How did Blizzard Entertainment get so good?

Hi, i am just wondering how did Blizzard Entertainment get so good in the gaming market and how did they just boost up there as the best so fast? Where did they get the money in the first place to make there first games and whatnot? how?|||world of warcraft is just hella addicting|||the first 3 warcraft games were very popular as was starcraft, from those sales and the sales of the other games they have they went on to develop world of warcraft (a rather medico online game in my opinion) which because of the original warcraft games, it gained quite a following and through a really big advertisement campaign and players getting their friends to play WoW became stupidly popular, so many people have bought the game and played it for years and with 2 expansions they make a lot of money.|||LOL I would say that they took what Everquest was doing and boosted the graphics and listened to all the complaints about Sony (EQ) and integrated the best of EQ with a brilliant new twist on the idea. I played EQ for a long time before switching to WoW. I'm glad I did!


This is just my opinion and purely speculation btw.


Scott


http://www.SmartWarcrafter.com|||Blizzard has been around for a long time. Eventually after making a few decent games they just got a few great ideas for games and went for them and made millions.|||well starcraft helped them a lot and then diablo and diablo II basicly set them up for Warcraft (i do see some skills and classes the same) and then world of warcraft. d3 though is going to kill (as long as its free online)|||marketing and understanding the consumer who buys their product|||Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. And now World of Warcraft. That would be my guess