Rob Pardo speaks about Blizzard wow gold
The tenth annual Game Developers Conference is in full swing in San Francisco, CA -- and yesterday included a panel by Rob Pardo, Executive Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard Entertainment. Pardo spoke about design philosophy and how Blizzard approaches it, sharing not only Blizzard's success stories, but where they failed along the way, and what they did to fix it. Blizzard's design philosophy follows some key elements: Gameplay First: Before anything else, you want to concentrate the game on the fun. All aspects of the game -- the design, the mechanics of encounters, the quests and story are focused on making the game fun to play. Not only fun to play -- but fun to play for players, not developers. The challenge is to keep players jumping through the correct hoops, while making those hoops fun. Sometimes this involves making some changes -- for example, only night elf males could be druids in Warcraft III, but for the sake of making the druid class, something that sounded like all kinds of fun, they had to be made accessible to both genders, and both sides. So the lore was adjusted so that females and tauren could both be druids -- otherwise they couldn't have introduced the class at all. And that wouldn't be any fun. Easy to Learn, Difficult to Master: The concept here is gjlnsppl to keep game play simple in terms of mechanics and objectives, but design the game in a way that the challenges scale with the ability of play. Pardo stated that Blizzard is focusing more on designing for multiplayer games first now, rather than single player, so they design for the multiplayer aspects, giving games a lot of depth so that players won't get bored with it. He also said that WoW is a pretty hardcore game, but the key is that it's accessible to a lot more gamers -- endgame content like raiding and arenas are a lot more hardcore than leveling itself.
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On one end of the table is the traditional cut-scene. These usually occur
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Sitting on the opposite end of the table are those in favor of in-game-story-telling. This method delivers all dialogue and major
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He cited the Diablo II death penalty as a failure in this aspect -- the death penalty was simply 'you die, you lose half your gold', but this was easily circumvented by dropping your gold off in town and not accessing it unless you wanted to buy something, which inflated the economy to the point that gold was meaningless, leading to players bartering and trading items rather than just using gold. They took those failures into account with WoW, not only designing the death penalty as a 'tax' of sorts where you'd have to pay to repair your gear, but by introducing money sinks that would make you want to spend your hard-earned gold like fancy mounts. The auction house was developed so that the player economy would revolve around gold, rather than simple bartering.
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