[2020] I did an interview with Marty O' Donnell

That was fun to watch, thanks! And oof that picture of me... I vividly remember that. Spike Game Awards. Red carpet. Pretty cringey but we just said hell with it and went all in. Then we heard about an after party at an LA club but naturally we weren't invited. Marty made plays and we had a limo pick us up from the Spike venue and just drive right up to the VIP/limo drop off line at this party and just got out and walked up like we owned the place (well, Marty did as I recall, I just followed his lead). We got inside and I remember Marty being pretty disappointed - it wasn't his scene. I was loving it ;) the whole upstairs of this club was blocked off with large bouncers and then I saw a who's who of rappers up there. Snoop, Ludacris, Little John, and others evidently got the whole upstairs blocked off so they could smoke blunts. A huge heavy smoke hung over the whole club. This was like many years before 'legalization' was remotely a thing. Things got.. fuzzy after that, but it's one of those rare moments I actually remember pretty clearly from those days. :)

We do have some various groups we tap into officially and unofficially. Sometimes they come to the studio, sometimes we reach out to them. We have flighting programs, we also have all sorts of surveys and marketing studies and user research programs. And our community team (and much of the studio) is comprised of fans. So, I feel pretty dang confident I/we know what "fans want." They want a lot of things. :) Sometimes the same things, often times very different things. We/community team in particular take our responsibility to represent our community and their needs and opportunities very seriously. Advocating for players is a huge part of our jobs. It's not always easy and there's generally healthy tension in both directions (which is how it also was back in my OG days at Bungie though honestly, at Bungie we did less overt work to try and listen/gather that feedback than is the norm today).