Holly Longdale

Yeah.

Um, and I know that that's particularly something that Holly Longdale's very, very interested in, is the, is the sense of community.

But it, it really is important.

Um, and we have, we've, you know, we've met some amazing people along the way.

[laughs] Yeah.

[laughs] No, I'm g- I'm gonna limit myself to two.

Um, I love the fact that we were given the opportunity to speak to Holly Longdale.

Yeah.

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Holly Longdale opening PAX with a story time keynote October 8th, 6:00 PM, uh, Pacific on the Warcraft Twitch.

So there's probably gonna be something, something for that, some little promo.

But, um, yeah, looks like in about a week or so we're gonna see, see an opening at PAX.

Um, not, not because it's, it's Blizzard or anything, but, um, I'm, I'm ...

I'd be curious if this was, I don't, I don't wanna say a last-minute change, but I'd be curious if, um, maybe, uh, the PAX and how they set up the organization and stuff, they might have had, um, uh, some people, you know, before BlizzCon tell them, "Hey, you know, us here at Blizzard, we're making WoW forever.

Do you wanna maybe have Holly Longdale as the, uh, keynote speaker?" Um- Because [laughs] I don't think they would've, uh, uh, uh, changed it so rapidly.

But, um, but yeah, if, if, if she's going up there, then yeah, I definitely expect, um, not only some announcements, but, um, they're probably gonna have just a, a, a lot of computers probably like BlizzCon, you know, set up so that, um, people can give it a try and see what it is on the latest, uh, uh, changes right before or during, uh, PAX.

Anyway, this article continues that the demand at beta's launch was definitely higher than Blizzard had anticipated, so they began to expand the capacity, stabilizing things, and the players kept coming.

On September 28th, Holly Longdale announced that they were increasing the population cap yet again.

And then a, um, a quote from senior game designer Josh Greenfield, who's been at Blizzard for 17 years, described the amount of players coming into Forever as, "The craziest numbers I've seen in 17 years working at Blizzard."

[laughs] Yeah, it's accurate.

They're doing something in Australia.

They've got Holly Longdale and another developer going to PAX Australia.

They're doing a number of things.

I like this.

End of cinematic.

And you have Holly Longdale returning onto the stage to say that thing is coming with friends, and that's pretty cool [laughs].

And the thing I've heard out there is the guess that, yeah, maybe each of the Titan facilities, like Ulduar, and Uldir, and Uldum, and Uldaman, and all of those fun things, uh, each of those transform into these massive robots.

I mean, they're definitely Titan construction-y things, and we're definitely fighting Titans in Last Titaning, and oh boy, [laughs] it is interesting.

You know, Northrend we know, and iciness and Titan things, but those things were surprisingly massive, so that's pretty exciting.

[drum beats] And then Holly makes a transition.

Holly Longdale, of course, the executive producer and vice president of World of Warcraft, head honcho.

She, uh, uh, you know, as everyone has already said before, and hopefully you've seen, looked resplendent in her outfit, her amazing blue outfit.

The other thing that you mentioned as well, Squirrel Thug, in your question, and I'll let Chicken talk because I've been ranting, is they've mentioned this a few times, the three pillars.

I think Holly Longdale even said it at BlizzCon in the original announcement.

Or maybe Ian did.

One of them did.

Yeah?

Get me Holly Longdale's office number.

We're getting goblins into Forever.

How's that?

There's a beta already kicked off.

Holly Longdale, who's the EP of World of Warcraft, called it like a classic plus when they talked about it on stage.

They called it your new permanent home and said it never ends.

Again, a threat.

Who else was there? Greg Loudon, game director of Sauros is going to be there.

Holly Longdale, we've already talked about, I believe, big World of Warcraft doing the keynote.

What do they call it? Storytime.

Storytime? Yeah.

Everything is friendship and forgiveness, and it's not Warcraft anymore.

Holly Longdale is the main game director for the entire franchise, and she goes, we're putting the war back in Warcraft.

That being said...

The classic team is probably like five to seven guys and a couple girls.