Ghostcrawler to leave Blizzard Entertainment

Originally Posted by DrIvoRobotnik

This "everyone's a winner!" bullshit is a disease. More games that cleanse themselves of it the better. Ruined the feel of reward when I was a kid playing soccer. It late years its crawled in to video games.

I like this post.

If you can never see failure how can you ever appreciate victory.

Originally Posted by Celista

We'll probably never know for sure, it's very common in high-level positions for people to be nudged out the door rather than fired.

And don't those announcements usually come from the company, not the individual =P

Originally Posted by Optio82

Steady Shot 10% nerf across the board as a knee jerk re-action to the opening of WotLK was bullshit and GC supported and even called for it. For that he can be hit by a bus and would not care. Don't let the door hit you GC

Steady shot was nerfed because arrow damage was rolled into bow damage and arrows were removed from the game and with the exception of Thoridal in Sunwell, Steady Shot had never taken arrow damage into account before. Please, get over yourself already. It was 6 years ago and there are much more drastic problems with the game today than your perceived slight over a completely logical nerf.

What could he be moving on to? One would think Lead Systems Designer for WoW at Blizzard would be a dream for most professionals in that industry. Something seems a little fishy about this.

He'll be missed and I'm thankful for his contribution to the game and community.

Cya GC

Gives me something else to be thankful for this Thanksgiving!!...or more to the point, my alts.

I'm a serious altoholic, so seeing someone leave who has no understanding of why ppl love alts receives a huge thumbs up from me!!

Hopefully, whoever takes the reigns, won't still have their head firmly implanted in GC's brown eye!!

Originally Posted by Daffan

I like this post.

If you can never see failure how can you ever appreciate victory.

You should probably look for victory as a life allegory in things that matter (not WoW).

Originally Posted by Daffan

I like this post.

If you can never see failure how can you ever appreciate victory.

Were is this never fail content ? Cause I sure as hell haven't seen anything like it. LOL Even LFR fails A LOT and that is the extremely forgiving content. LOL

Originally Posted by gamingmuscle

And don't those announcements usually come from the company, not the individual =P

If they're nudged out? No. Depends really.

Originally Posted by aikoyamamato

Jay Wilson is still with the company...

Its obvious who is replacing GC.

Originally Posted by FurIouS007

If Blizzard did axe him it would be bad press that no company in their right mind would want, so they wouldn't come out with it. It's better to force people to leave and make it all happy so their customer base / player base doesn't get the wrong idea of a sinking ship.

Look what happened with Jay Wilson, he wasn't fired, he left on his "own" accord, or so they say.

this is 100 percent true but at the same time you let them leave quietly not with blue post announcements and co-worker anecdotes. Now no one here will ever likely know what happened but the unless blizzard does things differently than alot of similar companies with these kinds of things this reads as more him leaving than them firing at least to me. and yeah Jay wilson wasn't fired just reassigned.

I wonder where this will go, to me it feels both bad and good for the game. Loved the man as a person.

I suspect he got sick of the hate, don't get me wrong he was a good team member for blizzard but his decisions really hurt the game especially when it came to deciding what to balance etc, here is hoping they pull a Diablo 3 and bring in someone that will apply the right changes to the game and hopefully move WoW forward into keeping it an awesome game. Blizzcon 2013 was fantasic for WOW huge following and vibe compared to blizzcon when MOP was announced so hopefully all of this will lead to the better. Good luck GC.

things not balance at min and never have been!!!! if think it's balance ya living in dream world...monks one new class keep getting nerf in all specs,mages,lock are still op.if wear leather ya against war,dk ya health gone pretty damm quick if monk.... or any leather wearing class.

Originally Posted by MissMin

Its obvious who is replacing GC.

Actually, I wouldn't be surprised. GC must have put in notice that he would be leaving, right? Maybe that's where Jay Wilson was reassigned?

GC has been training him this whole time.

Originally Posted by MissMin

Its obvious who is replacing GC.

Not just no. Hell no.

Originally Posted by Ielenia

What he means is, by your logic, as soon as something, a game in this case, is released, it already starts to decline. Sure, it will get new players, but eventually they'll leave. Everything begins to die as soon as it is born. So calling a game 'dying' is irrelevant and meaningless.

When the game was released it started to decline? So when it gained almost 13m subscribers that was declining?

Good Riddance!!!! This is the best day wow has had in a long, long, long time

I love Kalgan, and all, but i preferred GC as systems lead, because it was more innovation and less living in the old.

lets look at the pieces of the puzzle:

-pieces of gear with random stats

-GC resigns

-jay wilson mysteriously absent, seemingly no role in reaper of souls

do the math. although I hope im wrong.

Originally Posted by Shudder

When the game was released it started to decline? So when it gained almost 13m subscribers that was declining?

WoW never had 13m subscribers. The premise of your argument is fallacious.