Whilst in the glorious city of Edinburgh I stayed in the Glasshouse hotel, which ironically is directly next door to Rockstar North (the studio that made GTA IV). During my stay, the night before the conference, me and my girlfriend decided to go out for dinner. We were waiting for the lift and I was talking (for a change) about how excited I was about Edinburgh Interactive and how I hoped I'd get the chance to meet Peter Moore (President of EA Sports). Peter Moore as I mentioned in my previous post is some what of a hero of mine, for many reasons, but mainly for his Halo 2 announcement speech when he was at Microsoft(for those of you who can't recall the speech or simply aren't as much of a geek as me click here to watch it). Just as I was saying all this, as if scripted by some soap opera writer, right on cue he walks round the corner to get in the lift. Before I have time to even speech he offers a hand and simply says "Hi I'm Peter".
There was no grand introduction just a polite sincere shake of the hand. He then proceeded to talk to me outside the hotel for a good ten minutes, asking what I was doing at university, where I saw myself going and offering me advice on how to get there. It's safe to say he is genuinely one of the nicest people I've met, He even asked my girlfriend how she was enjoying Edinburgh.
I then saw him the next day at the conference and said hello. He remembered me and asked as to wether I was enjoying the conference. I thanked him for advice and he said "well you never know when we'll meet again. I know they say never meet your hero's, but in this case all I can see is it was a real pleasure.
Thank you Peter.
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