My personal journey working on WoW as Game Director is at an end, but my journey with Blizzard isn’t. I’ll still be here, but will be focusing on another project within the company. However, it’s with great pleasure that I announce Ion Hazzikostas will be taking my place as Game Director for World of Warcraft.
I imagine Game Director of WoW at this point has to be a grooming position for greater power. "Take this prestige title that doesn't mean as much as it use to for a little while, proving you can handle shit without totally fucking up, before moving on to take control of important stuff."
Basically Duke of Wales.
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert