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Diablo 3 director retires from games industry after 17 years
blueturtle13
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Diablo 3 director Jay Wilson is leaving Blizzard Entertainment after a decade with the company.
Jay Wilson.
"Sad to say after 10 of the best years of my life this will be my last week at Blizzard, and in the games industry," Wilson said on Twitter.
"I'm leaving to pursue my original passion, writing. It's what I was doing when I fell into this job, and I've always wanted to return to it," he added.
"I will dearly miss my friends at Blizzard. They've been the best, most dedicated, most passionate group of people I've ever met."
His work on Diablo 3 was derided by many due to the game's botched launch. Upon release there were numerous problems with the game's servers and login system. Even when the game did function properly many took issue with its controversial Auction House system of micro-transactions.
Eventually Wilson stepped down from the project and worked on the now cancelled Project Titan sci-fi MMO. After that he worked on the World of Warcraft expansion Warlords of Draenor.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-06-06-diablo-3-director-leaves-games-industry-after-17-years
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Personally I think there is nothing odd about a guy retiring after working for the same company for 10 years.
Especially when you have the money to turn your hobby into your new job.
I do not think it has to do with them making tons of money and wanting to live out their dream because MOST have left to do the exact same thing only for someone else or to open their own business.
I know life in general people that have made a great living ,often stay right until actual retirement age "65" and even then many want to stay on and for MUCH longer than 10 years.
I worked 15 years for my old company until the owner died and have been with this company for 16 years so 10 years is a piss in the bucket.
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That fight between them reminded me more of bullies in class rather than top developers in one of the biggest video game companies in the world.
I think it was one of the best parts of D3, and the problem wasn't that people could use the auction house - the problem was that the auction house felt like the only viable way to avoid a painful grind at the Inferno stage of the game.
RMAH actually gave you a reason to grind for great gear - instead of simply doing the hamster on a treadmill. It gave you a reason to become an efficient killer - because you could actually make a profit from it.
That said, he clearly didn't understand Diablo - and that's why he stepped down.
I have no reason to believe this move to writing is related to that at all, though.
I hope it works out for him.
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I remember wanting to love D3 and live there gamingwise for awhile but it had no replay value whatsoever. The drops were terrible, the endgame difficulty was beyond insane and the whole game seemed rigged for RMT.
Once he got booted it took a year for Blizzard to get that entire mess turned around. The auction house was shut down and the expansion made D3 what it should have been at launch: fun. Blizzard really did an amazing thing to recapture everybody's interest in the game.
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It's just that people love to hate it in public, while they lavish praise on subpar games they don't play for long, including Grim Dawn and Torchlight 2.
It's easier to blame a single person that was in the public eye than to think rationally.
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Honestly, where do you come up with such nonsense based on anything related to this story? Nothing but statements of how grateful he has been for having an enjoyable and successful career somehow equals that he is an underpaid employee who is finally leaving for greener pastures? Very strange leaps of logic being made here.