How the frick has this guy been the director of WOW for 10 years now? Any other company would try a new director each expansion or at least every couple?
Let’s also mention after expansions like WOD, BFA and SL you would have thought they would have replaced him.
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he is a literal glowie
he isn't going anywhere unless he wants it
>How the frick
his team made legion and wow is still alive in 2024
>omg glowie glowie
rent free
>rent free
That anon is right, he is a literal glowie. Straight out of college he was working for a law firm in bed with the CIA. Also, ActiBlizz is notoriously infested with glowies due to their interest in WoW and CoD.
>interest in WoW and CoD
I hope it stays that way, can't have the feds catching me radicalizing minors on Roblox.
>He doesn't know
Look at their executives, they aren't even hiding it. It's all former feds, glowies and government contractors, it started happening in the later half of the 00's. They have also openly admitted to being very interested in CoD and WoW.
Based. I would use the money to import JP arcade cabs though.
>ActiBlizz is notoriously infested with glowies due to their interest in WoW
where did this brand of crack rock come from
Glowies/ex-glowies and media are peas in a pod, been that way since the 60s
…uh bro? Brian Bulatao is the current activision blizzard Chief Administrative Officer. He was previously the….Chief Operating Officer of CIA. There’s also Frances Townsend, Grant Dixon to name a couple others
He's a lawyer that helped Activision shift their contracts and get out of a ton of customer obligations, while collecting his normal salary. All those bullshit patch notes that were legally worded to guarantee nothing, was basically his doing.
That said, he was fricking awful at designing the game for everyone, instead of the 6% of hardcore raiders at the time.
nobody else has the courage to take the job
Why? Most people would kill for a chance to direct WOW.
he’s a cia glowBlack person, they get installed all over the place
what is the CIAs interest in LGBTQIA2+ world of warcraft
spreading globohomo
thats what the public school system is for, doing it on wow is just preaching to the choir
Actually the original intent was NSA surveillance back when wow was huge it had millions of players capable of talking with each other, they wanted access to see chat logs in essence. With the merger, and military’s relationship with call of duty it was a natural move to fill it with more ex DOJ and cia gays
battlenet/origin are a pretty nice way to get a kernel level backdoor on a lot of pcs
>make the game so shit millions of young people escape from his maze
Thanks CIABlack person?
The thing is if you’re bad at your job that just means there’s more work for you to paid to not do, that’s literally THE classic glownig mantra. It’s why they’ll fund cartels and shit
idk about that i think it's a huge challenge and blizz's rep is kinda shit now, not an ideal job for many i'd say
kickstarter scams like stormgate and tempest rising have been snatching up ex-blizzard
AAAgay here. WoW is considered a maintenance game and working on one is a dark mark on any resume.
>Why didn't you decide to take on fresh challenges instead of working on a solved problem anon?
Believe it or not, the industry does not share WoWgays view of the game. They understand it did what it was supposed to, still sustains its intended players, and has little room for growth. You cannot disrupt something of that magnitude without pissing off shareholders in ways they'd never allow.
>little room for growth
I'm pretty sure they've said multiple times that they have more "room for growth" by bringing back former players rather than bringing in new players. They know this but continue to frick it up by ruining the game thematically and doing nothing to combat the image that the game is some kind of dumping ground for failed esports stars.
>I'm pretty sure they've said multiple times that they have more "room for growth" by bringing back former players rather than bringing in new players.
Do you think PR would do that? Just lie on the internet like that?
A dishonest or delusional PR statement would be them saying that they are appealing to new audiences. Them saying that they see more opportunity in bringing back old players is much more honest and conservative than that.
>A dishonest or delusional PR statement would be them saying that they are appealing to new audiences.
They do this too. They say all of it because every statement is a potential sale.
Bottom line they can't alter WoW in any significant way. The shareholders won't allow it. They try to bandaid this with shit like BR and Classic+, but they also know it won't make a dent.
Can't be worse than working on AAA garbage with Shanequa.
Maybe fan boys would want to direct the game but i could not imagine anyone with who is not at the end of there career would want to try and steer this behemoth of a game.
>direct WOW.
aka "maneuver between crazy twitter gays, deranged shareholders and community worse than dotards"
and also do all this in the dead genre
He was probably very close to losing his job after SL's massive drop off and figured it was finally time to stop being a stubborn moron. That's why they cut out all the awful borrowed power systems in DF.
Dedicated high end WoW players have been spot on with their criticisms of the game since Legion, it just took them until DF to actually address those instead of just putting band-aids on the issues in X.3 patches.
>DF le good
troony dragon's lmao
I actually don't like DF. I haven't liked the game since WoD because I don't like M+. I really just want to raid log.
Dragonriding at least made things so much better, and looking for shit in old zones is opened up now too at least. Storytelling is still ass. Not looking forward to emo Anduin and whatever that's going to be about.
Dragons are shit for looking at anything. You can't stay in place. Comparatively they control like garbage. If you run out of stamina you are stuck waiting around. You're using the same 4 mounts as everyone else and not the ones you actually like and spent years of effort collecting.
Such a moronic decision to make them faster than regular mounts.
finally, someone else agrees with me
idk what to tell u anon but you're probably moronic if dragonriding is difficult for you. as for mount variety they're adding "dynamic riding" to all mounts in the game
Yeah, dragonriding is dog shit, and now it is being added to the bulk of other flying mounts (now as "dynamic flying.") It's going to screw up everything unless we can toggle it on/off.
muh air swimming
cia move freely between big tech and media
>unless we can toggle it on/off.
much as i would love to shit on blizzard regarding their moronic decisions
yeah you can toggle it off except for in tww zones where you need to earn the ability to "static fly"
>and figured it was finally time to stop being a stubborn moron. That's why they cut out all the awful borrowed power systems in DF.
they literally "learn to stop being stubborn morons" every other expansion
and then the success of the expansion after that turns them into stubborn, megalomaniacal morons again
>every other expansion
Everyone told them Legion legendaries were moronic and they plowed through with it anyway. Then Azerite armor, then Covenants. That's 1 expansion with a bad system then 2 follow ups where they failed to learn shit.
Probably because Legion was received well since the content was pretty good, but more importantly because it followed WoD.
they were humbled by wod being shit
then got a big head about legion
that's blizz's rockstar dev culture for you. they know better than their own players telling them this shit sucks. no you're just wrong, we'll do borrowed powered for three xpansions in a row and PROVE to you how WRONG you are about borrowed power. world quests are great, you just don't understand, that's why we're going to make them the ONLY WAY to grind rep for allied races and after doing 5000 world quests you'll see how great they are because we know better than you.
that's not even getting into the shareholders and higher ups demanding certain metrics be hit (a lesson they still haven't learned as D4's balance literally revolves around making the game monopolize player's time as much as possible)
>D4's balance literally revolves around making the game monopolize player's time as much as possible
How so? I quit that shit game before I really got into the endgame loop. As soon as I got into WT4 I realized that that was just going to be the rest of the game so I uninstalled. Kind of weird since I can play efficiently just from experience in PoE and reach pinnacle bosses in a tiny fraction of the play time it would've taken me 2 years ago.
the very first balance patch for the game after release increased the time it took to make town portals by like 1.2 seconds. not for any gameplay balancing reasons but because it would make their player playtime metrics better, just by making something so simple take extra time would add up over time. plus all the builds they destroyed because they were clearing things faster than blizz wanted, because again, it's about monopolizing your time. they don't care if making things slower makes it not fun to play or whatever, they NEED to hit those metrics, it's the only thing that matters, not even sales matter anymore in Blackrock clown world.
>the very first balance patch for the game after release increased the time it took to make town portals by like 1.2 seconds
You're so moronic and literally just repeating talking points you heard from your favourite youtuber
They never changed the Town portal, they changed the "leave dungeon" portal and that shit lasted only for 3 weeks
Seriously the D4 haters are the most moronic group in existence
1 blizzard dollar has been added to your account. 49 more and you can afford a new mount!!!!
>moronic Black person going around talking about shti he doesnt know/understand
>people calling him out
>"S-SHILL"
It's fine to admit that you were wrong and easily suscettibile to clickbait and propaganda
>How so?
You literally can ignore morons like him.
Literally you never hear such moronic comments from people playing poe or other arpgs but D4, a game where you can skip a lot of shit and the grinds are nothing compared to the competition, is THE game trying to waste your time as much as possible
Well I don't feel like PoE tries to waste my time either, however I already know how to target farm most things in the game and have a basic understanding of crafting so the big time sink of building initial knowledge is already clear for me. I just quit D4 because I felt like it was slow and boring by the time I was 50-something plus my character's play style wasn't going to change much between that and 100, and that was before the S1 patch that everyone apparently hated.
the whines about these grinds was always moronic. if you nolife grinded you'd always be like 2-3 weeks ahead of the people who put in hardly any effort at all, which was a trivial difference that mattered to nobody outside of insane people whose jobs it literally is to play the game. if you decided to dedicate all your waking hours to get a 1% advantage over someone who barely played at all, then that's nobody's choice but your own.
a system that WAS moronic though, were legion legendary DROPS. if you got unlucky, due to the bad luck protection system, it was literally better to reroll the same class than to keep playing your character, if you got the wrong drops.
I remember my first legendary being shit, then I grinded pretty autistically to get my second one, it dropped exactly when I expected it to (because the bad luck protection worked as intended, it was just an intentionally moronic design), and it was also shit. which meant I'd have to grind like 4 times as much as I already had to get my third one, which would take months. unless I wanted to reroll my char, as mentioned. I got so demotivated I uninstalled the game right there and didn't play again until the next expansion.
yeah they started huffing their own farts in WoD and only got worse
They got better in DF, but it took two undeniably downward trending expansions to do it. But that twitter thread is about theorycrafters, who they're probably still not playing nice with because a lot of the talent trees are still shit. Blizzard is doubling down on "influencer" outreach as a marketing arm instead of autistic spreadsheet jockeys who could actually help improve the game.
Yeah theres more to that thread I didnt screenshot but it talks about how whatever the current version is of the forum is its filled with influencers
I didn't even know that context, I just guessed based on every WoW "influencer" always saying the exact same thing at the same time for like a year now. I'm not even a schizobrained "all streamers = paid" kind of person but I have to wonder what incentives they have for them to be this coordinated.
>Dedicated high end WoW players have been spot on with their criticisms of the game since Legion
The complaints have been totally contradictory and stupid though. In Legion, they complained that power gain was too randomized because of legendaries and warforging. Then in BfA, they complained that power gain was essentially too consistent, because you had to do the same tasks every week for the same predictable reward.
The reality is that Legion got it right, and that the parsetrannies who whined about it are the kinds of players who shouldn't be catered to.
>dood it was good in the final patch after 80% of people quit
No, Legion was good from the start. The potential to get good gear from literally any content was great, it successfully made people want to play the game.
people who champion legion are actually saying 7.3
you don't remember people having to reroll characters because they got the wrong leggo?
>you don't remember people having to reroll characters because they got the wrong leggo?
Only the most pathetic sweaty autists were doing shit like that, and it's good that they were having a bad experience because those players ruin the community and should be pushed out.
if by pathetic sweaty autists you mean 'average raiders' then yes
I was in a top 200 guild during early Legion and no one rerolled due to legendaries, stop making up moronic shit.
Yeah, instead you had to run MoS all day to get thr 15% on the weapon or else you get stuck on krosus or the astronomer
Fricking Black person
raiders and "pvp" (read: gays that want to gank lowbies) autists ruined WoW
I don't remember legion ever being bad
t. started with 7.2.5
>No, Legion was good from the start.
jej
>it successfully made people want to play the game
It burned people out at literally the same rate BfA did. The percent drop off on both expansions was almost exactly the same, they were both shit.
>It burned people out
It culled the desperate tryhard losers who didn't actually have fun with the game and just used it to derive a sense of self-worth that they couldn't get from their real lives. That's a good thing. Parsetrannies are the enemy of fun, and Blizzard should have done much more to drive them away.
you don't even see the contradiction in your own statement yet you continue to say it with the confidence of fact
>less players is le good akshually
Okay, so you're not making a real argument, got it.
>people who want to play WoW and only WoW 24/7 good
>people who want to play the game at the highest level bad
You're gonna have to give a better explanation than this that doesn't make you sound like a spiteful teenager.
>people who want to play the game at the highest level bad
You could play the game at the highest level without optimal legendaries, there was nothing stopping you other than your own seething autism and parse obsession. The people who freaked out about AP and legendaries literally just ruined the game for themselves, they could have just taken a relaxed approach and had fun, but they couldn't control their autism. Again, it's good for Bliz to not cater to those kinds of players.
>good for Bliz
What's good for Bliz are the changes they made in DF. Their retention is far better now for a reason, those systems clearly only ever harmed the game from Legion to SL. Now we have quantifiable proof of it, and Blizzard even admitted it in the GDC talk. You already lost.
>Their retention is far better now for a reason
Because of classic, no one plays retail
>because of classic
The first big Classic release after DF was SoD and the retention was still better between DF launch and SoD. That's going off of Hight's chart, raid participation, and M+ participation, pretty much every metric we can use.
Parsenigs and trannies are the only ones still playing, Sven. Also the horde is no longer based and metal-pilled, it is time you move on.
>horde is no longer based and metal-pilled
this homie hasnt heard the dolly and dot rmetal banjo cover
laugh at him, LAUGH AT HIM, MOCK HIM
>Legion was good from the start
I still can't believe so many people liked legion
>Legion got it right
Legion didn't get it right until 7.3. Both systems were shit for different reasons and it was the same people complaining about both of them, and they were right both times. Also in both cases, everyone knew the systems were going to be shit before they hit live servers and the same fricking thing happened with covenant swapping. They "got it right" in DF by just cutting out these systems.
because they probably quite literally can't find anyone else to do his job
ohnonono look at the top of his heaaad
nobody wants the job.
The problem is that he's most probably the most competent person left at the company, you just can't expect people to barely make ends meet and stay working at you're company with no way of going up the hierarchy.
everyone that could take the position bailed at some point, there's literally no one else, all the leadership positions in world of warcraft are now filled by people who don't even know what they're doing just because the people who were above them and the ones above those left
He’s honestly an amazing director.
Dungeons going from 30-40 mins in Classic to 5-9 mins in Retail is one of the best changes ever. New dungeons being so short is the best.
kys
Ion knows where the bodies are.
Before Nomura, nobody in history had cost their company so much money.
Do you know how much fricking money they would have if they'd just given players housing like they wanted? They could have had 10x their users instead of 1/10.
>Do you know how much fricking money they would have if they'd just given players housing like they wanted?
yeah but other MMOs did that first and not Blizzard and that would require Blizzard's rockstar devs admit that another dev team actually has good ideas and they'd never do that
Ion said that they "can't" because they don't have systems in place for permanently placing items like that. The language they used is that the location has to "already exist" or something, IE they would need to switch an entire instance to one that matches whatever placements you have that already exists on their end. I don't know if that's true or not, but that's the reasoning.
I assume if they added dye they would have to have X versions of the same armor texture for different dyes too since they don't have dye channels.
meanwhile Garrisons were instanced and worked just fine, and there's literally an entire private server that revolves around not gameplay but player created content like zones and houses for roleplay. if a group of unpaid hobbyists can do it, the billion dollar company can do it too, no excuses.
Presumably the subscriber numbers were stable enough and/or inline with predictions and dev costs that they had no reason to replace him. If you're "good" at your job, where good is defined as "your bosses are okay with your work," and you're happy with your job, there's no real reason to quit. Not everyone is a "work a job for two years then job hop" kind of guy. Some people do just like the comfy consistency of go to work, get paycheck, go home and enjoy your life.
>Any other company would try a new director each expansion or at least every couple?
He’s producer not director.
Well, now he's the Studio Head because they just reshuffled everything.
i thought he got demoted after how bad 16 was
Nah, 16 made a profit, albeit a small one, despite only being on the PS5. It will probably make more when it goes to PC. FFVII: Rebirth is the big flop.
not really comparable, Rebirth's audience is probably mostly on other platforms because they played Remake first and weren't going to pay $500 for a console with no games just to play Rebirth.
The Rebirth audience and FFVXI audience should be similar, and if anything, the Rebirth audience should be greater. The fact that it sold less FFXVI is damning.
XVI was just a DMC ripoff wearing the Final Fantasy name like a skinsuit whereas Rebirth was an actual RPG so no you're comparing apples to oranges
>FFVII: Rebirth is the big flop.
If rebirth is a big flop you have to admit that xvi is also a flop
Rebirth has more reviews on the ps store than XVI
XVI released 10 months ago
Rebirth 2 months ago
>Rebirth has more reviews on the ps store than XVI
woah
>more reviews in less time
>I DONT LIKE THAT STAT I LOVE MY NARRATIVE
I mean xvi was not even a top 10 downloaded game on PS5 last year, and it was one of the few exclusives
But I guess the game did fine but rebirth is a flop for some moronic reasons
let them have their fun they'll have nothing to seethe about once it's on xbox and pc and everyone forgets 16 even existed lol
Didn't XVI have more sales than Rebirth in the same time?
again it's not really comparable. XVI was a trend chasing action game that was Final Fantasy in name only and Rebirth is a sequel to a game that had a multiplat audience. like yeah no shit no one who played it on Xbox or PC is gonna pay $500 for a paperweight just to play the sequel, they're gonna wait until it's out on the platform they played the first one on.
it's like comparing the sales of Parasite Eve to Vagrant Story to try to make some kind of point. they're completely different games.
>again it's not really comparable.
it seems pretty apples to apples to me
one game has more sales than the others. both are stuck and locked on the same platform
i.e. it sold more
>they're the exact same thing if i just conveniently ignore every single attribute that shows they're different!!!
does this work on whatever zoomer neopets discord equivalent you frequent or something
but they're not different
they're both on the same platform
they're both final fantasy
one sold more than the other
not sure how you're able to mentally pretzel and circumvent that simple fact
again it's transparent you're conveniently trying to ignore every piece of context that shows they're not remotely comparable but keep seething lol
If you were honestly asking, im sorry for being a jerk, my argument is that we dont really know.
We know that XVI sold 3 million copies, they didnt say shit for Rebirth, but I think it's unfair to call it a flop with little to no information.
Fair enough. Last I checked, Rebirth had allegedly sold a little less than XVI. That was the ongoing narrative, at least.
I think XVI sold more than Rebirth last I checked.
You fell for false narratives.
There was never any indication that he got demoted or canned.
not everyone is a moronic tortanic schizo that squats in threads about square 24/7
I know.
I'm not saying you are that person.
I am saying you fell for their misinformation/cope narrative.
find someone better
you can't
Activision blizz is a glownig company and he was on a legal team that frequently worked with other glownigs
>Chairman MAU
He got that dawg in him
Also his wow made more money than the peak wow you Black folk keep crying about
Why would you want to be part of a company that is in the decline stage of its business life?
>they're both on the same platform
>they're both final fantasy
>one sold more than the other
look at how intelligent i am!!!!!!
How did this WoW thread also turn into a final fantasy thread? Not even the MMO this time, at least talk about the MMO jfc.
we can fix it
why does wow still have pajamas
>avatargayging
On second thought, the FFhomies can have it.
>nooo how can you avatarpost in a thread about avatar game aaaaahhh
the art is what makes wow's races appealing
the actual models are just shit
but the models are part of the art
no?
>that manjaw on female night elf
I know I'm like 10 years late but what the frick were they thinking?
looks fine though, are you obsessed maybe?
>getting defensive over his ugly clay dollies
oh no no no no no
Yes, i am defending my qts. I care more about them than about you.
ok
well they look hideous
>looks fine
What is it, people with shit taste pick the game, or people getting conditioned to shit visuals over time plus the sunken cost?
Makes you think.
looks fine as in looks like WoW as in like it's always looked, i don't get what you want it to look like
>looks fine as in looks like WoW
No, pretty much all other remade races looked fine, but female night elves were remade from sexy bimbos into these reddit amazons with massive jaws and moronic frown.
It's not like you can't just bring up wowhead and see how the original model looks.
>anon A doesn't like something that anon B likes.
Absolutely the second. People play this shit for ages and sunken cost themselves into believing it actually looks halfway good, including the horsefaced melted wax characters.
trannies can't help themselves
could you realistically do better? Hardmode: no scrapping the game or hanging all the DEI shits from lamp posts
He has only one job, increase revenue. And seeing how a single WoW store mount made them more profit then Starcraft 2 he must do something right.
what's wrong with what he's doing?
He designs the game around elite poopsock players because he himself used to be an elite poopsock player
>participation in mythic lower than ever
>worlo subs grew significantly ever since they started the Cinematic Universe of Old Warcraft Versions
I dunno, chief
people would rather raid in the three other versions of WoW where bosses had two mechanics than deal with the current bullshit
>than deal with the current bullshit
that's almost purely due to the logistics of it, and the insane amount of guild jumping necessitating endless recruitment efforts for anybody outside top50. there's TONS of heroic raiders that are good enough for mythic but the scheduling autism and mythic lockout just doesn't work for them
t. sweaty raidgay