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World of Warcraft players go back to work on a year-old mystery after one of them accidentally unlocks the 10th orb in a puzzle hidden in the new Midnight expansion
news Players suspected their job wasn't finished and now they finally know there's more to find.
Our idea of Azeroth could have looked very different, because Jeff Kaplan said he 'really wanted WoW to be first-person' in its early days: 'I argued a lot for that'
News We narrowly dodged an FPMMORPG craze.
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Blizzard struggles to balance its Abundance world event in a way that makes anybody happy, with recent potential nerfs making it even more stressful to optimize
News A done dance, this Abundance.
WoW's questing system was inspired by a playtest that didn't work out as planned, because the testers didn't play MMOs and had no idea what they were supposed to do: 'I ran out of quests right away!'
news "And we're like, wait a second, you just expect to have quests keep going?"
Playing World of Warcraft with a controller might become my preferred playstyle thanks to this excellent gamepad-friendly addon that's letting me enjoy Azeroth from my couch
News Please, try to contain your contempt.
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A terrible quest in vanilla WoW 'holds a really special place in my heart', says Jeff Kaplan, but was also 'the hubris of a junior game designer who thinks he's clever but is actually a dipsh*t'
News "I'm just sh*tting up their inventory with all these pages."
WoW's Horde/Alliance split was 'really controversial', says Jeff Kaplan, to the point where it was only locked in 9-12 months before the game's launch
News "He liked the fact you were instantly on a team."
Blizzard nerfed this WoW item, but players found an even better loophole that allowed them to travel across the planet every 2 minutes
news A magical, misbehaving key indeed.
