11/28/2022 at 2:00 p.m. by Sebastian Glanzer – In his video “A NEW Era for WoW – Inside Blizzard HQ”, WoW influencer Preach Gaming gives us a detailed insight into the Blizzard headquarters in Irvine, where he uses the WoW Developers had the opportunity to speak on a wide range of topics.
Preach Gaming is a WoW influencer from the very beginning. Although he actually stopped at Shadowlands… He talked about it with WoW’s Game Director Ion Hazzikostas in the video “Didn’t you stop?” a joke But with Dragonflight, Preach is back, because the dragon expansion marks a new era for World of Warcraft.
“A NEW Era of WoW” (buy now) is also the title of his latest video, in which he provides insights into Blizzard headquarters that no journalist or influencer has had before him. In the hour-long video, which has been in the works for a little over a month, he speaks to the WoW development team about the lessons, successes and failures of the past, and together with the devs looks to the future of Dragonflight and beyond.
A new era for WoW – Preach with detailed video from Blizzard HQ
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To start the video, Preach interviews WoW developers Holly Longdale & John Hight. As the video progresses, these and other devs face the critical questions that are important to Preach. Because of some of these critical decisions, he completely stopped his WoW content not so long ago.
Preach questions whether and how player feedback actually reaches the devs, what the removal of mandatory quests in Dragonflight means, what lessons have been learned from Borrowed Power, and he also touches on the sexism incidents in the company. If you want to jump to specific topics, you can do so using the timestamps below.
00:00:00 – Intro 00:03:54 – Holly Longdale & John Hight introduction
00:04:54 – Creation and success of Classic
00:07:45 – How Classic will influence Dragonflight
00:09:10 – The rise of solo players
00:12:24 – Ion Hazzikostas Introduction
00:14:10 – What players do in WoW and conflicting feedback
00:17:30 – Forcing players into content
00:21:00 – Failure of Torghast and mandatory weekly loop
00:24:00 – Removal of mandatory content in Dragonflight
00:26:00 – Item level progression
00:28:00 – Josh Allen (Lore) Introduction
00:29:00 – Feedback and identifying the problem
00:32:08 – Do devs actually get our feedback
00:33:25 – Covenants and knowing a feature will be disliked
00:36:20 – Modular Design Introduction, Ion, Morgan Day and Tina Wang
00:37:00 – Evergreen improvements & Removal of borrowed power
00:38:30 – A third era of Warcraft, an end to modular design
00:41:25 – Failure of borrowed power & return to evergreen systems
00:44:33 – Blizzard is best when solving problems
00:45:25 – Features can still evolve & be used in future
00:47:30 – Full modular design explanation
00:51:10 – Adapting to no mandatory content
00:53:50 – Is blizzard ok with players not logging in
00:55:20 – Blizzard’s concern with raid-logging
00:56:58 – Introduction to harassment allegations
00:57:59 – Setting expectations
00:58:48 – Ion on lockdowns and allegations
01:02:10 – John and Holly on lockdowns and allegations
01:05:06 – Boobs
01:06:01 – Summary of Blizzard response
01:08:19 – Why did we go to Blizzard
01:10:51 – The end of our journey
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On the last day of his visit to Blizzard, Preach reveals that the developers have been in a meeting since 5:00 a.m. to talk about the next ten years of WoW. This is supposed to be the “third era” of WoW. And Dragonflight marks the beginning of that era. Very few WoW fans have had such an insight so far. How did you like the video? Would you like to see more videos of this kind and do you really think that WoW: Dragonflight marks the beginning of a new era for Blizzard’s role-playing game? We look forward to your opinions in the comments.
