《魔獸世界》前暴雪副總裁克里斯·梅森：苦述出退休原因

時間：2016/11/21 09:39:34 編輯：小勝

前暴雪副總裁克里斯·梅森：苦述出退休原因。因為壓力太大竟精神分裂！

原文：

"Leaving Blizzard was an incredibly difficult thing. I'd been there since, essentially, I was a kid. I think I was 19 when I got hired and it was my whole life, it was my identity. And it was in many ways, all-consuming. It was just incredible, but there can be a cost sometimes to running that hard."

As expected, developing Titan and then transforming it into Overwatch was extremely difficult and took its toll.

"I think during those years I burned out really hard. I think in my heart, I needed a change in my life. I wanted to slow down, I wanted to just not carry the weight of it all. But when you've been at a company like Blizzard for as long as I have, I think about Shawshank Redemption: I'm an institutional man now. I'm a Blizzard guy, through and through. I love that place. I love the people. It made me feel schizophrenic."

"I started having panic attacks left and right and just non-stop anxiety. Before I finally retired, I think I had been having panic attacks all the time, but I didn't know what they were. Kat and I would go on dates to go to a movie and almost all the time, I would start panicking in the middle of a movie. I had no idea what was going on."

譯文：

當克里斯·梅森宣布退休的時候真的是讓我們都非常震驚，而且他不只是從暴雪離開而是不再從事游戲研發了。現在Scott Johnson和克里斯·梅森有了一次訪談，克里斯聊到了他做這個決定背后的理由。

“離開暴雪真的是一個非常困難的決定。我已經在那待著有，基本上，從我是個孩子開始就待在那兒了。我想當我被雇傭的時候我才19歲然后這就成了我的一生，這就是我的身份！而且從很多方面的(歸屬感)是非常強烈的。這是很驚人的，但有時會很難承擔這些。”

正如大家所指的的，開發泰坦項目然后把它分解成守望先鋒真的是件非常困難的事情，并且損耗了克里斯·梅森太多（注：精力）。

“我想在那些年我真的精疲力盡了。我想在我心里，我渴望生命中有點變化。我想要放慢一點，我只是不想要再負擔這么多了。但是當你在一個像暴雪一樣的公司就像我一樣時，我想起肖生克的救贖的一句話：我現在是一個被制度化的人。我是個完完全全徹徹底底的暴雪人。我愛這個地方，我愛這里的人。這讓我感覺像是精神分裂了一樣。”

“我開始恐慌被左邊和右邊攻擊，還有從未停止的焦慮。在我退休之前，我覺得我已經所有時間都在恐慌被別人攻擊了，但是我根本不知道誰會攻擊我。Kat和我有時候會約會去看電影，然后我在電影播到一半的時候我開始恐慌。我不知道之后會怎么樣……”