"There- there’s a very real example, was Jay Wilson, who I think is one of the great design minds, who was the game director of Diablo III. And he took so much heat, it just affected him to the point where he essentially retired from making games. Went and, you know, wrote novels. I was very happy for him because, you know, I’m glad he found his place, and I think he’s getting back into making games now. But we lost, we essentially… Like, think how many people loved Diablo III and played the shit out of Diablo III. And Jay is one of the people you have to thank for that. And yet that community basically removed him from making games for like 10, 15 years, and it feels criminal to me."

"Yeah. But we crunched World of Warcraft, we crunched… The date slipped, so you do this thing. I remember Mark Kern standing the team up and saying, “We’re gonna crunch early so we don’t have to crunch later in the project.” And I really believe he wasn’t manipulating us. Like, I really genuinely believe that he believed in that. But with games, anything can happen, and they’re just… We slip uncontrollably all the time. And we slipped, and it sort of created just this death march, endless death march that… Like to this day, members of the WoW team will remember, like, Newport Rib. If I say that, they’ll have, like, twitches because, like, they would cater the dinner. They’d bring it in at, like, 6:00 or 7:00 at night."

"… kind of, which I think is not necessary. I don’t think executives who take off and work 40-hour weeks should be telling anybody to stay late. I think that’s wrong and immoral. But to me as an individual, as long as I’m not telling other people to do it, my life’s work is my passion and I want to do it as much as possible. I find myself, I don’t think I’ve ever worked less than 10 hours in a day. Like that… 10 hours is like a normal-ish day to me."