Ion technically is also a lawyer. He was one before he joined blizzard. Tbh he is probably one od the people helping get the microsoft shit dealt with and smoothed over aswell as helping woth all the legal issues as one of the only top end people who fully understands it.
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He is also a full fledged lawyer so they probably have him helping with all the legal issues. He is probably one of the only members of blizzard who has a full understanding of the legal issues and can help those who need it.
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I can’t believe I just read this nor the words that came from your mouth. Ion being a lawyer has nothing to do with it. He’s not getting involved in any of it. LOL
He is the manager of a very large team that is in crisis. He's busy with that I would guess. Yes, he's been quiet and given the usual reaction to any public thing he says that's the best way. Perhaps he has decided that the Tom Chilton way of Gamemaster communication, i.e. practically none at all, is the best path while all of this is going on.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
Considering it's been hinted at that the next expansion will take place in Azeroth and the Jailer even attacks Azeroth during his encounter, i think one can see why this may be relevant.
And i said it in another post: Nothing that has happened during 8.3 was relevant for Shadowlands, anything related to Sylvanas was wrapped up beforehand, which was certainly intentional.
He did interviews with Preach usually, and did one with Bellular prior to Shadowlands launch if I'm not mistaken. One has jumped ship while both are very critical of the state of the game atm, dropping all bullshit and pretense and I would think that Blizzard PR wouldn't want any employee to be in touch with "negative click baiters" as some reductionist people like to label them as.
There's Sloot who did an interview with Morgan but he's not as big as others so maybe Ion/Blizz will reach out to him again who knows.
You do realise that companies that size of Blizzard will have dedicated team of legal counsel in order to deal with such matters? There will be a load of conflicts of interest to handle, confidentiality driven scenarios and a general load of MNPI that they wouldn’t just ask the Game Director of Warcraft to sub in to assist on ‘legal matters’.
"...money's most powerful ability is to allow bad people to continue doing bad things at the expense of those who don't have it."
That's very hopeful but pretty much every expansions previous history goes against this. I honestly think we'll see 10.0 launched in Q1 2023.
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9.2 is coming out in either VERY late February or March, that's my prediction.
Hasn't played WoW since August 04th, is probably busy watching tutorials for a better camera setup. The clip from the council video looks so bad.
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Yes and he has literly always been one of the members of blizzard to help with all legal issues.
He is most definately helping with what was his main career background. He is first and foremost a full fledge lawyer and with all the crap around blizzard they are going to use all they can . Including using Ion's skills.
So...why are those cinematics encrypted then if we get to see the results of them beforehand..?
That obviously completely disregards that Blizzard isn't going to announce their next Expansion announcement with a single line in a post largely meant to address internal issues.
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