World of Warcraft devs share early thoughts on new Trading Post, open to featuring retired items
It’s been a few months since the launch of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, and the developers at Blizzard are continuing to release new content with patch 10.0.7 dropping this week, along with getting ready for what’s to come in the Embers of Neltharion update. World of Warcraft vice president and executive producer Holly Longdale and game director Ion Hazzikostas in a recent interview with Gamepur, shared some insight into one of the latest systems introduced to WoW.
The Trading Post is a new feature added to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight in January with patch 10.0.5. By completing challenges each month, players can earn Trader’s Tender that they can then spend on a rotating variety of items, including equipment, battle pets, and mounts. Despite some hiccups along the way, we asked the development team if they had any early thoughts on how this new system was progressing so far.
“It’s going better than we expected if I’m being honest,” Longdale said. “A lot of what we do is experimental, but it’s leaning on the feedback that we had. For quite a long time, players wanted to have access to stuff they may not have had easy access to. And, of course, by tying it to content people love to have activities to do if they are just checking into the game. For someone like me, there are a lot of activities I can do to earn to get me awesome stuff. So it was an experiment based on the feedback from the community, and it is going very well.”
“The Trading Post really is for everyone,” Hazzikostas added. “I think it’s pretty unique in that regard, no matter what your playstyle is, there’s a way of filling up that bar and playing the game you ordinarily would or chasing after specific activities if you want to do it fast. Ultimately
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