07-24-2019, 08:06 AM
After 28 years, cofounder Frank Pearce is leaving Blizzard
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/after-28-years-cofounder-frank-pearce-is-leaving-blizzard.jpg" width="300" height="300" title="" alt="" /></div><div><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 to leave the company and “pass the torch to the next generation.”</p>
<p>This is significant because Pearce was the last Blizzard cofounder who hadn’t left; fellow cofounders Mike Morhaime and Allen Adham have both departed 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>
<p>Alongside Pearce’s farewell message is a note from Blizzard president (and former <em>World of Warcraft </em>executive producer) J. Allen Brack thanking Pearce for his work and explaining that Pearce had stepped into an “advisory role to help with the transition” when Morhaime departed last fall.</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/after-28-years-cofounder-frank-pearce-is-leaving-blizzard.jpg" width="300" height="300" title="" alt="" /></div><div><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 to leave the company and “pass the torch to the next generation.”</p>
<p>This is significant because Pearce was the last Blizzard cofounder who hadn’t left; fellow cofounders Mike Morhaime and Allen Adham have both departed 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>
<p>Alongside Pearce’s farewell message is a note from Blizzard president (and former <em>World of Warcraft </em>executive producer) J. Allen Brack thanking Pearce for his work and explaining that Pearce had stepped into an “advisory role to help with the transition” when Morhaime departed last fall.</p>
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