WORLD OF WARCRAFT: Happy Friday the 13th everyone! There’s an excellent interview with Blizzard’s Rob Pardo available today at WarCry. It makes for good weekend reading.
In the lengthy chat, Pardo looks back at five years of WORLD OF WARCRAFT (the game launched on 23, November 2004). Most interestingly, Pardo describes what mistakes were made during development and launch and offers up opinions on Blizzard’s unannounced MMO. Dive in.
“For the next MMO? Obviously, we want to compete with ourselves, and create something bigger than WoW. If there is some cannibalization of the WoW playerbase, that’s okay. We know that someone is going to beat WoW one day. Someone is going to make a bigger MMO, it’s going to be faster and better, and the WoW audience - some of them, anyway - is going to go to that game. If someone’s going to beat WoW, it might as well be us.”