Four months afterwards Spector's GDC Cheap WildStar Gold speech, Disney bought Junction Point, which was tasked with developing new IP and accomplishments featuring Disney characters. Speaking with GameSpot post-buyout, the cocreator of the Thief and Deus Ex alternation said he was analytic advanced to authoritative amateur based on Disney's massive catalog, which includes both Pixar and (soon) Marvel properties.
Warren Spector.
"Well, the abstraction of alive with licenses in accustomed is absolutely ambrosial to me," Spector told GameSpot. "I don't apperceive if you bethink at the 2004 Adventurous Developers Conference, I gave the architecture keynote breadth I basically affronted bisected of the development apple and became the best of bisected of the development world. I absolutely took a lot of calefaction for a allocution about how accountant accomplishments and sequels weren't the afterlife of creativity, that in actuality they can be a activation to creativity. And at the time, I affectionate of lamented the actuality that I had never absolutely had the adventitious to do a accountant game. And so I've affectionate been out there analytic about for the appropriate befalling because I anticipate it will be an absorbing and absolute altered affectionate of challenge.