I’m sorry people are calling BFA trash and the worst expansion ever made, that’s really inappropriate of them.
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People are so gullible they will blame the public figure instead of the economic analysts making the true calls behind them.
Worse are the people calling for him to be fired for it. Because apparently someone’s passion and living should be sacrificed on the whims of disgruntled players.
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Should we call it innovative, great fun and pat Ion on the back then?
What is it you liberals want exactly?
I swear you’re all mommas boys
I think he should be fired ASAP.
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He’s just the public face so ad hominem attacks on him are peurile.
HOWEVER;
Someone(s), somewhere at Blizzard HQ are responsible for the extremely poor decision making and design implementation, and looked at what is frankly an embarassment of an expansion and gave it the green light.
Some extreme performance management of the decision makers is needed.
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Well, that’s how the world works in the private sector, if you screw up and lose the company money, you also have to deal with the consequences of that failure. A lot of executive leaders have been sacked due to poor performance.
And sometimes it was necessary as well to get rid of them, and the company has fared a lot better because of it.
Blaming it on the big shots isn’t cutting it too much either, if you’re a strong developer you’ll cut through and make it as it should be. Lets just remember that Chilton was the leader for the start of Legion, and that turned out a rather good expansion in the start. Ion however isn’t strong as a director, he just follows orders and that’s about it.
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I miss Legion tbh, that game was palatable, vs. this garbage is not
Don’t apologise for me.
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Indeed the OP does not speak for me.
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What do you want me to call the expansion that took WoD’s lack of content and added everything that people hated in Legion and somehow made it even worse?
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You cannot say sorry for other people. You can do it for yourself only. You also have 0 pvp achivements, so you do not know how broken pvp is now.
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Economic analyst has no impact on game design. Even if supposedly Ion was under pressure to do things he think is not right to do he always could resign.
I think he had enough freedom in desisions and the fail of bfa especially pvp part is his own responsibility.
I like how some can blame evil Activision but not the guy in charge of the game. Whilst I believe the Dev team all have their share of blame, the one in charge always gets the greatest portion.
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Player opinion =/= him losing the company money. You have no proof he has made those decisions or that the ones he has made have actually been detrimental other than your own opinion of him. That is not grounds for calling for him to be fired and never will be.
There is no lack of content as there was in WoD, saying that as someone who has played both expansions extensively. It has also done the things Legion did well better (Keystones, Raids, AP, etc)
I don’t blame Activision, I also don’t blame Ion. Unless you’re employed by the company and can tell us all who is actually making what decision and where, then I’m not going to just assume and go for the easiest Scapegoat in the company.
You can presume what you like. In the real world a person is responsible when they are the boss.
You can not speak for others as this topic demonstrates.
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Oh, but they very much do.
Designing around what others dictate that will make money is different than just designing.
If they didn’t have influence, the CFO wouldnt be getting 15 million bonuses just for signing a contract.
Just have to look at the state of the game now and the level of irritation on forums and other platforms to determine that BfA isn’t that much of a success and well liked. And unlike Legion, BfA is entirely directed by Ion, while Legion was a co-op directing.
WoW IS the players, without the players there is no WoW, it’s that simple. So yes in a matter of speaking, player opinion does equate to him losing money, especially those that don’t voice their concern and just leave. The silent leavers are as important as those who voice their concern.
Oh really? Using the forums as an example? A relatively tiny portion of the playerbase uses the forums, and a smaller percentage of that is complaining. In game, the state of the content is fine and I keep seeing players coming in.
‘Silent leavers’ are, until sub numbers are released, irrelevant to this discussion, because there is no way of counting them or even knowing if they exist.
And besides, you’re just going to assume that the general opinion is negative? I’d like to see your evidence, but I have a feeling it’ll be anecdotal at best.
Cringe and bluepilled.
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