The creator of Twilight Devastation has left Blizzard

[Zhujiang-mograine]

@Nancy-aggramar

Idk, something feels off when a spell that comes from something that isn’t even your character isn’t right.

Makes your class seem entirely pointless really. You just stack a corruption like TD and it would do literally 70% of your overall damage over a Mythic+. I prefer it when my abilities do the damage through gear. That may just be my personal opinion though

No, I get this completely. I just enjoyed it as an end of expansion silliness.

If TD had been there since day 1, then yeah it would have sucked.

[Gráinne-earthen-ring]

@Heramaar-argent-dawn

Not wanting to derail this topic too much

Fair point. Thank you.

OK, so I never came across this guy before, but from what I see, he seems to have worked on all those systems and gimmicks that, IMO, have made the game worse.

Ofc, he may just have been assigned to them. OTOH, he probably could have arranged a move and worked on something more constructive if he’d really wanted. And he touts Corruptions and Azerite Traits as things he is proud of. So no, on that basis, I am not grieving his departure.

[Amonet-ravencrest]

@Zhujiang-mograine

Anyone who disagrees is whiny envious DPS player.

Counter argument anyone who relies and/or likes on RNG big DMG proc effects like TD, Is etc needs to learn how to play their class.

[Rektem-stormscale (Rektem)]

@Heramaar-argent-dawn

Which is a good thing. I wish many more Websites and Studios would do that, especially Bungie on their forums and also Reddit.

Get rid of the like feature too. Else you all are just corporate bootlickers.

[Shihiroki-kirin-tor]

Good riddance, most of his contributions could be summed up by : the game would be better off without those. I’m pretty sure bfa would have been better without corruptions and Azerite.

[Tah-earthen-ring]

@Shihiroki-kirin-tor

Good riddance, most of his contributions could be summed up by : the game would be better off without those.

[Shihiroki-kirin-tor]

The issue is that dude was not willing to accept any kind of constructive criticism towards his work on bfa and SL systems. If you can’t take feedbacks then I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be using social media or more broadly communicating on the internet.

I would not be that harsh towards him if he admitted his work was not as good as he intended, instead of going the way of saying that players are wrong and don’ t even know what they want.

[Ixyion-blackhand]

A simple dislike to like ratio easier to see, not everyone wants to read thousands of comments and calculate which overweights.

People have the right down vote crap like “Santa inc.” For example.

[Nátural-mograine]

Good or bad, people have been asking for new blood in the game-design sphere and his contributions seemed to have weighed heavily on recent gameplay mechanics.

I hope he does well in the future, I assume he, like most devs, just wanted people to enjoy what he made.

[Oazies-tarren-mill]

Is this guy the reason why my friend decked in full pvp gear got globalled by a tentacle in pvp and started to go raid instead?

[Osangar-aszune (Osangar)]

@Ixyion-blackhand

just maybe people can express their dislike of something bad

Then express your dislike of something rather than coming up with statements like:

@Ixyion-blackhand

He can rot in a ditch…

or

@Ixyion-blackhand

wasn’t he also one of the snowflake devs

Explain why you don’t like something and what it means to you without bashing into the person or their beliefs if they don’t align with yours. That is how to express dislike rather than ad hominem attacks.

[Murphyjones-ravencrest]

Who cares, fire them all.

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

No bias in this title what so ever He did a bit more than Twilight Devastation.

After four and a half years, Jeff Hamilton announced his last day at Blizzard Entertainment. As a senior game designer, Jeff contributed to many of the extensive systems and unique rewards found in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands, including Azerite, Corruptions, Shards of Domination, and items with novel special effects such as the Pocket-Sized Computation Device, Jaithys, the Prison Blade, and Rae’shalare, Death’s Whisper.

https://twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/status/1512534427775094784

https://twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/status/1512534421059952640

https://twitter.com/JeffAHamilton/status/1512534428693659650

Known as a very friendly and approachable developer who frequently shared design insights on Twitter and the forums, Jeff helped work on the endgame zones, dungeons, and raid content found in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands. In addition to designing the Mythic+ Rating system in Patch 9.2 and the Party Sync feature to allow more players to experience the game together, he was also credited with helping redesign the Paladin class in Shadowlands, adding Holy Power back to each specialization and reintegrating it into their core gameplay and talents. Additionally, he worked on a great number of the novel special effect gear in Battle for Azeroth and Shadowlands , including the Mechagon Punchcards, Inscrutable Quantum Device, Dark Ranger’s Quiver, Shards of Domination, Azerite Traits, and Corruptions. Before joining Blizzard Entertainment, Hamilton was a QA tester at Electronic Arts, an associate designer at Cryptic Studios working on City of Heroes, and a senior systems designer at Trion Worlds working on Trove, Atlas Reactor, and RIFT.

Just a sample of the many things that Jeff helped create during his time working on World of Warcraft.

Love them or hate them, his contributions raised the bar for future development, adding substantially more unique and interesting things to the World of Warcraft. No word yet on his future endeavors, but we wish him well and thank him for all his work within the Warcraft universe.

Senior Game Designer Jeff Hamilton Announces Last Day at Blizzard Entertainment

[Seluniel-nordrassil]

@Punyelf-draenor

Known as a very friendly and approachable developer who frequently shared design insights on Twitter and the forums

Based on some posts above, this part has to be sarcastic

[Retributor-draenor (Retributor)]

Corruption effects were fun and made gameplay for tanks fun.

The grind to obtain them was not

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

@Seluniel-nordrassil

@Punyelf-draenor

Known as a very friendly and approachable developer who frequently shared design insights on Twitter and the forums

Based on some posts above, this part has to be sarcastic

He’s not someone I interacted with on twitter myself but it would seem odd for Wowhead to report that unless it was true.

What have you seen online that contradicts that?

[Retributor-draenor (Retributor)]

90% of cia bots will fail this challenge ;/ sad

[Seluniel-nordrassil]

@Punyelf-draenor

@Seluniel-nordrassil

@Punyelf-draenor

Known as a very friendly and approachable developer who frequently shared design insights on Twitter and the forums

Based on some posts above, this part has to be sarcastic

He’s not someone I interacted with on twitter myself but it would seem odd for Wowhead to report that unless it was true.

What have you seen online that contradicts that?

Dunno I just read this above

@Shihiroki-kirin-tor

The issue is that dude was not willing to accept any kind of constructive criticism towards his work on bfa and SL systems. If you can’t take feedbacks then I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be using social media or more broadly communicating on the internet.

I would not be that harsh towards him if he admitted his work was not as good as he intended, instead of going the way of saying that players are wrong and don’ t even know what they want.

[Retributor-draenor (Retributor)]

the systems were good. they were locked behind huge grindfests/waste of time by the marketing/higherups im pretty sure ;s

[Punyelf-draenor (Punyelf)]

Ah so hearsay from another player.

I do think Blizzard in general are unwilling to back down sometimes even when the playerbase points out drawbacks with systems.