Perhaps their sims ARE garbage. I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but there are times that I feel like some of the top players understand their respective classes better than developers actually do. I would say the one example the comes to mind that is recent and relevant are the upcoming changes to secondary stats. Players figured out (because of sims) that sometimes passing up a higher ilvl item with greater primary stats, in favor of a lower ilvl item with lower primary stats and better secondary stats, results in an increase performance output.
If the goal is to maintain that illusion, why bother allowing us to track and collect data on our performance at all? Why not remove that ability and we can simply *trust* that Blizzard is doing the best they can. Which is basically what we are doing now anyway, because they dismiss us out of hand and the data we collect and report in favor of their "superior" data collection, sims, or testing.
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Yes he did. It was in that segment that he took full responsibility of it. Which is why he was talking about it at all. He was being very PC and talking about the things HE would change about WoW that HE was directly responsible for.
Reading comprehension is your friend. Nice try though. His devoted zealots like to completely gloss over that part. The hard on is real.
Here is a link to that Twitter conversation that I had with him:
https://twitter.com/OccupyGStreet/st...45752137158656
That made front page of MMO-C here:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...p-of-the-Month
But facts right...
The more I talk to him... the less I hate him. Even IF he is responsible for LFR (which personally I don't hate) but the community that praises him... tends to hate. Its a little psychotic. Its the deification part I dislike. It was like the moment he announced he was leaving he was absolved of any wrong doing. Whereas previously I felt like it was 50/50 split you either loved him or hated him. But when he left it was like a light switch and everyone loved him again. Totally weird from my perspective.