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Blizzard had a bunch of poorly selling console games before they made warcraft 1. I still remember reading the review of warcraft 1 and going that sounds good then at the end of the review they said that there was a map editor that had just been released in the patch download. Well an hour later warcraft 1 was on my machine and I was hooked. Ever since I played Dune I thought you know this would be so much better if I could just make the maps that I want to play. Then the roller coaster ride of game announcement and then years later getting a release started. I expect that world of warcraft will be in development for 2 to 5 more years before release. It will require directx11. You will also be able to make ring tones for your cell phone with the game sounds.
Unfortunately all the external news releases that I have read since the warcraft 1 days shows that management there needs modern training or actually carnegie business training. I expect that its just a matter of time for that dimension of the company to destroy the capability of the workforce. Then again as long as they are not doing anything financially illegal they should be able to churn through new blood. Of course even that will start to show in your product.
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