The various different defintions in “what is an MMO”.
I’d love to hear some real data on different playstyles and get some candid insight into where the points of frustration are where playstyles collide in the design. I feel I’ve got a pretty good handle on the subject but I’m sure I’d get a reality check on one or two points.
Nothing, because I wouldn’t be changing his mind regardless of what I say.
Also because I’d just rather not be there.
I’d ask for some abilities back on my Paladin. Like changing auras.
“What the hell were you thinking?”
Whether Ion listens or not is secondary (to me). My problem with him is that when he opens his mouth and starts making random noises in an attempt to speak, nothing coherent comes out. Just like in a courtroom …
I mean, he has to watch what he says. Think about it. He’s talking to a community that will look at everything he says and overreact to parts of it. All he has to do is say something a certain way and he will be flooded with hate. I’d be stumbling on my words too always worrying.
If he just spoke the truth, straight up, no frills, no round-about to get to the crux of the matter, then most of us (including him) could shrug off the vitriol, knowing that we had gotten an honest, relevant answer. He doesn’t do that.
I’d tell him I preferred the Marine Biology approach to MMO’s, although I hated it at the time. I wonder who they will bring in to do his job next. An insurance salesman? Maybe a cosmetologist.
First I would start by telling him he has the most beautiful eyes. Then tell him we need to chat and try to figure out why he thinks rng on rng on rng is “fun”.
Yeah, because he could give an answer as to how they are doing something right now, but it’s development and things change rapidly. Then when he has to say something changed or the community looks back at the video of him saying we’d get something, all hell breaks out.
The community gets angry if they tell us stuff and change it later. The community gets angry if he steps around a question and half answers it.
Blizzard isn’t 100% at fault for us not enjoying the current WoW. A good majority of the community is also to blame.
Well, I know nothing about Game Design.
So I’d probably just show him some of Bellulars videos and try to ask him what he thinks of the solutions.
I’ve always found that attitude (common as it is) strange as I don’t feel I have any trouble unpeeling the layers of tact in the Q&As. Then again, it’s not impossible I’m just projecting the answers I want to hear.
His role in the development of the story.
It’s absolutely revisionist logic to say that the High Elf story is the domain of the Horde and isn’t shared by the Alliance. No one at all was saying “High Elves can’t be on the Alliance because they’re already on the Horde” before he opened his mouth on the matter. I want to know if he’s ever heard of the Balkans.
Daaaaaamn… this thread is amazing confirmation of why Devs probably should never listen to a single thing coming out of GD.
Hot garbage everywhere.
WHAT DID I CREATE!! 
DESTROY! DESTROY IT!
WHY GOD WHY!?!?
tbh it’s what I expected 
I’d ask why we don’t get flying until it’s nearly irrelevant except to use for gathering. Then I’d talk about retrofitting the old AV that will be used in Classic into Retail and try to convince him to let <120 brackets have their own arenas and RBGs.
Oh, and ask if we could please have all of the now discontinued crafting patterns back in the game available at profession trainers.
Probably High Elves and flying. And Horde bias, perhaps.
That’s the other half of the problem. A lot … and I mean a WHOLE LOT … of people do that.
Dude, what’s with that Mog?
Who are you and how did you get into my house?