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WoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!'
news "And we're like, wait a second, you just expect to have quests keep going?"
Playing World of Warcraft with a controller might become my preferred playstyle thanks to this excellent gamepad-friendly addon that's letting me enjoy Azeroth from my couch
News Please, try to contain your contempt.
A terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t'
News "I'm just sh*tting up their inventory with all these pages."
WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch
News "He liked the fact you were instantly on a team."
Blizzard nerfed this WoW item, but players found an even better loophole that allowed them to travel across the planet every 2 minutes
news A magical, misbehaving key indeed.
WoW: Midnight's new Prey mechanic is the coolest system the MMO's added in a while, but it needs to be meaner—even on lower difficulties
BETTER PREY The hunter… mostly doesn't become the hunted.
WoW's recent revamp of Silvermoon for Midnight is so good, I'm starting to wonder if the MMO's model of a 'new exciting continent every 2-3 years' was ever the right way
OVER THE 'MOON Home is where the hearthstone is.
Ah yikes, World of Warcraft: Midnight's otherwise solid housing system is soured by its premium currency, which makes you 'minimize leftovers' even though Blizzard said it wouldn't
News Just let me buy the exact amount, I beg you.
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