Why are so many senior devs leaving right before new expansion?
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One is a server engineer and, while the other 2 are devs, theyâre not senior devs. People change jobs, get offered more money, a different path, a different place. After youâve finished an expansion seems (to me) a good time to change.
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I donât feel that 3 devs leaving will make such a huge impact on the whole thing. Itâs the circle of life, especially in big companies like Activison Blizzard. People leave / enter such big systems daily, and in such a big corporation, everyone is replacable in a few days.
I wouldnât worry.
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Did either of them worked on priest/druid talents? It definetly looks like zhey did.
The third one was the one working on the druid tree
Sad to see the first and third person on your list go.
Iâm not sure Iâm sad about the last person as I happened to read this âP.S. My personal favorite ability that I made was Convoke the Spirits.â 
Also, the first guy â Some of favorite things I got to work on!â âTorghastâ âI hope I helped make some of your favorite memoriesâ 
prolly tired of helping create garbage
⌠yeah, but the new talent trees are great.
Some additions are good and some bad, mistakes are made.
But yes, I agree that Convoke is an awful ability. No idea what she was thinking.
As for Torghast, I actually like it. What I donât like is the reward system around it - the problem is Soul Ash and derivatives and the way theyâre acquired and the limits that put on difficulty. But when Iâm actually inside Torghast and removed from thinking about the context of why Iâm in Torghast and presented with an appropriate challenge itâs actually reasonably fun.
I like the talent trees purely from playing with them on Wowhead, yet to see them in practice. Saying CoTS is their favorite creation makes me think theyâre kind of clueless. Iâll never forget SL S1 having rbg teams with about 4 boomkins convoking at the same time, on feral I jumped e.g. a resto shaman and one-shotted them, game over. How can anyone think a rng spell that instantly casts a bunch of spells, sometimes a bunch of starsurges or bites, is good is beyond me. It got nerfed but itâs about the last ability I wanna see in this game because with this kind of a spell youâre not really playing the game. And itâs been kept in the DF tree.
Sorry for rant.
Re: Torghast⌠Eeach to their own I guess, I very strongly dislike it, especially the tuning at launch and knowing weâre supposed to run this for who knows how long every week.
I kind of like the Gauntlet as I prefer it to fighting trash, but itâs still the kind of content I donât wanna see as mandatory.
Game developers come and go all the time in the entire industry, I wouldnât worry about it unless itâs a proper exodus. In fact, if I remember correctly, Blizzard is well above the standard when it comes to retaining devs.
Donât you think itâs time to lose some weight?
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People change jobs all the time and no one bats an eye, a Blizzard dev does it and people think âitâs not looking goodâ. You could also see it as them making room for someone even better, so maybe it IS looking good.
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Sorry OP, but your post is kinda paranoid. There is nothing strange in few people leaving most likely for a better jobs.
most ppl hates it? source? ask 5 random ppl 4 will hate or dislike. itâs bad design, in df we will have new badly designed mini games. hype
when working for blizz too long, everything becomes a better job
Negativity in the community will never end right?The people say goodbye and move on.Thatâs all.
Videogame developers are always leaving one studio to join another for various reasons.
3 devs leaving the WoW and Blizzard studios does not mean your access to WoW and everything connected to Blizzard gets shut down at 00.00.01 25/8/2022.
what a silly comment, why so hyperbole