They were talking about it on Rhykkers stream today.
His bio on Linkedin shows him with WoW as of September
Principal Game Designer
Full-time
Dates Employed Sep 2020 – Present
Employment Duration 2 mos
Principal Game Designer on World of Warcraft
It appears that Joe Piepiora is the new Lead System Designer.
Oct 2020 – Present
Rhykker went into detail about this on his twitch stream yesterday, they even checked the major developers from the Blizzcon press packet with Linkedin to see which ones were still with Diablo. Candice Thomas is also gone. He will talk more about this on his gaming news update on Saturday.
The new guy gets in place regarding systems like itemization.
Well, let’s not judge him before he states his views etc, but I think they didn’t gave enough time Divid Kim. And why totally remove him from the D4 team?
This is huge. I mean, I love David Kim, seems a nice guy.
but its kinda obvious he, or better “they”, didn’t know which is the direction the game needs to be taken.
plus they wasted a lot of time making blunders in the most basic aspects of the game reflect some incompetence, or some lack of knowledge at least. Im thinking here about item power creep, or the skill tree which was, well…so and so to be polite
Really hope the Joe Piepora guy is prepared…or better: he needs to be a GEEK of the genre.
Lets see how it goed…, this guy has a big part of the future of the franchise in his hands
No. The game was great. It was just way too late. That plus many man children raged over team experience. But the game itself has een solid since launch as a game. But you know coming intonthe MOBA scene like 10 years late when only 1 maybe 2 games shown they had any staying power was always going to be rough.
Anecdotally, I can get into QM or ranked solo play pretty quickly no matter when I play so I can’t be as dead as people claim.
I’d also say this is similar to the Dave Kossak situation. Kim was not well received by this forum so if people start a D4s falling apart because Kim was valuable to the development crap, then this place loses credibility.
This may say more about the state of WoW Shadowlands than about anything D4 related. Moving people to other games is something pretty common at Blizz - hard to say why it was done without being involved in the decisions.
I dont know about that.
Starcraft 1 is far better balanced than Starcraft 2 and requires much more APM and unit and micro management than Starcraft2.
Between Starcraft 1 and 2 i prefer the graphics of starcraft 2 but starcraft 1 is by far more fun than starcraft 2.
