I'm trying figure out a way of D2R Items asking this without unnecessarily vilifying Activision. The question I'm asking is, are the business realities that we face today, like this, and do you have a relationship with your parent company, Activision, such that, you can continue to run your business in that manner?

Are you able to say that Blizzard sufficiently autonomous to say that 'We don't think it's a great idea therefore we're going to end the game, and we're going to return to the sketch board ... You might not have another game from us for fiveor 10 years, or whatever it may be?' You're in a situation in which you are able to do that?

There were a couple of questions I asked when Mike told me, "Hey, you should consider applying for this job." There were a couple of questions I asked Mike, as well as a few questions I asked Bobby Kotick, the CEO of Activisionas well as all the others from Activision Blizzard. What you're touching on is something that's important to what it means to be Blizzard from an entrepreneur's perspective and also from a from a community as well as a fan perspective.

Here's the thing I will say. As we sit here, we are about to have The Diablo League Finals that was actually created by some of the people at Activision Blizzard, and the ambition they have is the same as the desire that we have for our games, which is to get our games exposed to and enjoyed by millions of players all around the world.

I believe that we have various ways of thinking about how we reach this goal, but our goals are very identical and are very closely aligned them.The worry from a fan standpoint is, if there's an eventual point when it does look like an Diablo League cannot sustain the level of enthusiasm it requires will Activision immediately shift its focus to "Well, you've got to buy D2R Ladder Items bring us the next thing right now,"