GamesIndustry.biz caught up with Blizzard’s Frank Pearce at BlizzCon to chat about WoW, the other two upcoming titles, Starcraft II and Diablo III, and the highly anticipated Battle.net. During the interview, they asked him about Blizzard’s aim to produce another WoW expansion every year. With companies like Turbine (LOTRO) saying they will also be doing that, is there any extra pressure to deliver?
“I don’t think we would impose pressure on ourselves to do something like that based on what other companies are doing.”. Pearce continued “Ideally our goal would be to ship one with the regularity of 12 months or so, but we’re so ambitious with the type of content that we want to put it makes a difficult challenge, especially when you mix in content patches and developers working on the content patches are the same developers working on the expansions. that’s how we maintain consistent quality across that content.”
Going back to getting the expansions out quicker, Pearce commented “We’d like to be able to deliver them on a tighter schedule but ultimately we want to make sure the content is right. We’re constantly trying to do things to improve that efficiency, a lot of the tools that we’ve developed internally at this point are commercial quality in terms of development tools.”, ” We’ll look at the scope of content for future expansions and try to pick a list of features and the amount of content that we can deliver on a more timely schedule but also still meet everyone’s expectations in terms of what they want out of a boxed WoW expansion. “
Read the full interview at GamesIndustry.biz
