Hamilton Chu, Hearthstone's Executive Producer, Also Leaves Blizzard Entertainment
In a tweet early this morning, Hamilton Chu responded to Ben Brode's leaving tweet with something very simple. Both of the ex-Hearthstone team members have set their Twitter bios to "Starting up something new!".
Quote from Hamilton ChuToday is my last day at Blizzard. 😢 Thank you for all the laughter and fun we shared. I will miss you.
Weird! It was mine too...
Not many were aware of Hamilton's involvement with Team 5 as he wasn't out there interacting with the community like Ben. Things he was responsible for though were writing most of the flavor text in Whispers of the Old Gods expansion and the strategic planning and business operations on the Hearthstone side of things. He also headlined Blizzard's strategic Initiatives Group which included business ops for World of Warcraft. It would appear that this isn't only a blow to Hearthstone, but also other areas at Blizzard.
Quote from Developer Bios - Hamilton ChuAs executive producer for Blizzard Entertainment's Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, Hamilton Chu provides the leadership and direction necessary to deliver players a Blizzard-quality gaming experience. In his role, Chu is responsible for strategic planning and business operations, providing management support for the development leadership, and generally tanking issues for the team whenever necessary.
As head of Blizzard’s strategic initiatives group, his other duties include leading business operations for World of Warcraft and managing Blizzard’s creative development department. Before joining Blizzard Entertainment, Chu served as a producer on Halo and Halo 2 for Bungie before going on to sell his soul to the MBA gods.
In his spare time, Chu enjoys reading comics, writing stories, and pwning noobs of all shapes and sizes.
Which beloved developer is leaving the Hearthstone team next to work alongside Brode and Chu?
Obviously they are Chu is leaving for the same startup that Brode left for. Will we hear of others? We'll be ok for this year of Hearthstone but starting next year HS may be quite different than what we know know depending on the new leadership.
Have you ever heard of an obscure game called Magic: the Gathering? Been around for 25 years, releases new sets more often, and releases more cards within each of those sets. Yes, there are reprints in those sets, but they still release more new cards per year than Hearthstone. There is still a TON of untouched design space in Hearthstone. Play some other card games and you'll immediately understand that.
1 by 1 leaving the sinking/sunken/ship and only real losers left to w8 for -some BIIIIGGGG change muahahahahahahha!I love it!!!!
No one is essential...they will be replaced with qualified personnel, i hope.
That’s what people said about Infinity Ward, and look at what happened.
Probably they was replaced with incompetent personnel..
something big is cooking I tell you BIG HAHAHAHHA
Nothing like completely unsupported speculation to make you look like an ass.
At least your name is appropriate...
OR OR, here me out here, They are going to work on a different game TOGETHER so that they wont be controlled by blizzard's greedy hands anymore...
Well who can tell if this will be start of new better era or worse. Time will tell when new expansion hits for 3-4 months.
dont care since idont know about him.
Another person is leaving. Whenever somthing like that is happening i always have a feeling of irreparable loss...
I even feel a bit betraded :(
You feel betrayed, unless your grief manifests itself as betreden into main entry.
First time I bought the pre-expansion packs... if the game dies now, I'm killing myself too