I’ve worked in customer service before.
I’d put up with you lot for the right pay.
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I ask this out of curiosity, not disbelief (as I pay little to no attention to the social media around the game): what exactly has Ion done to “disrespect” the community? Like, an actual example. A lot of people are saying he does it all the time but no one has given an actual example
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Fair enough and I get that.
I don’t mean to come off as a basher towards him, I just don’t like his attitude towards us and how he’s gone about things is all.
I don’t doubt it, I mean it’s why I threw that in my comment.
Thing that interests me is how much?
What would you want, coming from you background etc with CS?
Not really, the game feels like it was designed via a spreadsheet with a flow chart. There is not really a sense of discovery anymore.
Worst than that, there is no tangible increase in personal power at all. It’s all borrowed power and borked mob scaling.
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Because Games are an art and that’s what corporates don’t understand. You can’t make good games by market research.
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I wonder how much creative control he has. They could be controlled by the corporate people
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With him inching WoW closer and closer to all this MLG, E sports type focus I think he has “passion” but it’s more for a small window of players.
Every system we have in game a direct trade off for content we didn’t get to run. The Burning Crusade had so many dungeons at launch. It was great.
Say it with me, Ion. Content is king. These little systems are cute and fun for a little bit, but MOST people want to get their character set up the way they like it, then use that character to do the content.
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I haven’t seen his job description. Maybe he is required to do that
Actually started thinking about this as well, some of these decisions really makes you wonder if his hands are tied.
I feel marketing team has more power.
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That’d largely depend on if I was allowed to stay where I am now. If the first numbed I pulled off Google is to be believed the average salary at Blizzard is around $92k USD.
Which is actually well above the average for what a software engineer in Canada makes. If I could make silicon valley wages with a Canadian cost of living, that would work for me.
Plus even if I got tired of it in a few years, having Blizzard on your resume would still actually be very good.
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They didn’t sell out… it was more of a hostile takeover of their small holding company that funded development.
On July 9, 2008, Activision merged with Vivendi Games, culminating in the inclusion of the Blizzard brand name in the title of the resulting holding company. On July 25, 2013, Activision Blizzard announced the purchase of 429 million shares from majority owner Vivendi.
I can’t like this post enough. Its so obvious whats going on here yet people insist on defending systems and a million different difficulties.
Not only does it force a large amount of the playerbase out of the core game, it results in LESS content because they are spending more time balancing all this trash.
Yet mouthbreathers (ie diablo fans) defend this design to their grave. Guess its not going back because of this.
Which is fine but come March when my sub expires I am not giving one cent to this company until they stop this nonsense.
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Oh this is going to go in a good direction (404) lol.
He has the passion, not sure why you’d think he doesn’t.
But it’s different being a player and having passion and being a lead designer who has to now take into account 4968 different voices/opinions and orders from higher up to get a product out for a publicly traded company.
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What does having passion for a game mean exactly?
Every expansion introduces new stuff and Ion will sometimes stick to his guns. That isn’t passion?
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Have you ever done public speaking?
Oh my god!
It’s been over 10 years, get over it!
I feel in context this is more of an argument against him then for him. One can easily say a lot of these new systems are unfavorable and “sticking to his guns” is ignoring feed back.