Not knowing what they were doing is why the World of Warcraft team succeeded, and being full of experts is why the Titan team failed.

Added to korrents 11 Mar 2026 · How quotes work · Something wrong? Tell us

Related korrents

Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.

• The malaise in the game industry needs no complicated theory: the games that failed recently simply were not fun enough to compete with everything else in people's lives. TSTim Sweeney30 Apr 2025similar wording
• Other players must be present in an online world but never compulsory: forcing interaction is what kept MMOs small, and letting people play alone is what made World of Warcraft enormous. JKJeff Kaplan11 Mar 2026similar wording
• Overwatch put too much weight on whether the team won; a hero shooter built today should foreground individual contribution, because that is how people actually play. JKJeff Kaplan11 Mar 2026similar wording
• The job of a design group is to try to shoot down every new idea; the ones that survive the attempt are probably the good ones. AHAnders Hejlsberg13 May 2026similar wording
• A live game has to be architected so it can be hotfixed on a dime; waiting for a client patch to fix what is broken is already too slow. JKJeff Kaplan11 Mar 2026similar wording

See this on the map →