Graphics Engine Overhaul
Do you think WOW is ever going to need a complete overhaul of the engine?
That's actually something we talk about every expansion. It's interesting, two games have really tried that before, Ultima Online tried it and EverQuest tried it as well, and in each case it was only somewhat successful. In each case a lot of people continued to play with the original client, because it was faster, or they preferred it, or were just used to it or whatever. And so for me as a game developer, the idea that we would spend so much time and energy on something and have people go, "meh, that's not really for me," that's not very exciting. So I don't think there's really a clear model as to how to do that successfully. The model we have with Wrath of the Lich King allows people with high-end machines some additional graphical effects, and then we'll have some kind of fallback for the people who don't. Will we need a graphical update from the ground up at some point? Yep, probably. And I'm positive we'll talk about it next expansion.
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Changes to the official WoW Forums
On Wednesday, May 21, we’ll be making some changes to the way the forums are organized. While the majority of these changes only alter how the current forums are grouped together, we will be removing the Guild Recruitment forum entirely, and replacing it with new Guild Recruitment – Alliance, and Guild Recruitment – Horde forums. By splitting the forum we’re effectively cutting the posting traffic of the forum in half which will help keep the recruitment posts there visible for a longer amount of time before falling off the first page. When this change happens all posts currently in the Guild Recruitment forum will be removed, so if you or your guild currently have a recruitment post there please keep a copy to repost after the split.
We don’t anticipate these changes to cause any issues for posters while we make them, but some forum navigation options may only be partially functional until we’ve completed the work. Thanks and have a good weekend!
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World Wide Invitational Fan Art Contest Announced
Along with our Machinima contests, we are holding a Worldwide Invitational Fan Art contest! To enter, simply send us your best fan art of any character, event, setting, object, or scenarion from any Blizzard game. You can read more information and guidelines here!
We will be announcing more details for additional contests during the next few days, so make sure to check back soon if your talents are in dancing or dressing up!
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Comic & WoW Honorable Mentions Comic Contest
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