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Blizzard Co-Leader Mike Ybarra on Who's "In Charge" of WoW

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With the many changes coming to WoW recently (both announced and already implemented) coinciding with a change in leadership at the very top of Blizzard itself, many players have been talking to newly named co-leader Mike Ybarra and thanking him for some of the changes. Ybarra received some focus recently for playing WoW at a high level, so the assumption was/is that he basically stepped in and orchestrated the recent changes but, as he recently explained, that's not quite the case.

Players have also been asking Ybarra for specific features, to which his answer was very similar at first:

A later reply offered a little more depth to the above responses:

While it would be a little silly to attribute all the recent changes to Ybarra (and Jen Oneal, his fellow lead) alone, the last part of that tweet is pretty significant, as his input certainly brings more weight to it than an average player, even if he doesn't specifically push for something. In general it's pretty nice to see not only someone that plays (and streams) the game, but also interacts and talks to the community have any level of impact on the development, as WoW devs have been pretty notoriously lacking in communication for quite a while now. And then there's awesome interactions like the Final Fantasy 14 comment and this as well:

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9 hours ago, Resnar said:

How to fix wow : remove Ion 

He's just one guy though, not every decision is his. Also it's weird how people forget that there is executive producer, John Hight.

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whats with the "?" ?  Is he asking a question or is it a special "you have to be there" signage of this ybarra fella?

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1 hour ago, Arcling said:

He's just one guy though, not every decision is his. Also it's weird how people forget that there is executive producer, John Hight.

true but ion and the dev team are the ones driving the car john may suggest for them where to go but if the car is late who are u gunna blame ? the dispatcher or the driver ? . i blame the driver 

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3 hours ago, roo said:

whats with the "?" ?  Is he asking a question or is it a special "you have to be there" signage of this ybarra fella?

Not sure what you're referring to? Don't see any question marks in his tweets myself. Might be a visual bug not showing you emojis?

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17 hours ago, Starym said:

Not sure what you're referring to? Don't see any question marks in his tweets myself. Might be a visual bug not showing you emojis?

well now that could be as I have no idea about any of that tweeting stuff  (speaking of, what do you call a budgie ran over by a lawn mower?  Shredded tweets.)   🤪

 

Anyway, LOL, sorry, I guess I got a case of "don't see the trees because of the forest" as I went back up to what you originally posted and realized why there was a "?" in certain places.  He asking a question as the poster didn't make sense.   Sorry about that.  Now you know why I have stoop shoulders and a flat forehead.  

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On 9/1/2021 at 3:25 PM, elmurufdd said:

true but ion and the dev team are the ones driving the car john may suggest for them where to go but if the car is late who are u gunna blame ? the dispatcher or the driver ? . i blame the driver 

Then you don't understand how not only the game industry works, but also the transportation industry. You're going to blame the driver that's 20 mins late when they only got the dispatch 5 minutes earlier? In the example you set forth, you're expecting the driver to be clairvoyant and somehow be aware of their ride that hasn't even been given to them yet, when it's an issue of dispatch priorities.

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On 9/2/2021 at 11:21 AM, roo said:

well now that could be as I have no idea about any of that tweeting stuff  (speaking of, what do you call a budgie ran over by a lawn mower?  Shredded tweets.)   🤪

 

Anyway, LOL, sorry, I guess I got a case of "don't see the trees because of the forest" as I went back up to what you originally posted and realized why there was a "?" in certain places.  He asking a question as the poster didn't make sense.   Sorry about that.  Now you know why I have stoop shoulders and a flat forehead.  

More than likely you were reading this on a device that did not have the correct emoji package(s) installed, as there are no '?''s in any of Mr. Ybarra's tweets featured in this article. Just trying to help you figure out why you had this issue. Cheers!

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18 hours ago, ORCSMASH said:

More than likely you were reading this on a device that did not have the correct emoji package(s) installed, as there are no '?''s in any of Mr. Ybarra's tweets featured in this article. Just trying to help you figure out why you had this issue. Cheers!

ahhh, my smelly green "behind" friend, Thanks!  You are probably very correct since i don't tweet or zip or any of that other stuff, and I run a very plain jane windows 10 system.   Nothing like being left behind. Even my youngest grand daughter at 8 understands all this new fangled stuff. 

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