Classic WoW Group Interview at BlizzCon 2023
This year at BlizzCon 2023, Wowhead participated in a group interview, detailing Classic content with Assistant Lead Designer Tim Jones and Game Producer Lena Cook, with an emphasis on the recently announced Season of Discovery!
Obviously you have Vanilla, Burning Crusade, Lich King, and now Cataclysm. Eventually will every expansion just have its own server at some point?
We continue to evaluate what people want to do on progression servers on a case-by-case basis. Does it make sense if we eventfully land on Classic Dragonflight? I'm not sure.
We've had some special moments with attendees here today that, some of us have been playing wow was classic was at the time, 20 years at the point. Just like what Chris Mezten was talking about, there are different generations of players at this point and for some of them classic was their first expansion and to them it's their Vanilla. So it's our duty on the classic team to allow them to relive those moments the best way we can, recreate that nostalgia.
So we talk with the community, we send out the polls and surveys, and there was a fair number of people who desired Cataclysm.
There were some rough edges at the time, with the world was destroyed, but now we have access to Classic Era, and people can still go back to play that original story. We'll continue to ask the community what they want, hardcore case in point. The pure passion, excitement, and nagging of our community.
Classic itself is born of the community.
