Bobby Kotick has just been given a golden parachute severance package and is retiring from the company after all of the scandals. In his place, the Board has appointed [Your Name] to CEO of the company. You are given free reign to do whatever you’d like to WoW, as well as other Activision Blizzard games. How do you turn around WoW’s recent decline and sub loss?
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Make every employee play the game for 3 hours a fortnight at work. They can do what they want in that time but they must be active in game at work for 3 hours.
I think that would lead to a lot of issues being solved.
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Get rid of the themepark design, everyone needs to play other classes and race combination, attempt to stop “Meta”, and add flying ASAP enough of this quest jibberish.
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Sell the rights to wow to a company not run by jack wagons
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At least you admit you’re a jack wagon…
Close it all
If that were possible,have workers obtain dividend on the job plus better pay.Communicate in present to those workers to inspire them ,be clear on objectives to the shareholders . Give feedback to devs.
I would change the game’s rating to M, hire Dean Koontz and Neil Gaiman to co-write the next expansion’s story with Chris Metzen serving as consultant, hire people based on passion and talent alone, and then have the Lead Encounter Designer and art team consult with Quentin Tarantino, and then I would do a series of WoW commercials involving Tarantino and his regular actors.
All the removed content would be restored, but no one would care, because WoW would feature heavy drug use, anatomically correct nudity, blood & gore, extreme violence, and adult plotlines. There would be brothels in the cities and all NPCs would become killable, even “innocents.”
The focus of future development would be “dark and immersive stories that resonate.”
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All salaries based on success at chosen game activities! Ooh, only got 9 +15s this week? There goes 10% of your check!
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The thing is, Ybarra and Ion and a lot of those guys do play WoW. But they play with specific premade groups for high-end content only. They don’t have to deal with not having enough people for a raid since there’s probably a long list of people who want to raid with the Game Director or President of Blizzard.
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Remove the barrier to entry in any activity in game. Hit the level cap and boom jump into doing w/e you want without feeling like you have a list of chores to get done. Narrow the player power gap and find other ways players can progress their character besides player power.
Encourage community lead events such as the running of the gnomes/trolls.
Completely disconnect player power from any sort of grindy system. Leave the systems in for cosmetic/mounts/etc.
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I would eliminate the faction divide, add more skimpy transmog, make Anduin x Wrathion canon, give void elves all blood elf hairstyle options, give mistweavers and holy paladins a melee range interrupt like they used to have, bring back Ashran, allow people to queue for mythic raids, add mistweaver monks to all versions of classic
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I was actually getting excited until it dawned on me that this is a make believe scenario.
Upgrade your brain, Swarf.
More soul ash!
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A duck mount
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errr , in all honesty such a lucrative position for pretty much doing nothing…I would procrastinate for a year, and quite a trillionaire.
#goals
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Ah,Swarf ,I’m sure you can come up with something .
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Balance salaries
Balance Classes
Be direct and clear with stock holders.
Remove all un-realistic blocks from the art team.
Create a team to work only on fashion.
build real player housing and guild halls.
Insert more cut scenes to explain the story line.
Insert a story mode feature that reads you each book your char picks up or discovers. It will also allow you to pay in game gold and have the books read to you while you are playing.
Everything in the game shop will have a rare chance to drop in open world. It will be super rare but there.
Bring in new talent to co lead the writing staff and the dev staff.
Practice “KISS” with all core systems.
All gear shall have an option of obtaining them that is not RNG. Gear that is vender only will also have a drop rate.
The Mythic plus system will be adjusted to be a drop down option when you enter the dungeon. Beat it on time you get 1 extra loot and valor then locked out of that level loot table.
Stop the negative news coming out of the company by actually fixing the problems that created it.
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- Allow employees more freedom, it’s clear corporate really ruined the workplace with a lot of corporate restrictions due to greed and corruption. 2. merge more servers to start to repair the sharding issue. 3. hire more artists with talent ASAP. 4. fire the storyboard artists and contracted writers, this stuff they’re churning out is just terrible. etc.
Look into my blank soulless eyes… you can trust me.
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I appoint Pyromor as my goodest idea thinker upper.
I start listening to feedback in beta, not 3 patches later. 
That aside, I don’t know. Many variants move behind the scenes that we don’t know. I say this because I doubt anyone in Blizzard wants the game in the state it is. But I also know there’s heavy money grab behavior in there.
If I could add anything, though… I’d open comissions from artists who willingly want to add something at the cost of either currency to unique mogs/titles/mounts or anything. Because some artists outside of WoW do amazing things and combinations. Just have to look at the guy that made a video with Nightborne customization.
I’d also open a beta time in retail of most voted ideas to see if they work or not. If not, it’s removed.
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