![]() had always been the most important thing to me it wasn't sales, it wasn't the scale of business. Metzen: The pure joy of working with people and making something that none of you could have done on your own. Newman: What about it made it so rewarding? To be playing that game again, and for it to take me back to that place, really kinda got my engine moving again. But it was just this high point in my life. It was the time I was most secure in my role, the time I was most in love with my work, and the teams I was working with - which isn't to say I didn't thoroughly love the folks I built StarCraft with or Overwatch. I looked back and it shocked me, that that was actually the time that I was most happy at Blizzard. I was running back and forth down the hall, being creative director on both projects. As we were making it, I was working on Warcraft III and WoW at the same time. It reconnected me with what it felt like to have been there, and be part of it. Metzen: It must have been last November, I was playing World of Warcraft: Classic, and it just rocked me. Newman: When did you know you were ready to do something more? Just pick up conversations of, this can go, what do you think about these new rules, or what about this new universe coming out? And it really got my juices flowing again. But it was good to be in a place where we could all jam and just be around it. ![]() I'd had a couple of years there where it was really family, which was wonderful. And it rekindled that thing we all have, to want to talk shop and geek out and nerd out with other people. It was a private club, so it was friends of friends. Metzen: About two years ago, we wound up kind of renting a warehouse and having tables set up and terrain to play and a place to play. Newman: How did the Warchief Gaming club kick off? So I kept active in a geeky way.īut I was not interested in doing anything myself until Mike and I started this gaming club. ![]() I'm always reading, I'm always up on what people were putting out, new world ideas and things. I have a billion armies of miniatures that I model. And I did not anticipate in any way getting back into the mix or wanting to make anything or be creative. Metzen: Those next couple of years, especially when the baby came, it was just quiet and peaceful. Newman: Did you feel like anything was missing, once you left? When Metzen left Blizzard, the company created a statue of him with Baby Winston, shown here in a. ![]()
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