“I’d been working on Heroes for four years at that point,” he said. “You’re staring down an endless content treadmill.” But there was also something bigger—more existential. For Klinchuch, cracks were beginning to form in the company’s once-polished facade. “I had a real sense that this is a very different Blizzard than the Blizzard I initially got hired at,” he said, “and the longer I stay, the higher the chances of bad memories.” There were little things, like perks that seemed to be disappearing. In the past, each employee would receive multiple free tickets to BlizzCon—now they were lucky
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