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The reaction was mixed
Three playable races humans, orcs and the cheap wow gold bulllike tauren were revealed, and each was going to be fundamentally different. You would be able to play from firstperson, thirdperson or zoomedout, isometric perspectives. The reaction was mixed. There was excitement and intrigue, certainly, but there was also a sense of confusion even disappointment. Why would Blizzard, a wow gold cheap strategy gaming giant, be choosing to muck around with this niche genre? Didn't they know how few people played MMOs? Did they understand what they were getting themselves into? Playing EverQuest did more than just inspire Blizzard it helped with hiring, too. Rob Pardo, vice president of game design, had been involved in running a wow gold for sale wellknown EverQuest guild called Legacy of Steel alongside another player, called Tigole, who was noted in wow accounts the community for posting incisive commentary on EverQuest on cheapest wow gold the guild website. Hired by wow account Blizzard, Tigole real name Jeff Kaplan would go on to become one of cheap gold wow the ffxiv gil lead designers on World of Warcraft, and a key figure in the genesis of the game. Blizzard would soon learn that playing and talking about EverQuest was a world away from actually building its own MMO. Even the initial vision for the game wasn't entirely clear. When work started on World of Warcraft, the team wasn't sure of many things, including when it would be set and what it would look like. Many early concepts were much darker and more gothic than the cartoony look that's now so familiar. The look, which Metzen describes as "equal parts epic and cartoony", is defining and it allowed a game with what he freely admits "wasn't necessarily the greatest engine you'd ever seen" to achieve a visual style that could survive years in the spotlight. "Any game will age," he says, "but there's something timeless and Disneyish about WOW's look. That was a funny secondary benefit of really embracing the Warcraft III look something it bought us which we hadn't anticipated." As development on World of Warcraft progressed, the team's lack of MMO experience must have started to make itself felt.
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