Open Letter to Blizzard Entertainment from Mark Kern

[judgementofantonidas]

How is that even relevant? It doesnt cost the opposing side a penny, it just brings joy to those who want those servers.

If Blizzard gives time and resources to it, it will be at the cost of real content.
If they don't and just allow pirate servers to do it instead they are not protecting their intellectual property.

[Faroth]

How much of a douchebag do you have to be if you start a company and get voted out by your board?
And I'm not talking about a "He will lay down his position next month."-fired.
This is a "He's no longer CEO in 5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. and don't talk about this with anyone!"-firing.

Here ya go.

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Re...ws-E266907.htm

Yeah, this is the guy you want to listen to when it comes to game development. What did he even contribute to WoW? Nobody seems to know, beyond being a "team lead."

Those same people would say Ghostcrawler did every single thing that was ever put into WoW too.

[Desparil]

What did he even contribute to WoW? Nobody seems to know, beyond being a "team lead."

He was in charge of walls, he made plenty of walls

[Deleted]

Oh well. Sounds like "Revenge of an old employee"..

[Tijuana]

And if you put a ream of paper in a printer and printed every page and set that in a stack. Then put in another ream and did the same thing......

Eh, that's certainly possible. But, why would he actually print it? I'm saying he is basically using a prop, not that he should not have. I still call BS.

[Mafic]

100% on the mark.

Blizz should be ashamed of themselves.

[Zandalarian Paladin]

No, it really doesn't.

It's part of WoW, if we can see fan videos I don't see why something that a few hundred thousands people like not being on the frontpage.

[Faroth]

Eh, that's certainly possible. But, why would he actually print it? I'm saying he is basically using a prop, not that he should not have. I still call BS.

Like he said, citing numbers and having text on a screen is somewhat ephemeral. When you have it physically presented, there's kind of a "whoa" moment.

It could easily be a prop, absolutely. I just meant it's possible he decided to kill a tree.



The biggest reason I feel that Blizzard should have kept the pre-Cataclysm version of WoW around, even if just in storage, is from an archivist and preservationist standpoint. Video games have become a huge part of our society's pop culture, and perhaps culture in general. WoW does have a huge, historic impact and the fact that it's essentially gone from existence is disappointing. You can still play Pong, Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Pac-Man. MMOs, unfortunately, don't lend themselves to being preserved.

Though EverQuest did see some success with a Legacy Progression server. I'd have thought Blizzard would have had the foresight to have things put aside to be capable of something similar.

[Tome]

It's like people think papers can't be recycled.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

It's like people think papers can't be recycled.

i think the point is showing a ton of pages to show that people want it when really alot of the signs are fake so there would be way way less

[Sfinna]

100% on the mark.

Blizz should be ashamed of themselves.

Blizzard shouldn't listen to the guy.

[Fojos]

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Re...ws-E266907.htm

Yeah, this is the guy you want to listen to when it comes to game development. What did he even contribute to WoW? Nobody seems to know, beyond being a "team lead."

Team lead is basically one of the higest positions. He's just after Mike Morhaime in the credits. The one who supervised most of the things.

[Tome]

Blizzard shouldn't listen to the guy.

Rather listen to that guy or anyone else but someone like you at this point.

[Faroth]

Blizzard shouldn't listen to the guy.

Being a developer isn't the same as being a CEO. I'd consider Brad McQuaid as probably one of the worst CEOs of all time, but he has some fantastic ideas as a game developer.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Team lead is basically one of the higest positions. He's just after Mike Morhaime in the credits. The one who supervised most of the things.

well he couldn't have been that good of a team lead if hes not still leading.

[Deleted]

https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Re...ws-E266907.htm

Yeah, this is the guy you want to listen to when it comes to game development. What did he even contribute to WoW? Nobody seems to know, beyond being a "team lead."

Basically the team leader or development lead or whatever left blizzard to create ArenaNet. Blizzard was going to cancel World of Warcraft, and Mark Kern said that he wanted to try to get it released and became team lead. The rest is history.

[Wolfheart9]

It's part of WoW, if we can see fan videos I don't see why something that a few hundred thousands people like not being on the frontpage.

It's not part of WoW. Fan videos are for the community, this video is to Blizzard. Blizzard can watch it.

[Lochton]

Blizzard shouldn't listen to the guy.

Oh god.. that's gold.. And sadly.. I actually was one of the ones hoping for Firefall.

[Deleted]

well he couldn't have been that good of a team lead if hes not still leading.

He got burnt out and left shortly after wow was shipped.

[In Ogres We Trust]

A self-made, billionaire CEO of a division within a Fortune 500 company doesn't give a damn about the opinion of a former employee that went on to fail as a designer (we'll ignore the discussion about "Legacy" servers, because to be frank, it'll be a cold day in hell before it happens).