Yong Woo Leaves Blizzard - Joins Ben Brode at Second Dinner
Yong Woo, Hearthstone's Production Director, has left the company. He joins Ben Brode and Hamilton Chu at the new Second Dinner game studio.
Another two Hearthstone employees quit in recent time, Michael Schweitzer and Jomaro Kindred, who are also at the studio. There are now five ex-Hearthstone team members working at Second Dinner.
Quote from Yong WooAfter 9 epic years at Blizzard, I am embarking on a new adventure. Thank you for your love and support over the years. I'm super excited to join @seconddinner to build something new & amazing together!
Quote from Second DinnerThe team is growing! Say hi to our newest teammates!
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I knew Boomsday would be the 9/11 expansion of the year. Almost all of the original talent has jumped out of the Blizzard towers and now they're trying to server everyone some kind of sloppy seconds 4 dinner???
Yes talented people have left but ben brode and the people that left after him still helped out with boomsday expansion so your comment is ridiculous and irrelevant.
They made the pile of trash here. I'll laugh at whatever these clowns make it will be the same pile of trash. Will the game change...sadly it won't blizzard has no vision or the brainpower to implement it. The dam player base could make the game better for free imo. In the end its a game that amounts to nothing, is nothing and never will be anything important enough to sink time into. The game is a cash grab like all games are. You just have to move on and that's that. Nobody cares and frankly, no one should.
wow for a game that means nothing and isn't worth sinking time into you wasted an awful lot of time checking up on hearthpwn enough to see this article and even more on your essay of a rant. Seriously fallow your own advice drop this game and stop trying to ruin it for everyone else.
these guys left...hearthstone is what they made it. The game was made by them and now that it really has been shown to be a stale,non- evolving, linear-playstyle and now quite frankly boring.... it still has their name on it whether they work for the company or not. Bendover Brode can go make a new game with all his buddies that will be the same exact thing he had a hand in with blizzard and nobody is going to buy it or play it. We already have hearthstone we don't need another. The Shadowverse devs beat you to that Brode. What is this guy going to do now who knows and frankly who even cares? I was tired of looking at him and his ridiculous antics. You either have to accept the fact that Hearthstone is what it is and it's not going to change or move on. I've been here since closed beta. I'm getting rid of my account and leaving. Blizzard has nothing to offer but a bag of polished "$hit". The game hasn't changed since closed beta. The game isn't going to be different because this guy left. I didn't even know who this guy is and don't really care. As long as people exist who keep paying for a bag of polished "$hit" the game will continue on just like WoW. I can see a day when Blizzard doesn't even sell packs but instead sells a subscription level access to the cards. CCG are about having fun and being creative. Playing a 30 card deck with 30 health using the same turn-based mana cost system is, unfortunately...STALE. OH look new xpan and we have what......combo decks, aggro decks, control decks and....hmmm the same decks. 135 new cards and I roll odd-rogue with 1 new card ,1 NEW CARD! Blizzard is selling bags of polished"$hit" by the dump truck! This dude leaving isn't going to change anything nor does it matter. I'd love to see relevant information instead of garbage like this. No new modes, no new achievements, no tournaments, no new archetypes..... This game is 500 cards behind and will forever be. Sad anyone gives mention of anyone leaving who remotely produced what has amounted to garbage. One can only hope he's gone and that's a good thing. Hearthstone has great animations and artwork and that is pretty much all it has. They should worry about losing artists and voice actors. not some random guy who means nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Wow you really spent a long time typing the same thing over and over. Please delete your hs account and never come back, no one cares. Next time try using some evidence that hs is ‘stale’ or whatever. Sounds like you don’t like the game so much, so quit, but don’t trash talk a game you have been playing for 3 years and act like it’s bad. It’s not. Some of my all time favorite games don’t have as many hours on them as hs, it can’t just be a polished turd or else I would have stopped playing years ago.
I agree with you at some points. Long time passed and pity changes were made. It is called marketing. No reason to make tons of features in one season, to have nothing new left to implemend in next season. Because players will consume the game slower and play it longer - that's why no changes made. Why do you make awesome iphone 10 at once, when you can made 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9 each year? and people would buy it again and again :)))))))
Seriously though I checked your history all of your recent posts are negative or bragging about how much money you spend on this game, that's not an insult as much as a fact. Please stop posting.
Looks like everyone is jumping ship.
That implies that the ship is sinking, when they most likely just want to get on a smaller ship with a smaller crew that has more freedom to sail where it wants.
Maybe now he might tell us what his plan was for Warrior's famous Titan's Grip that someone else almost detailed during last years blizzcon
If he forces it "A LOT" then that's fake. Sorry to have to tell everyone.
Sometimes i force my poop out more then i need to but pretty sure my poop isn't fake
I didn't need to know that, thanks I guess though.
I honestly preferred the Old Yoo better. *puts on vinyl record, begins wearing suspenders*
Now, this is not quite phisiological for a company, to have such a transfer.
End of an era?
I hope they make good games. It can't be bad to have more potentially good developers out there. We'll just have to see what happens.
Personally, I've always been annoyed with Brodes fake laugh and BS public persona. I'm gonna guess that he doesn't act like that all the time when the cameras off ... for goodness sake I hope he isn't like that when the cameras off.
His personality is legit and i think the laugh is also legit but he forces it A LOT of the time (because he knows ppl want to see it); at this point it became his trademark so is understandable.
it's completely unprofessional to show the fans the real you, instead, BB showed us a really good person, we don't need to know him for sure, he only showed us his good side, and he tried his very best to do it, and that what i call a good person, will you like him if he showed you the real him? i don't think so, because to us, he is just a director, and for me he is the best one i know, because most directors are straightforward, dull, boring and tedious.
Ben Brode was close to the fans, to the community, only a hater will deny this fact, with him i felt that a specific game's community is really important and can be heared, you don't need to laugh with him or anything, he is just a director now a stand-up comedy actor. compare him and his personality to most directors, you will know why the fans really miss BB.