The Schaefer brothers and D2R Items created the first Diablo in their own studio, Condor however, which Blizzard bought just prior to the release of the original Diablo at the time of its release in. Erich Schaefer told me that the buyout could not have happened at a better time because Condor was in financial crisis. He noted that the studio was just scraping by but didn't have enough cash to...