Michael Morhaime Quotes

Michael Morhaime

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 3, 1967

You should take your reputation very seriously and try to build a track record you can be proud of.

Michael Morhaime

Blizzcon is a Blizzard show. It's not an Activsion/Blizzard show.

Michael Morhaime

BlizzCon will always feel like home to me.

Michael Morhaime

When you look at how players experienced 'Diablo' I and II, there was a great desire to meet up and trade items for real money outside of the game. There's no real way to provide a secure and safe environment for doing that outside of the game. It really has to be integrated within the game.

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I think that gaming is more fun when you're playing with people that you know.

Michael Morhaime

With a very small team you can create compelling content and reach a large audience.

Michael Morhaime

When we look back, what we often find that's most lasting and meaningful from our experiences in games are the relationships we create and foster.

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I think if you're a small studio, you're living or dying by the success of the next project, it takes a lot of superhuman effort - or at least it did for us.

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I'd been with Blizzard for almost 28 years when I stepped down.

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Focus is so important when you're making games.

Michael Morhaime

There's the saying that perfect is the enemy of great, because if you strive for perfection you'll maybe never ship. There's a point that's good enough. But I do think that there's so much competition out there that if you don't hit the quality bar, the product will just fail.

Michael Morhaime

One of the things I think has been important for Blizzard is maintaining the direct relationship with our players. Having a platform that we owned and controlled was important for that strategy, and also to not be dependent on other publishers.

Michael Morhaime

Our first console game was 'RPM Racing.' We started and released that project in that same year we founded the company, 1991.

Michael Morhaime

'Lost Vikings' and 'Rock 'n' Roll Racing' were pretty critical games to us. We got some acclaim as a result, some video gaming awards. Those are the games that impressed Davidson and Associates and led to the merger talks.

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I have a great time playing 'Overwatch.'

Michael Morhaime

Our original mission and values consisted of four simple words that formed our foundation: 'We make great games.' We crafted that statement before we had even released our first game, but we were committed to living up to it.

Michael Morhaime

When we started Blizzard, we just wanted to make great games. What we realized is that the games we create are really just a framework for communities and human interaction.

Michael Morhaime

One thing we wanted to take from traditional sports with 'Overwatch League' - we have city-based teams. There aren't really any other models where you have a global city-based league. But you do have teams that are based in a location.

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As you start to see more respected advertisers coming in and looking at esports, you're going to find that there's a lot of interest.

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'StarCraft II' is a really great game. It appeals to players on multiple different levels.

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