Wow: Mike Ybarra, a look at the new director of Blizzard, and review the present after the reviews

World of Warcraft: Myriad is the 6th development embeded in the enormously multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, complying with Warlords of Draenor. It was revealed on August 6, 2015 at Gamescom 2015. The expansion was released on August 30, 2016. The development raises the existing degree cap from 100 to 110, includes artefact weapons for each and every class's specializations, includes a new location on Azeroth called the Broken Isles and presents the devil hunter hero course that begins at level 98. It initially consisted of ten 5-man dungeons and also 2 raids.

Since the deployment of the expansion of the global lands of World of Warcraft, and even long before with the alpha and beta of it, the community considered certain problematic and too restrictive elements. However, things have only begun to change a few weeks from the scandal in Activision Blizzard and the replacement at Blizzard Entertainment by J. Allen Brack by Mike Ybarra and Jennifer ONEAL .

Although the two run the company now, it is Mike Ybarra who has been calling the attention of the World of Warcraft community lately, since he himself is a veteran player of the saga. In fact, he regularly transmits the epic of him on Twitch and mentions the guild of him, denial of service, in multiple tweets.

This is how this new director of Blizzard has been forged a reputation for good and straight man at the origin of positive changes in the game that he seems to like. The community appreciates it, aduls and even asks for certain characteristics to be added to it in social networks. But, is he really the man in whom the community of Warcraft thinks?

Origins of the new Real Wow banner

Some things go wrong at World of Warcraft. Very bad. This is a finding that several players take for granted, and especially since the long delay between the deployment of Shadowlands and its first major update, the patch 9.1: chains of domination. Lack contained, lack of dialogue with the community, stubborn developers in their decisions: some blame Blizzard of many things,

However, to the surprise of many, recently the World of Warcraft developers announced multiple changes in progress and futures on patch 9.1.5, including the ability to change congregation and non-restrictions, cosmetic additions for some forgotten allied races and many plus. Modifications that are certainly minor but that should allow you to interpret several characters without feeling permanently limited and constricted.

Many World of Warcraft players perceive these changes, very well received by the community despite too long latency between requests and answers, as an initiative of Mike Ybarra. Why? Simply because things have changed since the arrival of him but also and above all because he is a regular player of Shadowlands.

Player of an ORC Warrior Arms in the Denial Service Guild at the Kingdom of Onyxia (USA), The new Blizzard director is proud to be a WOW player, and the community It is at least as proud as him. He actively plays and even completes level 20 to 21 keys, proof that he is a serious game of the game, who knows the end of the game as they say. Mike Ybarra is thus forging a very good reputation among Wow players, a personality cult like Chris Metzen or Mike Morhaime. For better or worse.

Mike Ybarra: Wow Savior?

But although it could be said that it is good that they see it so well, the director of Blizzard Entertainment is not attributed the merit of positive changes in WOW. In fact, he is very active on Twitter and regularly responds to players, and in recent days he has reminded them of some that he is only the director of Blizzard and not the director of the game of this game, which is ion hazzikostas .

Some players mention it directly with the hope that the opinion of the director of the company has some influence on the direction that the game should take, but even if one can easily imagine that a small discussion around the corner of a runner suggesting A ion hazzikostas one or two changes can occur, it would seem that this dear Mike Ybarra is not at the origin of what we see appear in recent days. He probably can have a small impact, but he is not in charge of World of Warcraft, he is still a normal (almost) player.

Discretion and failure: The recipe for anger

Thus, although he is not very well received by being at the head of decisions considered catastrophic by some, Ion Hazzikostas also generated the good decisions taken recently by the head of him himself.

Remember also that the current game director of World of Warcraft has also been a game player for a long time since he tried to defeat Hakkar the soul hunter in Zul'gurub without having killed the 5 Hakkari priests. Previously, more than 15 years. behind. Nowadays, it interprets a small Orco Chamán of the Restoration with the name of GurgThock at Kingdom Mal'ganis (USA) , still in the guild that created a Decade before, Elitist Jerks, and even if his record is not amazing because he still has a very good level in the game, at least in PVE.

Yes, then Ion Hazzikostas is playing World of Warcraft. The difference of him with Mike Ybarra is that he communicates very little (nothing), and has been in charge of the game years and although it is undoubtedly an honor for him, his fame as a game director makes him a recurring goal.

Even though Mike Ybarra has opted for the transparency card and even the cult of personality, that * does not necessarily make it a good director of Blizzard Entertainment or a Wow Savior ** (and, in reverse, can Be very good at that. Your domain, we will never really know).

On the contrary, the fact that Ion Hazzikostas opts for being quite discreet tends to convert it into an easy goal when World of Warcraft goes through a bad streak. Even if, of course, it is at the origin of many bad decisions taken for the game, their discretion tends to exacerbate the hatred of the detractors of the game that then forget that they consider their worst enemy is Actually one of its best allies when making important decisions for World of Warcraft, patch 9.1.5 is proof of it. He himself has also said that he uses mainly Twitter to read with great attention and regularly the opinions of the community without necessarily reacting them live.

Does the time cycle open to Legion will finally come to an end? Only patch 9.2 and the next expansion will tell you. Meanwhile, let's be constructive in our criticism (which does not mean that we can not criticize the game, there is simply a way to do it and ask for the resignation of the director of the game, for example, probably not the healthiest way to proceed).

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