Jeff Kaplan: belief

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…Well, I don’t know what that means, but- Rust players know what that means. My whole career and my family are thanks to EverQuest, so I think I won the game. And we’re idiots. We’re reading the forums, and the forums are just flaming us all the time. Like, “There’s lag on this server,” and, “Can’t log into that ser—” And that’s, that was our perspective of what was happening. And when I showed up at that show, it… One of the most emotional things in my life. It was nothing but an outpouring of love. I had believed I would never work any place but Blizzard. I loved it. It was a part of who I was and I felt I was a part of it, and I literally thought I would retire from the place. I never thought the day would come, and that was it. How painful was it to say goodbye?…

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