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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2802962" data-attributes="member: 11760">I find crediting 3E with WoW's success to be a rather strange notion, considering that Blizzard had, prior to WoW, been in the position of creating the fastest selling games of all time, and being their only competition in that category. Millions of people around the world play Blizzard games. There are enough copies of StarCraft in South Korea for one person in nine to own a copy there. WoW capitalized on a 10 year old franchise (that wears its ties to 1E and 2E on its sleeve), but the sales of WoW were generated on Blizzard's own name for creating highly polished mass market games, particularly in genres that had remained a small niche previously.Having said that, take a trip to Blizzard's offices in Irvine, CA (I'm sure Ryan would be welcome), and you'll see D&amp;D books of every generation in pretty much every office. There's definitely a lot of D&amp;D love there -- and ongoing D&amp;D games during lunch and after hours -- but that's a far cry from saying the market for WoW was created by 3E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 2802962, member: 11760"] I find crediting 3E with WoW's success to be a rather strange notion, considering that Blizzard had, prior to WoW, been in the position of creating the fastest selling games of all time, and being their only competition in that category. Millions of people around the world play Blizzard games. There are enough copies of StarCraft in South Korea for [i]one person in nine[/i] to own a copy there. WoW capitalized on a 10 year old franchise (that wears its ties to 1E and 2E on its sleeve), but the sales of WoW were generated on Blizzard's own name for creating highly polished mass market games, particularly in genres that had remained a small niche previously. Having said that, take a trip to Blizzard's offices in Irvine, CA (I'm sure Ryan would be welcome), and you'll see D&D books of every generation in pretty much every office. There's definitely a lot of D&D love there -- and ongoing D&D games during lunch and after hours -- but that's a far cry from saying the market for WoW was created by 3E. [/QUOTE]

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