He’s been on abilities/talents since SL
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Ok maybe my mistake because its blue post are mostly pvp
I guess his title is combat designer, but yea he probably does answer on pvp there doesn’t seem to be a head pvp dev anymore and was that for YEARS
Seems like a power move by a shell company looking for big names. I wonder who they’re really going to work for… 
I cant comment to much out of fear of getting banned, all I’ll say is…plenty of streamers have commented on why this is happneing more and more often.
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When did New World ever do well though? Cost something like 350 mil to develop including their own engine? The hype dropped off QUICK, sure sign of a flop in the MMO world.
WoW is still unsurprisingly the gold standard for MMOs, FF is creeping up on them though if they don’t smarten up here soon. Microsoft should win the acquisition appeal and I feel the game will be in a much better state shortly thereafter.
You know I would agree, but I think FF is entering the “stay the course and give the absolute minimal” that WoW did in its lifespan. They could easily be #1 uncontested but just dont for some reason other than wishing to appeal to a super casual crowd.
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Oh boy what a shame.
Anyways……
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Good riddance. Now get someone who can do math, will actually balance specs, and doesn’t design specs doing either tank damage or SSSSSSSSSS damage outside and inside cooldowns respectively.
Also if he was in charge of match making and pve power and seasonal rewards good riddance. If not, fire them too.
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Didn’t Ghostcrawler join Riot? Did he leave Riot as well?
If by real one you mean one of the devs that liked to say “You think you do but you don’t,” then yes.
Thank god. We need less devs that think they know the players better than the players.
I’m pretty sure Holinka was universally hated by the PvPers. EDIT: I just googled it to double check, and yea, he was not well liked.
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Yes to both.
Considering besides Legion, the last 11 years of WoW have been some of its worst offerings, I don’t think this guy’s departure is a bad thing in the slightest lol
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Sorry to see Holinka leaving/left Blizzard. There’s always talent out there that Blizz can bring in.
WOW will survive. Wasnt he in charge of PVP at one time when pvp was bad?
Updates to the game have been very positively received and it’s starting to see a resurgence in player base
Good. Please get younger game developers in. The other day when I chanced upon some interviews of current developers, I was surprised to see people who should be enjoying the sun in Florida were being interviewed.
so he is going to ruin Riot’s MMO instead - awesome
Are you sure about that? The latest Steam charts have it back down in the 14.5K avg player range, which is slightly above its lowest point…which was 13.3K in July of 2022.
That actually puts it below ESO on Steam players, plus ESO has console players that are not included in the Steam data. (New World isn’t available on consoles)