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"It's certainly possible to release content too quickly."Ion Hazzikostas - he claims to have heard my brilliant "any old Ion?" joke before, alas - is the lead encounter designer on World of Warcraft. When discussing the forthcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor with me, he's just said something very odd. Read it again. He's just said that Blizzard is wary of releasing content "too quickly."
He's talking about r***** as it happens. More specifically, he's talking about the things about raids that the team has learned over the nine-and-a-bit years of WOW's existence. And it turns out he's probably correct in this instance. You probably can release new raids too quickly. "We want to pace out our content at an optimal rate for players to enjoy," he goes on to explain. As for this whole business of fretting about too much content arriving too regularly? "That's kind of a first-world problem we'll worry about when we get there," he admits. "Obviously, if you're releasing new raids on a monthly basis before anyone's finished the last one, that's not in anybody's interests."
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