Ask Questions of the World of Warcraft Team

You may have already heard of Blizzard's most recent title. World of Warcraft was released in November of last year to high critical praise and a favourable player reaction. While technical issues were a problem for the first few months of retail service, prompt patching and additional world servers have left the game in excellent shape. World of Warcraft has since gone on to become not only the largest MMORPG in the United States, but also the world, with 3.5 million subscribers as of July 21st. Given all this, the likelihood that Slashdot readers would be interested in asking the development team some questions seemed pretty high. The team has kindly offered to take some time out of their extremely busy schedules to answer questions. So, feel free to ask whatever question is burning in your heart. Please stick to World of Warcraft related topics, and only ask one question per comment. We'll take the best of the lot and pass them on to the Team. Their answers will be posted when we've gotten them back.

WHY?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why did you invent something so good that it drains the life out of anyone who touches it and turns them into mindless WoW slaves? You fiends! Even crack cocaine has nothing on WoW.

Which Demographic

[ackthpt]

To Which Camp Do You See Yourselves?

• 1337 c0d3rz w1th m4dd3 5ski11z, t-shirts and jeans, cold pizza for breakfast, drive a 84 Celica with the back seat crammed with McD's/Jack in the Box/Burger King bags, work from 10 AM to 3 AM and drink massive quantities of Coffee and/or Redbull/Rockstar/etc., live with parents or rent a dark and sinister fortress of squalitude, wonder what you'd do on a date assuming you ever had time for/got one and have a maxed out overclocked PC at home with liquid nitrogen cooling.

OR

• BSCS, suit and tie, eat to stay fit, drive a recent Volvo you wash once a week, 8 to 5, spring water from a bottle, live in a 3 bedroom house or condo, in a stable relationship, only enough personal technology to get you through personal business.

OK, I have a question.

[Kenja]

What the hell where you thinking with the Darkmoon Fair? Can I at least get an epic t-shirt that says "I went to the Darkmoon Fair and all I got was this stupid Jubling"?

Should I ask a question?

[robyannetta]

It depends, will I get an answer? When I use the Blizzard technical support forums, they don't answer there.

Please...

[ImaLamer]

I'm stuck in Arathi Mountains (in the wilderness outside of Hammerfall)... can you warp me to Stromgarde Keep?

Re:Question of venue

[ZombieWomble]

I figure that it's because the /. moderation system will hopefully produce some decent questions which don't involve shouts of "BLUE RESPONSE NOW!!1!", "NERF SHAMANS!!!1!", or paranoid rantings about blizzard rifling through your pc and violating your 'constitutional rights', which is the typical response to most blue posts, regardless of their original content.

Just a note of thanks

[Trigun]

Thank you WoW team for making one of my friends realize that she married a useless tub of putrescence who's sole purpose in life is to avoid tanning to the point that his skin is becoming clear and evolving to have cat-like night vision and the ability to comfort-mold to virtually any surface,and as a byproduct, making certain that he gets the absolute most out of his $19.95/mo.

Now if only you could have made it just a little more addicting, he might have died from renal failure, things would have been less messy, but hey, I guess that this is good enough.

And do you know who I can call at Pizza hut to thank for having the delivery guy accept credit cards and delivering directly to his home-office window? I'd like to send them a card.

Re:LEEROY JENKINS!!

[wpmegee]

At least I have chicken.

Re:If I wanted to work as part of your team...

[cicatrix1]

Try looking at the World of Warcraft website [worldofwarcraft.com]. There is a big, obvious, "World of Warcraft Jobs" banner.

While I am no hiring coordinator for Blizzard, I'd say that you should at least posess the ability to use the Internet (at least try to click on the linked content in this story) and/or read.

Re:Why innovate, if you're just going to stop late

[dourk]

Why is that so hard to retain in level 60 play?

You need the Golden PSP. And a soul.

Oh common

[apankrat]

Dear Mr. Greenspan,

Based on the experiments we conducted in WoW universe, we are pleased to offer you the following advice regarding interest rate management ...

Sincerely,
A bunch of nerds from virtual reality.

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It's OK to ask if they ran into any interesting problems with their economics model, but that stuff about 'benefit to the rest of the world' - this is really something :)

Re:Why innovate, if you're just going to stop late

[CRiMSON]

Can I have your stuff?

WHEN?!?

[Cybrex]

Forget that! My question is "When do I get my wife back?!?"

(Actually, it's okay. I use the time to play Matrix Online.)