Quotes from Michael Morhaime

If we were to choose to do something on a console, the merger with Activision is going to be extremely helpful.

There is another person on the other end of the chatscreen. They're our friends, our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters. Let's take a stand to reject hate and harassment. And let's redouble our efforts to be kind and respectful to one another. And let's remind the world what the gaming community is really all about.

Blizzard has moved into this mode of continuous development. We're contributing a lot of content to our games to keep them evolving.

One thing we wanted to take from traditional sports with 'Overwatch League' - we have city-based teams. There aren't really any other models where you have a global city-based league. But you do have teams that are based in a location.

To break the mold, sometimes you have to start over.

I think people are interested in watching what they know and what they care about, so as you have more people where gaming is a huge part of their life, they want to see what the top players in the world are able to do.

The cool thing about 'Hearthstone' is, in terms of accessibility to competitive play, it's very accessible. Anybody can participate in these types of things.

As a spectator eSport, I think 'StarCraft' is really exciting, engaging, and interesting to watch. As a player, it just really has something for everybody.

'StarCraft II' is a really great game. It appeals to players on multiple different levels.

From a development standpoint, at Blizzard Entertainment one of our values of course is commitment to quality.

There's no such thing as 'next time we'll do it better.' Do it better this time.

E-sports used to be this niche thing. We knew it was really cool, but outside of a very narrow audience you really didn't get a lot of exposure.

When we were making games in the early '90s for the Super Nintendo and the Sega Genesis, popular games didn't have any real story.

Our original mission and values consisted of four simple words that formed our foundation: 'We make great games.' We crafted that statement before we had even released our first game, but we were committed to living up to it.

I'd been with Blizzard for almost 28 years when I stepped down.

I think at one point there were three television channels showing 'Starcraft' tournaments in South Korea. We were so unprepared for its success.

BlizzCon is a great example of how positive and uplifting gaming can be.

'Starcraft' was never designed to support multi-byte languages. In order to support more complicated languages like Korean or Chinese, you need two bytes of storage and 'Starcraft' only had one byte.

'Starcraft' is a fairly strategic game with depth.

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.

Live streaming has been huge in eSports.

There's the saying that perfect is the enemy of great, because if you strive for perfection you'll maybe never ship. There's a point that's good enough. But I do think that there's so much competition out there that if you don't hit the quality bar, the product will just fail.

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.

I was always fascinated by technology and wanted to understand it so when I went to UCLA I studied electrical engineering figuring they knew how things worked.