Everyone put in 20k hours to the WOW TBC Gold game feels tied to it and it's to get better. . Right? Those 20k hours were not for nothing. . Right?

I feel as the cost of building the mmo genre will be nearly impossible to get into without prior base.

There is a couple of ones on the horizon with a theoretical endless budget like fresh universe and ashes of invention but those mmos would have to be polished to perfection and radical to get folks to stay on them along with my hopes for them are not quite significant.

I used to talk with Hazzikostas regularly in Vanilla. We played on exactly the exact same server. He had been one of the most friendly and intelligent players I have ever met. I can't fathom that he is genuinely incompetent. There's just no way. He came into the gambling sector via guild management like Pardo and Kaplan.

This is what I remember . He was one of those posters who persuaded me to not get involved and donate something to EJ - like a lurker and use other people's mathematics to my benefit. He was a prick then and he is a prick today.

They never developed for the game they played, they moved from EQ to WoW. But Ion came from WoW and now develops WoW. It might just be coincidence, but I wonder whether it's related. WoW's present condition might be his attempt to mend all the issues he had with early WoW as a raider, which caters to his particular experience and preferences, which might simply flat out not work in an existing game. It means he's molded it to exactly what he wants, which involved cutting off chunks and sewing on brand new ones to attempt to get it to match.

However, in the case of both Pardo and Kaplan, they were designing a fresh new game. They were able to bring all their encounters from EQ ahead and employ them, but they were not hacking apart an present game. Maybe if they were hired to work on EverQuest, it might have experienced similarly disastrous results.

He could be the most intelligent participant but the most incompetent game director. They are not mutually exclusive. I am not saying he definitely is incompetent, but my impression from the interviews he did is that he don't know what the players want or he is in a position where he's at the stage of no return and end up doubling down and defending the game designs.

He grey parses in raid, and maybe runs 1-3 mythic plus dungeons per week even early in patches while his guild funnels him gear probably.

He lives in a bubble, and I'm convinced he can not understand as many cannot who reside in these bubbles but buy WOW TBC Classic Gold the guy is very intelligent, it just doesn't apply to his existing occupation .