Ghostcrawler to leave Blizzard Entertainment

Honestly, everyone who thinks this is a great thing... geez.
This guy had arguably the roughest job in all of electronic gaming.. :-(

Originally Posted by Drithien

I am not talking about the changes in the game in general, but about his own department, where he was the lead, so, yeah, they were his decisions in the end, his responsibility. You could have taken the time to notice how I didn't refer to any other part of the game; only class design. Instead you had to share with me your story of "unfathomability."

I didn't mention the game as a whole either. Keep trying.

Shame. I liked the fella.

He knew how to deal with the self-entitled know-it-all cocky vocal minority part of WoW community.

leaving a sinking ship

he always was a smart one

Originally Posted by Xolotl

leaving a sinking ship

he always was a smart one

My thoughts exactly. The fanboy tears though are a delicious bonus.

Originally Posted by Faroth

"Guys, I have a great idea. The best way to get more players and keep them playing is to exclude 95% of them from EVERY seeing the majority of endgame content! They'll keep subscribing to not play anything we put in patches amidst the plethora of new and more approachable MMOs that have flooded the market in the last decade!"

You're a genius.

Though I do agree with leveling having more challenge and taking longer than a couple days of an 18 month expansion.

WOTLK and TBC had more subs

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meet the new boss, same as the old boss

I would like to nominate [Basic Campfire] as new Lead Systems Designer for World of Warcraft.

Originally Posted by Kaleredar

I like how the people rejoicing in GC's departure can't articulate anything beyond trite, hashed meme posts.

GC's vision of the game was to cut away what made it great. No thanks.

good riddance

Originally Posted by Mafic

GC's vision of the game was to cut away what made it great. No thanks.

If you played the game for armor pen and magic resist... can't say I share your image of "great."

In fact he tried to bring back difficult heroic dungeons, one of the things I miss most... it was the community that bitched and moaned those into the ground.

Originally Posted by Sarac

Please, do share at what he actually did. And I mean in details...I can look up a job title on wikipedia as well.

you dont have to check up on wikipedia to know what he actually did. What he did was take a lot of crap from a lot of people and for the most part dealt with it very well. He made mistakes sure...but let the first person who is completely perfect cast the first stone. The Wow community is such a toxic environment and I'm surprised he handled it for so long.

After Cata all I will say is, good riddance

Ghostcrawler leave.

Nothing surprising given the new wow community and turn blizzard is getting worse, bye greg!

Originally Posted by deathonabun

I would like to nominate [Basic Campfire] as new Lead Systems Designer for World of Warcraft.

Der hur bersic cermpfer

Originally Posted by Xolotl

leaving a sinking ship

he always was a smart one

If Blizzard is a sinking ship, then 99% of other game developers never left drydock.

The hate people leveled at him is ridiculous. He nerfed your class a few times? That's called game balance. Considering balance the latter half of WoW's lifetime has been consistantly pretty good (especially compared to Classic and much of TBC) I'd say he did a pretty damn good job.

And before anyone mentions PvP, all I can say is L2P. That's the sort of language people like that tend to understand, right?

My speculation based on a few facts.


WoW's population is in a severe decline from BC/WotLK numbers, this is fact. That's upwards of a hundred million $USD lost every month in revenues.


Would I be happy if I had 10,000,000 invested in Blizzard stock? I would not be happy.


I'm betting it was more along the lines of "We at Blizzard thank you for your service, but expect your resignation within 72 hours"


What I hope, is that we get someone to direct the game again, who was in love with Burning Crusade, kills LFG, LFR and makes the social aspect of the game priority #1 again. Millions will quit, many more millions will return.

Originally Posted by Durandro

If Blizzard is a sinking ship, then 99% of other game developers never left drydock.

I don't think Blizzard is a sinking ship but more WoW is. The fact we got a highly conservative expansion coming up in an effort to stall for time instead of a bold attempt to reclaim lost subscribers only highlights this.

The hate people leveled at him is ridiculous. He nerfed your class a few times? That's called game balance. Considering balance the latter half of WoW's lifetime has been consistantly pretty good (especially compared to Classic and much of TBC) I'd say he did a pretty damn good job.

Well I think we can all take a pretty good guess at what class you play...

And before anyone mentions PvP, all I can say is L2P. That's the sort of language people like that tend to understand, right?

Hand-waving away glaring PvP issues, hmmm? I can suddenly see why you idolize GC so much.

Originally Posted by Tharkkun

Unless you're an executive, software development doesn't pay that well.

Yes it does.

Originally Posted by arnoldr45

I'm betting it was more along the lines of "We at Blizzard thank you for your service, but expect your resignation within 72 hours"

Talked to a friend today who said that the rumor around the office was that the higher-ups didn't like the way he interacted with his class teams. The hunter team was supposedly ready to throw a coup a few months ago...

Yeah I have no way to prove what I'm saying, so take that as you will. Personally I'm sad he's leaving.

He's the hero class Azeroth deserves, but not the one in needs right now. So we'll blame him for all the class imbalances because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian(horde) druid. A watchful protection paladin tank. A (pre 4.3? unkillable god mode where it took literally a 10 man raid with at least 3 healers 10+ minutes popping every offensive/(more so)defensive cd in the game oh wait aren't they still like that? I haven't really played since end of cata) blood death knight.