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It's amazing how we still pay lip service to the idea that Blizzard is still Blizzard. Speaking generally, no one who was there in 2004 or even 2012 is left. The Ship of Theseus isn't much of a paradox when the people who made everything you loved were replaced in less than 10 years.
People do that with all the developers for some reason, even when there's like 1 guy left from the original golden days. It's why EA buys and guts companies but still keeps "brands" afloat (Maxis) - they know people will buy the brand.
With the Ship of Theseus, though, the conceit is that the replacing is done with care, only when necessary, and trying to make the match as exact as possible. This is about as far from that as one can get.
This is like buying a classic car, putting its hood ornament on a Trabant and then trying to pass it off as the same car.
But but but BRAND!!!
We neeeed BRAND!
Same thing with Rocksteady. Look at their own website and you’ll see plastered all over “creators of the Batman Arkham games” but every single person who worked on those games are now gone. It’s bullshit marketing and normies fall for it every time