This is what I recall of him. He was one of the posters who convinced me to not get involved and donate something to EJ – like a lurker and utilize other people’s mathematics to WOW TBC Classic Gold my advantage. Ion was real big on jumping down people’s throats for daring to contradict him, even though he was obviously erroneous. He had been a prick and he’s a prick today.
It could just be coincidence, but I wonder if it’s related. WoW’s present condition could be his endeavor to mend all of the problems he had with early WoW as a raider, which caters to his particular experience and tastes, which could simply flat out not function in an present game. It means he has molded it to exactly what he needs, which involved cutting off balls and sewing on brand new ones to try and get it to fit.
But in the case of Pardo and Kaplan, they had been designing a new game that was new. They were able to take all their encounters out of EQ ahead and apply them, but they weren’t hacking apart an existing game. Maybe if they were hired to operate on EverQuest, it would have experienced similarly disastrous results.
He could be the most intelligent participant but the very incompetent game director. They aren’t mutually exclusive. I am not saying he certainly is incompetent, but my impression from the interviews he did is that he either don’t know what the players want or he’s always in a position where he is at the point 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 a week even early in patches while his guild funnels him equipment probably.
He lives in a bubble, and I’m convinced he can’t understand as many cannot who reside in these bubbles but the man is very smart, it just doesn’t apply to his existing occupation anymore.
Once upon a time that his guilds site was THE place for understanding what goes on beneath the hood of this game, which was spear headed by Ion himself and we thought we wanted cheap WOW TBC Gold someone like him to take ghostcrawlers chair in the table… However, it turns out that just because you’re really knowledgeable about something does not mean you should be in charge of it.
