Rob Pardo Leaves Blizzard Entertainment - Page 5

On July 05 2014 11:04 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i do not think much speculation is required to figure out why Pardo is leaving.
He pretty much says it right in his good bye message.

he is bored of WoW after so many years
he is tired of working on the large teams required by AAA development.
and these teams get larger each year and each person in the team gets more and more specialized.

he'll tell any one who'll listen that he loved the time he got to work on Hearthstone.

all the heavy lifting for Hearthstone is over

Pardo doesn't want to go back to managing and co ordinating multiple teams of 100s of people where he never gets to put his own finger prints on the nuts and bolts of the game in development.

he has alluded to all of these issues in previous interviews over the past year without ever expressing anger or dissatisfaction with his job. which is smart PR on his part. obviously, Pardo is very media savvy.

one thing is crystal clear: he no longer experiences the same ultra high level of job satisfaction that he did in his first few years at Blizzard.

On July 05 2014 12:02 BoX wrote:


In the same way we haven't experienced that level of ultra high user satisfaction as players of Blizzard games. Weird correlation.

On July 04 2014 07:34 Spaylz wrote:


LoL also has a division system, and I believe it is well-liked. I personally think that ladder system is excellent.

On July 05 2014 05:48 Sub40APM wrote:

It was that and the release of of a non-playable demo of Dominion:Storm over Gift 3. The demo that was shown at E3 wasnt even a demo of the game, it was basically a movie that Ion Storm tricked the press/E3 attendees with. But it looked so good that Blizzard decided they had to step up their game to compete, which is when they went back and basically fundamentally re-designed the game to make it what it was.

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-down-in-flames

On July 05 2014 12:02 BoX wrote:


In the same way we haven't experienced that level of ultra high user satisfaction as players of Blizzard games. Weird correlation.

On July 05 2014 12:04 Plansix wrote:

Just you and some other other folks on the internet. Everyone I know likes the blizzard games.

On July 04 2014 21:21 Kaos_StarCraft wrote:
Lessons Learned from Warcraft 3: (2009)

- Disorganised chat (chat was amazing and had great functionality?)
- Disconnected from single player experience (wat)
- New players got pwned (define new)
- Ladder system served only the elite (errrrrrr lol?)
- Can't find a custom game except for DotA (not true again?)

Is that actually real? They just listed all the reasons that made WC3 fucking amazing but think they're the highest priority negatives?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL BLIZZARD (Y)

On July 05 2014 14:19 [SXG]Phantom wrote:
can someone edit the first post to make it less subjective?

I mean, if you want to criticize micro transactions and that kind of stuff, you can, but the post implies that Rob was against that, and tries to give the impression that rob left because he hated that blizzard is "greedier" and uses "uses an unfair "buy advantages for real money" model.".

Wich could be true, but could be not. The OP and parallelunive are trying to give the impression that Blizzard is turning evil abd Rob left because of that, and now its the end of blizzard. I think that for a news this important, the post should be more objective.

Anyway, my opinion:

Rob sure was a very importan person for Blizzard, and the blizzard we know today woudn't exist if it wasn't because of him.

But Blizzard will keep going, and will keep making great games, because it doesn't matter how important one person is, he is just a person, and a single person doesn't make the game.

Im sure that we will see more of him, he will most probably stay in the videogame buisness, so i'm looking forward to what will he bring.

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As a side not, you might not like micro transactions, but callin the hearthstone buisness model "unfair, buy advantages model" shows that you probably haven't played hearthstone, or haven't played other games where a real advantage is given to players who play

On July 04 2014 06:26 Excalibur_Z wrote:
This is tremendous news. Rob Pardo was extremely influential in design and had an simplistic, elegant approach that made his credited games immensely popular. I have my own personal theories about why he's leaving, and I think he probably disagrees with the path Blizzard is taking in their recent games. Dustin Browder made a blog post about the design of Heroes of the Storm earlier today and through reading the entire thing I kept thinking "Rob Pardo would never sign off on something like this, he prefers the 'make everything overpowered' approach rather than baby-stepping and keeping things flat." Now this news comes out that Pardo is leaving. The design decisions for games like D3, SC2, Heroes, post-TBC WoW, Hearthstone have been widely criticized by many of Blizzard's "classic" fans, the ones who grew up with BW, War2, War3. That's not to say that their new design philosophy is bad, it's just different from where they were 15 years ago. Perhaps Rob believes that as an executive he's too far from working day-to-day in the trenches with the rest of the design team, and will be looking for a smaller studio where he can be more directly involved with the nitty gritty details.

On July 05 2014 12:04 Plansix wrote:

Just you and some other other folks on the internet. Everyone I know likes the blizzard games.

On July 04 2014 17:49 paralleluniverse wrote:
Heroes of the Storm fixes the many fundamental game design mistakes in Dota 2.