Should Blizzard get rid of GhostCrawler ?

[Zenko]

Ghostcrawler and his team are doing an excellent job. Coming from someone who was around during the downfall of Tseric I'm really surprised that GC hasnt snapped yet. Im glad that he can keep it together in his tweets, and actually understands the game instead of being a puppet.

[Noxiye]

i disagree, i leveled a moonkin alt to 90, even after a few days of heroics and gear to cap my hit and improve the int/haste/crit i was still unable to kill more than 3 mantid without dying on a daily quest yet a frost DK/monk mains hitting 90 without any consideration to the gear or stats including hit manage to massacre groups upon groups using one or two abilitys .

ask any starting frost DK at 90, their DPS starting at 50k like nothing without paying attention to stats/caps/gear or rotation.
you call that balance?

You disagree that balance is good because you personally can't play a spec? I'm not sure if you're joking or if the whole idea goes completely over your head.
For the record, good Balance Druids generally have an easier time questing than melee. Not that it really matters though, balance doesn't really happen because of how good or bad people are at questing.

[Celista]

You disagree that balance is bad because you personally can't play a spec? I'm not sure if you're joking or if the whole idea goes completely over your head.
For the record, good Balance Druids generally have an easier time questing than melee. Not that it really matters though, balance doesn't really happen because of how good or bad people are at questing.

Uh, I have to disagree--I find melee much easier and less time consuming to quest with than ranged. That being said my alt is a resto/balance druid and I just pop a bunch of cooldowns at once and multidot/aoe and everything dies in seconds.

[Cryonic]

I voted "don't care" simply because I think it needs alot of knowledge of his work and what he has to deal with to make a yes or no vote of this magnitude.

[john duo]

You disagree that balance is bad because you personally can't play a spec? I'm not sure if you're joking or if the whole idea goes completely over your head.
For the record, good Balance Druids generally have an easier time questing than melee. Not that it really matters though, balance doesn't really happen because of how good or bad people are at questing.

no i actualy agree that balance is bad.
and questing is a simple ,minor , perfect example of how unbalanced a dps class compared to others at day 1 and not comparing full geared raiders , im talking about people who just dinged.

i saw a monk flying around with his swinging kick or what ever that called and killed packs upon packs of mobs without resting, while as a moonkin just DOTing 3 mobs with 2 dots each cost me almost my entire HP pool and if i poped CDs i had to wait quite long to pull such numbers of mobs again.

[SourceOfInfection]

^ How much you want to bet he plays mage.

I've played everything in high end raiding and/or pvp at one time or another. Currently playing Death Knight.

[Banzhe]

Let me see ... Cata was a boring pointless expac ...and Mop is kungfu panda knock off ...sorry ghost you gotta go . Would love to see it go back in the direction of the original devs .

With the exception of MoP, I can only agree.

I don't believe evolving is good, just for the sake of evolving if the changes are poor.., there's many areas of the game where I personally feel they should have built on existing platforms, instead of completely annihilating them only to implement a few of the "modern" features today.

To name but one of them;

LFD, should have keep't it to realm grouping only, I know this presents an annoying aspect for low pop-realms, but they really should close inbound traffic to low-pop realms, and open up free migration from them.., and after X months with ample warning, anyone left should be randomly shuffled to existing medium / high realms.
That would ultimately also have negated the need to invent CRZ, and also in part keep't the sense of realm communities alive

[ringpriest]

With the exception of MoP, I can only agree.

I don't believe evolving is good, just for the sake of evolving if the changes are poor.., there's many areas of the game where I personally feel they should have built on existing platforms, instead of completely annihilating them only to implement a few of the "modern" features today.

To name but one of them;

LFD, should have keep't it to realm grouping only, I know this presents an annoying aspect for low pop-realms, but they really should close inbound traffic to low-pop realms, and open up free migration from them.., and after X months with ample warning, anyone left should be randomly shuffled to existing medium / high realms.
That would ultimately also have negated the need to invent CRZ, and also in part keep't the sense of realm communities alive

Excellent idea - would have done wonders to help prevent the community devolution that has occurred post-LFD AND fixed the still-ignored low-pop realms problem. (CRZ is at best a band-aid, not a fix.)

[Guinzil]

People somehow get the impression that GC is doing an amazing job and that nobody would've done it better. It's hard to say really, there's no way of telling whether GC comes up with most of the ideas or whether he just serves as a spokesperson for a team of idea-people.

I'd love to see someone else try, though.

[Jevlin]

No, they should just remove him from public spotlight. He his horrible with people and can't open his mouth without shit spewing out. He's doing a decent job though.

[Mad_Murdock]

You disagree that balance is good because you personally can't play a spec? I'm not sure if you're joking or if the whole idea goes completely over your head.
For the record, good Balance Druids generally have an easier time questing than melee. Not that it really matters though, balance doesn't really happen because of how good or bad people are at questing.

Not to take sides, but I would disagree with that. Granted. I haven't leveled a druid as boomkin and I as a whole don't play boomkin. I admit I don't get druid at all and found Kitty spec to be equally frustrating to level. I decided to finish my shaman from 88 to 90 as Ele and found that unbelievable painful. I don't know DK that well, but it was a rofl stomp for most of the way. Pally I don't like much, but found it easy enough to level. Maybe I'm just Melee minded or maybe people who are use to playing a range class is just use to the way it is to level. I find it hard to believe anyone who's leveled a Boomkin, mage, Ele shaman can honestly say that they are just as easy to level as a DK.

Though I don't know that the difficulty in leveling really makes much of a difference in terms of class balance and whether GC and company deserve to be canned.

It's hard to say really, there's no way of telling whether GC comes up with most of the ideas or whether he just serves as a spokesperson for a team of idea-people.

I think this is where 99% of the WoW community or at least the loudest complainers ignore what we've been told

GC has said numerous times that he's just a Cog in the wheel, that he gets the spotlight when there are hundreds of people in the background. Sure he makes some final decisions, but he doesn't invent eveything and I'm 100% confident he doesn't get his way on everything. In a tweet not that long ago, he said him and Corey reported to Tom Chilton. That seems to safely imply that him and Corey are equals and also that Tom is the guy who makes the final decision.

The WoW players apparently need a single person to hold their feet to the fire, and seem to refuse to accept that the design decisions are made from a variety of people. It's just easier to blame Ghostcrawler for everything. Else they would have to accept that Blizzard as a whole, is to blame and they would have to them look at themselves as to why they still play the game. Right now, they can just keep telling themselves "If only we could get rid of Ghostcralwer!"

[Korgoth]

I'll go on a limb here and say that you're everything that's wrong with this game.

Frothing at the mouth, raging blindly at your scapegoat for not being able to be as strong as some other classes.

WoW is, in comparison to other games, actually very balanced. Even now. No, balance in WoW is not perfect, but it is not "terrible" either. Ghostcrawler does a good job and I do not believe the game would be as good as it is today without him.

Actually im quite overpowered on live, too overpowered, but then GC is such an idiot he making it so im too underpowered after tomorrow, while at the same time taking a class like Rogue which is too underpowered on live and making it way too overpowered after the patch. Almost exactly like he did in patch 4.3. He has a long history of failed balancing.

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People somehow get the impression that GC is doing an amazing job and that nobody would've done it better. It's hard to say really, there's no way of telling whether GC comes up with most of the ideas or whether he just serves as a spokesperson for a team of idea-people.

I'd love to see someone else try, though.

He doesnt come up with all the ideas, he doesnt serve as the spokesperson, he is the man in charge, all ideas have to be approved by him. If a class change is made, he approved it.

The changes being made have not made the game better, he controls what changes happen, he let KFC happen this season, he let RLS happen S11, and he will let Thug Cleave happen next season. Because GC does not balance for balance he balances to get class rep #s up. When Rogue isn't OP, no one plays rogue because thats why they rolled rogue in the first place (Which GC even says!
"My pet theory is rogue pop started to drop as soon as gank -> guaranteed kill became less likely."), so now he is buffing rogues to be overpowered so people play them again. So instead of trying to make PvP balanced, hes intentionally making it unbalanced.

[Jaylock]

I think Ghostcrawler is doing a great job and has a talent for balancing a very complicated game. This expansion is almost perfectly balanced in terms of PvP, and the PvE game is nothing short of extraordinary. (except for the pandas and pokemon part, and the lame story in the raids not connecting us at all to the story, but thats not really Ghostcrawlers fault, its the fault of the story guys, and the quest designers)

Keep up the good work Ghostcrawler!