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Metzen talks user-created content at GDC panel

Wednesday, 12 October 2011 20:00

Filed under: News items, Cataclysm

Blizzard"s Chris Metzen was on hand at GDC Online to discuss user-created content for World of Warcraft and how the system just wouldn"t fly in WoW"s architecture. The logistics of player-created content in a game with millions upon millions of players would, most likely, be too overwhelming for a system and game that thrives on polish and quality control. Don"t expect to see user-generated content in WoW any time soon.

While I am a fan of this type of content, I don"t believe it really has a place in WoW. Azeroth is a much more story-driven, linear experience than most people want to discuss, and Blizzard likes to hold our hands through it all to make sure we"re doing things according to plan. I don"t think that"s a bad thing, just one approach to an MMO"s leveling and group content. In games like City of Heroes, the player-created content that was available made sense in terms of logistics and volume. For WoW, I can"t even fathom how hard it would be to separate the wheat from the chaff.

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