He absolutely lives in a bubble, and I'm convinced he can not understand that
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Once upon a time that his guilds website was THE place for understanding what goes on beneath the hood of this game, which was spear headed by Ion himself and we believed we wanted someone for him to shoot ghostcrawlers seat in the table... But it turns out that just because you are really knowledgeable about something does not mean you should be in control of it.
For example say you've got the best doctor in the world at your hospital, or best mechanic at your shop or whatever... Why can you stop them from doing that what they are obviously amazing at to do some thing else like running the hospital or store? You would not, so why did we do that with Ion?
It's not that Ion isn't competent, or smart, or he is"playing out of his league"... It's that he's not even playing the same sport anymore. Game director of a game is not the exact same game as what got him to where he is, which will be theorycraft comprehension and program via numbers.
You could clearly see patterns in Nathria nerfs if his guild were heading for CE. When his guild was progressing M Sludgefist, we had the radius and damage need this week. Progressing Generals? Nerfed.There are two realities in which this may happen. They really have no idea how gamers can interact with their systems they frankly need 6 weeks of collapse things to come to the exact same conclusion the playerbase came to during Alpha. The second reality is that they're doing it on purpose, they intentionally withhold QOL modifications and obvious improvements in order to artificially extend gametime and enhance performance metrics without actually having to
cheap WOW TBC Classic Gold produce new content but rather just making present content take longer.