So saddening:<\/p>\n
Tom Chilton, Lead Designer<\/b>: The big objective is to build WoW into a viable eSports game platform.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And then worse:<\/p>\n
Tom Chilton<\/b>: Before this, we didn’t really have a good forum for competitive eSports. WoW PvP was just kind of there<\/u>. For example, our battlegrounds always had the limitations<\/u> of the Horde having to play against Alliance, it was very themed toward the conflict within the game itself.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So the “eSport” is a way to surpass the “limited” form of factional-themed PvP.<\/p>\n
This is surely a new drift that wasn’t there in their original plans. Subjectively: for the worse.<\/p>\n
Tom Chilton<\/b>: I’ll tell you, it’s been a slow evolution. When WoW first came out, we didn’t really have any semblance of organized PvP. We had Tarren Mill versus Southshore…<\/p>\n
GameSpy<\/b>: Which was awesome!<\/p>\n
Tom Chilton<\/b>: That’s nostalgia speaking! I remember you were interviewing me at E3 a couple years ago and you not thinking that it was so awesome.<\/p>\n
We kind of slowly went from there, to trying to bring some organization to it with the Battlegrounds. Giving the game a little more capability for players to feel like it was a fair, controlled encounter. Then it was (the arenas) a natural evolution<\/u> from that.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Natural evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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