Words matter. These are the best Blizzard Quotes from famous people such as Bobby Kotick, Duncan Jones, Aron Eisenberg, Michael Morhaime, Bill Bailey, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our players in a way that would be consistent with traditional sports.
I have to work with the team at Blizzard and the producers on the film and convince them that, as a fan, I have a unique and hopefully entertaining way of taking people through the first contact story, which is really what sets up ‘Warcraft’ for everyone else.
I had Macs when Blizzard was pretty much the only company making games for Macs. I played all the Blizzard games, like ‘Diablo II.’
I’ve met several times with the Activision guys and we’ve talked at length about Blizzard’s philosophy on game development and game publishing and all the things that are important to us at Blizzard. We found that we shared a lot of the same values.
I did a show in this tiny town called Longyearbyen. We went snowmobiling around Svalbard and saw Arctic foxes, snow bunting, polar bear footprints and almost got lost in a blizzard.
From a development standpoint, at Blizzard Entertainment one of our values of course is commitment to quality.
Once I wrapped ‘Insurgent’, I went to Boston and shot a film called ‘The Finest Hours.’ It’s based on a real story in 1952 about a Coast Guard mission to rescue these sinking ships that are caught in a blizzard.
I was born in a blizzard, a special out-of-season blizzard, the worst blizzard Oslo ever suffered. Family, home, circumstances, the country I lived in and the weather I was born in all conspired to make a skater of me.
I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
I would say a lot of us here think being called a geek is cool. A lot of us at Blizzard identify with it.
The documentary ‘Certifiably Jonathan’ has engrossing moments in it. How can it not? It’s got a great subject – the extraordinarily voluble comedian Jonathan Winters, whose constant rush of words can be like a blizzard: beautiful, maddening, exhausting, and finally beautiful again. But it’s not a great film.
I’d been with Blizzard for almost 28 years when I stepped down.
When we started Blizzard, we just wanted to make great games. What we realized is that the games we create are really just a framework for communities and human interaction.
We spent a few days up Ben Nevis, which is the biggest mountain in the U.K., and there was one day when we had to make a decision whether we were going to go to the summit or not. It was already getting dark, but we made the call to go and made the summit, but as soon as we got there, this blizzard just hit.
I want to thank all of the talented and hardworking people at Blizzard for their dedication, creativity and passion. It has been a privilege to lead this team.
My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in ’96. I get chills thinking about it. It’s my favorite time here – call me crazy. I’m from Canada, and it’s very cold up there.
It’s often hilarious to me that I’m writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there’s a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.
A lot of the successful Blizzard games that you know actually grew out of failed projects. That was the case with ‘World of Warcraft.’ We canceled a project and decided to work on that one.
I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They’d be dead in a couple of minutes. It’s got to be real. It’s got to work.
I played soccer in the Alps when I was a kid. There was a blizzard that happened. And little local German kids were out there shoveling lines. Keeping it moving.
There’s a blizzard of metrics that social sites and messaging sites put out there.
Activision has their own games. Blizzard has our own games. We’re not going to go in and fire their people and they aren’t going to come in and fire any of ours.
Blizzard has definitely evolved around crunch. In our early days, we crunched crazy hours to get the games done.
My earliest memory is being in a snow hole, aged two-and-a-half, with my dad somewhere up a mountain in a blizzard. I don’t know what my dad saw in me – I was a geeky kid – but he had that philosophy: prepare the kid for the road, not the road for the kid.
We’re basically responsible for making sure you have a great time. If you buy a Blizzard game, we want that to be a great experience.
My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.
Blizzcon is a Blizzard show. It’s not an Activsion/Blizzard show.
Activision and Blizzard both believe that we’re in an expanding market where we can reach more people across multiple platforms, geographies and age groups. Both of our companies are positioned very well to take advantage of those trends to keep lowering the barriers to get more people into gaming.
One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with ‘Warcraft’ in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
‘Into the Blizzard’ follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they trained in Scotland, where they fought in Gallipoli and where they died at the Battle of the Somme in France.
In the U.S., Wikia has content sponsorships with top brands, including Blizzard Activision, Sony, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, ABC Television and others.
One of the things I think has been important for Blizzard is maintaining the direct relationship with our players. Having a platform that we owned and controlled was important for that strategy, and also to not be dependent on other publishers.
My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there’s a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.
