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MMO Expansions and Sequels

By GoW | Published: August 22, 2008
I recently read a post at Tobold’s about the nature of Bliz­zard expan­sions, and it got me thinking. I keep ref­er­enc­ing World of War­craft 2 in my posts (“Maybe Bliz­zard will change this in WoW2”). But it dawned on me that there’s really no real dif­fer­ence between sequel and expan­sion with MMOs. We’re already play­ing [...]
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Raid Sizes and Design Inertia

By GoW | Published: April 7, 2008
When I was raid lead in vanilla wow, I arranged and lead many many runs on Molten Core, a few on Black­wing Lair, and many in Zul’Gurub and AQ20. When news of The Burn­ing Crusade’s reduc­tion in raid size came out, that the new raids would be 25 and 10, I cheered. My guild thought [...]
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