Greg Street


 * "I like long walks on the beach, drinking gin, and nerfing paladins." &mdash; Greg Street

Greg Street (alias Ghostcrawler) is the lead systems designer for World of Warcraft.

Greg Street about his job: "Systems design specifically is everything that is not level, story, quest or encounter design. My team handles everything from classes to mechanics to items to trade skills to achievements to UI design, and that includes the game balance."

He co-hosted the BlizzCon 2008 WoW Class Panel along with Tom Chilton.

He was previously (1998-2008) lead game designer at Ensemble Studios for the Age of Empires series.

He earned a PhD in Marine Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996.

Legacy

 * A 85 rare elite crab named can be found walking the Abandoned Reef in the Abyssal Depths of Vashj'ir. Its Nerfbat ability is an obvious easter egg to Greg Street's job, the nature of which sometimes leads to claims of unfair nerfing.