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'World Of Warcraft' Still Going Strong As It Celebrates 20 Years

As it celebrates its 20th birthday, online video game "World of Warcraft" has demonstrated a rare longevity thanks to its loyal following and constant evolutions.

International Business Times

After having to buff event rewards 4 times in a year, WoW director Ion Hazzikostas admits there's 'a pattern' and that 'we may tend to err on the conservative side'

You can always buff later.

PC Gamer

After 4 World of Warcraft events launched with bad loot this year alone, Blizzard admits that it can "start to seem like a pattern"

"We hear the feedback from the community loud and clear."

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After 20 years of WoW updates, will Blizzard ever need to wipe the slate clean? Maybe "at some long, distant point," but the MMO has already been totally "rebuilt"

"We're constantly tearing out some old foundational system and replacing it"

GamesRadar

WoW lead says "big bets" with World of Warcraft: The War Within were worth it – "Of course, yes, if I could catch that scaling bug, I'd love to go back"

Blizzard's Ion Hazzikostas says, "At a very high level, there aren't too many regrets for me as a game director"

GamesRadar

After 'regrets and lessons learned,' and 2 months of tuning, Blizzard is 'happy' with Delves as WoW's newest endgame destination

And your mouthy buddy Brann Bronzebeard will learn a few new tricks.

PC Gamer

"The goal is never to see a degradation in our story quality." World of Warcraft turns 20: Discussing the future with Blizzard on Mythic+ progression, class balance, Undermine, and the decades-awaited Player Housing feature

World of Warcraft turned 20 this year, as Warcraft itself turns 30. We spoke to Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas and Assistant Lead Quest Designer Mark Colada on what the future holds.

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Player housing is coming to World of Warcraft after 20 years, though you'll have to wait until the next expansion: 'It's a tremendously large undertaking'

Our house, in the middle of Warcraft.

PC Gamer

World of Warcraft's next major patch will let you drift in a car '4 to 5 times faster' than a normal ground mount, all while learning 'more about goblin culture than ever before'

Patch 11.1, Undermine(d), will be drifting into the game early next year.

PC Gamer

World of Warcraft: The War Within added "training wheels" to buff new players, but accidentally went too far with a bug that's letting them constantly "cheat death"

It should be fixed "in the coming days"

GamesRadar

World of Warcraft's 'immortality' levelling experience is a bug, with a fix coming soon

Blizzard confirmed to us today that the inability to die in World of Warcraft's new levelling experience is a bug, with a fix rolling out soon to patch their "cheat death" mechanic for new players.

Windows Central

World of Warcraft director says leaning on games like Warcraft 3 to make the MMO's most iconic villains means that Blizzard has "struggled" to create new bad guys since

The Worldsoul Saga is here to "build up a threat and give it the time that the story deserves"

GamesRadar

WoW game director Ion Hazzikostas says they're already drafting up plans for The Last Titan's patches—that's 2 expansions after The War Within, in case you're keeping score

Look to the future now, it's only just begun.

PC Gamer

World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas says the Worldsoul Saga is letting Blizzard give its villains some much-needed character: 'Dragons are really cool, but it's hard to grasp the motivations of a being the size of a city'

"What if we give this some time to breathe and give us some time to let the story go where it ought to go?"

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'It's time to rebuild some foundations': Shadowlands forced Blizzard to rethink World of Warcraft's oldest ideas to make it a better MMO, director says

Player feedback has fueled several core changes to the MMO as it nears the release of its 10th expansion.

PC Gamer

WoW's devs will continue to use private auras, which limit UI addon functionality, in The War Within: though they'd like to be selective to avoid cures 'worse than the disease'

"A lot of what it boils down to is reclaim some design space."

PC Gamer

'The concerns about claustrophobia were a major aspect' of desiging World of Warcraft: The War Within's underground zones, says director

Blizzard didn't want Azeroth's caves to be drab.

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The next World of Warcraft expansion features an ancient race of spider people, so ahead of The War Within, the MMO is getting an arachnophobia mode to turn them into crabs instead

That's good news for WoW fans and plenty on the development team

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Blizzard quietly had World of Warcraft players test run The War Within's biggest new feature last year: underground zones

Dragonflight's Zaralek Caverns were the blueprint for what's coming in the next expansion.

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No matter how many years you've been away, World of Warcraft: The War Within is a perfect jumping on point for the MMO

After playing The War Within alpha, I'm almost certainly going to renew my subscription to the famed MMO later this year

PC Gamer

WoW: The War Within will tell its main story via delves and dungeons 'when it makes sense', giving me hope for an escape from 2 decades of raid-centric storytelling

That's the World of Warcraft that you play (on YouTube).

PC Gamer

The state of WoW going into 2024: Blizzard had to deliver the best year ever for World of Warcraft, and it did

Dragonflight’s roaring success (and Classic's staying power) saved the 20-year-old MMO.

TechRadar

World of Warcraft's disjointed story 'is something that we need to improve', says MMO's director, 'I can completely acknowledge that is a weakness'

World of Warcraft director Ion Hazzikostas aims to fix problems with the MMORPG's story structure.

PC Gamer

WoW's game director says he's keen on organising its scattered story for new players: 'that is a weakness ... Chris Metzen and I chatted [about it] a bunch'

Work work.

PC Gamer

World of Warcraft's director says the game is 'letting go of old stubbornness' after the fumbles of Shadowlands

Out with the old, in with the new.

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