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My chat with Jason Schreier, who just wrote the book on Blizzard
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My chat with Jason Schreier, who just wrote the book on Blizzard

The "Play Nice" author and I covered a ton. And I got him to play a brief game.

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Oct 11, 2024
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That’s me! And Jason. Photo: Lofty Pigeon Books

Reporter Jason Schreier worked for me at Kotaku, covers gaming superbly for Bloomberg and just released the book “Play Nice: The Rise, Fall and Future of Blizzard Entertainment.” At a launch event for his book earlier this week, he ended our 30-minute chat with flattery.

“You know Stephen is good at his job, because I was just on, like, 40 podcasts this week, and those were all completely unique questions,” he told a packed audience at independent Brooklyn bookstore Lofty Pigeon Books.

I’ll take it.

Among other things, we had just discussed…

  • Blizzard’s secrets for making great games

  • Covering Blizzard’s scandals

  • The chapter that got away

  • How to write books and get people to talk

  • A new reason to hate Barnes & Noble

  • Jason’s adventures in Hollywood

  • World of Warcraft on consoles

  • And something we definitely never said to him while he worked at Kotaku.

This one’s long, but it’s a Q&A (lightly edited for clarity). If necessary, you can skim for the best stuff. (Control/Command F for ‘Jon Lovitz’). 

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