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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Michael Linke" data-source="post: 9408386" data-attributes="member: 6873682">John left Blizzard in December 2023.  Williams left WotC in April 2024.  I'm sure he was in talks with WotC even before he left Blizzard.  There may have been non-compete clauses that had to time out.  I would bet that John Hight was already picked and the transition to him was in progress behind the scenes when Williams left.That community was very worried at the time he left, as he was in charge when a lot of great things happened for them--Mists of Pandora, Shadowlands, Legion, the revival of Classic.  Yes, not great things happened on his watch: Battle for Azeroth, but he would have learned lessons from those.  In hoow many industries in the world do we have executives in charge of overseeing teams that care about player engagement, storytelling, game mechanics, graphic design...  Like a few other rational people here, I'm really confused as to where some of you expect WotC to find its executives if not from within the gaming industry.</blockquote>