Morhaime’s successor was J. Allen Brack, the company veteran who had cut his teeth in the 1990s at the legendary game studio Origin Systems, then worked on the online game Star Wars Galaxies before joining Blizzard in 2006. He worked his way up the ranks to production director and then executive producer on World of Warcraft, making him the top developer on the company’s most important game. Some colleagues saw him as cold or cliquish, but he was well-respected within the company and widely perceived as someone who would stand up for Blizzard’s culture. Yet questions lingered about how much
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