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John Hight (Franchise General Manager, Warcraft Franchise, Blizzard Entertainment)
Pass Type: All Access Pass, Core Pass - Get your pass now!
Topic: Business & Marketing
Format: Session
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
Warcraft General Manager John Hight shares insights into his history at Blizzard Entertainment and with the Warcraft team in particular to provide a deep dive into how the Warcraft universe has evolved over decades through multiple games, genres, and changing player habits and perspectives into the storied world we now know. This discussion shares how we developed different game iterations, scaled our teams, delivered expansions and updates across multiple games (and how they evolved over time), as well as give some high-level thoughts on where we see Warcraft going for the next 30 years.
Attendees will learn how a game or franchise IP can adapt and evolve over time with novel experiences to reach different kinds of gamers across platforms, and leverage data to inform design decisions aimed to meet and exceed player community expectations.
Game developers who are interested in exploring how to approach various game audiences and changing player habits within a single IP, as well as fans of the Warcraft universe.
