Battleplan Vol. 3
It's been months since the second edition of the World of Warcraft Battleplan had been released, so it was certainly time for an update. Here, lead producer Shane Dabiri gives us a look into the future of World of Warcraft's technical development path. So what's in store for the future of our favorite MMO? More servers and migrations to keep the population evenly dispersed, hardware upgrades for older servers (in order to handle increased load from the expansion), paid character transfers (some time this summer), continued performance improvements across all realms ("we feel its unacceptable when even one player cant enter the game, gets unexpectedly disconnected at a key moment, or experiences any other interruptions while playing"), an improved authentication (login) platform, and improvements to the hardware and software running the website and the forums. There's nothing here about in-game development here - but I expect to hear a lot about that at E3 very shortly.
