A visit to Mike Morhaime's office

[daedralord1]

1.3 billion he is worth cos of blizz

[1972mgoblue]

scary

[Sqiwamjon]

THaT GuY TOoK 5 YEaRS Of My LIfE. But I forgive him, because his games are too good and addictive. If I ever meet him, I'll give him a big druid bear hug.

[immortaliserwow]

for 20 years one gets a vassal Crown ;)

[Moonpagglo]

$10,000 and a dream. That is amazing!

[EvenStarMN]

Release the Diablo 3 now...

[Kovalos]

Mike is awesome .

[nvidia290]

You know he plays with that sword when no one is around.

[xSix50Thugx]

OMFG WORLD OF WARCRAFT CREDIT CARD I WANT

[jsmallow]

This guy made a LOT of money, but hes pretty chill

[GeekYourFace]

i want this sword on my wall too

[akramakram00]

gg blizzard

[kruspegirl226]

seems like mike never let the teenager inside die :)

[adventuretom]

@kruspegirl226 Sounds like a good plan ;)

[PulseOfTheAwakening]

@kruspegirl226

he must be one of the happiest suns of bitches out there

[mamaburgers25]

U say it's a bad company? It's great wow is the worlds number 1 computer game

[ElectronicDatabase]

goblin!

[ProjectGreyX]

what a bad company this company has become

[Doronsmovies]

I wonder if he ever returned that 15k to his grandma?

Lol but he is reallly nice guy

[Theguildmastery]

it called frostmourne ya moron!

[c0mm4nd3r51]

Legendary WoW Awards are nothing compared to Next Gen 5,10,15 and 20 year swords shields rings and ???? Awards..

Fuck WoW!! HAHA

[warmdickweed]

the sword arthas uses .... as lich king ... forgot the name have you michael?

[c0mm4nd3r51]

@warmdickweed Frostmourne Hungers!

[JeffreyOKay]

He really seems like an amazing man. I have respect for the guy. He's done good in life ;P.

[fallout111111]

i wonder if he got a copy of warcraft adventures lord of the clans?

[MrKharismal]

The cheque for $15,000 from his grandmother and the card from his parents that he's kept and framed is cute. :)

[lieutnantmaster]

those 15k turned out pretty great didnt they?..

[Ultizer]

I love how Blizzard started off with making Snes games, funny how it only cost 10grand to start blizzard

now Blizzard is the most succesful video game dev in the world, hell they make more money than some countrys

[yeojdizon]

he looks like he's a nice guy, he just inspired me:)

[Mugenloo]

1:20 - I've got one ;)

[Silvoleon]

this guy is a champ

[MeetTheCryptid]

0:16, Sam! Haha, he's crazy.

[DawnFailCry]

STFU, We all know that blizzard is leaving Activision, read on the forums what Ghost and Nethera said. And without mike morheim RTS gernre and MMos would be dead. He is the Executive producer and game director on WC1 - 3 and WoW.

[ProjectGreyX]

@DawnFailCry lol WoW copied off Everquest and Starcraft wasn't the first RTS buddy

[LordKronsell]

@ProjectGreyX Dude. Blizzard is the company who made STARCRAFT AND WOW, so.. wow didnt copy off anyone :D

[ProjectGreyX]

@LordKronsell Blizzard is a bad company they are like activision leeching money from their customers through devious means look at starcraft 2 and diablo 3 they will have 40 dollar xpacs that's so stupid don't you think ?

WoW copied off EQ

Starcraft wasn't the first RTS

[M33pblub]

@ProjectGreyX

"leeching money from their customers" - Thats why we are called Customers - we Pay. If we dident pay, we would be leeching of them. Stop being greedy - if you want to play there games pay for it and be quiet.

[lemonademoosejaw]

you can tell this guy loves what he does

[DawnFailCry]

@lemonademoosejaw Who the heck wouldnt? good god, he is mike morheim.. the richest man i nthe gaming industrie... im sure you heard of him..

[0limit100]

wow never thouht he would be natural like this. Hes seems to be a nice guy with nice humour.

[witheredwretch2]

at 20 years they should give a full set of plate armor so him and chirs metzen can have EPIC DUALs

[Runewright31]

O.o I thought his first game was The Lost Vikings. And Rock n Roll racing was the 2nd.

[SteelTofu]

Nerd cribs, I like.

[soadnairsoft]

he makes me think of gnomes, i mean that in a good way

[Xantexhunter]

Its almost hard to believe.

This guy started with 15,000 dollars, borrowed from his grandmother.

Look at where he is today. Mike Morhaime is the walk example of, if you have the resolve, go and do it.

Nuff' said.

[fallout111111]

@Xantexhunter But you need millions to make a game to keep up with the games today

[ArisVelouhiotis13R]

@Xantexhunter He was just lucky. Today with 15,000 you can only make a flash game. Graphics now have improved a lot and skill alone is not enough. For example, its impossible to make your own graphics engine with 15.000. You have to be very very rich to make a good game...

[Soap360]

His net worth is 1.8 billion 0.0

Dayum.

[hichief]

He looks like a really nice guy who got caught up with the wrong shitheads (Activision). I've always loved Blizzard products ever since I was about 7 or 8. I really did love their games and quality of works.

I feel merging with Activision was by far the worst choice they could have made. Not business wise of course, because Activision will definitely make them even more money by milking their consumers. Morally though... Activision is fucking bankrupt.

[DracoMalfoy87]

Blizzard has made a lot of money because they have made moral decisions. How can worse morals make them more profitable if they got this far with good values?

Maybe they should ditch Activision

[stephanos52]

@hichief i totally agree with you

[Karadjordje94]

@hichief like they decide about who they merge with...

[hichief]

@Karadjordje94 Uh... Yes. Yes they do. Hello? They own the company, of course they decide who they merge with! Geez.

[RJFlorida1]

@hichief No they don't get to decide. They were bought out by Vivendi and haven't decided their future for a long time. Practically speaking Vivendi lets them do what they want but Activision still slimes the company.

[Zamoonda90]

@hichief They don't, Hichief. In 1998, was it, Blizzard Entertainment was bought by Vivendi Games. And Vivendi made Activision Blizzard. So now, Blizzad Entertainment and Activision was owned by Activision Blizzard, which are owned by Vivendi Games.

[Karadjordje94]

@hichief no, shareholders own it. And that was/is Vivendi Universal

[MrSunstar81]

@hichief I agree and that is why cataclysm fails...

[zuokula2]

@hichief activision isn't involved in any of blizzard`s game and blizzard is still working solely, its vivendi that joined with activision and named it activision blizzard, there are like 20 more companies behind this name, which work more or less separately, with blizzard being 100% separate.

[GuitarzMyThing]

I think he almost starts crying at 2:40

[Pandoraforlife]

@GuitarzMyThing lolol But i do admit i would too if i were to be such a success...

I'd be so damned happy i'd cry lol

[GuitarzMyThing]

@Pandoraforlife ROFL

[StormProductionzZ]

@GuitarzMyThing you think wrong

[twistedsis100]

that letter is really sweet : )

[roccoroket7]

Blizzard rulez

[ElLuisManuel]

Looks like a nice guy.

[irkiIIer]

omfg this guy is awesome i bet hes loaded as shit

[DracoMalfoy87]

Sorry to spam, but,

Shigeru Miyamoto was the game messiah of Japan

America strikes back with Michael Morhaime

[faucon1245]

@DracoMalfoy87 ya 100% tru

[DracoMalfoy87]

My personal hero of our generation

[ulak12222]

i wanna be his son!

[Warpoke1]

So hes the boss of Blizzard?

[DracoMalfoy87]

Yes and he founded it with Ayman "Allen" Adam and Frank Pierce in 1991 but it was called "Silicon and Synapse" until they changed it to Blizzard in 1994

[fallout111111]

i wonder if he got the canceld starcraft

[fallout111111]

he is much nicer than the other on blizzard.

[rareu4532]

hehe here is the "God of all Blizzards games!! The man who have thinking out all cool ideas!! I think he plays alot diablo3 when he is alone =)) hehe

[krungski]

who said that nerds cannot be a boss. Mike Morhaime is the big boss

[DracoMalfoy87]

That's because he started the company as a lover of games

[terran236]

@krungski too bad activision owns him now :( hehe

[DarkRiku117]

@terran236 no the only have like shipping rites or somthing 

[terran236]

@DarkRiku117 for real? thats all they have? Well that's good to know.

[ingofreak]

@terran236 activision always owned blizzard, but now they've merged. Which is why its called activision blizzard.

[terran236]

@ingofreak didnt vivendi own blizzard? I remember vivendi owned blizzard, interplay and sierra.

[ingofreak]

@terran236 perhaps

[Shaitan00]

@ingofreak You are misinformed , activistion has never owned blizzard. Vivdendi bough blizzard a while back then they bough activision and merged the two in name only. They are still separate companies.

[side1985]

he look sooo cool for a executive =D

[Ziified13]

He's my hero! :)

[Bradius9000]

Thanks for uploading this, my stream lagged out for this clip.... you're awesome

[PandemicRevelutions]

: D