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World of Warcraft: Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street to Leave Blizzard
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
In a shocking announcement, Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has announced that he will be leaving Blizzard Entertainment after six years with the company. According to the post written on the Battle.net forum, Street is leaving to pursue other options, as yet unnamed.
You know that part at the end of raid night when the final boss is dead and you’re done handing out loot and everyone kind of goes their separate ways? Yeah, this is one of those times.
We just came off of a great BlizzCon. We had so many different games to talk about, and we were thrilled at the reception of Warlords of Draenor. It was great to meet or reconnect with so many of you. I love BlizzCon dearly, which makes it so hard to tell you that this will be my last one, or at least my last one up on stage. An opportunity has come my way, and I have made the very tough decision to move on from Blizzard.
I wanted to thank all of you for being a part of this grand quest. I have said a hundred times that having passionate gamers, including the angry ones, is a far better place to be than having a community that doesn’t care. You all care. Like us, you want the game to be the best that it can be. So I ask you to keep on providing your feedback. I promise (and I rarely promise!) that the developers care very much about what you have to say.
I’ll be out there, and I can’t imagine it will be that hard to find me.
Hugs,
Ghostcrawler
P.S. No, you can’t have a pony. Or a moose. Or a mantis shrimp. Or a tardigrade. Or a crab. Keep trying though.
P.P.S. I play a Holy Priest.
Comments
I come here for drama and hyperbole and the first post in this thread is a reasonable one. HOW DARE YOU SIR! <GLOVE SLAPS>.
People freaked when Monte Cook left WotC the second time too.
Wow, I always thought the only way he was leaving Blizzard was with a toe tag.
Would be really interesting to know what brought about his leaving, but I have my doubts we'll ever know the true story.
"Soloists and those who prefer small groups should never have to feel like they''re the ones getting the proverbial table scraps, as it were." - Scott Hartsman, Senior Producer, Everquest II
"People love groups. Its a fallacy that people want to play solo all the time." - Scott Hartsman, Executive Producer, Rift
You never do unless it's just a train wreck of a person that goes all tabloid. I really doubt GC is leaving on bad terms. He's either unhappy with the direction the game is going or as a creative person really wants something new to work on and maybe even has a new offer somewhere else.
The dark circles under his eyes have gotten worse over the years. Maybe he's going back to crustaceans for a while. I hope it's something fun.
that.
Everyone i talk to is by default a moron so the only valid opinion is mine.joking
Yeah...it can only get better. He is leaving about....6 years too late.
Much good news
so excite
wow
Seriously I am quite pleased that he is leaving.
Wow, people liked ghostcrawler?
On this forum of all places people actually thought he was good for WoW and Blizzard?
My assumption is he got a nice offer from another company. Regardless of how/why he's leaving I'm happy. I hated his style of communication and I hated most of his design decisions. And I really hated how stubborn he was to react to community input, he would refuse, deny, and put down any claims of current class issues and then turn around a year later and say, "oops, guess we over-nerfed ___" Not to mention Cata and MoP sucked. For every positive thing they brought to the game, they brought two negatives.
Yeah, that!
Crazkanuk
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Why is Street leaving WoW? I have no idea what the real reasons are. I am sure some posters here have the inside scoop and will post the "real" reasons.
I have on very trustworthy sources that he is going to join a street dancing crew.
"wow is a complete joke"....and who was at the helm steering this journey into mockery - Greg GhostpopulationCrawler.
cv- headed up Cataclysm, resulting in the biggest single drop in wow population and consistently voted the worst expansion in the history of the game.
Just let me know where he ends up so I can avoid that one.
That would be quite ironic, seeing that its his direction. He is responsible for all major changes the game has taken since the end of Burning Crusade.
Give it time. This website never fails to deliver when it comes to hyperbole and drama.