'''Bill Roper''' worked at Blizzard and Blizzard North for a decade, before leaving in early 2003. He was a producer, designer, and did extensive voice work on titles including Warcraft II, Starcraft, Diablo II, Warcraft III, and various expansion packs. In addition to production work behind the scenes, Bill was probably the best-known Blizzard employee, thanks to his extensive PR work. He was interviewed thousands of times and was the chief spokesperson during most of Blizzard's publicity efforts.

::In 2003, I started Flagship Studios (and later Ping0) with the core team of people that created Diablo and we put out our first game, Hellgate: London, in October 2007. We also were working on a casual online MMO called Mythos when we had to close the studio in July 2008.