Ed Fries interview — From building games for the original Xbox to investing in gaming startups
에드 프라이스(Ed fries, 전 마이크로소프트 게임 퍼블리싱 부문 부사장)
는 Venturebeat와의 최근 인터뷰에서 1990년대 후반에PC게임 사업 성장을 위해서
블리자드와 웨스트우드를 인수 시도했다고 전했습니다.(웨스트우드는 경쟁자인 EA가 가로채고 EA에 의해 사망)
에드 프라이스는 블리자드의 열렬한 팬으로 와우를 열성적으로 플레이
Ed Fries : By then I thought of EA as the competitor. We wanted to get bigger than them some day.
We’d tried to buy Blizzard. We’d tried to buy Westwood. I thought I had a done deal to buy Westwood, went on my honeymoon, and when I came back the deal fell apart. EA bought them while I was gone. Stuff happens.
I wasn’t sure what I was going to do other than raise two boys. It was actually a great time to leave,
because I was a huge Blizzard fan, and that was the summer World of Warcraft came out.