Sometimes I fantasize about selling my dissertation on MMO design to Riot (which took a PhD in WoW and another 8 years to write) and retiring in the Bahamas.
But then I wake up and realize that queueing Arena with the boys was peak and what life is really all about.
Almost 10 years since the tweet that started it all. teapaw.org/stergey/status/9154659โฆ
AI slop browser game... 700 likes in under 8 hours.
Sometimes I look out the window and think about the hundreds of millions of dollars Blizzard left on the table by insisting that gamers do world quests if they wanted to play WoW Arena.
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With WoW: Forever still a week away, the community is willing to play just about anything WoW related to pass the time.
After the success of Azeroth Survivors, another WoW inspired browser game has arrived, this time mimicking Arena.
Not my post, but this is what I've been working on since 2018.
1000 upvotes. In 2 days.
I always knew I wasn't alone.
Someday soon, everyone who has ever played or ever wanted to play WoW Arena will find themselves in Nagrand ready to queue up.
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Another early bird... the man @samiyamwow
teapaw.org/samiyamwow/status/1111โฆ
Not yet.
But the winds are changing.
teapaw.org/FopsyTV/status/1056664โฆ
