{"id":96898,"date":"2019-07-19T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/347032"},"modified":"2019-07-19T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T21:30:00","slug":"after-28-years-cofounder-frank-pearce-is-leaving-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/07\/19\/after-28-years-cofounder-frank-pearce-is-leaving-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"After 28 years, cofounder Frank Pearce is leaving Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Blizzard Entertainment published a<a href=\"https:\/\/news.blizzard.com\/en-us\/blizzard\/23053770\/message-from-frank-pearce-and-j-allen-brack\"> blog post<\/a> today in which company cofounder Frank Pearce lays out his intent&nbsp;to leave the company and &#8220;pass the torch to the next generation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is significant because Pearce was the last Blizzard cofounder who hadn&#8217;t left; fellow cofounders Mike Morhaime and Allen Adham have both departed&nbsp;at this point, though Adham <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/94333\/Blizzard_CoFounder_Resigns.php\">resigned<\/a> in 2004 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/284949\/Blizzard_cofounder_Allen_Adham_returns_to_the_company_after_12_years.php\">returned<\/a> in 2016, while Morhaime left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/327879\/Blizzard_president_Mike_Morhaime_has_stepped_down.php\">just last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside Pearce&#8217;s farewell message is&nbsp;a note from Blizzard president (and&nbsp;former&nbsp;<em>World of Warcraft&nbsp;<\/em>executive producer)&nbsp;J. Allen Brack&nbsp;thanking Pearce for his work and explaining that Pearce had stepped into an &#8220;advisory role to help with the transition&#8221; when Morhaime departed last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team at Blizzard Entertainment published a blog post today in which company cofounder Frank Pearce lays out his intent&nbsp;to leave the company and &#8220;pass the torch to the next generation.&#8221; This is significant because Pearce was the last Blizzard cofounder who hadn&#8217;t left; fellow cofounders Mike Morhaime and Allen Adham have both departed&nbsp;at this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}