Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky, senior D1 editor, will be your host today.

The D3 questions getting asked in relation to WoW are quite numerous lately, and it’s important to remember one big thing:

Blizzard loves to share technology amongst the games.

Diablo 2 had a lot of precursors to WoW, as did all their other games. Even some WoW elements are in StarCraft 2 (achievements, Battle.net integration). Will some of this tech eventually make it into WoW? Almost assuredly.

But … not everything is a technology decision, as we’ll see in our first question.

Yours95 asked:

I understand this isn’t exactly Wow-related, but it concerns Blizzard’s real-money auction house: Isn’t Blizzard afraid that this might allow players to cut corners, take out the effort required to work for rewards, etc. Also, if Blizzard is willing to implement this in Diablo, do you think it might reach WoW and/or Starcraft?Continue reading The Queue: In which Diablo is questionedFiled under: The QueueThe Queue: In which Diablo is questioned originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Adam Holisky, senior D1 editor, will be your host today.

The D3 questions getting asked in relation to WoW are quite numerous lately, and it’s important to remember one big thing:

Blizzard loves to share technology amongst the games.

Diablo 2 had a lot of precursors to WoW, as did all their other games. Even some WoW elements are in StarCraft 2 (achievements, Battle.net integration). Will some of this tech eventually make it into WoW? Almost assuredly.

But … not everything is a technology decision, as we’ll see in our first question.

Yours95 asked:

I understand this isn’t exactly Wow-related, but it concerns Blizzard’s real-money auction house: Isn’t Blizzard afraid that this might allow players to cut corners, take out the effort required to work for rewards, etc. Also, if Blizzard is willing to implement this in Diablo, do you think it might reach WoW and/or Starcraft?Continue reading The Queue: In which Diablo is questionedFiled under: The QueueThe Queue: In which Diablo is questioned originally appeared on WoW Insider on Tue, 02 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments