Brian Holinka Leaving World of Warcraft Team

Originally Posted by nekobaka

Thanks. Seems he has been with the team at least from 2005 and possibly earlier. Wondering if Celestion has a side role or the info is just outdated. In either case it is not Holinka like many think.

My understanding is that Chadd Nervig (Celestalon) is a systems designer; numbers, tuning and making things work under the hood.

Again, I'm happy to be corrected.

Originally Posted by gutnbrg

"kevinD" mans name, pretending to be a woman for reasons....

Yes, because "Kevin" is my actual name.. I am sure your name is "Gutnbrg".

Originally Posted by Razorice

Okey, so Holinka left. They will find a replacement and when the next Expansion rolls out you will blame the new guy, for X and Z. Everyone was shitting on GC, now everyone shat on Holinka and everyone will shit on the new guy.

Of course, as long as they don't do their job right/good. what do you expect "us" to do? Blizzard should finally get their heads out of their asses and do whats needed for PvP with a team or a guy directly from the pvp/esport scene instead of people handling this stuff who do not have any clue about pvp at all.

As much as I didn't like Holinka, this won't change much and feels more of a publicity move on Blizzards part.

The issues with PvP and the game as a whole are really with oversimplified class design and the endless RNG grind.

Originally Posted by RelaZ

There is no other game which provides third person PvP which controls like WoW with a large amount of abilities giving sofisticated CC (and DR system) in a team deathmatch (first to kill all enemies win) setting. Thus this is the best PvP game of its kind, it's obviously been better than now but it's still the best of its kind by a long shot.

guild wars 2?

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Originally Posted by blehmeh

As much as I didn't like Holinka, this won't change much and feels more of a publicity move on Blizzards part.

The issues with PvP and the game as a whole are really with oversimplified class design and the endless RNG grind.

what?
a publicity move?
w.h... what?

You killed my fun with casual pvp in this game Holika which ultimatly killed my interrest in WoW and my subscription.
Thanks for nothing but good luck with the rest of your career.

When will they move Celestalon?

Originally Posted by FelPlague

guild wars 2?

Uh nope, GW2 sucks, just as much as GW1.

Originally Posted by nodq

Of course, as long as they don't do their job right/good. what do you expect "us" to do? Blizzard should finally get their heads out of their asses and do whats needed for PvP with a team or a guy directly from the pvp/esport scene instead of people handling this stuff who do not have any clue about pvp at all.

I'm pretty sure that even if Blizzard gets a PVP-Balance genius, majority of the player base will still QQ about the state of the game.

Pah, they'll just replace it with an even worse fookhead and it will go and poison another game.

Originally Posted by FelPlague

guild wars 2?

No, GW2 PvP is about as deep as a kiddie pool.

I doubt PvP balance is affected much at all, whoever it is that replaces him.

Game needs fresh blood in the development team. Good move on Blizzard's part.

Originally Posted by Haidaes

Oh my~
I think I felt the ripple of the simultaneous popping of sparkly wine corks even here. Some of our constantly grumpy posters are hopefully shutting up now.

Time to present us with the next scapegoat.

If he's lead dev of PVP, surely he deserves the responsibility for what he or his team decide to do. That isn't a scapegoat, is it? Even if you say he was unfairly maligned, it is the logical place to situate any blame. I think the issue is more so whom he will be replaced by.