AFAIK and have been able to google, She wasn’t incharge of COD as a whole, she mainly oversaw the E-Sports side, which for all intents and purposes was a massive success? IDK I don’t play COD.
My guess here is that she gives ultimate control of all things Warcraft to Metzen, and just leaves Warcraft alone to its own devices in order to focus on fixing/revitalizing Overwatch and Diablo, which are more her lane.
i have no doubt that YOU did that. so there!
Unfortunately this kind of position matters even then. Specifically MAU metric design and FOMO and battle passes are under said position’s purview.
The one thing I hope she carries over from CoD is having an actual anti-cheat. RICOCHET anti-cheat should find its way into WoW, since Blizzard has been unable to deal with the bot problem for two decades. WoW doesn’t have a kernel level anti cheat and it’s 2 decades overdue for one.
I seriously doubt that, Overwatch 2 flopped because they pulled out of their biggest feature that made it a proper sequel.
Whereas past, and present WoW players would play it just to experience the world within a new engine, if executed correctly, i.e. inspiration from the roots of Warcraft it could do well.
At the end of the day there will still be a player base on all forms of WoW similar to EQ.
I think D4 appeals to people who liked complexity. Elon Musk has streamed that on twitter a few times, he seems to be a big fan too.
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What a shocker.
Let’s see how the next few months go, but so far I’m skeptical.
Looks at previous Blizzard’s works and back at you. 
Ahh yes like… Umm…
What did he do exactly that understood what made the games fun? 
PoE 2 is going to kill Diablo. lol Hell, you could argue PoE killed Diablo, but it just took, like, 10-12 years to get that ball rolling.
Diablo 4 was the best advertisement for PoE in years lol.
Yeah, that sold some WoW Tokens!
going to need you to point it out champ cus it must not be the elephant you think it is.
It sure did.
so, this could be good for pvp?
In the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter, because it’s very likely not going to happen anyway.
I guess it killed Diablo for PoE fans, which is fine. I’m glad PoE fans have something to look forward to. I’ll still be playing the many versions of Diablo with friends for years to come.
That’s almost the opposite of what happened. They decided to rename a Warzone DLC to MW3 and make it a standalone.
Honestly given the abomination of SL and the lack of proper apology for what it did to the story (I don’t care about content complaints, those come and go, two later you’re past it (same with class balancing) while this is a festering, gaping wound in the lore that continues to ooze pus), that probably couldn’t make things much worse than they already are.
The trader’s cart tokens are right there for monetizing, increase prices by 20%, put tokens directly on the shop. Not to mention they can just divert more nice looking gear from rewards for playing the game to putting it in the in-game shop. And much more I’m sure.
Fact is WoW is already one of the most exploitive games there are. They 5x-dip their customers and feed them crappy stories and balance and have the audacity to act like rock-stars above such plebs to top it off. Let’s count them off:
IMO of 1-4 they should have to choose 3, drop the sub and keep the other stuff or keep the sub, and drop prices on either expacs, or in-game-shop stuff.
COD is trash, it is the smelliest garbage in the pile of garbage that calls itself art for tax credits that is the modern gaming industry. It’s what Marvel movies are to gaming. Flash, spectacle, hollow as can be. In that way she is kind of the perfect boss for the WoW devs in that they themselves created a Thanos rip-off for their worst expac ever and clearly like a lot of questionable quality stuff (head writer thinks final season of GoT was brilliant).
My faith in Blizzard died long ago so in a way I almost hope she does kill WoW, not that it will ever properly die. She could add a new fee for each raid tier of $30 and rip out half the normally free stuff earned by playing the game and there would still be die-hards who’d pay and play until it’s no longer feasible to develop the game.
Still it’s unfortunate there was no promotion from within attempt here and while it’s hard to say who this woman is deep down and what her strategy will be, the place she was plucked from and her former roles do not inspire confidence. At best we can hope MS saw her as a fixer and given Blizzard’s failures with things like OW2 and numerous canceled projects they clearly have issues getting acceptable products to market in time.
I shudder at the prospects of further e-sport-ification as I think M+ has been the worst thing to ever happen to MMORPG like WoW (in terms of systems anyways). Raids always had a certain camaraderie, down-time goofy moments, socialization, fun. M+ is go-go-go-go @!#& so there’s little time for that, it’s pick up, do, it’s over. And failure unlike in raids isn’t something you just laugh off, rebuff and try again which creates a more toxic attitude, blame-games, raging, etc.
In the end only time will tell of course. She could be great. She could be horrible. She could be meaningless to the slow-rolling disaster that the game already is.
Don’t worry blizzard will soon get the same treatment as Rare in being told just to make bad kinect games! Oh and world of warcraft will go to a free to pay and have millions of micro transactions. It was fun when it lasted but the company is now dead…
The real damning thing is that she mentions loving Diablo 4 multiple times.
Like yeah, I like the Diablo franchise too, but Diablo 4 is a massive step backwards compared to any of it’s predecessors.
And possibly recently had one of the worst aRPG seasonal launches in history.
If that’s her taste, I’m worried about her decision making, and would be happy to be wrong for doubting her based on that in the future.
Yeah, I agree with you on that point lol