That was a good speech.
But I was there for Asheron’s Call. A game made by a team of truly innovative minds (if horribly flawed in execution) at the studio-level … but it was OWNED by Microsoft.
They utterly abandoned that team. If they got money from it … fine. If they didn’t … cut it loose. Which they eventually did after doing nothing to help it grow.
I’ve presented this fact before and I’ve been told that MS later changed their tune. That the MS of now isn’t the MS of then.
We’ll see. But I’m certainly not expecting them to really try and grow WoW.