Tom Chilton talks about 3.2 and the future of World of Warc : World of Warcraft General Discussions

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Register to unlock hidden imageVideogamer.com has a nice long interview with World of Warcraft Producer Tom Chilton about everything from Register to unlock hidden link and the Argent Tournament to the future of the game at large. They caught up with him at the Register to unlock hidden link tournament in Germany this past week, and Register to unlock hidden link and what Blizzard is expecting to get out of it. He says Register to unlock hidden link is their most "epic-feeling" instanced PvP setting since Alterac Valley, and that they want it to feel nuts, with players fighting each other via air and land. He also mentions Arena, and says that it was originally designed to be "a fun side PvP activity" that they went a little overboard with during Burning Crusade. Finally, he talks about Register to unlock hidden link, and says that neither Blizzard nor twinks, apparently, want to see other players crushed by those who have the time or money to max out their low level characters. Even twinks, says Chilton, want to see competition against each other, and Register to unlock hidden link. I'm not sure I agree with that last one -- many twinks seem to beef their characters up just for the chance to lay waste to "normal" players, but Chilton says Blizzard believes otherwise.

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Very interesting interview. Chilton doesn't really reveal anything, but you do get the sense that save for a very skeleton plan of one or two years in the future, Blizzard is really playing it fast and loose with World of Warcraft. Even he admits that the game may look very different, depending on how things go, in Register to unlock hidden link.

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Publish Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:00:00 EST
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