Last edited by Relapses; 2019-12-04 at 05:05 AM.
I get it, you aren't hearing from them the words you want to hear. but that isn't radio silence. That is Blizzard letting you know that you aren't the only one that they listen to. Radio silence means you hear nothing... not even crickets...
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It's clear that Blizzard and the angry butthurt brigade have differing opinions on what entails 'failure'....
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Ion is great at engineering, design, spreadsheets, timetables basically all the stuff thats needed to get the job done.
Ion is horrible at fun, imo.
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I know I am, I don’t mind the gameplay stuff because mythic raiding is still mythic raiding to me, but when the previous story’s told keep getting change or forgotten about, it makes it hard for me to get invested. I like to play my character and see the story evolve around it. Right now, it’s like watching a circus be deconstructed.
Well and transmog, I love transmog but since Blizz tried saving money and cut 3/4 of raid tiers, it’s just horrible.
Last edited by Soikona; 2019-12-04 at 09:23 AM.
Legion and Bfa were my favorite expansions with multiple times as much content as any of the previous ones. I disagree that there is some colossal failure here.
Most people are clueless about software development processes. They somehow imagine that all those cancer features sneak by themselves and the poor lead and director knew nothing about them so they are just scapegoats in their eyes.
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Except it is because those people give the ok to push that thing out. Thats why they are responsible for the product. Its not billy the intern its not random noname designer xyz who decides what comes out in the final product.
Stop generalizing your own opinion about an expansion and turning that into: EVERYONE hated X.
It simply isnt true and doesnt add anything to whatever you are trying to tell. (whatever that may be)
On topic:
Ion might be the lead designer (or director) whatever his title is. But i am 100% sure he doesnt decide alone what is good or bad for the game.
There is a whole management team around him, making the decisions with him. Changing that Ion for whomever else, will not change the direction of the game in a big way.
I have said it before and i will say it again:
I see so many hate for every expansion since TBC, yet here most of those posters are: still playing and complaining.
Please make up your mind, stop playing or stop complaining about literally everything.
Sure you can have some gripes with certain systems but dont tell us you think the whole game is garbage and keep playing.
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Ion isnt to blame on his own for the things that are being implemented.
You are being clueless about the fact that these decisions and systems are based on 1 persons ''job title''.
There will be a whole team deciding which systems make the cut.
2 obvious things that are official at least
1- they flat out admit that they f8cked up in pruning and it went too far this exp, his own words that no matter how good the world is, as long ur vessel - the player - sucks, u can't enjoy it
2- vanilla numbers beat BFA by miles, that's a 15 years old game, doubt if vanilla was released in legion would even be remotely closed
that said i doubt it is Ion fault, because if u see his interview ages ago when he was still raider, then see his actions as game director, they are exact opposite, if anything, Ion showed me his position is just a puppet whose strings is the highers in command and he just do what they tell him to do
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http://youtu.be/x3ejO7Nssj8 7:20+ "Alliance remaining super power", clearly blizz favor horde too much, that they made alliance the super power
You watched too many interviews of designers talking about how they brain storm together and assumed theres some democratic fairy tale going on when it comes to the final decision of what happens with the game.
The reality is more like. The designer team is tasked with coming up with the best features they can brain storm and the upper heads decide what goes what stays what is changed.
The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know.' The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything. And I have prided myself on my ability to learn
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http://youtu.be/x3ejO7Nssj8 7:20+ "Alliance remaining super power", clearly blizz favor horde too much, that they made alliance the super power
I never said the designers are part of said decision.
But it is a whole MANAGEMENT team making the decisions which systems (that are brainstormed) make the cut. It isnt Ion alone.
You even said it yourself: the upper heads (plural)
It isnt only Ion's decision which systems make the cut, i wouldnt be surprised if all department managers are part of the decision.
Since you cant design a system if you cant work it out gameplay wise / storywise / etc etc.
So stop spreading the bullshit it is only Ion making the calls on the systems. since he isnt making those calls alone.
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Like everything, it is all subjective.
He might think Legion was garbage, and you enjoyed the shit out of it and found it great.
People confuse their own opinions with facts a lot on this forum.
And this forum seems to run on:
If i didnt like it, nobody liked it or you are not allowed to like it.
You are trying too hard to defend Ion's bullshit. He does have the final say since thats his job. Now we could also write a novel about how that went down in Bfa and all the cancer he greenlighted. Who are you gonna blame the bfa systems on? The story guy? The cleaning lady ?