Book excerpt: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and Blizzard co-founder Mike Morhaime, once the video game industry's unstoppable pair, had a falling out from 2013
Bobby Kotick and Mike Morhaime were the video game industry's unstoppable pair, until they fought each other. An excerpt from the new book Play Nice. Mastodon: @RYStorm@mastodon … . X: @ben_heathstone , @skoll_shorties , @jasonschreier , @jasonschreier , and @jasonschreier Forums: r/Games and r/wow Mastodon: Robin-Yann Storm / @RYStorm@mastodon.gamedev.place : A tale as old as time: Remove the folks with tenure and knowledge, cut costs, but also wanting to speed everything up at the same time. — We've seen it go wrong in politics, in companies, it's expertly explained in The Wire, and yet it keeps happening. Why? — https://www.bloomberg.com/... … X: Ben Hearthstone / @ben_heathstone : The Hearthstone tidbits of the excerpt of the upcoming “PLAY NICE” book by Jason Scherier. #hearthstone [image] @skoll_shorties : Cinematics and those who work on them should NEVER be downplayed like that. Cannot stress how much I get into Warcraft. Because of the personality, art, & character(s) of a Cinematic. Blizzard were/are the kings at that! It's so distressing to hear big execs didn't value that. [image] Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier : For many years, it was anathema to even bring up the idea of money during development meetings at Blizzard. Then Activision pushed Blizzard to hire a CFO, and everything began to change. https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image] Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier : This is the story of Blizzard vs. Activision, a saga as epic and dramatic as anything depicted in Warcraft. This is how and why Bobby Kotick began taking a larger role in Blizzard's operations. Today at Bloomberg, an excerpt from my new book PLAY NICE: https://www.bloomberg.com/... Jason Schreier / @jasonschreier : PLAY NICE: The Rise, Fall, and Future chronicles the entire 33-year saga of Blizzard — including even more wild twists and turns — and will be out on October 8. Pre-order here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/ ... Forums: r/Games : Inside Activision and Blizzard's Corporate Warcraft r/wow : Bloomberg: Inside Activision and Blizzard's Corporate Warcraft