Time will tell where her passion truly lies… The game, or the money.
So if she sticks around, it’s the money. If she’s out the door after a short period of time, it was the game. Well, at least that’s how it seemed under Bobby “Big Bucks” Kotick’s reign. 
Will she add the Altar and Fissures to D3 non-season? 
NFL? That must have been interesting.
She has a great opportunity but a difficult job ahead.
I’m a little surprised Micro$oft didn’t put one of their own people in that position. They’re usually more heavy handed.
Oh, she has been involved in overseeing PC to console game ports. That could come in very handy.
Just remember she’s reporting to Phil Spencer.
That’s true but he’s got a lot of other things going on than Blizzard. Micro$oft usually micromanages things to death. I was expecting someone with an accounting degree.
That would be the Activision side of things… you’d expect the same from EA where the brand name is tainted from too much bean counter interference already.
MS have too much money to throw around and working towards being a monopoly is in their blood… market share is their game.
Yep, loyalist to the Xbox brand then.
Easier job too seeing how future non-CoD titles probably won’t have a PS5 release (I don’t recall non-CoD titles being part of MS’ agreement with Sony).
Wonder if Sony will buy EA and Ubisoft?
The Crusade marches on !!
Akarat will be pleased !! Akarat favors me !!
I expect the corporate overlord part of Activision to diminish and go into the North. They’re leaving Santa Monica along with Treyarch.
It’s Activision and with how with how she worked on COD, which is totally a Pay To Win game… It’s only a matter of time before they push that kind of greed onto games like Diablo 4. I mean that have Immortal be a Pay To Win game, so only a matter of time. Activision is the reason my best friend that got me into Diablo with D2 over twenty years ago but due to that company’s track record on greed, he refuses to buy Diablo 4 when he found out about their corporate takeover.
These type of gigs are way more about culture fit than what any individual can do. I mean sure every CEO has ideas like every country president has ideas.
She seems excited and nervious for the role. Anyway in the end, what dictates a President/CEO’s trajectory in the long term is how they personally feel about what they are told to champion, not about their performance. The expectations of an employee vs President/CEO are way different.
Most people work for the money.
I expect a buff to Crusader next Season.
Or at least these two items…
So is she actually experienced enough and capable to do her job or they just put her there as a front?
I don’t know her, hence i asked.
> I am committed to doing everything I can to help Blizzard thrive, with care and consideration for you and for our games,
Time will tell how committed she is.
Random thoughts:
She seems to be an experienced and capable administrator. She’s spent a lot of time on the business development side of things. I’m more interested in what she does when she gets there than why she got there. She didn’t start in a garage making games as a teenager she was instead an athlete. So, it’s going to be a completely different culture. My hope is she’ll make the trains run on time and be a team builder. What Blizzard needs more than anything is a consistent direction. Micro$oft is making noises about leaving Blizzard and the other studios some independence. 
On the communications front it’s unlikely she’ll have any “Do You Guys Not Have Phones?” moments. I doubt I’ll be buying any future games from Blizzard but that’s because they’ll be headed in a direction I don’t want to go, not because the games won’t be good.
Mr. Ollivander:
“We can expect great things from you. After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible, yes! But great!”
Yes, that’s a weird connection but maybe.
it wouldnt be, if they actually cared about making a good game.
imagine if they took MW2 vanilla, updated the graphics, and added a hundred new maps. put 2 years into crafting 100 masterpiece maps.
the game would break records. literally.
but no we need Nikki Minaj with akimbo ak47s blasting the avengers…
Like it or not, Microsoft/Activision/Blizzard is a business, they’re here to make money. They’re going to make games that sell, or otherwise games that entice players to keep swiping their cards. Until we reach the utopian civilization that was dreamed up in a Hollywood movie set where money doesn’t exist, that will always be the case.
i hate that argument because it was no different in 2001 when blizzard north was trying to make money yet put care and smart direction into producing D2.
you ignore the fact that companies like Larian Studios and FromSoftware Inc are both making insane $$$$ after producing a couple good games made for gamers instead of games for milking their wallets.