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Jeffrey "Tigole" Kaplan, former
WoW Lead Designer who just recently headed off to
work on Blizzard's new MMO, held a panel at the Game Developer's Conference earlier this week in San Fransisco
called "Cruise Directior of Azeroth," in which he talked about some of the design decisions behind
World of Warcraft, where Blizzard got their inspiration for a lot of the gameplay now made famous by the game, and even some of the mistakes they made in putting the world's most popular MMO together.
WoW Insider had correspondents there on the site, and they sent back audio of Kaplan's speech. We've paraphrased the salient points, and you can find them all after the break. There's some really interesting stuff in there, including the fact that in the past two years, 80 billion quests have been completed in North America's Azeroth alone, and just who is behind the frustration that is
The Green Hills of Stranglethorn (hint: it's Kaplan himself).
Hit the link below to see what Kaplan told the crowd at GDC.
Gallery: GDC09: Kaplan talks questing




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