"It's not that these are fabricated issues," he said WOTLK Classic Gold . "There were voices who were saying these things but we didn't pay attention enough. Now , we're trying to improve that."

In addition to attempts to help make Azeroth an environment that is more friendly the patch 9.1.5 makes major changes to several Shadowlands game systems, many of which have been wanted by fans.

"A key piece of the 9.1.5 changes is not us just looking back at certain aspects we made in Shadowlands and then reliving them. it's a new way of looking at things going forward in a lot of ways," Hazzikostas said.

The "new view" Hazzikostas mentioned looks to offer a deeper understanding of the current World of Warcraft players are looking to get out of the long-running MMORPG. The list of alt-friendly upgrades being introduced in patch 9.1.5 or the elimination of rigid, unpopular system like Conduit Energy Hazzikostas seemed more cognizant than ever before of how players have evolved over the past two decades between when World of Warcraft first burst onto the MMO scene.

He shared how during the beginning of World of Warcraft , few players made alt characters, and almost all achievements in the game were all-encompassing. There was a predominate belief among the developers that players had to be invested in their character, which meant that every aspect of the game needed to be done on a per-character basis. In the present, Hazzikostas says that the vast majority of players have two or three characters they regularly play.

"I believe that we have at times have clung too strongly to those practices, many of that were instilled into us by our former bosses, many of them the founders and teams' leaders--of the importance of the investment in your character , and your character as the perspective through which you look at the world," Hazzikostas said cheap WOW WOTLK Classic Gold . "Increasingly, what we've been hearing from players is that you know I see the world through my own eyes as a human sitting behind the keyboard, and I've tried this questline which I thoroughly enjoyed the first time, however, I'm not interested in doing this one again. Also, if you make me, it makes me not wish to play the role for any reason at all."