Blizzard today released a new video where the developers look back at the Season of Discovery and look forward to what’s next.
Highlights
- It was exciting to take Vanilla WoW and add content to it.
- Throughout 2023, Blizzard refined the Rune system, where people could find power-ups and apply them to their gear.
- They worked on Blackfathom Deeps and got the chance right after the Worldsouls Saga announcement to get on stage and announce Season of Discovery, which was very humbling.
- The demo stations at BlizzCon were all occupied nonstop, which was a surreal experience.
- SoD offered the devs a way to ship content that was never seen in retail.
- The original plan for the Opera event had the goblins picking each other up to swing at players. They would pick each other up, and they would become this increasingly long goblin sword.
- The philosophy of experimentation is at the heart of Season of Discovery.
- The positive Karazhan Crypts feedback made the team go even bigger with the Scarlet Enclave raid in Phase 8. A small 5-boss dungeon suddenly grew into an 8-boss raid.
- They don’t consider Season of Discovery to have an end, and they have no plans whatsoever to shut down the servers. The team has some amazing things planned and they can’t wait for you to see what else they are working on.
