Message From Frank Pearce and J. Allen Brack

[Rentesh]

Basically, it looks like Blizzard is slowly reforming without Activision. Call me crazy, but I'd not be surprised if more and more folks of the old Blizzard end up with them again.

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They're all leaving and possibly reforming. I wouldn't be surprised if by this time next year the old school crew of Blizzard starts another company. They have the cash and the fan following to do it.

[FelPlague]

people like frank pierce dont just quit a job like this. they dont unless its either 1. there emotional/phyically cant do the job anymore or 2 they were forced out/ forced to retire/ position was terminated from leadership chain.

man you knew frank personally! could you get his autograph for me!?

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They're all leaving and possibly reforming. I wouldn't be surprised if by this time next year the old school crew of Blizzard starts another company. They have the cash and the fan following to do it.

Remember the last time that happend? wasnt that wonderful! oh wait it was wildstar.

[Xath]

man you knew frank personally! could you get his autograph for me!?

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Remember the last time that happend? wasnt that wonderful! oh wait it was wildstar.

So yeah it was pretty damn wonderful. No uncapped grinds necessary to even play your character great combat and some of the best raid and dungeon design in any mmo ever.

[Lurker1]

in before morons think this means Blizzard is doomed.

[HitRefresh]

Diablo 4 is gunna be announced this blizzcon
we have a new expansion aswell
diablo immortal as actually pretty decent for a mobile game
warcraft reforged seriously did people forget about that?
also hearthstone is better then ever.

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funny you treat diablo immortal as a bad thing, idk if you know, but not everyone is elitists, MANY gamers play mobile games... Idk what world you live in that you can play PC games on a bus, or in a car.

also if he hated pathfinder so bad, why now and not 5 years ago?
also why the fuck do you think he goes "i love my job at blizzard... WAIT PATHFINDER!>?>?!>!>>!>! IU QWUIT1R2W3RT2WE!!!"

Whoa there you're supposed to be angry on the internet

[SinR]

So yeah it was pretty damn wonderful. No uncapped grinds necessary to even play your character great combat and some of the best raid and dungeon design in any mmo ever.

and yet its dead

[GUZ]

good maybe well get some new blood that can add some new shit to this mmo like eso

[Xath]

and yet its dead

To be fair that's more due to management issues than game faults. The instant expansion to half a dozen more servers than they needed much like bless split the population and half the servers were dead after the initial rush. The whole 2 faction system in general wasn't needed. If they cut down on the theme park aspect and focused more on the pve aspects the game could have been very viable. The scope of the game forced a need for immediate subs if it had been cut down a bit would have been fine. Also warfronts in general were a colossal waste of resources that should have been saved for an expansion. The game itself had amazing bones but they tried to instantly compete with everything wow had built over a decade instead of slowly growing.

[Ragedaug]

It's a constant source of amusement that the very same people who are constantly bitching about how Blizzard's management needs to be replaced are all suddenly falling all over themselves at the exit of some senior person--part of that management that needs to be replaced--at how this spells out the doom of the company and all the rats are leaving the sinking ship and any other lazy catch phrase that you can think of. It's mindless and unintentionally hilarious.

It's a constant source of amusement to me that some people think there's only two types of people out there; themselves and everyone who has a differing opinion than them on any one particular thing.

The people saying management need to be replaced aren't the same people saying it's doom and gloom when management leaves. While they may both disagree with you, that doesn't mean they agree with each other.

You can disagree with Person X about Thing Y, and you disagree with Person Y about Thing X, but that doesn't mean either Person X or Person Y will or will not agree with each other over Thing X or Thing Y.

[Pogacsa]

I guess after 28 years, it's not a huge surprise to see people retire.

Why? I really don't understand. Where i live in the EU you have to work up until 65-67 to go retire. Probably he was in his early 20s when he started so he just barely hit 50 (or not even 50 yet when he started at 20 which was common back then). And people call him old? Is this some US stuff?

[Ragedaug]

I guess after 28 years, it's not a huge surprise to see people retire.
Time for new people to move up the ranks and move Blizzard onwards - probably a good thing as they need to change and modernize (as this forum keeps yammering about).

Still, pretty impressive career.

I would agree. I've worked at multiple locations, and see people come and go all the time, at all levels. In the span he worked at Blizzard, the average person has changed jobs 12 times. So the more surprising thing in today's job market is that he stayed there for 28 years.

I also don't think most folks have a clue how stressful it is running the business is at the level he is at, and how many hours you work. I suspect he's set for money, and is doing what a lot of folks would like to do which is the retire while they are young enough to really enjoy it.

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Why? I really don't understand. Where i live in the EU you have to work up until 65-67 to go retire. Probably he was in his early 20s when he started so he just barely hit 50 (or not even 50 yet when he started at 20 which was common back then). And people call him old? Is this some US stuff?

I would say it's more about the time he's been working at one place that's the outlier. He's not old by any means, but it's rare these days, at least in the U.S., to see someone work at the same company for 30 years.

[THEORACLE64]

Why? I really don't understand. Where i live in the EU you have to work up until 65-67 to go retire. Probably he was in his early 20s when he started so he just barely hit 50 (or not even 50 yet when he started at 20 which was common back then). And people call him old? Is this some US stuff?

You also have to realise how much money these people will have made over that time being one of the founders of such a massive company. They’re able to retire early because they’ll have millions in the bank that allow them to do so.

[ssviolett]

and yet its dead

Everything dies in due time. Sometimes it's better to enjoy your experience and close the project instead of lasting it forever like a chewing gum that lost its taste long ago.

[Trumpcat]

GG Frank Pearce

Looking forward to all these unannounced projects everyone keeps talking about and not announcing.

This Blizzcon will be a big deal for certain.

[Aggrophobic]

sounds to me like he was forced out of his position by J Allen or Activision

How? How does it sound like that and why would they do that?

[MoanaLisa]

The people saying management need to be replaced aren't the same people saying it's doom and gloom when management leaves. While they may both disagree with you, that doesn't mean they agree with each other.

You may not believe this but there's a regular community here that posts a lot and which I have cause to see. It's not a huge community. After a number of years you tend to know who they are and what their standard positions are on the game, Blizzard, etc. I'm not in the business of naming names but trust me when I tell you that in this case some of them are very much the same people.

28 years at one place is a very long time. As a company founder I'm sure he has enough money--"fuck you money" it's sometimes called--to live well the rest of his life. If he wants to retire or even go do something else it's his right and I wish him well.

[HordeFanboy]

Sinking Ship

[FelPlague]

So yeah it was pretty damn wonderful. No uncapped grinds necessary to even play your character great combat and some of the best raid and dungeon design in any mmo ever.

Yeah man its the best game, no wonder its the to-...
wait? news in, game died before even its 5th aniversary

[Benomatic]

The guy has been in a high intensity position for close on 30 years. He's earned the right to step back and focus on himself. It's not the end of the world.

[Kuja]

Oh, I thought Allen was leaving too. Happy to know that he's not!