R.I.P. Zarhym :(
cephadex's joke is more likely to be real than all the doombringers here.Also, thanks cepha. You made my night.
It was sadly ironic that this piece of bad news came via the now ubiquitous midnight tweet. Put out your ghostly skull folks in honor of Zarhym's seemingly sudden departure.
One of the best, quirkiest and down to earth people. I always was excited to hear from him. I hope he has good things a-head. ;)
Does anyone know why he left? Seems to be the unasked obvious question.
hopefully it was his choice. his first tweet from the zarhym account sounded kinda harsh like he got let go. :(
Fair winds, sir!
So odds on him working for riot before long?
Diablo may have been the best selling franchise before WoW, but Diablo didn't share WoW's distinction of being the only product Blizzard churned out for 6 years (8, if you include Warcraft III and FT from the franchise). From 2004 to 2010, Blizzard released WoW, BC and Wrath. SC 2's Wings of Liberty only came out in 2010. Cata was also 2010. It's the classic "all eggs in one basket", and any CEO worth his salt will want to diversify. I don't think it's a coincidence that the quality of WoW expansions went south after the diversification. WoW was a cash cow with one important caveat: it must receive heavy inputs before it can produce the milk.Also, given WoW's runaway success in the early years, I would be very surprised if the team didn't get swollen-headed along the way and rubbed higher-ups the wrong way. WoW has been cut down to size in recent times.On FF, FFXIV literally scrapped the original and reboot the game from scratch. So far, the second incarnation has been much better received. Besides, the different FFs rarely are direct sequels to the number before them.
Thanks for all the years Zarhym, I wish you all the best!
Prob one of the only twitter pages I would go and visit. You will be missed :(
One of my favourite CMs.You shall be missed/salute
It never dawned on me that Zarhym Altogether was a Mitch Hedberg reference (google Mitch Hedberg + Corn on the cob).Zarhym go forth and do great things!
Bobby Kotick probably rolled out of his maserati after nobody came to stare at it for an hour, went in and was like "What do you even do? TALK to the PLAYERS? OUT."
I'm just really happy I got my picture with Zarhym and Bashiok at Blizzcon 2013 and I guess now my fave CM is (the best cinder kitten) Lore which I knew Lore way before he started working at Blizzard so I already loved him. ^_^!