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WOW Classic’s Season Of Discovery doesn’t player test new content, leading to more bugs - but more funThe devs revealed how the “experimental nature” of Season Of Discovery allows for a sense of mystery
The devs revealed how the “experimental nature” of Season Of Discovery allows for a sense of mystery
Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment
Image credit:Blizzard Entertainment
AsWorld Of Warcraft Classic- anMMORPGthat is, confusingly, a new version of the old version of World Of Warcraft - enters phase 3 of its Season Of Discovery,PCGamerhas an interview with some of the devs where they talk about the decision to not run Player Test Realms - servers where they roll out the new content to smaller numbers of players to road test it. This means that when they launch new stuff for Seasons Of Discovery it’ll probably break more often, but it means players get to discover brand new things together. Which is great! And the developers think it’s good too.
Associate production director Clayton Stone describes it as “a radical change”, but that doing so for each phase of the Season Of Discovery “has really created a moment every time for the whole player base to come together and experience something fresh together at the same time.” Ordinarily players on a PTR would share what they see with the class, so people can start preparing and optimising builds and what have you. Secrets are fun!
It’s nice writing something broadly positive about ActiBlizz, ‘cos it’s not been roses there. Activision Blizzard was one of the companies that were part of Microsoft’smost recent round of layoffs. Blizzcancelled their in-development survival gameat the same time. They recentlysettled their sex discriminationsuit with the state of California, for a cool $55 million.
Either way, the WOW march continues. Theroadmaps for both varietals of WOWcontain content a-plenty, and WOW Classic is getting a new version of the big Cataclysm expansion, called World Of Warcraft Cataclysm Classic. The classic version of Cataclysm Classic was old classic WOWs third expansion, originally released in 2009. I will not clarify further.
