Jay Wilson Leaving Blizzard

[Sosoulsu]

Leaving voluntarily
Mmmmhm

[TheDeeGee]

Oh no Blizzard is dieing!

xD

[Deleted]

Beware, people saying "Blizzard is doomed" in 3.. 2.. 1....

Its quite the opposite. I think with Jay's departure Blizzard games might become better again.

[Howard Moon]

Well it was his idea to put the auction house in D3.

So as far as I'm concerned: "fuck that loser" and good riddance.

[alucardtnuoc]

Meh, i guess people don't understand the concept of that Blizzard Teams develop games, not a singular person.

No, they do not. Same thing happened with Ghostcrawler, people bitched about him and now that he is gone you get threads asking for him to return.

[ausciswhitemale]

Destroyed everything he touched.

[Cæli]

So, I don't know what he did exactly nor I think what he said is that terrible, there's persons saying worse things here, and everywhere too, we're all humans, but I wonder if this will make some people think the game got better even though the game would be close to what it would be with Jay

[The Kao]

Destroyed everything he touched.

I assume you've been by his side for all his life if you can make such an offhanded statement. God beware anyone here would dare to judge without knowing.


Seriously, it's just a man changing his job. Nothing more, nothing less. People do this stuff, get over it.

[Durandro]

While he was only one person on the team, he was a project leader. Thus his direction influences the entire game.

I think this is reflected in the fact that shortly after he left D3 the game rapidly improved under a new lead designer.

[caervek]

Are you trying to compare Jay to cancer and Blizzard to... something that can get cancer?

That's actually a remarkably accurate comparison.

[Mormolyce]

He can be the nicest guy in the world, but on the game development level he sucks and is an ass.

Is that so? Do you work for Blizzard, did you see him in meetings? Did you catch up with him over a watercooler and discuss game design? Did you have to debug his code?

You know Diablo 3 wasn't one guy's game right?

[thilicen]

Is that so? Do you work for Blizzard, did you see him in meetings? Did you catch up with him over a watercooler and discuss game design? Did you have to debug his code?

You know Diablo 3 wasn't one guy's game right?

And you know that a director/project manager has a tad more power than the guy writing the quest text right? JW was flat out responsible for the Auction House and the loot system that followed as well as other crap like non-random fixed maps, didn't take that long after his departure for that bullshit to get scrapped.

[Eazy]

YES! At long last!!!

After fucking up D3, he tried to fuck up Legion with RNG, now he's leaving Blizzard, awesome! It's such a great news for today. :-)

[Koji2k11]

JUSTICE RAINS FROM ABOVE on jay .....

[Fabinas]

OK he left the building. Thing is, will his legacy and work done for Legion is gone too or will it torment us till next expansion?

[Chromeshellking]

And you know that a director/project manager has a tad more power than the guy writing the quest text right? JW was flat out responsible for the Auction House and the loot system that followed as well as other crap like non-random fixed maps, didn't take that long after his departure for that bullshit to get scrapped.

Not to mention As I recalled it, he was told repeatedly by many in the gaming community they didn't like/want a majority of those ideas and he just brushed them off repeatedly as minor and inconsequential.

[Deleted]

Ain't he the guy that called his coworker, quote "Fuck that loser" end quote, back in 2012?

[Deleted]

YES! At long last!!!

After fucking up D3, he tried to fuck up Legion with RNG, now he's leaving Blizzard, awesome! It's such a great news for today. :-)

He already did it, man. Legion is basically Diablo 3 from third person camera angle and sub fee attached to it. With the biggest ability pruning ever youd be better off playing diablo, your character will use roughly the same ammount of abiilities and do the same content, adventure modes, rifts, etc.

[Artuleska]

Yeah, fuck this guy. Mind my french. I was there for Hellgate: London and saw the potential that game had at the time. I was there for vanilla D3 and the whole real money auction house, and I was there for Warlords of Draenor, arguably the worst expansion in World of Warcraft's history. I'm glad this guy is gone.

[Dhrizzle]

The guy was behind the RMAH and the game design being worked around that, that's good enough for me to pop a big bottle of champagne to see him go. I guess it's no major coincidence that the WoW token popped up soon after he joined the WoW team.

I really doubt the RMAH was developed and implementation d by one guy. I'm guessing there was a lot of discussion with Blizzard's upper-management and possibly the expansion cu over at the parent-company (still Vivendi at that time?) Besides, if you ignored the AHs they wouldn't have much of an effect on your game. There was some talk about drop-rates adjusted to account for the other source of gear, but it didn't make the game unplayable or anything.