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A brief greeting and introduction. I am a long-time player and occasional developer in MMOGs, and used to be a counselor and seer's chimp in UO, so I have a bit more personal experience with Tom "Kalgan" Chilton, and his very, very well self-abused and overinflated ePeen. To get the obvious joke out of the way, the size of his real one was probably his personal highlight of visiting Japan.

> Honestly, it makes me wonder what idiot at the high end has a hard on for eSports. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same incompent who continues to keep the LFG system from being remotely useful...

Blizzard didn't learn a damn thing and that no matter what people expect, the arenas system was made by Kalgan for his need of being l33t.

Kalgan. Who also fucked over UO for cash, and him selling out WoW for the greedy farm/treadmill jagoffs at Blizzard would have made him fit right in with the rest. Except that unlike the people who raided EQ as their life's goal, Kalgan also has "previous design lead experience". That, and a recognizable name, means an assload more in this troubled industry than creative vision and talent.

Kalgan, the same piece of shit who is also known as Evocare.

Evocare (AKA, Evercarebear) was the piece of shit that ruined UO by rebuilding the game system from skill-based to item-based. Almost to the same fucked-up bullshit as WoW but without any item re-balancing or consideration to the game's theme, so everyone was stuck tooling around wielding Otter Pops for weapons while they dinked around in the VERY NON-UO setting of the Ultima Online: White Trash Ninja Empire expansion, which came out a bit after the REALLY infamous Ultima Online: Age of Shit (Age of Suck in more polite circles), and after the mocked cash attempt by tying in A Name (Todd McFarland) in Ultima Online: Whored Blackthorn's Revenge. You know, where they eventually had "Lord British" return in one of the most shitheaded of stunts around the industry.

http://www.uo.com/cgi-bin/newstools.pl?Article=7820

He also did some work on Ultima Online: The Turd Dawn, but it must have been mostly under some suit's desk at EA for him to suddenly be put into position as lead designer for UO an expansion later.

Then Kalgan/Evocare started mentally jerking off all over the pvp in the game because people actually could fight back against him and his group of gank buddies' "flavor-of-what-*I*-want-to-play" characters. So he ended up making what THEY wanted, and fuck the rest of the UO players.

Now it's happening again with WoW, again with the ePeen swinging contest of Tom "CIMB" Chilton, in particular with his class favoritism combined with his ignorance and derision of the "hybrid shut up and heal my warrior" classes. The DPS Peen of raids fucking up their raid makeup and sacrificing overall cohesion/survivability in favor of being able to churn out more personal DPS (because that is how most "DPS classes" are incorrectly given worth - how much personal DPS they did on the damage meters, no matter if the hunter who did a bit less damage helped almost every other non-caster DPS do more raid-wide DPS, they are often considered less raid worth than the rogue who topped the damage meters), and how Blizzard revolves the ENTIRE end-game around an invisible stat (threat) which you need a 3rd-party mod to accurately track WHILE you're doing a DPS race and avoiding pulling aggro - and is often broken routinely by Blizzard - is another whole argument entirely but is still pretty relevant to discussing design failures like Kalgan/Evocare. Many raid mechanics have been screwed over into cookie-cutter class builds because of PVP balancing. I also remind folks that Tom Chilton is the one claimed to be "WoW's PVP guru".

Now he's combining Blizzard's love for money over anything else with his own ego-polishing, resulting in the horrible atrocity that has thousands of WoW cattle lining up to be sent to the slaughterhouse a second time - PAID ARENAS.

Sure, the prize money is an appeal, but you have to consider a few things about it: