GC was lead systems designer, Ion is game director. You can’t compare the two when talking about two completely different jobs, especially when Ion has explicitly stated that all the decisions go through him.
Likely just cover for Brack/Kotick/Whoever, but whatever.
I think anyone who uses “should of” in a sentence like that isn’t worth really interfacing with. Then again, I just interfaced with you anyway which makes me a hypocrite of sorts. I guess no one’s perfect and we all do the best we can.
Dude, that started with GC! Bring the player, not the class…that was him.
You people kill me with this stuff.
I also feel like he was a pretty terrible attorney. I can’t see any client or jury being too enthusiastic about having him represent them when he is incapable of presenting well thought out ideas and strategies. I mean he is incapable of speaking passionately about a video game and somehow still manages to bungle very simple q&a’s. Why would anyone ever trust this man with their livelihood or freedom.
I did not hate Ghostcrawler.
As for Ion, I’m not too sure about him. He makes my skevey alarms go off. I do hate watching him talk. His hands always doing the weird movement thing. He also bounces at the same time as his hands move. It’s so very distracting!!
I don’t like how he’s happy he’s never played alliance. That seems wrong. As a game developer wouldn’t you want to play both sides of your game, so you can see any flaws or what not. He can be a die hard horse loyalist, but at least try and care about the game as a whole.
Agree, it’s annoying when that “of” is used
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I am 100% in agreement with Rockadee.
Shouldn’t you at least be aware of what type of attorney he was before saying something like this?
Makes you look petty.
His department was litigation, and his experience was based on internal investigations, international litigation, discovery, and brief writing.
It was basically his first job out of college.
Dear Leader is the worst thing to happen to the game. The game is micro managed to death with little to no fun left.
Needs gone.
You close… I thought he was a lawyer turned game director. I mean both are skilled at laying it on pretty thick and getting you to believe almost anything.
Eh, lawyer speak and all that jazz.
But when he has a chance to fully develop his thoughts, he has valid points that come from a place of care and dedication (see the AMA on reddit months ago).
He kind of reminds me of a person who probably wants to be creative and make cutting edge, ground-breaking leaps in lore and gameplay, but he has everything down to a formula which makes the game feel like a cycle.
Where did I use the expression “should of”?
Wrong quote?
I think hes clueless about his player base. I think hes arrogant, condescending and shoudla stayed a lawyer. Until hes replaced nothing will improve. Hes the guy at the top directing the ship and needs to be replaced ASAP
Once corrupted gear hits live servers people will really realize the damage he has done to the game. The legendary cloak is the final insult to his first expansion on his own (BFA).
Based on how they handled feedback in BFA and how BFA has developed BFA is Dear Leader’s creation and it will go down as one of the worst expansion’s in WoW history. An expansion that has done more to prune/remove/destroy than expand, iterate or improve upon the game.
Oh. I didn’t think I quoted anybody on that one. Definitely wasn’t quoting you.
Hm tagged me lol
OK, that made me laugh out loud, and I get it, but it’s grossly unfair. A lot of the questions that get leveled in those Q&A’s make the interview feel like a used car buyer negotiation. The player base created the situation, not Ion. We’re the ones who have demanded a voice, and the result in part is that we get a game designed by a very weird committee.
Not at this point. Actions are the only things that count these days. Words from the devs mean absolutely nothing.
Based on what he has said, I think the guy is either incredibly out-of-touch with what your average player finds enjoyable about wow or he’s a corporate mouthpiece trying to peddle unpopular design decisions as “good things”
Optimistic me feels that Ion is ultimately a man with his hands tied. He has a vision for the game, he knows what gamers like (being a gamer himself), but the higher ups want to increase the metrics in their quarterly investor reports, and so Ion is forced to make changes he then has to justify, when he himself doesn’t even want them to begin with. Optimistic me has a great deal of sympathy for the man. Someone above him keeps making trash decisions and he is the whipping boy for the public.
Cynical me thinks Ion is simply a biased developer. He’s bragged about only playing Horde, of only having a single character. A man like that should not be in such a position at Blizzard. There is a clear decline in the quality of Alliance content, and when you have a game director who brags about not playing Alliance, it becomes nigh impossible to place the blame anywhere but on said person.
Every day me doesn’t think about Ion, or if he does, its typically with a shrug and a vague curiosity about whether or not he feels fulfilled swapping his career as a lawyer for a career as a game developer.