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With steel in my voice, I told the Sierra team that they were not pulling marketing dollars from Half-Life. They were going to re-release it in a Game of the Year Box, and they were going to support it with huge marketing spend or we were going to walk away from our agreement and tell the industry that had fallen in love with Valve how screwed up Sierra really was. At the end of the meeting, I was shaking. We were vulnerable, the partners were barely speaking, and life at home and in the office was tense.

I love people like this. I’ve seen in documentaries. James Carville running the Clinton campaign. An absolute political animal. Always doing more, thinking faster, multiple moves ahead of the competition, doing movies the competition doesn’t even know exist, and relentlessly focused and often workaholic.