#World of Warcrafts game director lämnar sin tjänst, meddelar han via Battle.net. Därmed tappar spelet en man som haft stor betydelse för spelets utveckling; han anslöt som game designer redan 2004.
Chiltons sista World of Warcraft-uppdrag var expansionen #Legion. Men han blir kvar hos #Blizzard.
For me, Legion has been more than just another expansion, though—it’s the culmination of more than a decade of work with one of the best development teams I’ve ever had the pleasure to be a part of. And it’s with a mix of excitement, sadness, and gratitude that I’m saying farewell to the WoW team and moving on to a new adventure within Blizzard.
Han ger en kort inblick i WoW-utvecklingens tidiga dagar.
In 2004, before I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to serve as game director, I started on the World of Warcraft team as a senior game designer. As you can imagine, World of Warcraft was quite a bit different in 2004. Early that year, there were just 60 of us on the team. Around that time in the Friends and Family Alpha, questing was only available up to level 25—for the Alliance only—and the Horde wasn’t playable at all. Some players were even using dial-up modem connections to access the test.
Many on the team still debated on whether the Horde and Alliance should be separated into factions. (We know how that one turned out.) Several other core features of the game didn’t even exist, including raids and PvP. We’ve come a long way since then, with six expansions under our belts to go along with countless raids, dungeons, Battlegrounds, features, and more.
Ny game director för World of Warcraft blir Ion Ion Hazzikostas, en man med åtta års erfarenhet av spelet. Det bör kunna funka.
