Key Takeaways
- Blizzard is content with the state of Delves, WoW’s endgame content.
- Lessons were learned from initial Delves bugs, leading to adjustments.
- Delves offer solo players new challenges and progression opportunities.
Blizzard feels pretty happy with the current state of Delves, World of Warcraft’s endgame content introduced in the latest War Within expansion. Originally meant to offer a fun new way for endgame characters to find new fun, they earned a mixed reception on launch.
Now, two months down the road, Blizzard feels satisfied with the work they’ve done. They’re not abandoning the idea of more changes, but they’re “really excited about the emergence of Delves taking root as a new pillar of the WoW endgame.”
“[There are] definitely some regrets and lessons learned. As has been discussed in the past, there were a couple of tricky bugs with scaling that, until we realized that there were bugs, it led to some very wild over-corrections and tuning.”
This information comes to us from a PCgamer interview with Ion Hazzikostas, the game director for World of Warcraft. In his opinion, much of the controversy around Delves was its focus on single-player experiences.
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“For many players, they enjoy the feeling of progression, of getting stronger, overcoming a challenge. And I think in the past, that gameplay was really limited to people who were playing in groups. There wasn’t a challenge to be found for you as a solo player, other than one-off things like the Mage Tower back in Legion.”
Delves were something new to the World of Warcraft ecosystem, and multiplayer-focused expectations caused a bit of friction. But with some adjustments, Hazzikostas believes that Delves have found their footing, and he looks forward to seeing how players enjoy them.
“I think giving players, of all play styles, a chance to have goals to work towards is something that we’re very excited about.”
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With news like this, it’s a good time to be a World of Warcraft fan. Unless you’re still not happy with Delves. In which case, you’ll get all the rest of that content minus the Delves.
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