Posts with tag developer-q-and-a

Yesterday, Senior Community Development Manager Kevin Johnson sat down with Game Director Dustin Browder and Senior 3D artist Phil Gonzales to answer the community's questions on Blizzard's upcoming Hero Brawler. They covered several key topics, and provided some nuggets of new information. If you'd like to watch the interview in full, you can check out the video on WoW Insider.

But let's go through and summarize the key points they covered. This isn't in the order it happened in the video, because it seemed more logical to categorize it by topic.

Overall Design and Philosophy

Heroes of the Storm, Blizzard's upcoming hero brawler, is hosting a live Q&A session with the developers today at 11am Pacific. You can watch the stream right here, and we'll embed the VoD when it's available, to catch up on all the latest Heroes issues and developer responses.

Joining the livestream today are Dustin Browder, Game Director; Phil Gonzales, Senior 3D Artist; and Kevin Johnson, Senior Manager, Community Development. These guys are primed to answer all your burning Heroes questions, so don't hold back!

You can check out the questions submitted, as well as sending in your own to @BlizzHeroes, via the #HeroesQA hashtag. What would you like to know? And if you can't watch the livestream you can check out all WoW Insider's Heroes of the Storm information while you wait for the VoD.

Some very interesting things were revealed in this Q&A from Lead Systems Designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and WoW Technical Director Marco Koegler. The interview was conducted in Korea, so there's a bit of down time while translations are being made between interviewers and interviewees, but the hour-long video is worth watching for a few meaty tidbits. In particular, Ghostcrawler has essentially stated that Garrosh will not be replaced at the end of patch 5.4. Oh, his days as warchief will be over for sure, but the patch is intended to end with his defeat at the hands of the players. These actions will set in motion a chain of events which will lead to the new warchief's implementation--but not in patch 5.4. So it seems that the mystery of who will next lead the Horde draws on!

Other bits of information worth noting include the confirmation that patch 5.4 will be the final raid patch of Mists of Pandaria, which leads us here at WoW Insider to speculate on the timeline of the next expansion. Considering that traditionally new WoW expansions have been announced at Blizzcon--still a few months away--and given that the next warchief will not be revealed quite as soon as we expected, it seems reasonable to speculate that there might be a non-raid 5.5 patch in the works to take us through to 6.0. However, there is no mention of that in the Q&A and really, it's just idle speculation on my part. Still, I'm now more fascinated than ever to see what the future holds in store for us denizens of Azeroth! How about you?