But in the case of both Pardo and WOW Classic TBC Gold Kaplan, they had been designing a fresh new game. They were still able to bring each of their encounters out of EQ forward and employ thembut they weren't hacking apart an present game. Perhaps if they were hired to operate on EverQuest, it would have experienced similarly catastrophic results.
He could be the most intelligent player but the very incompetent game manager. They are not mutually exclusive. I am not saying he definitely is incompetent, but my impression from the interviews he did is that he don't understand what the players need or he's always in a position where he is at the stage of no return and end up doubling defending and down the game layouts.
When you are a healer doing less complete recovery than your tanks in raid you've fucked up, the man lives in a bubble and has no idea what the sport is like for the average or even top end player anymore because he doesn't bother. He grey parses in raid, and maybe runs 1-3 mythic plus dungeons a week even early on in spots while his guild funnels him equipment likely.
He lives in a bubble, and I'm convinced he can not understand that as many can't who live in these bubbles but the man is very smart, it just does not apply to cheap WOW TBC Gold his existing job .