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WildStar: Micah 'Bashiok' Whipple Headed to Carbine?
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Last week, long time Blizzard community manager Micah "Bashiok" Whipple announced he was leaving the company after over a decade. In a new Twitter post, Whipple posted a photo of one of WildStar's plush goats on his dashboard with #FirstDay as his hashtag.
Alright, let's go buddy. #FirstDay pic.twitter.com/UdQqPhnO0l
— Micah Whipple (@micahwhipple) August 3, 2015
This comes shortly after former WildStar designer Stephen Frost announced that he was leaving Carbine to head to Blizzard.
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didnt see this coming!- carbine proving me wrong!
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I had fun once, it was terrible.
Well, Carbine was founded by a lot of ex-Blizzard members, so...why not?
Since when is Tuesday a direction?
Oh thats why wildstar didn't do so hot :P
I once snagged a really awesome job at Merrill Lynch during the great stock market blunder of 2008 with a significant pay increase...although I had my concerns, I was told my department didn't have much to worry about. So I took it.......annnnnd about 3 months later I was laid off.
...not sure why this article reminded me of that occasion
Dear god ... he's gone insane.
He deals (or used to) with the WoW community every day for a living. Frankly, I'm surprised it took this long.
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Latest tweet suggests he isn't necessarily going to Wildstar, but rather covering all NCsoft games. I suspect we'll see him more active on the BnS side than WildStar.
https://twitter.com/micahwhipple/status/628276989254701056
I mean that new position would have to pay so much more to be worth the gamble.
I have read plenty of threads on the Wildstar forums. It isn't much of an improvement over WoW. Assuming he went for a new community. I guess it is possible he won't be dealing with that anymore.
Still it's a gamble. Maybe he thinks he could head back to Blizzard at worst.
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Well, maybe he knows something we don't. In any case do he have his work cut out for him this time, this will be hard.
Why would you jump a sailing ship, to one that is sinking?
Intriguing.
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Sometimes no amount of money or job security can replace respect. If he was disrespected or somehow underpaid/not promoted that can be reason enough to leave anywhere.
And let's be real, Micah isn't going to be starving anytime soon. He can get any MMO related job he wants with his long WoW resume'. Hell even WoW would rehire him just because of the job training investment they made. That said I wouldn't have chosen Wildstar that's for sure. That game is unfixable unless they change alot of how combat works, which will never happen.
Well, usually you do that to save it from sinking. I can just wish him good luck.
Edit: the second reason anyone jumps on a sinking ship is to save valuables and people stuck on it but I don't think that is what Bashiok is trying here.
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You have never think that maybe he is left Blizzard for that simple fact that he may feel that WoW is head in wrong direction for true been told atm it just feel blizzard try to get as much money out of game and dont care much about make good expansion anymore honest the should have made in WoW after lich king expansion.
For the WoW we have today is not same WoW i start play back in 2004 it have become way to easy and way to single-track everyone have same gear and same build everyone can do samething that is not what mmorpg is.
Blizzard is a sinking ship? HAHAHA..I bet on your death bed you will still ramble on : "i can see it..just a little bit more..blizzard is sinking......" and then you yourself will sink in darkness..
And no, carbine developers did not create blizzard, they were part of the developers team of world of warcraft. Blizzard was created by mark morheim, allan adham and frank pearce.
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