Fallout New Vegas director's first D&D RPG launched on the same day as Diablo 2, "which sounds like it would be catastrophically bad," but it ended up helping it instead

Fallout New Vegas director Josh Sawyer has suggested that Diablo 2 actually helped drive sales for his first D&D RPG, Icewind Dale, by launching on the same day.According to Wikipedia, Diablo 2 launched on June 28 while Icewind Dale launched a day later on June 29, but the sentiment still stands that the two games launched very, very closely to one another. And in an interview with Edge Magazine, Sawyer acknowledged the perception that an RPG like Icewind Dale from a relatively small studio