So, anyone care to explain what his influence is. I recall my days of WoW, enjoying shit, then ghostcrawler becomes lead and it goes to shit. PvP balance drops to zero, etc...
I am just curious if the recent season 6 cluster fuck has any influence from him or if he's just sidelined getting coffee for people?
Thanks!
He claims that his job is "long term vision" when in actuality his work has always been homogenization. In wow, he made all healers basically the same, came up with all the lazy point systems that made the game feel stale and boring, gave everyone ridiculous self healing and basically ignored classes that were clearly head and shoulders over the top of everyone else. Then went on to ignore millions of people who had enough common sense to see what he was doing.
Whenever he announced he was the long term vision guy here at riot, take note that was right when they announced that they'd be reworking a lot of old champions instead of focusing on new ones. Perfect way for a "long term vision" guy to get his claws and failing philosophies dug into the core of the game. Then what happened? Almost every "reworked" champion has been mediocre and worse off than it was in it's previous form. Then you see the same champions remaining consistently overpowered, and no meaningful changes ever made to them.
It's really the exact same thing, the sampling pool is just a different size. His mark on this game is very clear to me.
Has a complete hard on for burst meta's, believes they are "fun and exciting" when in reality its unhealthy gameplay. Huge buff in rogues and mages in wow equates to assassins stupid strong and well we are seeing a mage rework well see how that goes.
I have bad news for you: his title at Riot is "Lead Game Designer".
See: His ask.fm https://ask.fm/RiotGhostcrawler
I think his position is mostly administrative, and not creative.
That said, I do think he has a hand in some balance design, but I think it's more of a general thing. He doesn't personally design or rework champions, for example.
