Blizzard Operations Officer: Warcraft movie plot has been set to discuss details shooting

24th, Blizzard chief operating officer Paul Sams was interviewed by media reporters at the BlizzCon site. Paul Sams not only revealed the plot of the World of Warcraft movie has been set, but also witty repeatedly, he said only gamers made good games (only players can make a great game), when the global software slump led to consumer pockets tightening, only a good product will make consumers heartbeat, And Blizzard's game is just such a product. Here's an interview: Chief Operating Officer Paul Sams Q1: What are Blizzard's requirements for recruiting game developers?　　Can you give us a description of the process? A1: The first and most important point is that must be a player, some companies in the recruitment of some jobs such as art design, programmers do not require them to play games, which in our view is unthinkable, our philosophy is: only players can make a good game (note: only gamers　　games); second, we will do a professional skills test for the candidate, assess whether he is competent for his or her job in the field of expertise; Finally, we will let him and his team members stay for a period of time to see if they can fit into the team's work, and the team has a member of his opinion.　　Q2: Blizzard recently announced World of Warcraft's global pay players to reach 12 million, which is indeed a surprising number, but each game has its own life cycle, you think Wow can occupy the world's MMORPG market the first throne how long? A2: The concrete answer obviously I do not know, the World of Warcraft can reach 12 million paying players worldwide, a very important opportunity is the Chinese mainland region Lich King Wrath of the information film Open.　　In my opinion, World of Warcraft is like a car engine, and every country and region is part of the engine, and when China's World of Warcraft players set foot on the continent of Northrend, the engine runs at its strongest power and will continue to run, so I can say for sure that in recent years WOW has been getting better.　　Q3: Is there a plan to develop new games to replace World of Warcraft? A3: Replacing World of Warcraft? Why replace World of Warcraft? (laughter) We have a lot of projects under development, such as StarCraft 2: The heart of the Swarm, Diablo 3,　　Battle Network 2.0, and a secret development of the online game project (note: Hyde plan, although the content does not know, but has not been a secret, I believe and the players will give you a big surprise, so if the number of players in the World of Warcraft decline, other products will soon make up. Q4: Can you give us some details about the World of Warcraft movies?　　Chinese players are looking forward to the movie. A4: Legendary Studios chose the best directors and script writers to shoot this epic movie, and we did our best to work with them, and many of our designsPeople and creative director Chris stayed with them almost every day to talk about every aspect of the film, and all I can tell you is that the main plot of the movie has been determined, and more details are regrettable for the moment.　　Q5: According to statistics, the global gaming industry has been declining in recent years, and last year's game software sales fell by 12%, does this affect blizzard? A5: Yes, I noticed that, but it didn't affect blizzard.　　As in times of economic crisis, when players have less money, they have to make more cautious choices, choose some of the best games as their entertainment, and give up the bad or dispensable, and Blizzard's game is the best choice. Q6: How does Blizzard balance the needs of high-end and low-end players in the game design process?　　such as the mastery of difficulty. A6: We have a learning curve in all the game development process, so that players can be very convenient to use, and there are a lot of depth of content available for excavation, which is called "easy to get started, proficient difficult."　　And in terms of content, we will provide content for two players, such as to provide a difficult challenge for high-end players, for casual players to provide a variety of interesting entertainment content and so on.　　Q7: What do you think of the future development of the Battle Network? A7: We want to make the battle network into a very large player Community platform (series: probably want to become the PC Xbox Live and PSN such existence, Blizzard's ambition is still very big, we continue to develop more products, let the battle net and our other games and various players say commonly used website linkage, We hope that the network becomes the best place for players to meet their friends and to communicate on the Internet.　　We also provide a stage for talented map makers and competitors to showcase themselves. Q8: In the Internet era open source and closed source is one of the important differences in IT industry, such as steaming adhere to the open source strategy, and Apple is the representative of the closed source, Blizzard has been open source and closed source complex, even in the early development of the game did not open the source code,　　But provides a completely open Interstellar and Warcraft map editor, as well as a large number of World of Warcraft plug-in interface, the future direction of development? A8: Different companies have their own understanding of the problem, Blizzard has its own, we will be based on the needs of players to open their content, but also for ourselves to maintain a number of technical advantages. (Digging the shell net)