[MUD-Dev] NEWS: Blizzard Entertainment announces World of Warcraft

[shren]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Kylotan wrote:

> I just heard about this, and I couldn't see anyone else posting a
> link or summary in recent posts, so here goes:

>   Main site:
>     http://www.blizzard.com/WoW/

>   Full text of press release:
>     http://www.blizzard.com/press/010902wow.shtml

> Here's my edited summary of the key parts of that press release:

>   "Blizzard Entertainment announces World of Warcraft"

  *snip*

> To be honest, it just sounds like the same stuff that everyone
> else has promised (and subsequently failed) to deliver, so I'm not
> overly impressed... yet.

As a player, at least, I have pretty high hopes that they can turn
out a highly enjoyable product.  Diablo, Diablo II, Warcraft, and
Warcraft II are all very good single player games.  Furthermore,
Diablo II has persistant character storage and game hosting for a
very large number of players, through Exodus hosting.  That makes me
think that they know what they're getting into infrastructure-wise,
where so many companies have not.  With all of the experience
running battle.net in house, they are better poised to move into
this industry than anyone else I can think of (except companies that
have actually already fielded massive online games).

--
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