20 years later, veteran WoW director says players outsmarted him completely in Ahn'Qiraj: 'All that work, and there was still an instant tell'

Summary

I don't envy the position of being a game developer—especially not an encounter designer in something as complicated as an MMO. You might have an idea of how a mechanic's gonna go, but there's just absolutely no way it survives contact with 40 motivated, mid-2000s era hardcore WoW players. Former game director at Blizzard Wyatt Cheng, whose delightful…