I was having a chat with a friend at one point about World of Warcraft’s development team and I was about midway through talking about Hazzikostas and Hight and Longdale when she asked me to stop. Not because I was offending her, but in her own words, she didn’t know who these people were. And that’s fine. You don’t need to know who works on an MMO to feel ways about design decisions. But it does help if you want to talk about decisions to have names instead of Sally Leadwritergirl and Hank Programmerman.
But then, even as someone whose job it is to know all of this stuff, there are things I don’t know. I might know the names of several people on the Final Fantasy XIV development team, but not everyone. My knowledge is not absolute. So how many people do you know about on your favorite MMO’s development team? Can you name the big leads? Some of the department heads? The programmer who finally fixed that bug that was giving you hell for a month?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
