He can be the most intelligent player but the most incompetent game manager. They aren't mutually exclusive. I'm not saying he definitely is incompetent, but WOW TBC Classic Gold my impression from the interviews he did is that he either don't understand what the players want or he's in a position where he's at the point of no return and wind up doubling defending and down the game designs.

He gray parses in raid, and runs 1-3 mythic plus dungeons a week even early in patches while his guild funnels him equipment likely.

He lives in a bubble, and I'm convinced he can not understand as many cannot who reside in such bubbles but the guy is quite intelligent, it simply doesn't apply to his current occupation anymore.

Once upon a time his guilds website was THE place for understanding what goes on under the hood of this game, and that was headed by Ion himself and we believed we wanted someone like him to take ghostcrawlers seat in the table... But it turns out that simply because you're really knowledgeable about something does not mean you should be in control of it.

For example say you've got the best doctor in the world at your clinic, or greatest mechanic at your shop or whatever... Why can you stop them from doing that what they're obviously amazing at to do some thing else like conducting the hospital or shop? You would not, so why did we do that with Ion?

It's not that Ion is not capable, or intelligent, or he is"playing out of his team"... It is that he is not even playing the same sport anymore. Game director of a game is not the exact same game as he got him where he is, which will be theorycraft comprehension and program via numbers.

You can clearly see routines in Nathria nerfs if his guild were heading for CE. When his guild was progressing M Sludgefist, we had the radius and damage need this week. Progressing Generals? Nerfed.There are two realities in which this can happen. First, is that the developers are truly incompetent. They actually don't have any idea how gamers can interact with their own systems they frankly need 6 weeks of collapse things to come to the same conclusion that the playerbase came to during Alpha. The second reality is they're doing it on purpose, they intentionally emphasise QOL modifications and noticeable improvements in cheap WOW Burning Crusade Classic Gold order to artificially extend gametime and boost performance metrics without actually having to produce new content but instead just making present content take longer.