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Blizzard's 2024 stats expose your 480 million deaths, 1.7 trillion murdered demons, 8.34 billion hours played, and how allergic Americans are to the metric system
News Time for some silly numbers and sillier comparisons
WoW veteran says the MMO's devs had to make "ten times the amount of quests" as originally planned to sate playtesters, and now the game has 38,000 of them
News "The answer, of course, was to simply add more."
World of Warcraft devs used to joke about the MMO making $1 million per month - just months before it smashed through $15 million in monthly revenue
News "We had a good laugh about that one, but we all kind of thought maybe it could do that for real."
World of Warcraft got its iconic MMO quest markers thanks to Metal Gear Solid
News 20 years later, WoW is still going strong
Despite being the frontrunner, unlucky WoW Classic grinder loses the race to max level on the MMO's new Hardcore servers after disconnecting 6 levels before the finish line
News Ouch
After 4 World of Warcraft events launched with bad loot this year alone, Blizzard admits that it can "start to seem like a pattern"
News "We hear the feedback from the community loud and clear."
After 20 years of WoW updates, will Blizzard ever need to wipe the slate clean? Maybe "at some long, distant point," but the MMO has already been totally "rebuilt"
News "We're constantly tearing out some old foundational system and replacing it"
WoW lead says "big bets" with World of Warcraft: The War Within were worth it – "Of course, yes, if I could catch that scaling bug, I'd love to go back"
News Blizzard's Ion Hazzikostas says, "At a very high level, there aren't too many regrets for me as a game director"
