They never developed for the game they played, they went from EQ to WoW

They never developed for the game they played, they went from EQ to WoW. But Ion came from WoW and now develops WoW. WoW's current state might be his attempt to fix all the problems he had with premature WoW for a raider, which caters to WOW TBC Gold his specific experience and preferences, which could just flat out not function in an existing game. It means he's molded it to what he wants, which involved cutting off balls and stitching on new ones to attempt to get it to match.

However, in the instance of both Pardo and Kaplan, they had been designing a fresh new game. They were still able to bring all their encounters out of EQ forward and apply thembut they were not hacking apart an present game. Maybe if they had been hired to work on EverQuest, it might have had similarly disastrous results.

He can be the most intelligent participant but the very 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 understand what the players want or he is always in a situation where he is at the point of no return and wind up doubling defending and down the game layouts.

When you are a healer doing less overall healing than your tanks in raid you have fucked up, the guy lives in a bubble and has no idea what the sport is like for your typical or even top end player because he doesn't bother. He grey parses in raid, and maybe runs 1-3 mythic plus dungeons per week even early on in spots while his guild funnels him gear probably.

He absolutely lives in a bubble, and  cheap WOW Classic TBC Gold now I'm convinced he can't understand as many can't who reside in these bubbles but the man is quite intelligent, it simply does not apply to his existing occupation .