Originally Posted by
Eurhetemec
Yeah, she's a highly experienced writer. The fact that your only criticisms here appear to be lore nitpicks (albeit ones a lot of people would have caught) speaks volumes, frankly. If you compare era where she's been writing to previous ones, the dialogue, motivation and so on for the characters are vastly improved. That's not all her - the improvement started in WoD (well, it started in MoP from a certain perspective, but I'd say not), and particularly in Legion, but is even more obvious in BfA and SL, which are just drastically better-written in terms of what characters say and how they say it. It doesn't really matter what what she's experienced with isn't super-high-quality stuff, because it's still higher-quality than most MMORPG writing.
(As an aside, it's interesting that some writers can write great stuff for games, but shit-tier novels - Drew Karpyshyn of Mass Effect 1/2 fame is a good example (he also wrote good stuff for SWTOR and other things). Great in-game, terrible novels. Novel/comic-book writers tend to do decently when writing for games, but even then there are exceptions - I can't remember a great example off the top of my head but I bet someone can.)
This is just sad.
You clearly don't know what a decision-maker is (I kind of wonder what job you can possible do and be so divorced from reality on this), or are desperately hoping that I don't, and I go with this bullshit definition you want to use which is "has influence". No. Decision-makers are the people who have the final say. By your logic, most employees at a well-run businesses is "decision-maker", because they have some influence on decisions. But that's nonsense. In my job, I have have absolutely massive influence over certain decisions, people listen to me or seek out my advice, but my actual decision-making power is virtually non-existent, because I don't get the final say. Thus I'm not a decision-maker. Neither is Golden.
The idea that someone pitching ideas is a decision-maker is particularly deliciously ignorant.