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Warcraft General Manager John Hight shares insights into his history at Blizzard Entertainment and with the Warcraft team in particular to provide a deep dive into how the Warcraft universe has evolved over decades through multiple games, genres, and changing player habits and perspectives into the storied world we now know.
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Warcraft novels are excellent too.
I opened this video with enthusiasm. Didn't expect a 1h Warcraft Ad.
This guy joined Blizzard during Mists of Pandaria but talking about "30 years of Warcraft" and older games as if he was the one developing them.
Any fictional universe that costs a real person's life isn't worth celebrating.
Don't forget Kerri Moynihan.
Inclusivity, multiculti, equality and all that in fantasy world called Warcraft, because that is all that matters, right Lizzard?
I think I see why everyone is starting to call GDC corporate now and not worth our time sadly 😢
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Was really hoping this would focus more on the story crafting and how that is kept cohesive across products and not just 'look at these products we made.'
This is what happens when you get MBA types making the decisions instead of the creatives.
I've been at blizzard at 12 years and will now share stories from what we learned in the first 30 years of the franchise. okay!
Finally available. Even after John Hight left Blizzard.
Venthyr… Let's party
Games Workshop
"A lot of literature"
Yes, there was a lot of Warhammer content for them to not be legally distinct enough to not pay millions of dollars every year to Games Workshop. Blizzard is the worst 😂
They should have done a talk on how they undid the Warcraft universe.
7:48 where frozen throne?