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Chilton Leaves as Game Director, Hazzikostas Taking Over

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited October 2016 in News & Features Discussion

imageChilton Leaves as Game Director, Hazzikostas Taking Over

World of Warcraft News - Tom Chilton has published a lengthy letter on the World of Warcraft community forum to let players know that he is moving on from his position as Game Director to a new project "just down the hall" at Blizzard. He names Ion Hazzikostas as his replacement and that "WoW will be in great hands with Ion at the helm".

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  • rodingorodingo Member RarePosts: 2,870
    Hopefully it's Warcraft 4 "just down the hall".

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  • BillMurphyBillMurphy Former Managing EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 4,565
    I'm hoping and praying for a proper Diablo MMO.

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  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    I'm hoping and praying for a proper Diablo MMO.
    already have that , its called Wow
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    Scorchien said:
    I'm hoping and praying for a proper Diablo MMO.
    already have that , its called Wow
    LOL, well at least Legion feels like World of Diablo :D


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  • laseritlaserit Member LegendaryPosts: 7,591
    Don't know whether I should be Happy or Somber

    I guess we'll find out ;)

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  • orbitxoorbitxo Member RarePosts: 1,956
    Ion Hazzikostas has been re-visioning WoW in a very good way- so i approve!
  • SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
    laserit said:
    Don't know whether I should be Happy or Somber

    I guess we'll find out ;)
    Blizzcon's just a few weeks away so I assume -- or at least hope -- we'll learn more then!


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  • CrazKanukCrazKanuk Member EpicPosts: 6,130

    rodingo said:

    Hopefully it's Warcraft 4 "just down the hall".



    This is what I hope for as well.

    Or a Warcraft SRPG. Then you could say you nailed it :) Didn't you post that this week?

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  • MrMelGibsonMrMelGibson Member EpicPosts: 3,039
    If we don't get a Warcraft 4.  I would gladly settle for a remastered Warcraft 3 and TFT.
  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,941


    I'm hoping and praying for a proper Diablo MMO.



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  • MukeMuke Member RarePosts: 2,614

    Scorchien said:



    I'm hoping and praying for a proper Diablo MMO.


    already have that , its called Wow



    He said PROPER mmo.

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  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    I look at every game and developer with some modest hope,however i do NOT want to see anything like the games they already have.
    It wouldn't make sense anyhow,why would they compete against themselves,so i feel it obvious it is something capturing another place in the market.

    Every genre they have covered,i know better games to play,so i really have little hope they can move into a different market and deliver,but hey ANYTHING is possible.

    Speculation ,hmmm ,well it will definitely be quickly produced,sort of low budget,hmm perhaps need to look at twitch to see what else is popular.Geesh after looking over the top 30 at Twitch there really is little that interests me,i play hearthstone but get bored after 2-3 games a session.IDk i only see possible a Minecraft/Voxel type game but that is something that SHOULD be a minimum 3-5+ year project and there is no way this is going to be an in depth project because hundreds of millions of dollars later they only have one big project and that was way back with Wow.
    Yeah maybe others are right,likely what they always do,rehash their popular brands,then it is almost no risk,Diablo 5/6/7/8/555/2002.War of Diablo,Diablo clones,heroes of Diablo,War of Diablocraft,,,you get the drift.

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  • KanethKaneth Member RarePosts: 2,286
    It's going to be interesting to see where he ends up in Blizzard. There's all of the rumors of a massive Diablo announcement at this years Blizzcon. Speculations on that are new xpack, D4 or a Diablo MMO. Of course, since Blizzard really surprised us a couple of years ago with the Overwatch announcement, anything is on the table.
  • ArskaaaArskaaa Member RarePosts: 1,265


    I'm hoping and praying for a proper Diablo MMO.



    but if they make diablo mmo, its got weekly resets:/
  • AlbatroesAlbatroes Member LegendaryPosts: 7,671
    edited October 2016
    This feel more like a jump ship move. Like the ship is sinking yet the captain lets the vice take leadership without telling him. Especially with how many blank happen to blank in this expansion, even though I'm happy for blank.
  • KanethKaneth Member RarePosts: 2,286
    Albatroes said:
    This feel more like a jump ship move. Like the ship is sinking yet the captain lets the vice take leadership without telling him.
    It's probably more of he's bored as hell with WoW at this point. It's terms of videogame development, he's been with the project for basically a lifetime. Which could also be one of the reasons why there's been so many questionable changes the last couple of xpacks, especially in terms of ability pruning. You start to lose perspective when you've been with a project and have been part of all of the changes.
  • vveaver_onlinevveaver_online Member UncommonPosts: 436
    A voxel survival rpg sandbox game made by blizzard, that sounds like it could be good.
  • Truvidien88Truvidien88 Member UncommonPosts: 462
    Blizzcon schedule isn't look really good for Diablo :(
  • BillMurphyBillMurphy Former Managing EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 4,565
    edited October 2016


    Blizzcon schedule isn't look really good for Diablo :(



    That's called throwing us off the scent...

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  • IceAgeIceAge Member EpicPosts: 3,203

    Albatroes said:

    This feel more like a jump ship move. Like the ship is sinking yet the captain lets the vice take leadership without telling him. Especially with how many blank happen to blank in this expansion, even though I'm happy for blank.



    What did you smoke?


    Kaneth said:


    Albatroes said:

    This feel more like a jump ship move. Like the ship is sinking yet the captain lets the vice take leadership without telling him.


    It's probably more of he's bored as hell with WoW at this point. It's terms of videogame development, he's been with the project for basically a lifetime. Which could also be one of the reasons why there's been so many questionable changes the last couple of xpacks, especially in terms of ability pruning. You start to lose perspective when you've been with a project and have been part of all of the changes.



    Is not like he had choices to choose from! Pretty sure the change came from the "higher-in-rank-guy" , who has a new project !

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  • BruceYeeBruceYee Member EpicPosts: 2,556
    edited October 2016
    For the next WoW expac Nozdormu can just reset time and we finally have a WoW sandbox.

    Blizz trying a voxel game would be cool or like others said WC4 or Diablo MMO would be kewl too. Hopefully they are upping their game b/c Amazon is now stepping into the fray.
  • toidimaettoidimaet Member UncommonPosts: 50

    Kaneth said:


    Albatroes said:

    This feel more like a jump ship move. Like the ship is sinking yet the captain lets the vice take leadership without telling him.


    It's probably more of he's bored as hell with WoW at this point. It's terms of videogame development, he's been with the project for basically a lifetime. Which could also be one of the reasons why there's been so many questionable changes the last couple of xpacks, especially in terms of ability pruning. You start to lose perspective when you've been with a project and have been part of all of the changes.



    This! Sometimes we can read too much into why someone is doing this, or doing that. Oh and the caring and loving WOW community, who welcome even the smallest of changes with open arms and gratitude, which is guaranteed to help someone to stay positive and creative over a long time.
  • sipusipu Member UncommonPosts: 200
    Two MMOs running at the same time? - this never going to happen, so calm down your tits.
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