You just got an email. You’re the new Game Director of World of Warcraft! What is your first order of business?
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Sell the company again and retire
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LFR now drops mythic quality raid gear and can be run repeatedly. It also drops tokens for BLP so eventually you’ll get your loot one way or the other. Other versions remain unchanged.
I’m just here to watch the world burn. Plus I’ve been told other people’s content doesn’t matter so I know the community will be fine with this.
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Everyone goes on 90 day probation and has to re-interview for their job.
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I get an email telling me I got a job I didn’t apply for? Probably I block the sender, thinking it’s spam.
If I applied and interviewed, my first order of business would be meeting everyone and learning about what they do.
An eventual goal of mine would be making a classic version in each old patch (not just expansion) and implementing a system where characters can be copied up through the patches whenever they’re ready. Let people play any version of WoW they’d like, and any endgame, for as long as they’d like, and give people the option not to advance to the next patch unless they wanted to, instead being able to stay as long as they’d like in the previous patch, with AI players to populate the world and do everything with (to deal with the problem of splitting the playerbase).
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Gpie is spammable again
All teams can now work from home as much as they want.
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Flying is mostly removed from the game. At flight paths you can either take an automated flight, or get a buff that lets you use your own flying mount for three minutes.
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Working from home has been proven absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt to be far less productive.
Don’t get me wrong, I love working from home for me…I just don’t want them doing it because I know for a fact what happens 
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I don’t think it has. But also, that isn’t the point. It’s better for the workers.
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Who cares about those jokers?
Just make my game and do a good job 
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Immediate company-wide action to document every automatic in game or player-applied player penalty system paired with a write-up no longer than one page justifying its existence.
Citation needed.
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Me. And I’m the boss of the game now.
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I second the motion.
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Buff raid drops.
Cap delve loot to normal raid ilvl
Remove gilded crests from delves.
Remove player housing.
Offer some single player content but reinforce that this is a multiplayer game first.
- First 90 days, assess what I really have.
Everyone thinks they know but they don’t until you investigate and actually poll the customer base to see if it all aligns with what you are hearing internally.
- Next 90 days put in a plan of action to fix whatever you find in #1 and begin resolving, including communications plans with customers and employees that include setting real expectations and meet them. This would include all areas of the game not just a raid or some loot drops - the problems at this division of Microsoft go much deeper.
Would be difficult to tell you after that until the the first two are completed/started.
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Tbh most of the customer base should be ignored.
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First up, I do a survey and have people talk to people who are subscribed to the game and have a conversation with a broad swathe of players at all skill levels to get a sense of what’s good, what’s not, what’s fine but also try to see if there are any new ways to monetize the game that they would be ok with.
From there I’d sit down and discuss with the team how to go about implementing what people want and how feasible that would be as an aggragate.
Beyond that I’d probably try and figure out how to fix up the infrastructure of WoW itself, probably talking to Microsoft about what it would take to improve system security in order to deal with DDoS attacks and make sure that when Patches go live they don’t need another couple weeks of repairs to make sure that they actually work on day one.
I get that this isn’t sexy or easy answers like “INCREASE BREWMASTER STAGGER 4000%!” or “MOAR FACTION WARZ!” or “MOAR WOKE!” but the reality is that If I was in charge, I’d want to make sure the housse is in order before I tried to make any creative decisions.
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I would ask the staff (all lore, and all who play the game) for their input on the Horde leadership, and make that solid instead of what appears to be a toss of the coin. I would have drops randomly have a 10% increase for something super cool. I would make color variations of items cheaper.