There is a couple of ones on the horizon using a theoretical endless budget such as fresh world and ashes of creation but those mmos would need to be WOW TBC Classic Gold polished to perfection and revolutionary to get folks to stay on them along with my hopes for these are not quite high.
I used to talk with Hazzikostas frequently in Vanilla. We played on the same server. He was one of the most intelligent and friendly gamers I've ever met. I cannot fathom he is genuinely incompetent. There's just no solution. He came into the gaming industry via guild management like Pardo and Kaplan.
This is what I remember of him. He had been one of the posters who persuaded me not to get involved and contribute something to EJ - just be a lurker and utilize other people's math to my advantage. He was a prick then and he is a prick now.
They never developed for the game they played with, they moved from EQ to WoW. However, Ion came from WoW and now develops WoW. WoW's present state might be his endeavor to fix all the issues he had with premature WoW as a raider, which caters to his specific expertise and tastes, which might simply flat out not work in an existing game. It means he has molded it to exactly what he wants, which involved cutting off chunks and stitching on new ones to try and get it to match.
But in the instance of both Pardo and Kaplan, they were designing a new game that was new. They were able to take each of their encounters from EQ forward and apply thembut they weren't hacking apart an present game. Maybe if they were hired to operate on EverQuest, it might have experienced similarly catastrophic results.
He can be the most intelligent player but the most incompetent game director. They aren't mutually exclusive. I'm not saying he certainly is incompetent, but my impression from the interviews he did is that he don't understand what the players need or he is always in a situation where he's at the stage of no return and wind up doubling down and defending the match layouts.
He gray parses in raid, and runs 1-3 mythic plus cheap WOW Burning Crusade Classic Gold dungeons per week even early on in spots while his guild funnels him equipment likely.
