People are romanticizing their favorite video game developers. It's childish. They act like it's the Beatles. They think it's the chemistry of John, Paul, George and Ringo sitting together, making magic happen. Oh no, someone left the band.
Time to grow up kids.
This game will get expansions for many, many more years, although I don't think they will ever be as grand as Legion. The game is still popular and they make a lot of money on it. It does sort of feel like the end of an era with this expansion though.
I do feel it is kind of strange so many people top people are leaving Blizzard after the launch of Legion and it seems more than one is going to Riot (hint?)
I'd say if anyone has a chance at going against Blizzard, it's Riot. There a relatively fresh-blooded company with retarded amounts of money and the #1 game in the world.
Blizzard is kind of becoming the cool guy from high school that is clearly showing his age, but still tries to be young and cool.
Riot is kind of the current cool guy.
Last edited by Mojo03; 2016-09-17 at 06:46 AM.
I take it nobody has ever left Blizzard before, then.
Sometimes people are thinking about leaving but stay on because working with old friends is a big draw. When some of those quit, not only is the thing holding you back removed but their enthusiasm about trying new things might inspire a desire for change.
And let's not forget that many of these people are quite well off, so they can afford to take risk with their career.
The generally good reception of Legion could also create the impression that you're leaving on a high note and not bailing ship cause you wrecked the game.
yes, that's the whole point of the post. When your senior staff like Metzen leave, a little bit of the spirit of the game goes with it. He basically formed much of what WoW is today. When those staff leave the game takes on a different persona, for good or for bad. For example, it's no secret the game has become more and more accessible over time to a much larger audience. Guilds are basically worthless now since they have added cross realm grouping. Alt characters are basically dead with the advent of artifact weapons. All of these concepts came from the Sr staff.
Once you lose the core of the product management and development team the game takes on a different personality.
You may love it or you may hate it but it will definitely be different.
I think it is normal for changes to occur just after they release an xpac. They were surely hanging on because of that; keeping until release of xpac so all of their work would be finished. So, nothing strange here.
Many people wait to leave their jobs until all their projects are finished.
Whats the draw for a LoL mmo though? There's no heavy emotional investment leading in, the market is saturated as is, the subscription model is kinda dead, and it's a shitton of work to support an mmo. They're making money hand over fist churning out champs to run around on their 2(3?) maps. I mean i gues there are other options but I cant think of any right now. Guess we'll find out.
red flag for the company. something is really going down over there.
although according to his twitter the james waugh guy seems to be a narcissistic Hillary supporter, so can't be that big of a loss.
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Last edited by MoanaLisa; 2016-09-18 at 12:58 AM.