Greg Street, a famous former World of Warcraft chief system designer, nicknamed "GhostCrawler" or "Crab", he frequently voiced in the Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysmic Fury versions, and became Blizzard's "voice" or even the only voice during this time, in that era players could only rely on official blue stickers, he was the only active World of Warcraft designer. However, there are many problems with the design ideas of the follow-up to the cataclysm, and doing subtraction is not popular with players, and he has also been criticized a lot.
After five years at World of Warcraft, Ghost Crab left Blizzard in November 2013 to join Riot Games as the lead game designer for League of Legends and as head of creative development in 2018. Two years later, he announced that Riot would make a new MMORPG in the League of Legends universe and help build its development team while serving as executive producer on the project.
The detective once had great expectations for this project, and the MMORPG project of League of Legends should be the online game with the most potential to replace World of Warcraft in the post-Warcraft era, but the sudden departure of Ghost Crab makes all this full of variables.
Ghost Crab said that the dual considerations of "family factors" and "future career development" made him want to leave, he lost some relatives last year, and he now needs to spend more time with surviving relatives.
Regarding his 9 years of work at Riot and the future of the League of Legends MMORPG, Ghost Crab had the following description: After nine years at Riot, I felt it was time to do something new! I've said from the beginning that building a League of Legends MMO worthy of all of you will be a long journey. The most important thing I can do as part of that is to build an amazing team, and while I try to be humble, I'm proud of the whole team, the new MMO is in good hands, it's time to hand over the burden, I intend to continue doing game development, and I already have a lot of exciting opportunities in front of me. I'll play Riot's MMO games with you.
Ghost Crab said that his main contribution to the Riot MMO online game is to build a strong team, which he did not brag about, such as he hired The Witcher 3's chief mission designer Matt Usz Thomas Kivich as the plot designer for the Riot MMO online game.
From the current spoilers, this online game will have 6 types of professions, including the combat method herdsman shooting auxiliary system, there will also be life skills such as fishing, and there will be group-based activities, from any angle this new online game will become a super upgraded version of World of Warcraft, if everything goes well, it was originally at the end of 2023 to see Fist officially announce this new online game, but unfortunately, the departure of the ghost crab has put all this in the shadows.
The current global MMORPG market is very bleak, World of Warcraft 10.0 Dragon Country's results are significantly lower than Shadow Country, Blizzard has just lost the Chinese mainland market, Final Fantasy 14 said that there is no big update this year, if the League of Legends MMO also has an accident, MMORPG, the game classification with the strongest sense of substitution and the richest gameplay, may be about to die.