Michael Morhaime Quotes

Michael Morhaime

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 3, 1967

As a spectator eSport, I think 'StarCraft' is really exciting, engaging, and interesting to watch. As a player, it just really has something for everybody.

Michael Morhaime

ESports is a big part of 'StarCraft II,' and I think it adds a lot of longevity to the game.

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Live streaming has been huge in eSports.

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I mean, Blizzcon is a great event for us. It's a way that we can basically say 'thank you' to our most passionate players, and it's a great place for us to announce new things.

Michael Morhaime

When you think about 'World of Warcraft' as a social network, and you think about the future version of Battle.net as Blizzard's social network, then you wanna stay connected to your social network.

Michael Morhaime

I was always fascinated by technology and wanted to understand it so when I went to UCLA I studied electrical engineering figuring they knew how things worked.

Michael Morhaime

Well, the team that created 'Starcraft 2' is probably the most experienced real-time strategy team in the industry - there are members of that team who have worked on all our RTS games going back to 'Warcraft.'

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It was controversial when we were settling on what the races should be in 'Warcraft 3!'

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We'd always felt that it would be cool to put the player into the world of 'Warcraft' as a single character, exploring the land and meeting other players, but it really wasn't until 1999 that we thought it was feasible to do it.

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I would say a lot of us here think being called a geek is cool. A lot of us at Blizzard identify with it.

Michael Morhaime

I think every year we get better at running BlizzCon. The scale of the event is so large and I think people appreciate the logistics involved in putting on such an event.

Michael Morhaime

We'd really like for BlizzCon to be something that the people who really really want to go, if this is something you're really passionate about, you want to be here at BlizzCon, we'd like it to be possible for you to get here. When we are selling out in a couple seconds, it's really not possible for a lot of people that really want to come.

Michael Morhaime

I used to be the guy that sat in the back.

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We felt it was very likely the fee would be a deterrent for people, and that 'WoW' would not sell as quickly as some of our previous games.

Michael Morhaime

There's no such thing as 'next time we'll do it better.' Do it better this time.

Michael Morhaime

'Starcraft' is a fairly strategic game with depth.

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A 'Starcraft' showdown between humans and AI itself will be interesting.

Michael Morhaime

If you're going to create a competitive game and it's going to be popular, you have to have an esports ecosystem around the game.

Michael Morhaime

If we can help to make the interactions between folks online safer and more friendly, that would make it all more fun and more gratifying for everyone.

Michael Morhaime

I want to thank all of the talented and hardworking people at Blizzard for their dedication, creativity and passion. It has been a privilege to lead this team.

Michael Morhaime