Ythisens, you WILL be missed

[Azuremi-proudmoore (Azuremi)]

15m bonus to a CFO do you know how many normal workers they could pay with that?

About 250 if they are making 60k a year.

[Ezlu-illidan]

that sucks this ticks me off community engagement is already terrible now its going to be even worse

[Xintao-tichondrius]

Beep, booop, zzzzzz, that is our new mod.

Welcome AI mod to the forums!

[Manasplainer-moon-guard]

Maybe the toxicity exists because of Blizzard’s anti-consumer business practices and not because people just love making stuff up to create drama.

[Levíathan-aerie-peak (Levíathan)]

Activision-Blizzard is Blizzard Entertainment’s owner. And that is what I’ve maintained in all my posts.

I what I was fighting was the scapegoating of Activision the publishing company, a lateral subsidiary of Blizzard Entertainment, having a hand in the development of Bliz,s games.

[Krothare-stormrage (Krothare)]

Gotta love how it’s like 90% Horde players feeling bad and sticking up for him. Because of course Horde players would stand up for the guy that was one of the biggest sources of Blues crapping on Alliance.

[Nalin-nesingwary (Nalin)]

All of this to make investors happy? Yeah Activision-Blizz, you’ve managed to make EA look like Angels again.

[Xintao-tichondrius]

Might as well shut down PVP forums as there will be no blue visiting there for the next nuclear winter lolololol.

[Xakopane-dalaran (Xakopane)]

Yithisens, our OverYak! You will be greatly missed!

[Kittygomew-proudmoore (Kittygomew)]

I imagine customer oriented divisions are getting hit hard in general. Just lost our best CM. Maybe this company will stop constantly lying about how “we want to improve communication” as they get quieter and quieter and continue to remove people that actually tried to make that better.

[Qaletaqqa-fizzcrank (Qaletaqqa)]

People hate the game and blizzard for no reason.

No, no that isn’t true. They hate on Bli$$ard because they have earned that hate with greed and misstep after misstep, and 8% of the people are paying the price for that greed. It isn’t the people in the trenches that should be paying the price, it is the idiots at the top making bad decisions, motivated by greed.

[anon46819702]

Maybe that nodding yes-man that accompanies Ion in every pointless Q&A, will step up.

Or…maybe we will just continue down this road of smoke and mirrors where we are promised more interaction while simultaneously cutting those exact resources.

[Metrohaha-firetree (Metrohaha)]

I think this is my first time agreeing with you on the forums lol. Your absolutely right. People hate on this game for the most miniscule of problems that aren’t worth the tantrum thrown.

For months I’ve seen threads demanding people be fired (anywhere form Yth to Ion) well congrats general discussion you got your wish. People have been fired and their lives or dreams ruined.

Ya this is the worst part.
Some one actually messaged him on twitter saying he should be fired early in the day.

Man this just really hurts to see. Even in this thread, people being happy about this.

[Phydeaux-windrunner (Phydeaux)]

I hope your right. I just can’t help but think the overt negativity surrounding this game and other blizzard titles has caused this.

Would be very happy to be wrong.

Hey man. I really am not happy about him being let go.

Please try to keep in mind that many of the complaints we have are because we think the game would be better if they were fixed.

Topics like flight, which some may not care for, are reasons that people continue to be unhappy with the game. Layered RNG isn’t a good formula for keeping people playing, it’s a good formula for casinos.

I have been critical of you at times, but not this time. I share in your grief albeit on a different level. But I’d suggest that your anger, hurt, etc be directed at the people who make decisions at the company not at the players who love this game.

We have one goal; to have fun. They have many reasons they make their decisions.

[anon57392818]

Oh shut up. Don’t turn this into a whiny alliance thread.

[Hankypanky-windrunner (Hankypanky)]

That’s awful…

smh.

[Metrohaha-firetree (Metrohaha)]

I share in your grief albeit on a different level. But I’d suggest that your anger, hurt, etc be directed at the people who make decisions at the company not at the players who love this game.

Ya, I’m sorry if I made it sound like it was anyone’s direct fault.
I’m just way too emotional about this right now.
I shouldn’t have posted in the first place.

Sorry again.
I agree, there are many factors involved in this, and its stupid of me to try to lump them all on the odd hate the game seems to garner.

[Midgette-stormrage (Midgette)]

This is probably one of the saddest tweets that I have seen.
Business decisions aside - you are well respected and liked by the community for your contributions to, responses with and listening to the community.

It’s a huge loss.

[Flashelas-duskwood (Flashelas)]

Rip Ythisens and Rip blizzard slowly being devoured by the monster that is capitalism.

Fixed that for you.

When CoD can sell 500 million copies in three days and Activision considers that “disappointing”, and when Activision and EA can make billions - with a B! - from microtransactions and still have huge layoffs, the problem goes much deeper than just Blizzard.

[Tinúviel-aerie-peak (Tinúviel)]

Instead of making this entire thread some personal flame war between the same 6 people who fight in every single other thread how about we offer a tiny bit of respect to the one CM who actually posted here more than twice a month and actually visibly cared about the game?