A NEW Era for WoW - Inside Blizzard HQ

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Published on November 25, 2022 5:00:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK757rrOwdI

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World of WarCraft (2004)

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When Mike first started to look into Dragonflight, he noticed a fundamental change in how Blizzard has approached its development. Following the last couple of expansions being received so poorly, and a spate of allegations directed at Activision-Blizzard; Dragonflight looks like it might represent the biggest change we've seen in WoW for many years. Because of that, Mike just had to get behind the scenes, and see what really has been going on with Team 2.

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00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:54 - Holly Longdale & John Hight introduction
00:04:54 - Creation and success of Classic
00:07:45 - How Classic will influence Dragonflight
00:09:10 - The rise of solo players
00:12:24 - Ion Hazzikostas Introduction
00:14:10 - What players do in WoW and conflicting feedback
00:17:30 - Forcing players into content
00:21:00 - Failure of Torghast and mandatory weekly loop
00:24:00 - Removal of mandatory content in Dragonflight
00:26:00 - Item level progression
00:28:00 - Josh Allen (Lore) Introduction
00:29:00 - Feedback and identifying the problem
00:32:08 - Do devs actually get our feedback
00:33:25 - Covenants and knowing a feature will be disliked
00:36:20 - Modular Design Introduction, Ion, Morgan Day and Tina Wang
00:37:00 - Evergreen improvements & Removal of borrowed power.
00:38:30 - A third era of Warcraft, an end to modular design
00:41:25 - Failure of borrowed power & return to evergreen systems
00:44:33 - Blizzard is best when solving problems
00:45:25 - Features can still evolve & be used in future
00:47:30 - Full modular design explanation
00:51:10 - Adapting to no mandatory content
00:53:50 - Is blizzard ok with players not logging in
00:55:20 - Blizzard's concern with raid-logging
00:56:58 - Introduction to harassment allegations
00:57:59 - Setting expectations
00:58:48 - Ion on lockdowns and allegations
01:02:10 - John and Holly on lockdowns and allegations
01:05:06 - Pupper
01:06:01 - Summary of Blizzard response
01:08:19 - Why did we go to Blizzard
01:10:51 - The end of our journey

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