Jason M. Gallagher Nov 22, 2019
Former and current Blizzard developers talk to us about the earliest days of World of Warcraft and its legacy 15 years later.
This article is part of our History of PC Gaming series.
John Staats, former Blizzard developer and the original 3D level designer for World of Warcraft, remembers people thinking he was crazy when he told them the seminal Mmorpg would last for decades. It didn't help that Staats had made this prediction before the game had even released on Nov. 23, 2004.
"The first day on the project, [Blizzard] said, 'Well, it's going to be like Everquest but we're going to simplify, take out all the pain points that EverQuest players were suffering under,'" Staats says. "It was obvious to me it was going to be a huge title. When we finally announced the game, we would go to trade shows like E3, and I would go...
Former and current Blizzard developers talk to us about the earliest days of World of Warcraft and its legacy 15 years later.
This article is part of our History of PC Gaming series.
John Staats, former Blizzard developer and the original 3D level designer for World of Warcraft, remembers people thinking he was crazy when he told them the seminal Mmorpg would last for decades. It didn't help that Staats had made this prediction before the game had even released on Nov. 23, 2004.
"The first day on the project, [Blizzard] said, 'Well, it's going to be like Everquest but we're going to simplify, take out all the pain points that EverQuest players were suffering under,'" Staats says. "It was obvious to me it was going to be a huge title. When we finally announced the game, we would go to trade shows like E3, and I would go...
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- Den of Geek
Blizzard Entertainment turned the nostalgia up to 11 earlier this year with the release of World of Warcraft Classic and players now have the chance to get an ever deeper dive into the development process thanks to John Staats, a veteran Blizzard game developer and the first level designer hired onto the World of Warcraft […]
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