Around the same time, Sams quit Blizzard to move closer to his wife’s family in Texas. His domain was mostly split between two people: Jean-Philippe Agati, the head of Blizzard’s Europe operation, and Gio Hunt, who had been Morhaime’s chief of staff; but soon a messy corporate power struggle unfolded in which Zerza wiped the floor with them both. “He was willing to go behind people’s backs, talk shit about us with Bobby all day long,” said Hunt. “He out-politicked all of us.”
