It really isn’t. He answers to marketing and others. And the changes in this game that people dislike happened before he was even in charge. He didn’t become game director until just after Legion launch.
As someone said in another topic, the team may be shackled by marketing and finance. If they’re let free of those confines to their creativity, we may see something better.
That’s because Raid doesn’t have too much replayability and there’s a huge limitation between N/H and then Mythic.
N/H Flexible raid 10-30
Mythic 20M only and different instance id issues.
If Raids provided gear from a deterministic way, you could reach BIS status and then move to next Raid difficulty, however there’s Cores that don’t reach 20 + players for Mythic, also Raid its about the gear and that’s it, meanwhile M+ it’s about pushihg higher keys and face different affixes once you’ve all your gear, however it takes longer to acomplish that on M+ compared to Raid.
That’s my POV.
I like the great vault personally, but that’s mostly because of Stockholm Syndrome. We’ve grown to depend upon it as a crutch for gearing. If they would increase drop rates or improve the bad luck protection rng then the vault can go away.
Easily one of the worst things they’ve added.
Throw the vault away and bring back and expand upon the badge system.
Keep the great vault, but add in the system you are talking about. A VP or JP currency. If you dont get a direct upgrade in your vault, you can take the currency to eventually use on an upgrade item.
And to butter Blizz’s bread, have the items need to be unlocked on the vendor. The items only show up available at the ilvl of the highest key level of that dungeon you have completed. That way, if you want an upgrade from the +15, you have to clear that dungeon on +15 to get access to it.
And have the currency acquisition not only come from M+, but raids and world content.
A better characterization would be “mythic raid logger”. There’s no question that mythic raid loggers are a tiny part of the playerbase.
Ion hasn’t logged in in months. Even he doesn’t like the game he designed because it was what he thought he wanted to play.
Still honor level 6, but the guy in charge of PvP development.
They constantly brought up the fact that raid drops were 3 per boss during vanilla. I think they nerfed it because they thought that was something that was done right in vanilla and should be brought back.
I’m going to disagree. I think Ion was chosen for the position he is in because he was committed to doing exactly what he has done, which is what they wanted him to do - simplify development to save money and monetize more of the game. He is, in fact, so good at these things that he blew the game off a cliff.
There are no doubt team members that are unhappy with having to do things the way they are told to do them. But Ion has options. If he didn’t like his job or was morally opposed, he could have left it and had a better one the next day.
Pretty sure he is like a normal mode raider that talks about a ton of things that doesn’t have an impact on him in game. He would make an excellent GD poster.
You seem too obsessed to be struggling with this gearing system.
I was under the impression he got AOTC but yeah close enough.
As someone who’s always had atrocious luck with drops, something guaranteed is real nice.
He’s a heroic raider.
excellent
we should all follow his words like gospel
He doesn’t. He has others he answers to. And again, the things people hated started way before he was in charge.
Supposedly he has a guy he consults about the balance and high level PVE stuff…forget his name.
He’s also an indy dev, so he does theoretically know about the actual making of the game, rewards systems and such.
This exactly. I enjoyed going through the raid a few times helping other guildies, and trying to get that 1 item (usually a weapon or a trinket).
Ion has options. The guy is rich and he has friends in multiple industries. He’s a lawyer who used to work for a prominent law firm. He does not live from paycheck to paycheck. If he wasn’t happy with how his bosses are barking out commands, he could have left literally years ago.
Vault/chest is one of the worst things added to the game. It feels like a weekly homework assignment.
Highly doubt they get rid of it though since so many people buy a weekly run with a token.
I think that is going to be much less a part of the game with the advertising removal. This will separate the men in the big boy panties from normal people. Good luck, they’re doubling down on all the bad stuff to prove the game will fix itself!