any corporation that creates a product will inevitably focus entirely on profits & quality will get worse.
indie companies as well will be bought out if there’s a modicum of success.
maybe im wrong tho im not a business major
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Like most expansions, there were things at the start that didn’t go over well, which later were fixed. That’s what people who played through the expansion remember.
People who quit early in an expansion, before those things were fixed, don’t have those good memories. It’s kind of like people who left at the start of Legion because they couldn’t get their bis legendary in a few weeks’ time. They keep telling us that everybody hated Legion, which is wrong. But it’s their reality, because they didn’t play the rest of the expansion.
Now, look at the rep/renown system in Dragonflight, necessary to unlock more than ever. It’s like they’re trying to repeat a mistake of the past, but this time the result will be different.
Says the panda 
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I remember MoP. It was the slowest selling xpac of all time. It lost millions of players.
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ill pay you 200k and a free race change to change from a panda
Great another mmo with a “tbd” release date.
Well yeah lol. We ain’t going to see any sort of gameplay for years.
He also worked with riot’s mmo for a time. too bad he left it before it released.
isn’t this pretty much what blizzy started from too?
You’re painting with broad strokes.
Mists made some big mistakes. The main ones being locking progression behind dailies and reps, having a convoluted rep system, eliminating the cap on daily quests, and hamfisting an anti-war narrative into the expansion. My personal issues with the expansion are that they a) decided to make all tanks play like Cata DKs (which forever ruined tanking for me in WoW), and b) kept the terrible first iteration of Holy Power. I still remember that the only thing I was doing while waiting for my sub to end was doing dailies for the Tillers.
Does Mists deserve some praise? Yes. The art, assets and music are among the best ever seen in WoW. They even had contributions from Jeremy Soule (the guy that did the music for the Elder Scrolls games since Morrowind). The setting is very well put together and the lore of Pandaria pulled from a lot of sources.
That’s pretty much it. It’s not the best expansion ever, but it had its good points. Now consider that there are expansions that came after that were worse than Mists in some way, be it through writing (WoD) or systems that messed with gameplay (borrowed power).
More to the point, good for Greg. Hopefully he learned some lessons from his time with Blizzard and Riot.
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indeed…people here have a short term memory…or very narrow view of the past, that’s for sure! 
Riot was probably limiting vision of the game a bit too much…so he left. I feel like all these major game studios have executives that are too hands on…that’s why games have been sucky lately.
hope he can get some old friends to join him! 
Then it got bought out by an abuser for 100k
The best expansion was BC.
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So yeah, IF this happens, we’re looking at 8-10 years before we see a game.
Good luck, Greg.
Thanks I’ll avoid that company like the plague.
This is the same dev that thought mages were god’s gift to the MMO and thought that harry potterheads waving wands at you hurt more or were more dangerous that real life bullets flying through the air at you. Seriously, he was not as good as you think he was.
Cool. A bit anticlimactic for now though, I like more game studios with passion and vision to create new games particularly mmos. But it’s also nothing to flip out over.
Will take five years minimum to see even an alpha build , and that’s only if they already have ideas on paper, funding lined up and at least know some people they can hire right quick.
Realistically probably 7 or 8 years before we’d play any game this studio creates.
To be fair once Vashjir actually worked, it was great.
Altho it reminded me of when a new ride opens at Disneyland and has a high chance of breaking down lol
So far every designer that has ever left Blizzard and doing so stated that they was going to head another companies design team to make the next great MMO. Has never been able to produce anything that was really worth playing or lasted very long after it was released. I will believe it when I actually see something done worth any massive groups time to play and keep playing for the long run. Until then, its all cheap talk.
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Starting a studio from scratch to make an MMO is a massive undertaking. Even if it comes out it will easily be a decade+.
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