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On October 04 2018 08:27 Cricketer12 wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2018 07:36 Solar424 wrote:
This could be bad for SC2. From what I remember Morhaime was one of the people on the inside who was a fan of the game and kept funding for WCS/GSL, and with him gone we could see some downsizing for 2019. Mike was a HUGE sc supporter. I remember he was following wcs eu 2013 when dimaga played an insane series vs mvp. Best of luck to him in the future.
Pretty sure I've seen him show up in random streamers twitch chat every now and then and shoot the scheisse with them. I specifically remember him dropping in on one of Cyan's streams.
Seems like a really cool guy, and I wish him the best. I hope his advisory role isn't PR baloney, it'd be nice if he was still around keeping the guys at Blizz real.
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Will be interesting to see what happens to SC2 esports. Morhaime was a big fan and probably an ambassador for the game internally in the company.
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Oh dang, Thanks Mike nothing but respects for you.
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On October 04 2018 08:36 hexhaven wrote:Show nested quote +On October 04 2018 08:32 Cyro wrote:On October 04 2018 07:31 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Blizzard has been hemorrhaging MAU's for the last year. OW and Heroes of the Storm being the main culprits. WoW's had a disastrous expansion launch Server problems or design problems?
Design problems.
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Korea (South)227 Posts
Feels bad....wish him all the luck in his future endeavors!
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On October 04 2018 07:36 Solar424 wrote:
This could be bad for SC2. From what I remember Morhaime was one of the people on the inside who was a fan of the game and kept funding for WCS/GSL, and with him gone we could see some downsizing for 2019.
I have no idea if what your saying has any credibility backing it. But if we're going to run with that idea they should probably consider shutting Heroes of the Storm down - probably D3 as well, nobody would miss them.
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Cya Mike, you were a true Starcraft fan and it showed!
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GGs Mike T_T fuck im so sad
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Thanks Mike for being a champion of Starcraft even when it was waning. With Blizzard sponsorship both BW and SC2 have had a resurgence in recent years.
This would only have been possible if there was a champion for these games, and not someone who would capitulate to the Activision money-grubbing overlords.
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I felt this would come one day but not so soon.
GG MM
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Blizzard games are my favorite !
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All the best to the biggest Starcraft fan there is. Thanks for the support over all the years!
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Mexico2170 Posts
I'm genuinely sad. Like wtf in the last couple of years we have lost Metzen, Mike, Rob Pardo, Ben Brode, Wei Wang. At this point I'm expecting Dustin Browder and, Jeff Kaplan and Samwise to announce retirement next year.
I just don't understand. If I had a dream, and I co-founded a company, and then that company became one of the biggest ever, producing some of the most critically aclaimed videogames there are, and I was the president….I would never think of leaving. They'd have to take company papers from my dead body cause I'd not give them away otherwise.
We'll never know if something happened or not, but honestly he seemed like such a cool guy, would love to meet him some day and hear some stories.
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I'm genuinely sad. Like wtf in the last couple of years we have lost Metzen, Mike, Rob Pardo, Ben Brode, Wei Wang. At this point I'm expecting Dustin Browder and, Jeff Kaplan and Samwise to announce retirement next year.
I just don't understand. If I had a dream, and I co-founded a company, and then that company became one of the biggest ever, producing some of the most critically aclaimed videogames there are, and I was the president….I would never think of leaving. They'd have to take company papers from my dead body cause I'd not give them away otherwise.
We'll never know if something happened or not, but honestly he seemed like such a cool guy, would love to meet him some day and hear some stories.
He's already accomplished the dream. He's in fact carried it for at least 15 years after it was accomplished. The luster starts to fade and the stress starts to take over after that long. I don't know if you've stuck with *anything* in your life for more ~27 years besides your family (if you've even lived that long). Ever thought about that? Jobs, cities, friends, hobbies, for most people all these things change anywhere from 2-10 years. This man dedicated nearly half his life expectancy to that. I am incredibly grateful he gave us that much, and was a diehard SC fan through the very end.
Hats off, that's some dedication to making the world have more fun.
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On October 04 2018 13:28 [Phantom] wrote:
I'm genuinely sad. Like wtf in the last couple of years we have lost Metzen, Mike, Rob Pardo, Ben Brode, Wei Wang. At this point I'm expecting Dustin Browder and, Jeff Kaplan and Samwise to announce retirement next year.
I just don't understand. If I had a dream, and I co-founded a company, and then that company became one of the biggest ever, producing some of the most critically aclaimed videogames there are, and I was the president….I would never think of leaving. They'd have to take company papers from my dead body cause I'd not give them away otherwise.
We'll never know if something happened or not, but honestly he seemed like such a cool guy, would love to meet him some day and hear some stories.
As far as Morhaime is concern he is probably a multimillionaire/ billionaire (edit: Forbes has him at 1.8B he's gonna be fine) at this point so it make leaving a lot easier, he can do what the hell he want after that lol. He was in higher management of a big company having to answer to shareholder and did a pretty long run at it, while also being a public figure, it can be reasonable to think he want a break from it. Maybe management at Activision wasn't happy with his performance in the last few years. All in all someone with that kind of pedigree will be able to find a job in high up in pretty much any multinational that he would be interested in, so I'm not to worry for him.
Props for his time at Blizzard tho, he worked on some awesome games and made his company is one of the biggest game publisher in the world.
For the others, some of them probably just want to work on other games or in another environnement, I know Ben Brode worked like 10 years on Hearstone, at some point everyone want to do something else and it doesn't mean that Blizzard had an interesting opening for him (or the other) at this point.
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this may or may not be bad for starcraft, but it's definitely not good
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GG Mike, you probably realized you can’t have a full time job and play WoW Classic at the same time.
Blizzcon will not be the same without you.
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