A little bit after E3, we heard a story about how Disney Epic Mickey creative director Warren Spector removed the idea of a “Scrapper” Mickey due to comments from a focus test. During Gamescom 2010, when asked to clarify that statement, he provided the interesting reply below:
“Let me start by saying, I have never, and I will never, make a design change as a result of a focus test. It has not happened at any point in my 27 years, and it will not happen. I will quit if that happens — if you ever catch me doing that, that will be last thing I ever do in the games business, okay?