Michael Morhaime Quotes

Michael Morhaime

Profession : Businessman

Birth : November 3, 1967

As our players have become more experienced playing 'World of Warcraft' over many years, they have become much better and much faster at consuming content.

Michael Morhaime

There is definitely a trend of broadening the idea of who a gamer is.

Michael Morhaime

Activision and Blizzard both believe that we're in an expanding market where we can reach more people across multiple platforms, geographies and age groups. Both of our companies are positioned very well to take advantage of those trends to keep lowering the barriers to get more people into gaming.

Michael Morhaime

I think people are interested in watching what they know and what they care about, so as you have more people where gaming is a huge part of their life, they want to see what the top players in the world are able to do.

Michael Morhaime

I am surprised by the level of toxicity sometimes that exists online, especially where people can say things anonymously.

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We want gaming and e-sports to be something that is welcoming and appropriate for everybody who wants to come and watch.

Michael Morhaime

'Diablo 3' was never really designed to be an eSport, and not every game necessarily needs to be an eSport.

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I had no idea you could get an Emmy for creating a computer game.

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Sacrificing high quality for speed, it just isn't worth it.

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Asia is the founding land of competitive gaming.

Michael Morhaime

The development of gaming in Asia usually serves as the marker for how their company predicts the development of gaming will go globally.

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Blizzard has definitely evolved around crunch. In our early days, we crunched crazy hours to get the games done.

Michael Morhaime

We're always trying to improve and to make our games better.

Michael Morhaime

Activision has their own games. Blizzard has our own games. We're not going to go in and fire their people and they aren't going to come in and fire any of ours.

Michael Morhaime

If we were to choose to do something on a console, the merger with Activision is going to be extremely helpful.

Michael Morhaime

'World of Warcraft' was not always a smooth situation. People who played 'World of Warcraft' during the first year can attest to that.

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We love BlizzCon. It's great. It's our favorite thing to do. But first and foremost, we're a game company, and we have to make sure we deliver good quality games for our players.

Michael Morhaime

Well, 'Diablo III' went from no players to over 10 million in a very short period of time. It's really difficult to predict that type of response.

Michael Morhaime

When you launch a game, you really don't know how many people are going to show up.

Michael Morhaime

From a development standpoint, at Blizzard Entertainment one of our values of course is commitment to quality.

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