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Jay Wilson is leaving Blizzard
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For somebody who didn't know who he was before now, why?
doctorcdcs
Member
best of luck in your future endeavors, Jay!
Hero Prinny
Member
LMFAOOOO the first few posts tho
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
EVA UNIT 01
Member
Savage posts
Ehh I misquoted so you win.
WrenchNinja
Member
Hahaha
Interfectum
Member
Diablo 3 1.0
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Other than D3 what else was he known for?
Edit: He's been there since 2006 so I guess D3 is all he worked on.
Edit: He's been there since 2006 so I guess D3 is all he worked on.
Piston Hyundai
Member
Came for "fuck that loser."
Good work, guys.
Good work, guys.
Lots of really stupid quotes and bad decisions. Almost all 'Blizz isn't who they used to be!" hyperbolic arguments people make hinge entirely on the game he headed up. Other products can be better or worse quality, but the only one that legitimately felt like a slap in the dick was his.
Actually most recently he was working on wow, but I couldn't even tell you offhand what he was there, just some lead systems dev or something idk. I'd have to google it. Very different position. He got shuttled off there after the fuck that loser debacle.
Most recently, the initial release of Diablo 3. An unmitigated disaster that took a herculean effort to right.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
His legacy is being the scapegoat (somewhat deservedly, although not entirely) for all the terrible design decisions that went into vanilla D3, as well as poisoning his relationship with the fans by angrily lashing out at the actual creator of the series. I'm surprised it's taken him this long to leave.
Ricerocket
Member
I only know him for his fuck up with Diablo 3 vanilla.
Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Oh no.
The guy who lead development on Vanilla Diablo III and Warlords of Draenor left?
Daaaarn
Edit: oops, he only helped development for WoD.
The guy who lead development on Vanilla Diablo III and Warlords of Draenor left?
Daaaarn
Edit: oops, he only helped development for WoD.
That was a comment he left on Facebook amongst his FB friends toward the original D2 Team Blizzard North's leadership's feedback on the piss-poor reception of Diablo 3.
Thank you jay for Dawn of War. One of the greatest RTSes of all time.
Sucks that his legacy at Blizzard will always be pre-RoS Diablo 3... one of the most bungled launches and sequel concepts of all time.
he was the game director. He had to sign off on everything for it to happen. So even if stuff like difficulty levels, AH/RMAH, loot RNG tuning, etc weren't his ideas, he greenlit them.
Sucks that his legacy at Blizzard will always be pre-RoS Diablo 3... one of the most bungled launches and sequel concepts of all time.
he was the game director. He had to sign off on everything for it to happen. So even if stuff like difficulty levels, AH/RMAH, loot RNG tuning, etc weren't his ideas, he greenlit them.
zenosparadox
Member
I remember those Diablo 3 days. Vaguely recall him having some negative thoughts about the community, or was it some of the community managers or moderators on the forums? Cannot remember.
Clearly Blizzard is worse off for this /s
His "fuck that loser" was lame, but his work on Diablo 3, as far as I'm concerned, was cool albeit flawed (core vanilla gameplay was good, and the auction house was a great concept which sadly affected their loot drop rates decision in the wrong way), so I'm gonna say that it's too bad he's leaving but hey, if he's pursuing his original love, more power to him.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
It was such an absurd overreaction, too. Brevik's quotes in that article are totally benign and pretty much just "if I was making it I would have done some things differently" and Wilson and co acted like he shit on their floors or something.
SneakersSO
Member
Wait, he led on WoD? This explains so god damn much.
Yes.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
He wasn't the lead on WoD, I'm not sure where Enter the Dragon Punch got that idea.
The Wiki lists these folks as the main dudes:
He may have worked on it, but he wasn't in a high-level position.
xVodevil
Member
Yup, my thoughts!
watch the Gamespot deep dive on Overwatch. My guess is he isn't even 1% the cause of failure for Titan. Titan was like 100 buckets of sourdough that eventually overgrew the buckets, then the house, then the street, and no recovering from it.
Loved Diablo II and MoP. Hated D3 1.0 and WoD.
Well this turned out great.
It's a joke from when Wilson said something similar to criticism from the original creators of Diablo about Diablo 3.
You say that like post-expansion D3 isn't incredible.
SneakersSO
Member
Oh. Also, to be fair, my main gripes with WoD were its post launch support & end-game activities, not the main leveling components & quest line - I actually really enjoyed that part.
Best of luck to Jay Wilson in the future. You may have almost ruined Diablo, but at least you got to become an internet meme.
I can kind of understand him taking criticism personally, but I'll never be able to understand Jay's moronic game design decisions.
My favorite one, on the original insane Torment difficulty:
For a game people were slowly realizing was completely fucked as they approached their 40th hour without a single legendary drop (legendaries which were total dogshit anyway), commentary like this basically proved to everyone that this guy had locked the doors to the cockpit and was flying in circles.