170: Behind the Blizzard

The Nextlander Podcast

Leisure, Hobbies

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Jason Schreier joins us on a deep dive about the history, making, and almost undoing of Blizzard as chronicled in his new book Play Nice.

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CHAPTERS

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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:00:53) Welcome Jason Schreier
(00:02:27) How do book sales work?
(00:08:05) The book tour
(00:11:08) The Games Industry: Bleakness AND Hope?
(00:16:42) Let's talk about Blizzard's early years
(00:43:41) Moving to middle Blizzard
(01:00:53) Project Titan
(01:08:07) Overwatch saves the day
(01:12:12) Overwatch League
(01:19:49) The first of the PR disasters
(01:24:32) Reckonings at Blizzard
(01:27:02) Overwatch 2
(01:33:26) Briefly mentioning some other Blizzard games during this time
(01:34:56) The end of Activision Blizzard
(01:49:11) Any tips for navigating news?
(01:52:04) Microsoft enters the picture
(02:03:12) Some other news that is actually related
(02:03:18) 343 rebrands to Halo Studios
(02:07:55) Is Tencent going to buy Ubisoft?
(02:13:03) What is the next book?
(02:18:33) Thanks again to Jason for joining us
(02:20:22) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:20:57) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:22:04) Nextlander content updates
(02:23:21) See ya!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to another next lander podcast Alex Navarro.
0:15.4	Yes, we are back we are here well you and I are here.
0:19.5	Yes two-thirds of us are here.
0:20.9	Brett you makers still in North's still without power, maybe power this morning.
0:25.5	We're not sure.
0:26.5	We're not sure.
0:26.7	It's day by day over there.
0:27.9	We did get a brief communicate from him, proof of life.
0:30.2	He's still out there, so.
0:31.2	Yeah, he sent a picture of trucks nearby maybe working on power so
0:36.8	we are here we are recording a morning early podcast because we got to get out there and we got to get the freshest news because there's apparently a book coming out today.
0:48.0	What? Yes, and we are joined by...
0:51.0	We're joined by...
0:52.0	An author and a journalist, Jason Jason Schreier how are you?
0:54.4	Hello it's kind of Alex a collection of tweets all assembled into binding and put on
1:01.0	pages and then you can read them you can kind of read it as if it's just a bunch of
1:04.4	tweets and maybe you'll enjoy it more. Is there like a for you tab in the book
1:08.3	somewhere where I can get the hottest tweets that I don't know about?
1:10.9	It'll create an algorithm for you where it'll give you only only the most hardcore right wing
1:17.1	Pieces of the book will just be bubbled up for you
1:20.1	They just
1:24.1	it inserted randomly into my into the tweets. Yeah, well it really it replaces like one out of every 100 words in the book with the word woke and then
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