He is rooting for Shadowlands and knows it will be a massive success. He will definitely be playing it with War Mode on!
Hope to see you in game man sounds like you love PVP as much as we do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iznL9e12iYI&feature=emb_logo
At what point does he give the reason?
Considering how many players are saying they aren’t going to buy, I’m not sure it will be a “massive success”. Most players I talk to about it in game are very hyped, but know little about what’s coming.
He doesn’t really. He spends the first half boasting his work (he’s jobless now so I get it) and then spends the second half trying to say that after classic came out he realized how bad retail was and how non-immersive it has became and that he prefers classic. Classic has a better “virtual world” than retail.
Kinda crazy people are praising this guy after he’s been “Gameplay Lead” according to his website since Legion which is ironically when pvp took a hard turn for the worse.
He was the one pushing the scaling shenanigans. Systemlands is destined to fail because it is flawed to its core due to caked on layers of rental systems.
Good riddance.
He’s likely the one who helped designed the honor gear grind in Shadowlands.
Throughout the entire video. It can be summed as as him not being happy with the direction Blizzard has been taking and some decisions they’ve made regarding the game.
Considering that Shadowlands already had the most pre-orders ever in WoWs history months ago, you’re wrong 
Kinda crazy you rip into him every chance you can find over the past couple days based on nothing but your assumptions. It’s like you think he alone designed World of Warcraft. He doesn’t have free reign over WoW, he cannot do whatever he wants or however he wants. He has to work within the scope and confines of certain requirements set by Blizzard and Activision. He even says himself that he isn’t happy with how Blizzard focuses so much on systems and wishes they would move away from that. The guy is no saint and he surely has implement something that people don’t like (every dev has), but you acting like he’s some anti-christ of WoW is pretty stupid. He’s likely one of the only people on the dev team that even looked at PvP. He has also made plenty of positive impacts on the game. That’s why people are giving him an overall happy farewell.
Thanks very cool of him to share the video like this. Usually these things are kept under wraps. I hope it’s not going to hurt his future career. Although I think on the contrary he’ll probably be welcomed into smaller teams of former Blizzard devs who probably feel the same way. Who knows, maybe he’ll join Mike Morhaime’s studio.
Curious how his departure will affect PvP aspect. Seems like he had a lot of say in it in recent expansions.
It’s interesting how as soon as he left, the scaling was turned off.
His design decisions and his unhappiness with systems bloat are two completely different topics. You say I go off only assumptions when you can go to his portfolio website yourself and see what he’s listing on his resume. Of course he’s going to fluff it. If you got fired from McDonalds when you were 19 for throwing food at an employee would you list them on your next job app?
I find it hilarious any dev that leaves blizz is hailed a hero and treated like a martyr and instantly given the white robe even though they’ve had their hand in some of the very decisions that the playerbase hated.
Maybe he should’ve made ms paint stick man drawings to tell us he was an upset employee instead of a video.
We’ve seen the rbg community continue to dwindle and be littered with cheaters and this was the guy that got caught playing with said cheaters.
The human side of me does wish him farewell along with everyone in life but for the sake of the game and pvp, I’d rather judge him by his merits.
The assumptions are about his involvement and/or what he was allowed to do by Blizzard in those things. For example you’ve been saying that he’s probably the one who designed the honor gear grind for Shadowlands. Surely he had a hand in the honor gear system, but the assumption is that he made it so extensive of a grind. It is also an assumption that he designed the ilvls of it. Do you really think that he would want to make PvP gear fall behind PvE gear? No, he doesn’t. He wants PvP to be better than it is.
Have you never made a resume? Especially a tech/development resume?
You don’t list your failures. You list accomplishments and key successes. That isn’t fluff, it’s literally Resume 101.
Who has been treated like this? The only thing I’ve seen is players acting like devs going to Dreamhaven is some major thing like it’s supposed to be Blizzard version 2. To that end I would agree that it’s stupid. Dreamhaven is not going to be a Blizzard clone/competitor and it is many years away from releasing anything even worth looking at.
Does someone not deserve to be thanked for 13 years of mostly positive impacts on WoW after they resign from the company? People holding a grudge over a MS paint picture all this time later is pretty silly.
But you’re not doing that. His merits to the game are mostly positive. Yet you’re treating him with a “bye felicia” attitude. You’re judging him based on your bias and person opinions on a few things rather than his overall contributions.
Looks like you are just as guilty as I am with making assumptions
You agreed with me and didn’t realize it.
Yea I can agree. Holding people accountable even when it dips into grudges is one of my many character flaws.
again, assumptions.
https://wccftech.com/wow-battle-for-azeroth-pvp-scaling/
Remember this gem?
Good riddance.
Scaling was a disaster for PVP.
Stop holding grudges Mafic.
Please stop conflating the chorus of Shriekers on this forum with the overall population of wow.
If I had a quarter for every person who said they were going to quit and actually followed through with that threat I would have three nickels.
Which part was the assumption?
It wasn’t an attempt to agree or disagree. It was simply clarifying to you how resumes work since you seem to be shocked at Chris listing positive things on his website.
Ok Judge Judy.
“Chris you’ve done plenty of good things for WoW. But it says here that you made a dumb MS Paint picture once and people didn’t like that. Sorry, you’re off the to gulag now, loser!”
To an extent, perhaps. However, you can look at his list of active participation projects and consider if it’s a positive or negative.
It wasn’t, it was exploited by a few streamers in situations that 99.99% of players won’t experience but kept PvP fun and playable for those 99%.
Scaling is a necessary evil, and this pre-patch is proof of it. 15 ilvls = nearly unplayable power gap. 20+ = not even a player that can interact with you.
I exploited it the entire expansion as an ultra casual. I sat at ilevel roughly 100 and exploited the hell out of scaling since the second patch of Battle for Abilities. I used lower level green trinkets that did more damage in instanced PVP than outside of instanced PVP relative to epic tier PVP trinkets.
All I sacrificed was stamina which is overrated for Rogues. What mattered was keeping up Heart of Azeroth and essences.
I even skipped the legendary cloak because scaling worked against you when you had it. The proc from it was unreliable anyways. Only reason to have cloak was because corruptions were OP and I will not deny this.
All assumptions.
I literally gave reasoning for fluffing your resume. lol!
And did 0 pvp balancing in bfa.
And got caught playing with rbg cheaters.
and actually helped create pvp scaling.
and made ashran
and made wpvp quests in legion where the factions never see each other.
I could go on but you skipped the rbg cheating part the first time around to dwell on the ms paint so seems rather pointless for me.
PVP scaling like templates could have worked if they were transparent and honest about it.
But they lied and hid it from the community. You were punished for pushing higher gear ilevels. Grinding conquest for PVP trinkets that were inferior to PVE trinkets made it worse.
They’re not all assumptions.
He had something to do with the gear system.
He wants PvP to be better.
His contributions to the game are mostly positive.
These are things you can determine for yourself. I already explained how you can look at his participating projects and determine if it was a positive or negative.
You also entirely missing the point here. The point is not about assumptions for the sake of it, the point is that you’re ripping into him based on assumptions.
I still don’t understand what you’re trying to achieve here. You acted like listing positives on his resumes is some shocking, uncommon thing. I mean do you expect him to say “oh yeah I made a MS paint pic that people disliked” on his resume? 
As far as I know that isn’t up to him. He doesn’t get to say “yo guys buff hunters!” and suddenly it happens.
Scaling/templates are a good thing. Not sure why you’re acting like making PvP competitive and not gear-driven is bad. The implementation could have been done better and information on it made clearer but the system itself is good.
Which a lot of people want back now. You see it literally every time the classic ashran comes up in the brawl rotation.
Like the tower WQs? I saw lots of opposing faction in those WQs.
I skipped over it because it’s irrelevant to the discussion. Him having been caught playing with cheaters has nothing to do with his development job at Blizzard, which is the subject of this conversation.