I really enjoyed listening to him. There was a few things, but overall I gotta good sense he’s aware of the issues that are important and which ones the game can implement.
A little weirded out by Asmon hitting the casual question early (good,) but before anything of substance could be said Asmon said, “like dark moon faire?” Wait! What??! that’s your reference to casual players! Sheesh
“What sword?” He cracked me up. He totally watches asmon on his free time.
Many have been asking for new stuff at Darkmoon. I’ve seen quite a few posts here thru the yrs the guy done stated he’s a casual and has talked about hating endgame now can’t deal with it. He’s stated 100’s of things he wants in wow for casuals and one of them is new Darkmoon stuff maybe watch him more.
It’ll be less of a surprise when most of it turns out to be lies or maliciously implemented.
That was actually A BIG DEAL! The most we’ve seen in a long while.
It wasn’t about the Darkmoon Faire per se, but lack of mentioning casual content that had substance to it.
Until I hear playerhousing is coming, idc.
With them talking about it unironically costing a raid tier and how it’d be a multi-xpack endeavor, it’s all but confirmed to not be coming in Dragonflight.
We must’n lose hope, Brother Ventorath.
That was funny!
I’ll be danged. Ion seems to be getting more comfy talking to folks. A lotta the time in the past I got the “awkward and stilted” vibe from him.
I joke about Ion a lot but I know getting more social is tough for some folks. Myself included. So hey, good on him.
look - 10 replies, proves a point about being nasty…waiting for the Topic to beat all Topics on the interview. You know the one that isn’t positive in it’s supposition. 
Blizzard and Ion have always been aware of players concerns. They just haven’t acted on them in the past.
I will wait before singing his praises as history tells a different story.
Yeah I’m actually shocked Ion gave straight answers for once.
yeah…though I was pleasantly surprised the trajectory of the New WoW, NWow - as it it should be called now vs Wow 2 - is still the same. It still seems like it’s trying to get people to play together. I feel funneled and forced into content to get any decent gear. I’ve played solo casual since Mist’s and gear was never a problem. Sure I’d be outgeared eventually I would, but also op in a lot of places (hitting that dopamine!) Now I don’t. No dopamine hit, just, “what? huh? again? this is awful, when can I leave this place?”
I found the interview exceedingly disappointing and boring. Asmon soft gloved him the entire time. Total snooze fest.
It’s clear the WoW devs and Bobby Kotick have all started to watch the hundreds of interviews that the devs and director of FF14, himself, have given the player base.
Yoshi-P had a recent interview with Asmongold and I believe another popular streamer at the same time…and it was just banter. Questions were asked about the game, laughs were had. Everyone had respect toward each other.
The FF14 devs and director are not afraid of interacting with the community. You can tell!
I believe this interview with Ion is an attempt to be like, “We can be like them, too, and we’re human.”
Like…Blizzard for years and years have openly denigrated the player base and have sadly shown that there wasn’t a lot of respect for us.
I think now that over half their subs have been cancelled–they’re opening their eyes and ears finally and are trying to save grace. Or maybe turn things around…?
I can only hope. I play both WoW and FF14 and I can say with 100% certainty that FF14 has a lot more interaction with the community/players.
He is a lawyer, what do you expect?
It’s almost like there’s less of a dishonest, and unpredictable force over his head calling shots now.
The Jailor had him under his control? [Edited]