I Guess we know why Rob Pardo quit Blizzard.

[ManOluck]

If I released a half-assed expansion with barely anything to do after 2 months I would quit my job also out of embarrassment.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

a half-assed expansion

Said who? You? So Rob Pardo left his job because YOU thought it was terribad?

Well, guess we know why you pay $50 for a box and three months later still paying $15 to play it. Well spent money, sir. Well spent.

[Destruktion]

Rob Pardo had a lot of great vision for how an MMORPG should be played, and when he left WoW I think the game suffered as a result. I hope he goes on to lead another MMO project. Maybe he'll be a lead on an EQNext expansion?

[tj119]

While I could see that beinf true...I doubt it.

[Deleted]

I think it's possible both Rob and Ghostcrawler left, because they were fed up with Blizzard's change in philosophy, I think Ghostcrawler even said that he left, because of differences in design decisions, or something like that.

[Mormolyce]

You would have to know Blizzard's internal politics and Rob personally to even hazard a guess at that.

GC just took another job, it's called having a career. It's actually amazing how long people stay in one job in game design - in my industry average turnover is something like 3-4 years. Some of those Blizzard people have been there for 20 years.

[Darsithis]

Don't post just to bash (with misinformation) and cause drama.