Brian Holinka Leaving World of Warcraft Team

Originally Posted by Tisane

Selling pitchforks and torches! 100G each! Buy 3 and receive a 4th pitchfork or torch for free! Also offering discounted family packs!

Sad day for all PVP players. I couldnt expect anyone else then brian who left the state of pvp in good balance. Good luck at your next job you will be missed by the pvp community you built.

Originally Posted by Dys

Pfffhahahahahahahaha. Oh man, that's worth the laugh of a lifetime. Thanks guy, you deliver pure gold.

Well it's the truth, I'd rather Ion than literally any other previous Dev, with the Exception of Chris Metzen, Ion is my next favourite person on WoW's team.

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Originally Posted by Dystemper

Right cause WOD was so fucking wonderful and the shit show that is 7.2 and 7.2.5

7.2 and 7.2.5 have been very enjoyable for myself. And I don't see what WoD has to do with what I said.

Originally Posted by Baine

Then you will ask for Greg's head....

Actually if you wanna check I never had an issue with Greg back in the days of Cata and MoP

Originally Posted by Darth Dracula

...Ion is one of the best Devs WoW has ever had.

I agree that he is one of the best Raid Designers... but his world design needs a lot of work. The storytelling is great but some of the questing (need 15 bear fur but not all bears have fur for some reason) is really old. Densely packed areas... making travel a chore is fine in a raid were you should be clearing trash... but under geared... while leveling... no thank you.

So who will be the next target people can aim there ire at?

Shoulda been celestalon, his fault for the ability pruning for the incoming tablet version of WoW

Originally Posted by segoplout

To the Wow2 project like some of the other big guns. Future looking good for Wow.

I really hope thats so.

Originally Posted by Y2KOo

“Woman and Men” It’s the little things that show just how much a fu*k wit people are!! Tell your story walking

Wow, it's crazy how insecure you are if you feel that the word "women" being placed before "men" gets you that butthurt.

Originally Posted by Kawakazi

He's just an asshole to players that takes a very "YOU'RE WRONG I AM RIGHT" stance, and then is shown to be wrong like a week later. An extremely recent example: https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...eral_concerns/

Much like the Shaman incident from WoD beta (I think that was the timeframe) : "most of you probably had no clue that you were a little overpowered, and that's fine." - Celestalon

Regardless of how much info was shown and how we were when live hit, he never admitted he was wrong even though he was proven to be wrong.

Tbh he should just stick to hair styling/coloring since he's more adept with that then w/e he does at Blizzard anymore.

Originally Posted by Gadzooks

Because they're the ones making the poor decisions?

It's not like he was a low level grunt. He was the lead designer for PvP. It's his job title, or was. He was in charge, and approved all of it. He managed the team that designed it. He called the shots. His boss is Ion - Ion was most certainly not doing the design level work on PvP.

Why do people keep putting ALL the blame on devs? Keep in mind, these guys are trying to find a balance in designing a game they want to play and make while giving players things they want. Players wanted a more stream lined and accessible PVP format that levels the playing field for all, and in giving that to the players they cry out "devs ruined the game!"
It's just funny, tragic, and sad that this is an xpac designed for all the players that wanted things like this, a spec well as alternatives to raiding, constant power progression, and overall reasons to log in day after day, and players just bash the product made the way they wanted it.
I literally look forward to the hilarity that will ensue for the bashing of the next person to step into the light of lead PVP design.
***Just reposting this so you again read all of it instead of picking one thing to argue against. Pick apart the whole arguement, not cut and paste in a bad attempt to seem more valid***
On a side note, PVP has always been imbalanced and with FotM specs and team comps, it's just that now there is less "chess like" thinking and more of who can Zerg who the hardest.

Originally Posted by Donald Hellscream

So who will be the next target people can aim there ire at?

the annoying blizzard white knighters might be a good start

Originally Posted by berdrek

ion hazzikostas as the lead designer for WoW is probably the best thing that has happened to the game in many many years

possibly the biggest misspelling of "worst" i've ever seen in my life

Originally Posted by dacoolist

Hoodrych is the next WoW Lead PVP Designer , incoming warrior buffs pls ^_-

Tell me, when was the last time a lead developer of some aspect of WoW left and people didn't say the EXACT same thing about them?

Originally Posted by RobertoCarlos

the annoying blizzard white knighters might be a good start

Or the petulant manchildren, the list is really quite massive, plenty of targets for a pathetic witchhunt.

Wouldn't be surprised if someone tried to use this fact in pushing the agenda that WoW is dying, even though Holinka seems to have been REALLY disliked by the players mostly affected by his area.

Originally Posted by Donald Hellscream

Or the petulant manchildren, the list is really quite massive, plenty of targets for a pathetic witchhunt.

Yeah its almost like people want people who are passionate about the game they care so much to defend rather than a yes man who only cares about collecting his paycheck or early retirement fund, you're still welcome to donate to his retirement fund he set up btw

The Warcraft franchise is in a larger free fall than AMD stock on a bad news day.

When is the last time we get a new big PvP map?

How is the PvP gear? It doesn't exist.

I thought Blizzard didn't even have people to work on PvP.
They all go to Overwatch and HotS.

the game is going through hard changes, this doesnt mean wow is in free fall, its been in free fall" , Ian is sticking to his guns, and they fully expect that if people dont like it, they have plenty of other things you can spend money on, dont fret blizz fans, more to complain about soon