Completed: December 4, 2024
Recommendation: Mild Recommendation
Recommended By: I am pretty sure I saw this in a review, but could not remember where.
Review:
I played a little bit of World of Warcraft when it first came out. Probably on the recommendation of my brother-in-law. It was interesting, but not compelling and not something that I found irresistible as some people did. I wasn't particularly interested in the other games that they had, but I was aware of Blizzard. I thought it would be interesting to read about how they came up with their ideas. This book isn't that. It is an odd sort of corporate biography. One person did this and another did that. Major personalities who had long term employment drove the company direction. The focus became making money (shock) and everything kind of fell apart. The more the company focused on monetizing the product, the worse things went. When they wanted to build games that people would like, they were killing it. When they wanted to build games that made as much money as quickly as possible, they crashed.
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