Jeff Kaplan: recommendation

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…How painful was it to say goodbye? It broke me. I think after you’ve been at a place like Blizzard, which I love Blizzard. To this day, I have nothing but warm, fond memories. I mean, there’s those moments where you’re like, “I wish that hadn’t happened,” but on the whole, that place is mecca for game development, and everything I have is due to Blizzard. They provided for me and my family, made me the person I am, so separating from Blizzard was one of the most painful things. And I was very sad when I resigned, and I didn’t realize how broken I was until recently, like the mourning, grieving I had gone through of like… I think I’m a little fucked in the head for not being there any… How could I give that up? How could I not be there anymore? It was—it was really, really painful leaving. Can we just speak to, I don’t know, I don’t think we can give enough love to Blizzard. It’s a legendary company. For me personally, for everybody, for millions of people, created some of the greatest games ever, Warcraft, StarCraft Universe, Diablo, WoW, Overwatch. What made it such a legendary game company? Just looking back at the whole of it?…

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