cocked it up in a big way. There's no defence against poor performance.