Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Eurogamer.net: July 30, 2019 - The big WoW Classic interview

I still can't believe it's really happening. World of Warcraft Classic! Blizzard has remade WoW as it was all those years ago when it launched (don't look at the dates, it's a bit depressing - where did all that life go eh? Nervous laugh). But here we are, one month to go. One month until we can play old WoW anew. Will the experiment work? Will we actually want to play it? Will all the yearning and petitions and hoo-ha have been worth it? Or will we discover it was a bit boring after all?

As the doors close on the beta, and as the team knuckles down in preparation for launch, I take lead software engineer Ryan Birmingham, and senior software engineer Omar Gonzalez, aside for a chat.

Thank you for joining me. I've just been watching videos of the final moments of the WoW Classic beta, of Ragnaros stamping on everyone in Orgrimmar, and it was joyous! What a great idea to spawn him in from Molten Core - who came up with it?

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from Eurogamer.net

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