0:00 Video starts 3:06 Ion talking 6:10 Ion talking 9:14 Ion talking 12:19 Asmon asks a question 15:23 Asmon talking 18:29 Ion talking 21:32 Asmon Talking 24:37 Asmon saying "zau" 27:41 Ion talking 30:46 Video ends
Dude's gonna say TRUE every 5secs, BIG TRUE every 7secs, and every 35secs when these intersect he's going to pause and go off on a tangent about how true and based this Asmon dude is. And we'll all still be laughing along the way
@@SharckanDarkLight While this is true, and i agree with you, you have to at least give some credit (even if it is a small amount) where credit is due, and i think this interview is one of those moments
@@SharckanDarkLight This. They're in the process of making people cream their pants with the cinematic trailer and screenshots of Classic-looking talent trees to secure box cost purchases. After that it's *MOST LIKELY* going to be another Shadowlands-debacle. This is the same development team that made Shadowlands. Anyway I don't care, go waste your money boys. WoW is trash, always will be unless people with actual vision replaces *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVERYONE* including Ion "EEYORE, EEYORE" Hazzikostas.
@@grayfox2618 oh yea, theres no doubt they are trying to just make money, they're a for profit company of course that's what they're going to do. Any game company is going to try and make money. The point is at the end of the day theres improvements being made to the game and that's good. In addition it seems on the surface that there's a philosophy change in their game design happening, and if they are doing that as a vehicle to make more money and a better game comes out of it, cool, there's still a better game to be played.
This was SO cool to see. After all the negativity aimed at Asmon from Blizzard in the past, I think he really made a seriously good impression. Perfectly executed.
@@frenchcakes One of the reasons is because of people ninjaing loot, which he made acceptable. How long ago do you think Legion was? It was 6 years ago.
@@redplague facial expressions aren’t professional?…buddy I work a corporate job at a rather high level and during presentations even the CFOs/CEOs make facial expressions all the time. It’s not done to tease or diminish anything the presenter is saying, it’s just expression.
Asmongold picked the perfect questions to cover the whole player base, and it sounds like Ion is allowed to talk like a human for the first time in years. I doubt we'll ever fully know what happened at Blizzard, but it smells like a lot of the bullshit came from the very top and we're finally getting away from it.
Anyone who has actually seen Ion speak and understands what he says instead of making up their mind about him from what they read on reddit knows that he has always spoken about the game this way.
@@notarthstyle9480 no disrespect, but I couldn't disagree more. I think this was the case in 2016, but the way he carried himself in the first Preach interview and patch 9.1 statements were far more defensive. I understand you can't bash an expansion halfway through it, but there was an almost alien disconnect. "Torghast is a chore, and it's good that people feel that way", isn't exactly what I'd call genuine.
This is something i personally believe is true with most of the issues with modern blizzard. It's not the developers, it's not the designers, not even the guys behind brainstorming ideas what will go next. Everything can be traced up to the ceos, the ones holding the company in its clutches. "Mmm, no we don't like this, do this, i don't care" the faces we see on expos and the ones doing the press get hit with all the shit, meanwhile the faceless ceos (apart from kotick i guess, he's well known now), get scot free for the most part.
@@notarthstyle9480 certainly, Preach Chains Of Domination interview at the 14:30 mark Ion is asked about Torghast. I won't paraphrase so I don't give you the wrong idea, but the conversation following is that it being a chore is good, it should just be a more detailed chore. If you're interested, things got tense before that question because Ion gave some curt answers about domination shards
Blizzard are really desperate I guess 😆😆 They should have done that years ago but whatever. Probably he is the one that has promoted their game the most. I dont play it now, but still I watch him.
Desperate or not you have to respect sitting down and having a conversation with one of their largest critics who legitimately wants the game to be better.
That was a really refreshing interview, and honestly the fact that Ion was the one who floated the idea of Classic+(Essentially) feels really nice. Hopefully this leads to many more instances where Blizzard is open and listening to suggestions from the community regarding the direction of the game. I'm pretty casual so I don't know much about the addon stuff but plenty of the ideas and issues they talked about resonated with me anyway, and that was really nice to watch!
Trust me aint any friendship between blizzard Ion and Asmon its a 80k+ stream to show of their future expansion. Asmon did great for Wow all this years but a lot a damage this recents ones...
Ion being so heads up on a lot of the game's issues tells me something specific, very soundly, "Video Game Development Is Very Hard". Especially when the game your irritating on is the MMO with the most renown legacy in the genre, and the most to live up to. God I don't envy the position that man is in.
Agreed. He is in between corporate and the player base, and he is an active player of the game. We are blessed to enter this new renaissance of a new era for wows development. I am hopeful of the WOW franchise being good for the rest of this decade. Let’s see how much power Ion is given to make the decisions needed.
@@demonsluger Nah, I’m a software dev and I believe it full heartedly. That’s how it works with legacy code. Work becomes hard. Changes become monumental.
Ion is such a wonderful human! He took me under his wing at the BlizzCon benefit dinner in 2019. I was at the dinner alone and he came and stood at my table in the corner with me and we got to chatting about our lives and I kept getting him craft beers because the fanboys wouldn’t stop hounding him with questions and each time I returned to the table with a beer for him, he’d clear a space at the table for me and when he noticed I was getting pushed out of the table, he’d pull me back in 😂 I think we ended up being each other’s security blanket that night lol We finished the night taking photo booth photos, gave each other a hug and said goodbye 😊 a very treasured BlizzCon memory!
Kinda sad that your comment has gotten no love. People are so focused on the negatives about blizzard as a whole that they will ignore anything positive about anyone who works for them. Of course they would probably say something like “well yea your a female so he probably just gave you special treatment” but at the end of that day, a connection is a connection. He felt a great vibe from you and decided to connect with you more than everyone else. I just hope people will realize that blizzard is run by human beings and human beings make mistakes. It’s in our nature. We need to look at the positives with the same regard that we look at the negatives. Unfortunately negatives always outweigh the positives but I just hope that a good chunk of our society can change that.
@@BastaXL It’s still a memory that makes me smile when I think of it! I actually recently just moved house and stumbled across my “stolen” Murloc IPA beer that Ion told me to steal (which is also what he was drinking that night and helped create!) and I can’t believe I forgot to mention in my initial post! I told him how much I loved the can design but I don’t drink beer so it would be pointless to buy and he said “They aren’t opening them at the bar, so slip one in your bag, I won’t tell anyone” 😂 that’s my most prized item from BlizzCon, definitely think I scored some RL achievement points for it!
All of the employees come off as great people who care honestly, because they are good people. Nobody goes into a job thinking “I’m gonna make this game bad”. They do their best but whether it be pride, ignorance, or something else, they sometimes make mistakes or not listen to the community. I hope their recent failures are finally going to make a difference, we’ll see when the expansion launches. I know for sure I’m not buying on launch but I’m watching with interest
I think that Ion's main problem is overthinking. You can read it through all interviews and presentations from last 7 years how he always wanted to solve many *possible* hypothetical problems and tasks. Many decisions under his rule were made in good will, however many of them were really too much sophisticated and turned out as an inefficient approach. It seems that they changed an approach with 9.1.5-9.2-9.2.5+DF and went into more *possible* hypotheticaly controversial design philosophy for recent and future updates.
Personally the reason Cataclysm was the infamous "beginning of the end" for me, was the class design philosophy change. The homogenization of classes turned the game away from playing like a RPG, and into playing a generic game.
For me was making world content very easy and removing group quest. Also removing hybrid builds. Sure put us in a spec so our mastery changes and we have the needed active and passives but let us go wild with our talent points
Exactly.. Every class could do everything. Homogenization is terrible cause nothing feels strong and unique or weak in certain areas just feels stale and the same. Also wheel mage
You can really tell how some of the later questions caught Ion off guard as he starts having to actually think and formulate answers to the questions. Because of that this interview felt alot more "real" than most of the ones he's done in recent history. This is a great step towards reconnecting with the playerbase.
Asmon said they wanted the questions he asks beforehand, so he basically knew what asmongold was gonna ask. He didnt catch him off guard its just „faked“ to make the Q&A more authentic.
@@timospath9767 even if that’s true, I don’t think Ion scripted his responses. Knowing questions beforehand probably helped him to formulate a general response because again he’s speaking for a team and not himself, their message has to be unified. However I do think the things that sorta stumped him were genuine. They were complex questions about even more complex systems.
@@zacharylucchetti3038 i dont knoe how much he scriptef his answers but he definetly thought about what to approximatly say beforehand. Watch the vod of asmons stream like 20 min before the interview began. He had to give the questions he asked beforehand. Thats btw what many companys do, its nothing new.
Love how much Ion has been interacting with the community with so many interviews lately. I think they should continue being this involved and engaging with feedback as much as possible for future xpacs.
You can see the excitement/nerves in Asmon, WoW has played a huge part of his life and he’s finally able to sit down and have a meaningful chat with Ion. I really hope more of this communication will continue to happen, all we want is to see WoW succeed!
"Do something chill and have fun" The return of the tuskarr really is a good step in that direction. Chilling out in their villages, doing their random dailies to get their reputation rewards and stuff was so cool. MEANWHILE, did it make your character powerful? No. It was wow for wow's sake. I really liked that. Just hanging out. Minigames could be added to proffessions, and taverns. Could be cool.
Considering all the times the playerbase has been fooled by empty promises....id have to say let me see the game fixed before i consider coming back. I'm amazed after the number of times blizzard pulled this shit people are still willing to forgive them based on promises instead of waiting to see how it plays out in the game first.
A genuinely good interview from two knowledgeable people who clearly care about the game. Asmongold asking the right questions and Ion showing us all how much he really knows about the game he creates. Top tier
Ion gives me good vibes, but unfortunately people shit on him, we don't know how it is to develop a game inside, how teams argue have problems, or code problems especially in spaghetti code that is there for 18 years
That was a really good interview that gave us good insight on what's going on inside the creative minds of Blizzard. Great questions, great answers, and I hope we see more like this.
I think WoW dev team has a love hate relationship with Asmon. They love how he promotes their game, but hate how he holds a magnifying glass up to their failures. The thing is, his criticism is valid a vast majority of the time, and they would do well to simply consider it.
@@nTrylo it's not just talking about failures, it's probably how he talks about them. your team loses, as a coach, yelling do better shitters, in between legit criticism of your players, isn't going to make anyone respect you. asmon today seems decently grounded with a lot of his takes, but he's been antagonistic with his relation over the years. doesn't matter if someone is giving a legit criticism of how to improve your diet while calling you a fat pig.
Honestly, this was the best time for Asmon to interview Blizzard. He's mellowed out a lot this past year, and Blizzard is currently on a PR redemption mission. And now that most of the trash has been thrown out of Blizzard, Ion can focus more on his job and speak more freely to the community.
No idea what you are talking about, asmons appeal is he never changes, no amount of money/fame etc he's just a balding gamer playing games in his mom's atic god rest her soul.
@@highmarshalhelbrecht4715 No idea what you are talking about, asmon has calmed down a lot with the near toxic attitude, to the point of saying so himself. He still speaks his mind of course, but also gives new things a shot.
@@highmarshalhelbrecht4715 he has for sure changed over the years, not dramatically but his approach to things has for sure become more welcoming? im not too sure how to put it.
@@highmarshalhelbrecht4715 Dude, Asmon has changed A LOT. I'm a huge fan of Asmon, but he was a toxic douche for a a long time. It's called growth and maturity, and it happens with intellignet people that have sense enough to be a little introspective and try to better theirself.
@@YukitoOnline We can be positive about things. There's nothing wrong with that. YOU don't have to be positive but I prefer to err on the side of positivity with my video games.
@@TheAustinKendall fr, personally I’m trying not to overhype this expansion in my own mind, but they’re doing a lot that I never would have expected. An interview with Asmon is one of those things, given his history being controversial among some people, (because people DEFINITELY can’t change and mature Kappa) I’m super happy to see them reach towards more people.
This is such a great step forward. I kept seeing all of these interviews pre-recorded and edited. Ion jumping onto a LIVE stream fills me with hope for the future of Blizzard and breaking down the lines between us. The fact they are finally listening to our feedback is epic!
@@hejalll That's because they are desperate and have new masters in Microsoft. Their collective asses are probably on the line after bleeding subs from shadowlands. Only truly invest after a few months after debuting so they can iron out all the bugs and see if the new systems actually deliver what was promised.
@@grayfox2618 not sure how old you're but you will get it with age. All interviews are always "staged" one way or another, big companies always pre-scan the questions beforehand for PR purposes and clarity.
I know the team is always excited around new expansion announcements, but this time around it really seems like they have rediscovered their passion for the game. Eating humble pie two expansions in a row coupled with the release of WoW classic maybe encouraged some much needed soul searching. Like most I'm cautiously optimistic because until we see execution it's only words, but I like what I hear so far.
Watched this live and I just wanted to say, it’s great seeing you get some interview time with Ion and I know it makes me excited for DF. The talk about wanting to see changes comes up a bit. This was awesome, thanks for the well thought out questions and I had a blast watching.
When they finally do something with the sword if there isn’t a drunk dwarf that has no idea about the sword being right there but somehow is involved in the quest line they would be doing a disservice at this point
You can tell that Ion has really changed the way he addresses the community, I'm really happy to see it. Love that Ion talking directly to Asmon is a thing now, a lot of us share Asmon's concerns about the game and to see those answered is such a W moment.
@@duelistkind846 Yeah, but that doesn't make it bad if there is some genuine information transmission happening and some genuine willingness for discourse. :)
I have to say, you are amazing at what you do Zack. This interview was the best I've seen out of a content creator, and to be honest I have to say I'm super happy to see this relationship between Zack and Blizzard being rebuilt. Same with us (the community) I personally am loving what I'm hearing and I think maybe I'm finally not coping for once that this game may get even better!
This was a very heartwarming interview, love the fact that Ion calls asmon Zach. Great vibes from Ion and super happy to see that he is less stressed out and just a chill dude in general.
Loved it man. Good job. I'm glad Ion is now able to be interviewed by youtubers and the like, he sounds much more natural, honest, and man I am sure he is passionate about the game. We can hear that.
Well done, brother Asmon. You've grown so much and hey, this is a big thing. Good interview, mate. I didn't think I'd see Ion seeming so sincere and genuine. alas, he is a gamer at heart and he shows it.
0:00 Introduction/What does Ion think what was the biggest success in Shadowlands. 2:45 Dragon Riding abilities in combat? (Something like the Malygos fight) 3:27 Any other content for casuals? Example: Darkmoon Faire? 4:52 New pvp content such as battlegrounds etc. 7:10 Ilvl scaling, will blizzard do yet another stat squish? 12:15 The removal of master looter and why do you not want to bring it back? 15:35 Addons being a core part of raiding, Good or bad? 24:00 Certain bosses not being on the PTR. Does Blizzard see this as a good thing? (Makes bosses more fresh/new and somewhat harder) 27:00 What do you think is going to happen now that wotlk classic is going to be released? Cata classic revamp? Season of Mastery? 28:41 What Sword?
Sucks that you posted this a little too late. These are great time stamps but since they already pinned a time stamp comment, I don’t think many people will see this :( but I’ll make sure to use your time stamps whenever I come back to this vid :)
It is either the last spark before dark or the spark to light a fire. Either way, we must wait and see. I, for one, have no hopes for this company, they've shown more than once, that all they care about is money and clout (especially political, for bonus points).
They remaking the ui would be a great chance to get ingame "gladius" interface, would make it so much easier for people to get into pvp, like you would get a tutorial tooltip telling you what important info the ingame "gladius" shows and why it's important to see dr's and track trinkets etc! maybe long term we would get many times more actual fresh players in arena and not just glad boosters so much. + people could make guides for pvp where they refer to the ingame gladius so it would be easy to look up guides to it. ofc getting addons isn't that big thing to do but it could and is too much for some when they are not that super interested into pvp anyway.
This is such a huge milestone for Asmongold. Ive felt like he deserved it most to talk to someone like Ion. Its good to see Blizzard now interacting with the community, its very reassuring.
@@legendaryhumper The point is that they forced themselves to actually talk to the communities due to what recently happened in BLIZZARD. So yeah, they're copying FFXIV devs, but not the same reasons as the FFXIV devs.
@@YukitoOnline I mean a lot of people are wanting blizzard to communicate more about the game and when they do, people say "BLIZZARD IS COPYING FFXIV". funny isnt it
They really are getting out there, it's their last chance to save a dying game. I'm glad Amon got this. He's been very constructive on what WoW needs and he does great interviews. He did a great one for the PoE devs after their disastrous nerf patch. He comes at it as a passionate player but keeps it professional. Hope we see more of this!
I love that Ion, with almost every answer, gave the perspective of the challenges that something presents to their team and how they are trying to tackle them AND ASKING US FOR HELP. What an amazing change of pace. This is probably the best interview I've seen. Both parties clearly show their love for the game and its future. Good job, Asmon. Good job, Ion.
My will to come back to WoW just got much higher, very great interview, good questions, even better and ear-likely answers. Thanks Asmon for letting community know! Who could ever predict this happening, WoW Boss talking with huge community!
The fact that this interview exists says more about the future of the game than any cinematic trailer or deep dive. It takes a lot of confidence about your product to come in front of someone who has been cynical (rightfully) and answer questions. I'm genuinely excited about the future of World of Warcraft.
Accepting an interview with the amount of asmons followers give me the impression that they are confident that dragonflight can produce the content that we need.
@@soliderarmatang5664 i just started playing 3 days ago and so far its pretty good. People complaining are more of those end game players. Give it a shot.
I agree, I don’t know if I’m going too far but I see this interview as both parts community and Blizzard healing from all the communication problems we had in the past, I’m so happy
I thought it was pretty good. I know Blizz is scared to death of Ion talking to Zack but he handled it well and was real chill about it. I'm really hoping for all these changes in the new expansion cause itll really turn some heads over the last few years of bad expansions.
@@793Force Totally agree man and glad to see people being positive about this. Whatever issues people have had, there's no feeling I get from other games that comes close to logging on my main in WoW. Communication w/ people like Asmon is certainly a good thing
The “silent majority” statement hits home. It’s near impossible to feel like you can play this game casually while still enjoying content. Battlegrounds are a stomp, arenas you get one shot, pve you get endlessly declined from groups, etc. Stand around in a city for hours and log.
Exactly how it felt playing WoW for the last few years, I mean could solo queues be the solution to everything? Idk man, it certainly beats sitting around in SW. I got back to my other mmorpg (eso) and I don't think I'll ever come back, they really killed it for me with SL.
For an old player who wants to play casually yes, but for a new players there's still a lot of casual content in the form of exploration and achievement farming.
@@moosa1037 tbh I couldn’t imagine getting into world of Warcraft as a new player in it’s current state. I feel like it would be like jumping into Game of Thrones for the first time but starting at the last season. 😂
@@harklandmusic true. I'm a relatively new player but I've only played vanilla + the first 2 expansions on classic and pservers. Playing retail might feel pretty overwhelming.
@@ThatWildcard I wouldn't really say they've ignored it, I think they just sidelined it. We had BFA which touched upon the sword, then we went to shadowlands which obviously has nothing to do with it but it was actually brought up in ardenweald, you go do the play for the night fae and show what happened in your life up to that point and some of the fae literally talk about the sword like 'Wait so theres a giant sword just stuck in their world, how does that even work' etc. so blizz is clearly aware and I believe theyre planning on something. My theory is it will become Azeroths weapon when she is born hence the waiting game.
Ion took a W with this interview. Answered most questions the community actually wants answers to. Now if they execute they will start to regain community trust.
They've done that before. Words are cheap. Theyve always known what players wanted, they just didn't implement any of it for other reasons. Probably money. Yall can get fooled twice or even thrice in a lot of sad cases if you really want, I won't.
Back in the TBC days I was in a guild that had a very strict rule NOT to talk about any tactics that they had found online. - We figured out all of the Karazhan bosses on our own, and while it took us _some_ time, we had a BLAST doing that. -- Sure, some did know the tactics beforehand, but we didn't discuss them and I think many of us simply volunteered NOT to go find that info either, BECAUSE we were going to be clearing it eventually anyway. Would LOVE to see more opportunities for discovery, although I realize that this exact scenario would be impossible to reproduce on a large scale, especially these days.
This was awesome! Really loved the chemistry between the two, and really hope Ion comes back on. It was great hearing pretty much everything Ion said, and he didn’t shy away from a hard question. As someone who is a casual but consistent player I really like that they’re taking the UI redesign seriously, and it sounds like an ongoing project. I’ve never wanted to install third party software to play the game.
I'd like to see Asmons Npc being the bald collector outside mogu'shan palace still trying to get that sword while muttering about the big sword in Silithus.
This is easily the best interview with Ian I have ever seen. It's so great to see perspective from both sides in depth like this. Really hope you can interview Ian or someone else from the team again. Awesome job Asmon l!
This is crazy. Not what I had imagined when i subbed for the WOD dungeon guides all those years ago. You are really good at this, man. Excellent questions
Dont know if it was up to ion in the past to not decide to interview asmon seems like the people that hate him are gone in the higher ups that were given red lights about an interview
@@Ubreakable-lr2dk I'm sure there was a point in time that these two couldnt have a good conversation. But the time is now, and it was good. Asmon matured alot, that helps. I love the man, but he was a bit unforgiven in BFA. wouldnt have been a great interview if they would have met during that expansion.
Asmon called him out publically. Not showing up would have beeen baaaaaaaaaaad PR. Also the lead designer of FFXIV gave him an interview after only playing his game for 3 months. Ion not interviewing Asmon make him look weak.
@@jebalitabb8228 That's hilarious. XIV's numbers had nothing to do with Asmon, since he was so late to the party. They went up cus of the expansion. Simple as.
This was great, I really liked everyones part in this. Zack kept the conversation going with some great on the point questions and Ion matched it. Great interview!
One of the big problems is gear in previous raid being replaced. Getting gear only to use to clear that raid faster, then it's use is over as soon as you get the next raid item. Like Asmon said, it's like playing season to season and then what you do soon won't matter. Combat addons have got to be removed. People will never stop using combat add-ons bc they make every fight so much easier, they have to break them for good.
That was actually a really good interview! Some of Ion's answers, I felt, were really hitting the mark, or are totally acceptable. The segment about Addons was really good!
Just a thought, they could make the addons that solve encounters for you against TOS and swat them down on a case-by-case basis. It's more hands-on, but that seems like a decent stopgap until they figure out a solution that's implemented in the game itself.
Yeah sometimes good old manual intervention is better even if it means paying more man hours to do this than trying to solve everything by rules and logic.
Imagine getting to a level that allows you to talk and have a chat with the main creators of the game you love. I really enjoyed your conversation and I'm looking forward to the next expansion.
Oh, he knew what he was doing man you can tell on his face... He was even geting ready for it before Asmon finished the question. He is a legend for doing this tho...
I gotta say, this was one of the best interviews and very informative I've seen in a while. Zach knows what the community wants and asked the right questions. I'm glad this finally happened, hope to see more. Bruh, what sword ??
it is honestly very reassuring to see ion do these interviews, makes me think they're going to put out something the devs are actually proud to associate themselves with
Its not gonna be Dragonflight. Dragonflight is gonna be a safe expansion to stabalize themselves. But thats necessary. After that, i have hopes that they might try riskier things to bring the game back from the edge.
That was honestly the best interview I have personally seen of Ion. Great questions, tackled everything I wanted to know as a casual player, who only started to play WoW in BFA and just fell in love with the lore of the game. I would have hoped personally to hear a little more insight on the where the lore is going, but overall fantastic job!
I can't believe I used to think so little of you, man. Your rough exterior hides a truly intelligent, thoughtful man. I'm glad I started to listen and not just judge. Great interview.
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I loved the cata heroic dungeons on launch. Actually difficult 5 man content that didn't restrict players based on a time limit. I also really liked bastion of twilight and blackwing descent. The zones were good too. I won't lie though, it really did seem like LFD and LFR took a lot out of it being a good expansion. Add in flying in Azeroth and it just became a situation where you didn't see players outside of cities unless it was at a raid summon stone. The story was new, too. Something people had never heard of before, and it just all culminates in a situation of it feeling like a very different game to what wotlk was. I think there's a lot of adjustments that can be made to cata with the power of hindsight.
This was a pretty dope interview. I like how the master looter topic got brought up. It would be great if they just made a conditional that if all members of the raid were in the same guild it would unlock, and if not just prompt the raid like a ready check to accept if everyone wants it and make it a unanimous condition. Or, just apply the latter for everything.
I've watched a lot of these interviews and this was by far the best one. Legit questions people want to know instead of the same 3 questions recycled. Ion was great by the way. Keep it up!
What I'm happy with is how well asmongold did this interview. I'm glad he kept his cool and didn't lose it over certain subjects. So hopefully we see another asmongold ion interview again.
He's generally really respectful with people. The times he goes on "raging" about stuff, he's partly overdoing it for entertainment. He's very capable of having a normal discussion though.
This is a great interview. Ion looks like he’s onboard to follow through on these topics. I’m glad he didn’t give away everything but it’s good to see them listening to someone with as much influence as you Asmon
It's actually impressive to watching Asmon being so professional with Ion in front and not malding as I'm acostumed to see. Hope this repeat very often and the feedback Blizzard get makes a proper impact in the game quality.
I feel like Asmon is as good at interviewing as Sean from Hot Ones. When the almighty Ion himself keeps saying "Amazing question" and enjoys responding to them, then you know you've done a great job.
In regards to the "whats next for classic" I personally would love to see classic with tuning, make meme specs viable, up the hp of bosses to compensate, take non game breaking favorites like, meeting stones can summon and add them in there and give it a stronger feel while maintaining what it was.
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3:06 Ion talking
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Thanks for posting this, was really lost on who was talking when.
Welp~
You knew the rules and so did I~
SAY GOODBYE 🗡
29:03 WHAT SWORD?
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
Thanks for the timestamps. Helped a lot.
Can’t wait for Asmon reacting to this
He’s gonna love it for sure 🤣
Somehow I have a hunch Asmon is going to 100% agree with the video and ask us to sub for the guy
Dude's gonna say TRUE every 5secs, BIG TRUE every 7secs, and every 35secs when these intersect he's going to pause and go off on a tangent about how true and based this Asmon dude is.
And we'll all still be laughing along the way
@@KategariYami TRUEEEE.
His reaction will be longer than the actual video
i think just the fact that Ion was willing to sit down with the great malder himself is, in itself, a showing of a philosophy change at blizzard.
I will believe that when I see results. Till then this is nothing else than selling another expansion
@@SharckanDarkLight While this is true, and i agree with you, you have to at least give some credit (even if it is a small amount) where credit is due, and i think this interview is one of those moments
@@SharckanDarkLight This. They're in the process of making people cream their pants with the cinematic trailer and screenshots of Classic-looking talent trees to secure box cost purchases. After that it's *MOST LIKELY* going to be another Shadowlands-debacle. This is the same development team that made Shadowlands.
Anyway I don't care, go waste your money boys. WoW is trash, always will be unless people with actual vision replaces *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVERYONE* including Ion "EEYORE, EEYORE" Hazzikostas.
@@missinggrey1319 take that cactus out of your behind will ya?
@@grayfox2618 oh yea, theres no doubt they are trying to just make money, they're a for profit company of course that's what they're going to do. Any game company is going to try and make money. The point is at the end of the day theres improvements being made to the game and that's good. In addition it seems on the surface that there's a philosophy change in their game design happening, and if they are doing that as a vehicle to make more money and a better game comes out of it, cool, there's still a better game to be played.
This was SO cool to see. After all the negativity aimed at Asmon from Blizzard in the past, I think he really made a seriously good impression. Perfectly executed.
But isn't he one of the reason Master Looter was removed? Because he kept ninjaing shit and creating a toxic as fuck community?
@@jeffreyfitch9090 no that was like over a decade ago lmao
I don't think he did. He kept pulling faces throughout the interview, not very professional.
@@frenchcakes One of the reasons is because of people ninjaing loot, which he made acceptable. How long ago do you think Legion was? It was 6 years ago.
@@redplague facial expressions aren’t professional?…buddy I work a corporate job at a rather high level and during presentations even the CFOs/CEOs make facial expressions all the time. It’s not done to tease or diminish anything the presenter is saying, it’s just expression.
Asmongold picked the perfect questions to cover the whole player base, and it sounds like Ion is allowed to talk like a human for the first time in years. I doubt we'll ever fully know what happened at Blizzard, but it smells like a lot of the bullshit came from the very top and we're finally getting away from it.
Anyone who has actually seen Ion speak and understands what he says instead of making up their mind about him from what they read on reddit knows that he has always spoken about the game this way.
@@notarthstyle9480 no disrespect, but I couldn't disagree more. I think this was the case in 2016, but the way he carried himself in the first Preach interview and patch 9.1 statements were far more defensive. I understand you can't bash an expansion halfway through it, but there was an almost alien disconnect. "Torghast is a chore, and it's good that people feel that way", isn't exactly what I'd call genuine.
@@Dofladingus Can you point to where exactly he said that so that the context of that statement is clear?
This is something i personally believe is true with most of the issues with modern blizzard. It's not the developers, it's not the designers, not even the guys behind brainstorming ideas what will go next. Everything can be traced up to the ceos, the ones holding the company in its clutches. "Mmm, no we don't like this, do this, i don't care" the faces we see on expos and the ones doing the press get hit with all the shit, meanwhile the faceless ceos (apart from kotick i guess, he's well known now), get scot free for the most part.
@@notarthstyle9480 certainly, Preach Chains Of Domination interview at the 14:30 mark Ion is asked about Torghast. I won't paraphrase so I don't give you the wrong idea, but the conversation following is that it being a chore is good, it should just be a more detailed chore. If you're interested, things got tense before that question because Ion gave some curt answers about domination shards
Brave human warrior solos a world boss
Ion plays warrior?
Even we Orcs of the horde are in awe watching such a battle.
@@Balloonbot Ion isn't human
@@StealingYourWiFi me not that kind of orc...
Asmon is the warrior in this case.
Never thought i'd see the day Asmon speaking to Ion
Blizzard are really desperate I guess 😆😆 They should have done that years ago but whatever. Probably he is the one that has promoted their game the most. I dont play it now, but still I watch him.
Desperate or not you have to respect sitting down and having a conversation with one of their largest critics who legitimately wants the game to be better.
well, when all you do is bash blizzard and Ion, i wouldnt want to interview with him either.
its crazy
@@brandonsanders2767 Maybe there is a reason for that ...
This is the best thing Blizzard has done in many years! Talking to/with the community. We need more of this please! Great job.
I liked it a lot too! Unpopular opinion I LOVED Cata and the only classic i would be interested in would be Cata, or Legion.
@@josephpreusser gross
That was a really refreshing interview, and honestly the fact that Ion was the one who floated the idea of Classic+(Essentially) feels really nice. Hopefully this leads to many more instances where Blizzard is open and listening to suggestions from the community regarding the direction of the game. I'm pretty casual so I don't know much about the addon stuff but plenty of the ideas and issues they talked about resonated with me anyway, and that was really nice to watch!
Well Ion is a good bloke.
"Asmongold Confronts Blizzard"
-Holds a friendly, civil conversation with his friend who works at blizzard
Zack is an actual adult, who would have thought
Ye Danny , stop with the clickbaits cmon they are cringe ;d im sry, i love you all , but it is cringe
You can confront people without being an ass. Stop reading too much into neutral language.
Trust me aint any friendship between blizzard Ion and Asmon its a 80k+ stream to show of their future expansion.
Asmon did great for Wow all this years but a lot a damage this recents ones...
Friend?
Ions reaction to the sword question is priceless
Truuuue
What sword
@@radomirt6001 lmao
What sword we talking about again?
What question?
Ion being so heads up on a lot of the game's issues tells me something specific, very soundly, "Video Game Development Is Very Hard".
Especially when the game your irritating on is the MMO with the most renown legacy in the genre, and the most to live up to.
God I don't envy the position that man is in.
Agreed. He is in between corporate and the player base, and he is an active player of the game. We are blessed to enter this new renaissance of a new era for wows development. I am hopeful of the WOW franchise being good for the rest of this decade. Let’s see how much power Ion is given to make the decisions needed.
Yep. It’s even harder when the game is as old as this. Can’t imagine the horror of the code. Every small architecture change must be exhausting.
@@demonsluger Nah, I’m a software dev and I believe it full heartedly. That’s how it works with legacy code. Work becomes hard. Changes become monumental.
Why does this guy sound like he's on 1.5x playback speed?
It's not hard if you aren't a robot and actually play the game. Which is why Ion sucks so bad at it.
Ion is such a wonderful human! He took me under his wing at the BlizzCon benefit dinner in 2019. I was at the dinner alone and he came and stood at my table in the corner with me and we got to chatting about our lives and I kept getting him craft beers because the fanboys wouldn’t stop hounding him with questions and each time I returned to the table with a beer for him, he’d clear a space at the table for me and when he noticed I was getting pushed out of the table, he’d pull me back in 😂 I think we ended up being each other’s security blanket that night lol
We finished the night taking photo booth photos, gave each other a hug and said goodbye 😊 a very treasured BlizzCon memory!
Kinda sad that your comment has gotten no love. People are so focused on the negatives about blizzard as a whole that they will ignore anything positive about anyone who works for them.
Of course they would probably say something like “well yea your a female so he probably just gave you special treatment” but at the end of that day, a connection is a connection. He felt a great vibe from you and decided to connect with you more than everyone else.
I just hope people will realize that blizzard is run by human beings and human beings make mistakes. It’s in our nature. We need to look at the positives with the same regard that we look at the negatives. Unfortunately negatives always outweigh the positives but I just hope that a good chunk of our society can change that.
So is it a boy or a girl? Congratz
He wasn't a creep?
This is so wholesome
@@BastaXL It’s still a memory that makes me smile when I think of it! I actually recently just moved house and stumbled across my “stolen” Murloc IPA beer that Ion told me to steal (which is also what he was drinking that night and helped create!) and I can’t believe I forgot to mention in my initial post! I told him how much I loved the can design but I don’t drink beer so it would be pointless to buy and he said “They aren’t opening them at the bar, so slip one in your bag, I won’t tell anyone” 😂 that’s my most prized item from BlizzCon, definitely think I scored some RL achievement points for it!
Ion seems like a really solid guy that really does want to make the game good. Whether he succeeded can be argued, but I think he really cares.
Unlike Creepy Bobby.
Yeah, and he geniuenly seems cool, even from like vanilla posts you see that he cares for it for freaking 18 years
@@meteuor2859 well, if I had been working on a game that I love and get decent money - pretty good life as for me
All of the employees come off as great people who care honestly, because they are good people. Nobody goes into a job thinking “I’m gonna make this game bad”. They do their best but whether it be pride, ignorance, or something else, they sometimes make mistakes or not listen to the community. I hope their recent failures are finally going to make a difference, we’ll see when the expansion launches. I know for sure I’m not buying on launch but I’m watching with interest
I think that Ion's main problem is overthinking. You can read it through all interviews and presentations from last 7 years how he always wanted to solve many *possible* hypothetical problems and tasks. Many decisions under his rule were made in good will, however many of them were really too much sophisticated and turned out as an inefficient approach. It seems that they changed an approach with 9.1.5-9.2-9.2.5+DF and went into more *possible* hypotheticaly controversial design philosophy for recent and future updates.
This was such a cool interview, Ion seems like a great guy, love the chemistry between Asmon and Ion, the fellow wow nerds. Can't wait for a next one!
He always has been. When he is talking without a script, you can get the feeling that he cares about he game and the community.
Keep in mind Ion’s one of the few old guard who had zero allegations levied at him. He’s a questionable game director but an unquestionably good guy.
Personally the reason Cataclysm was the infamous "beginning of the end" for me, was the class design philosophy change. The homogenization of classes turned the game away from playing like a RPG, and into playing a generic game.
For me was making world content very easy and removing group quest.
Also removing hybrid builds. Sure put us in a spec so our mastery changes and we have the needed active and passives but let us go wild with our talent points
Exactly.. Every class could do everything. Homogenization is terrible cause nothing feels strong and unique or weak in certain areas just feels stale and the same. Also wheel mage
You can really tell how some of the later questions caught Ion off guard as he starts having to actually think and formulate answers to the questions. Because of that this interview felt alot more "real" than most of the ones he's done in recent history. This is a great step towards reconnecting with the playerbase.
I'd be hella nervous interviewing Zach about wow because they know all the stuff he says is controversial. I think he was also quite nervous.
Asmon said they wanted the questions he asks beforehand, so he basically knew what asmongold was gonna ask. He didnt catch him off guard its just „faked“ to make the Q&A more authentic.
@@timospath9767 even if that’s true, I don’t think Ion scripted his responses. Knowing questions beforehand probably helped him to formulate a general response because again he’s speaking for a team and not himself, their message has to be unified. However I do think the things that sorta stumped him were genuine. They were complex questions about even more complex systems.
@@zacharylucchetti3038 i dont knoe how much he scriptef his answers but he definetly thought about what to approximatly say beforehand. Watch the vod of asmons stream like 20 min before the interview began. He had to give the questions he asked beforehand. Thats btw what many companys do, its nothing new.
I just love that Ion actually sounds like a human being now.
Love how much Ion has been interacting with the community with so many interviews lately. I think they should continue being this involved and engaging with feedback as much as possible for future xpacs.
They always do that before every expansion launch to build up the hype momentum, afterward...
they do that every time a new expac comes out. And then...silence
Nothing like desperation to make a company bend their knees to their audience. My respect to everyone that "voted with their wallets" per say.
what community. you mean with one of the most popular content farmer on youtube?
You can see the excitement/nerves in Asmon, WoW has played a huge part of his life and he’s finally able to sit down and have a meaningful chat with Ion.
I really hope more of this communication will continue to happen, all we want is to see WoW succeed!
"Do something chill and have fun" The return of the tuskarr really is a good step in that direction. Chilling out in their villages, doing their random dailies to get their reputation rewards and stuff was so cool. MEANWHILE, did it make your character powerful? No. It was wow for wow's sake. I really liked that. Just hanging out. Minigames could be added to proffessions, and taverns. Could be cool.
The fact the interview happened in the first place is stunning.
This is a huge step to me.
Considering all the times the playerbase has been fooled by empty promises....id have to say let me see the game fixed before i consider coming back. I'm amazed after the number of times blizzard pulled this shit people are still willing to forgive them based on promises instead of waiting to see how it plays out in the game first.
An actual *"HUGE STEP"* is to see how the fixes is done than just talking about it.
@@YukitoOnline true I hope they follow through this PR
@@joevinlund6041
Given their track record don't hope.
Just wait and see if they actually follow it through.
@@kotaspremiere2931 They literally never did anything like what they are doing around Dragonflight.
A genuinely good interview from two knowledgeable people who clearly care about the game. Asmongold asking the right questions and Ion showing us all how much he really knows about the game he creates. Top tier
Ion gives me good vibes, but unfortunately people shit on him, we don't know how it is to develop a game inside, how teams argue have problems, or code problems especially in spaghetti code that is there for 18 years
@@Elaborance Asmon is giving the interview. Not Zack.
That was a really good interview that gave us good insight on what's going on inside the creative minds of Blizzard. Great questions, great answers, and I hope we see more like this.
I think WoW dev team has a love hate relationship with Asmon. They love how he promotes their game, but hate how he holds a magnifying glass up to their failures. The thing is, his criticism is valid a vast majority of the time, and they would do well to simply consider it.
@@nTrylo it's not just talking about failures, it's probably how he talks about them. your team loses, as a coach, yelling do better shitters, in between legit criticism of your players, isn't going to make anyone respect you. asmon today seems decently grounded with a lot of his takes, but he's been antagonistic with his relation over the years. doesn't matter if someone is giving a legit criticism of how to improve your diet while calling you a fat pig.
I loved this interview. This didn't feel like PR Ion. This felt like gamer guy Ion. It was nice to see. Great job Zack!
Such a cool interview, really good to see Asmon having a chat to blizzard and talking things over.
Honestly, this was the best time for Asmon to interview Blizzard. He's mellowed out a lot this past year, and Blizzard is currently on a PR redemption mission. And now that most of the trash has been thrown out of Blizzard, Ion can focus more on his job and speak more freely to the community.
No idea what you are talking about, asmons appeal is he never changes, no amount of money/fame etc he's just a balding gamer playing games in his mom's atic god rest her soul.
@@highmarshalhelbrecht4715 No idea what you are talking about, asmon has calmed down a lot with the near toxic attitude, to the point of saying so himself. He still speaks his mind of course, but also gives new things a shot.
@@highmarshalhelbrecht4715 he has for sure changed over the years, not dramatically but his approach to things has for sure become more welcoming? im not too sure how to put it.
@@highmarshalhelbrecht4715 Dude, Asmon has changed A LOT. I'm a huge fan of Asmon, but he was a toxic douche for a a long time. It's called growth and maturity, and it happens with intellignet people that have sense enough to be a little introspective and try to better theirself.
@@grayfox2618 At least when you take off the cowl of the Gray Fox nobody will remember it was you who was so fucking paste-eating stupid.
This was a great interview. IonBot was in the shop and they sent the guy with a sense of humor who actually loves the game. More of this please Blizz!
I think he's always loved the game, it's just now he's learning that the game he loves will only continue if WE love it too.
Let's see the results of their so called *"FIXES & UPGRADES"* before being positive in this video.
@@YukitoOnline We can be positive about things. There's nothing wrong with that. YOU don't have to be positive but I prefer to err on the side of positivity with my video games.
@@YukitoOnline Pessimist tells the optimists to be pessimistic lol
@@TheAustinKendall fr, personally I’m trying not to overhype this expansion in my own mind, but they’re doing a lot that I never would have expected. An interview with Asmon is one of those things, given his history being controversial among some people, (because people DEFINITELY can’t change and mature Kappa) I’m super happy to see them reach towards more people.
This is such a great step forward. I kept seeing all of these interviews pre-recorded and edited. Ion jumping onto a LIVE stream fills me with hope for the future of Blizzard and breaking down the lines between us. The fact they are finally listening to our feedback is epic!
Loved this interview. Ion was so cool and chill with Asmon. I felt like he is much more open when he talks to Asmon. 💗💗Good job
The best part is how you can see Ion holding his smile back so ready to act oblivious once asmon mentions the sword 😂😂😂
Whats the deal with the sword?
What do you mean? What sword?
im out of the loop with regards to the sword :P
My respect for Ion has gone THROUGH THE ROOF! I am so glad he did this interview. He is doing great.
Cap
@@supermax64 Not every, this is however a new thing. As Asmongold said himself, they have not allowed an interview with him for a very long time.
Now they go rape again because they hooked the fish again
@@hejalll That's because they are desperate and have new masters in Microsoft. Their collective asses are probably on the line after bleeding subs from shadowlands. Only truly invest after a few months after debuting so they can iron out all the bugs and see if the new systems actually deliver what was promised.
@@grayfox2618 not sure how old you're but you will get it with age. All interviews are always "staged" one way or another, big companies always pre-scan the questions beforehand for PR purposes and clarity.
Glad to see the interview go so well. I hope to see Ion back on the stream some time in the future!
I know the team is always excited around new expansion announcements, but this time around it really seems like they have rediscovered their passion for the game. Eating humble pie two expansions in a row coupled with the release of WoW classic maybe encouraged some much needed soul searching. Like most I'm cautiously optimistic because until we see execution it's only words, but I like what I hear so far.
Yeah, its like all the people who brought them down are gone or something. Or the corporate bosses give them more space now
The fact that this interview happened in my lifetime is something magical
Bruh wdym in your timeline, when the fuck else its gonna happend? In 100 years?😅
Just 99 years.
@@Mackanw what I mean is it could have never happened
Go for a walk. This was fun content but it's genuinely not that serious. Yikes.
Props to Ion for actually playing along with the Sword joke!
Fingers crossed the meme appears in the game later too somehow.
@@apocalypseap Be so funny if there was a little questline related to it in Silithus like the Deathwing one in Badlands.
What sword?
@@apocalypseap magni what are we gonna do with this huge sword ?! Magni: what sword??
What joke?
Watched this live and I just wanted to say, it’s great seeing you get some interview time with Ion and I know it makes me excited for DF. The talk about wanting to see changes comes up a bit. This was awesome, thanks for the well thought out questions and I had a blast watching.
Still cant believe it happened and I was there watching it live. Congrats Asmon! Super awesome to see you an Ion talk about wow together.
Magni: Champion, we finally found a way to remove the Sword. We can cure Azeroth's wound.
Literally player only response
"What sword?"
Quest complete
Ye did it champion !
When they finally do something with the sword if there isn’t a drunk dwarf that has no idea about the sword being right there but somehow is involved in the quest line they would be doing a disservice at this point
*champYUN; *WOOOONS
Exactly the sword was only an illusion and disappears 😅
You can tell that Ion has really changed the way he addresses the community, I'm really happy to see it. Love that Ion talking directly to Asmon is a thing now, a lot of us share Asmon's concerns about the game and to see those answered is such a W moment.
if I had to guess it's mostly a pr change
@@duelistkind846 Yeah, but that doesn't make it bad if there is some genuine information transmission happening and some genuine willingness for discourse. :)
@@padiemel834 oh i don't disagree, just from my understanding of what goes on there pr was the big reason that didn't happen previously
@@padiemel834 it doesn't change what it is, you're right. but I question the motives behind it;
@@hentaidude666 agreed with you guys. Probably only time will show us their degree of sincerity :D
I have to say, you are amazing at what you do Zack.
This interview was the best I've seen out of a content creator, and to be honest I have to say I'm super happy to see this relationship between Zack and Blizzard being rebuilt. Same with us (the community) I personally am loving what I'm hearing and I think maybe I'm finally not coping for once that this game may get even better!
@@housemana Whenever people say "to be honest" I immediately doubt their honesty. Someone who's honest as a default doesn't need to emphasize it.
Such a great interview glad asmon was able to sit down with Ian and ask him questions that we would all love to ask Ian about the game
This was a very heartwarming interview, love the fact that Ion calls asmon Zach. Great vibes from Ion and super happy to see that he is less stressed out and just a chill dude in general.
Ion is cool for doing this interview. Asmon asked him some great questions.
Loved it man. Good job.
I'm glad Ion is now able to be interviewed by youtubers and the like, he sounds much more natural, honest, and man I am sure he is passionate about the game. We can hear that.
Well done, brother Asmon. You've grown so much and hey, this is a big thing. Good interview, mate.
I didn't think I'd see Ion seeming so sincere and genuine. alas, he is a gamer at heart and he shows it.
0:00 Introduction/What does Ion think what was the biggest success in Shadowlands.
2:45 Dragon Riding abilities in combat? (Something like the Malygos fight)
3:27 Any other content for casuals? Example: Darkmoon Faire?
4:52 New pvp content such as battlegrounds etc.
7:10 Ilvl scaling, will blizzard do yet another stat squish?
12:15 The removal of master looter and why do you not want to bring it back?
15:35 Addons being a core part of raiding, Good or bad?
24:00 Certain bosses not being on the PTR. Does Blizzard see this as a good thing? (Makes bosses more fresh/new and somewhat harder)
27:00 What do you think is going to happen now that wotlk classic is going to be released? Cata classic revamp? Season of Mastery?
28:41 What Sword?
Sucks that you posted this a little too late. These are great time stamps but since they already pinned a time stamp comment, I don’t think many people will see this :( but I’ll make sure to use your time stamps whenever I come back to this vid :)
Yeah... Its just for those who care maybe they see it if enough like it
what sword? = wait for the expansion after dragon flight. or two or three, then things will revolve around the sword.
@@Thejokerzblood i saw it and watched Ion say what sword one more time. This interview holds promise for the future
mvp
The fact ion sat down with asmon gives me faith in the future of blizzard
lol
This changes everything, right? 😁🤡
It is either the last spark before dark or the spark to light a fire. Either way, we must wait and see. I, for one, have no hopes for this company, they've shown more than once, that all they care about is money and clout (especially political, for bonus points).
Hold that faith is all you will have from blizzard
How many Times does bliz need to fuck you over? Its the same shit every expac just accept that this game is gonna die and move on
They remaking the ui would be a great chance to get ingame "gladius" interface, would make it so much easier for people to get into pvp, like you would get a tutorial tooltip telling you what important info the ingame "gladius" shows and why it's important to see dr's and track trinkets etc! maybe long term we would get many times more actual fresh players in arena and not just glad boosters so much. + people could make guides for pvp where they refer to the ingame gladius so it would be easy to look up guides to it.
ofc getting addons isn't that big thing to do but it could and is too much for some when they are not that super interested into pvp anyway.
Mount runs and chill with ion , pls would love to see more natural nerdy conversation between these 2 guys 💪🏽
This is such a huge milestone for Asmongold. Ive felt like he deserved it most to talk to someone like Ion. Its good to see Blizzard now interacting with the community, its very reassuring.
They're just copying FFXIV devs basically.
@@senle7912 ok? your point is? u can literally say FFXIV is copying games that listen to communities.
@@legendaryhumper
The point is that they forced themselves to actually talk to the communities due to what recently happened in BLIZZARD.
So yeah, they're copying FFXIV devs, but not the same reasons as the FFXIV devs.
@@YukitoOnline I mean a lot of people are wanting blizzard to communicate more about the game and when they do, people say "BLIZZARD IS COPYING FFXIV". funny isnt it
They really are getting out there, it's their last chance to save a dying game. I'm glad Amon got this. He's been very constructive on what WoW needs and he does great interviews. He did a great one for the PoE devs after their disastrous nerf patch. He comes at it as a passionate player but keeps it professional. Hope we see more of this!
I love that Ion, with almost every answer, gave the perspective of the challenges that something presents to their team and how they are trying to tackle them AND ASKING US FOR HELP. What an amazing change of pace. This is probably the best interview I've seen. Both parties clearly show their love for the game and its future.
Good job, Asmon.
Good job, Ion.
He has ALWAYS done this, but as soon as he starts talking instead of giving a direct answer, moronic twitch chat starts spamming LAWYER TALK KEKW
"What sword?"
Absolute boss.
My will to come back to WoW just got much higher, very great interview, good questions, even better and ear-likely answers. Thanks Asmon for letting community know! Who could ever predict this happening, WoW Boss talking with huge community!
The fact that this interview exists says more about the future of the game than any cinematic trailer or deep dive.
It takes a lot of confidence about your product to come in front of someone who has been cynical (rightfully) and answer questions.
I'm genuinely excited about the future of World of Warcraft.
Accepting an interview with the amount of asmons followers give me the impression that they are confident that dragonflight can produce the content that we need.
I’ve never played wow, but I am more motivated to try dragonflight
@@soliderarmatang5664 i just started playing 3 days ago and so far its pretty good. People complaining are more of those end game players. Give it a shot.
I agree, I don’t know if I’m going too far but I see this interview as both parts community and Blizzard healing from all the communication problems we had in the past, I’m so happy
@@richardshiflett5181 Oh yes, let's just recolor elves again..
Seeing Ion take the time to view perspectives across multiple content creators gives me hope that they are finally listening.
Def saw how good it worked for Yoshi P. Don't ignore a good thing!
Keep doing these kinds of interviews Blizzard! It's really nice to hear the teams perspective on a lot of these topics
Thanks Ion !!!!!!! was good to hear a convo with zack and ion as people.
I thought it was pretty good. I know Blizz is scared to death of Ion talking to Zack but he handled it well and was real chill about it. I'm really hoping for all these changes in the new expansion cause itll really turn some heads over the last few years of bad expansions.
yall give this balding man way too much power lmao im sure blizz gave no fucks
Thank you Blizzard, Ion. This was a very big moment in terms of engaging the community. Good times are ahed. Didn't see this coming at all, much love.
yea sure xD
@Rob I was specifically refering to asmon interviewing ion, and that blizzard would take that step. Which they did, amazing.
@@793Force Totally agree man and glad to see people being positive about this. Whatever issues people have had, there's no feeling I get from other games that comes close to logging on my main in WoW. Communication w/ people like Asmon is certainly a good thing
This ain't new. They always keep quiet afterwards.
The “silent majority” statement hits home. It’s near impossible to feel like you can play this game casually while still enjoying content. Battlegrounds are a stomp, arenas you get one shot, pve you get endlessly declined from groups, etc. Stand around in a city for hours and log.
Exactly how it felt playing WoW for the last few years, I mean could solo queues be the solution to everything? Idk man, it certainly beats sitting around in SW.
I got back to my other mmorpg (eso) and I don't think I'll ever come back, they really killed it for me with SL.
For an old player who wants to play casually yes, but for a new players there's still a lot of casual content in the form of exploration and achievement farming.
@@moosa1037 tbh I couldn’t imagine getting into world of Warcraft as a new player in it’s current state. I feel like it would be like jumping into Game of Thrones for the first time but starting at the last season. 😂
@@harklandmusic true. I'm a relatively new player but I've only played vanilla + the first 2 expansions on classic and pservers. Playing retail might feel pretty overwhelming.
Gave a standing ovation to Ion actually replying with "What sword?"
That was fantastic. Great interview all around!
I don't get it . . .
@@lexiwilson9501 Blizzard ignored the Sword of Sargeras stuck in silithus in their narrative, so the meme is pretending there is no sword.
@@ThatWildcard Thanks Wildcard. . . ignoring lore is a tad unprofessional, but maybe that's just me. I mean, it was a big deal when it happened!
@@lexiwilson9501 its weird from blizzard. Ion just answered for the meme. He cant do shit about the writers being idiots.
@@ThatWildcard I wouldn't really say they've ignored it, I think they just sidelined it. We had BFA which touched upon the sword, then we went to shadowlands which obviously has nothing to do with it but it was actually brought up in ardenweald, you go do the play for the night fae and show what happened in your life up to that point and some of the fae literally talk about the sword like 'Wait so theres a giant sword just stuck in their world, how does that even work' etc. so blizz is clearly aware and I believe theyre planning on something. My theory is it will become Azeroths weapon when she is born hence the waiting game.
Ion took a W with this interview. Answered most questions the community actually wants answers to. Now if they execute they will start to regain community trust.
@@richardshiflett5181 Bullshit. Try to listen.
@@richardshiflett5181 he did answer
They’ll win back trust when they put out good work
They've done that before. Words are cheap. Theyve always known what players wanted, they just didn't implement any of it for other reasons. Probably money.
Yall can get fooled twice or even thrice in a lot of sad cases if you really want, I won't.
@@SuperBeast641 I mean, they’re under new management now, so here’s to hoping.
Their mutual loss of hair brought them together 🥺
Back in the TBC days I was in a guild that had a very strict rule NOT to talk about any tactics that they had found online. - We figured out all of the Karazhan bosses on our own, and while it took us _some_ time, we had a BLAST doing that. -- Sure, some did know the tactics beforehand, but we didn't discuss them and I think many of us simply volunteered NOT to go find that info either, BECAUSE we were going to be clearing it eventually anyway. Would LOVE to see more opportunities for discovery, although I realize that this exact scenario would be impossible to reproduce on a large scale, especially these days.
These interviews are just the best form of content that’s so enjoyable and great for hype
This was awesome! Really loved the chemistry between the two, and really hope Ion comes back on. It was great hearing pretty much everything Ion said, and he didn’t shy away from a hard question. As someone who is a casual but consistent player I really like that they’re taking the UI redesign seriously, and it sounds like an ongoing project. I’ve never wanted to install third party software to play the game.
Add an asmongold npc in and have him ranting and raving about a sword in Silithus
THE SWORD. THE GREAT SWORD IN SILITHUS. I SEE IT. IT CALLS TO ME. IT HARMS THE WORLD. I FEEL IT MY VERY SOULLLLLLL
Imagine a homeless skinny kul'tiran in stormwind being a doomsayer in the streets of stormwind about the sword, that would be hilarious.
I'd like to see Asmons Npc being the bald collector outside mogu'shan palace still trying to get that sword while muttering about the big sword in Silithus.
Great job asmon on the interview. The pr comment at the end was funny.
This is easily the best interview with Ian I have ever seen. It's so great to see perspective from both sides in depth like this. Really hope you can interview Ian or someone else from the team again. Awesome job Asmon l!
This is crazy. Not what I had imagined when i subbed for the WOD dungeon guides all those years ago. You are really good at this, man. Excellent questions
This was honestly incredible and I really hope that we do get another interview right before Dragonflight or shortly after it.
Actually cool interview, hope they do it again! Also, I quit during bfa and swore to never come back...but DF looks frigging good.
Great interview, I'm so happy to see that Blizzard is ready to listen to player/community feedback
The fact that Ion showed up is a sign that he really cares. Good interview. this is the engagement the game needs.
Dont know if it was up to ion in the past to not decide to interview asmon seems like the people that hate him are gone in the higher ups that were given red lights about an interview
@@Ubreakable-lr2dk I'm sure there was a point in time that these two couldnt have a good conversation. But the time is now, and it was good. Asmon matured alot, that helps. I love the man, but he was a bit unforgiven in BFA. wouldnt have been a great interview if they would have met during that expansion.
Asmon called him out publically. Not showing up would have beeen baaaaaaaaaaad PR. Also the lead designer of FFXIV gave him an interview after only playing his game for 3 months. Ion not interviewing Asmon make him look weak.
@@Gunplabro big true
@@jebalitabb8228 That's hilarious. XIV's numbers had nothing to do with Asmon, since he was so late to the party. They went up cus of the expansion. Simple as.
This was great, I really liked everyones part in this. Zack kept the conversation going with some great on the point questions and Ion matched it. Great interview!
One of the big problems is gear in previous raid being replaced. Getting gear only to use to clear that raid faster, then it's use is over as soon as you get the next raid item. Like Asmon said, it's like playing season to season and then what you do soon won't matter. Combat addons have got to be removed. People will never stop using combat add-ons bc they make every fight so much easier, they have to break them for good.
so hype for asmon finally getting this interview
There it is dude. Really awesome questions from Zack and pretty amazing to see these 2 legends chat finally.
That was actually a really good interview! Some of Ion's answers, I felt, were really hitting the mark, or are totally acceptable. The segment about Addons was really good!
Just a thought, they could make the addons that solve encounters for you against TOS and swat them down on a case-by-case basis. It's more hands-on, but that seems like a decent stopgap until they figure out a solution that's implemented in the game itself.
Yeah sometimes good old manual intervention is better even if it means paying more man hours to do this than trying to solve everything by rules and logic.
I'd love to see the massive "what if" of if they just finished all the content that was cut. The missing raid to save Neptulon, etc.
28:02 “Was Firelands a bad raid?” No, it’s actually one of the best next to Ulduar. That was one of the best parts of Cata.
Firelands was great :-)
firelands is so cool I love how big and vast it was
Imagine getting to a level that allows you to talk and have a chat with the main creators of the game you love. I really enjoyed your conversation and I'm looking forward to the next expansion.
Great interview. No confrontation. This is exactly what I wanted to see.
Was such a good interview. Nice and respectful and got alot of info out.
Ion looking confused and saying "what sword?" was GOD TIER CONTENT. LMAO
Awesome way to finish a W interview, I like listening to non-bot Ion
What does it meaaaan
Oh, he knew what he was doing man you can tell on his face... He was even geting ready for it before Asmon finished the question. He is a legend for doing this tho...
28:45 this is what you came for
Ion : What sword?
Yes, yes it is. Perfection.
I gotta say, this was one of the best interviews and very informative I've seen in a while. Zach knows what the community wants and asked the right questions. I'm glad this finally happened, hope to see more.
Bruh, what sword ??
it is honestly very reassuring to see ion do these interviews, makes me think they're going to put out something the devs are actually proud to associate themselves with
Its not gonna be Dragonflight. Dragonflight is gonna be a safe expansion to stabalize themselves. But thats necessary. After that, i have hopes that they might try riskier things to bring the game back from the edge.
@@ThatWildcard so long as the content keeps me entertained and the game stays headed in a positive direction, that's just fine :)
Confronts? It was a normal interview that they chose to do...
It's a joke guys relax haha
Yeah + the
Meme title
Yep, they are almost sucking each other off at some points.
That was honestly the best interview I have personally seen of Ion. Great questions, tackled everything I wanted to know as a casual player, who only started to play WoW in BFA and just fell in love with the lore of the game. I would have hoped personally to hear a little more insight on the where the lore is going, but overall fantastic job!
I can't believe I used to think so little of you, man. Your rough exterior hides a truly intelligent, thoughtful man. I'm glad I started to listen and not just judge. Great interview.
You on about Asmon or Ion?
@@Endeva09 yes
Maybe I'm alone in this, but I loved the cata heroic dungeons on launch. Actually difficult 5 man content that didn't restrict players based on a time limit.
I also really liked bastion of twilight and blackwing descent. The zones were good too.
I won't lie though, it really did seem like LFD and LFR took a lot out of it being a good expansion. Add in flying in Azeroth and it just became a situation where you didn't see players outside of cities unless it was at a raid summon stone.
The story was new, too. Something people had never heard of before, and it just all culminates in a situation of it feeling like a very different game to what wotlk was.
I think there's a lot of adjustments that can be made to cata with the power of hindsight.
This was a pretty dope interview. I like how the master looter topic got brought up. It would be great if they just made a conditional that if all members of the raid were in the same guild it would unlock, and if not just prompt the raid like a ready check to accept if everyone wants it and make it a unanimous condition. Or, just apply the latter for everything.
I feel like im in a different universe. I'd never thought I'd see the day. Great interview and more respect for Ion
Stange times... who would have thought that we will have pandemic...war....and Asmon talking to Ion...
I've watched a lot of these interviews and this was by far the best one. Legit questions people want to know instead of the same 3 questions recycled. Ion was great by the way. Keep it up!
What I'm happy with is how well asmongold did this interview. I'm glad he kept his cool and didn't lose it over certain subjects. So hopefully we see another asmongold ion interview again.
He's generally really respectful with people. The times he goes on "raging" about stuff, he's partly overdoing it for entertainment.
He's very capable of having a normal discussion though.
This is a great interview. Ion looks like he’s onboard to follow through on these topics. I’m glad he didn’t give away everything but it’s good to see them listening to someone with as much influence as you Asmon
It's actually impressive to watching Asmon being so professional with Ion in front and not malding as I'm acostumed to see. Hope this repeat very often and the feedback Blizzard get makes a proper impact in the game quality.
I feel like Asmon is as good at interviewing as Sean from Hot Ones.
When the almighty Ion himself keeps saying "Amazing question" and enjoys responding to them, then you know you've done a great job.
In regards to the "whats next for classic" I personally would love to see classic with tuning, make meme specs viable, up the hp of bosses to compensate, take non game breaking favorites like, meeting stones can summon and add them in there and give it a stronger feel while maintaining what it was.