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World of Warcraft Arena Tournament Interview
15th Apr 2008 02:07 PM GMT | Leord | 2 comments
Gamespy has had the opportunity to talk to Tom Chilton, the Lead Designer of World of Warcraft, and have a lengthy interview up on their site. It is a 7 pages long article about the WoW Arena Tournament and e-sports.
GameSpy: Arenas definitely turn WoW into more of a competitive game, but the Arena Tournament realm has a wildly different approach from the live realms. You can avoid the leveling and PvE game entirely, and start off with a full set of competitive PvP gear. Do you feel that players will want to have this kind of approach available at all times?
Tom Chilton: We don't really intend for the Arena Tournament realm to replace WoW. We do feel like the arena games are a game within the game, a meta-game of WoW. We don't necessarily want people to feel like WoW is no longer a game to them. Also, within that, it kind of makes sense to structure the tournaments in a way we're doing. They're not something we can run all the time, so we've broken them into this seasonal concept, allowing us to pace how often we have them, and to make sure that they're as well-supported as we can support.
Tom Chilton: We don't really intend for the Arena Tournament realm to replace WoW. We do feel like the arena games are a game within the game, a meta-game of WoW. We don't necessarily want people to feel like WoW is no longer a game to them. Also, within that, it kind of makes sense to structure the tournaments in a way we're doing. They're not something we can run all the time, so we've broken them into this seasonal concept, allowing us to pace how often we have them, and to make sure that they're as well-supported as we can support.
It's a quite interesting read. Check it out!
Tags: arena, arena tournament, e-sports, interviews, tom chilton
Comments
136 days ago
Hm... that brings up a good question. If they now allow people to make 70 with full gear, then wouldn't that make the controversy last year even more controvercial? For anyone who doesn't remember, it was about a certain arena team couldn't get all their teammates to play in the 5v5 tournament because those teammates were using characters from accounts not created by them.
114 days ago
I think they are trying to "cover up" these things a bit, or solve them in an easy manner that won't piss people off and without trying to drag that to the surface again.
