{"id":817,"date":"2007-12-12T14:29:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/12\/michael-morhaime-a-hall-of-famer\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T14:29:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T18:29:06","slug":"michael-morhaime-a-hall-of-famer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/12\/michael-morhaime-a-hall-of-famer\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Morhaime a Hall of Famer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard CEO Michael Morhaime <a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=8316&#038;Itemid=2\">has been inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts &#038; Sciences Hall of Fame<\/a>, making him the 11th inductee and the fifth of that group to have a notable background in strategy gaming (Wright, Bunten Berry, Molyneux and Meier are the others).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never had the love of Blizzard RTS games that others have. I appreciate the art of <em>Warcraft II<\/em> and the genuine innovation of <em>Starcraft<\/em>, but neither tweaked my fun sensors the way that other strategy games have.<\/p>\n<p>But Morhaime&#8217;s contribution to RPGs, RTS and MMOs is obvious. He has been with Blizzard since the beginning, doing programming on the original <em>Warcraft<\/em> game. Blizzard has a reputation for quality and production values that is almost unique in the industry. I mean, how many companies can point to record breaking titles in three different genres? (I&#8217;m thinking <em>Diablo<\/em>, <em>Starcraft<\/em> and <em>World of Warcraft<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>So what do you do when you have all the talent and all the money in the world?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/games\/2007\/12\/blizzard-rep-co.html\">You make a new MMO of course.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Mr. Morhaime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard CEO Michael Morhaime has been inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts &#038; Sciences Hall of Fame, making him the 11th inductee and the fifth of that group to have a notable background in strategy gaming (Wright, Bunten Berry, Molyneux and Meier are the others). I&#8217;ve never had the love of Blizzard RTS games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,105],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-db","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}