Things are not going well for Blizzard. Veterans of the studio prefer to work on their own projects, the company’s branch in France is closing, and the long-awaited addition to WoW: Shadowlands never hit stores as originally planned. However, it has already received a new release date, and the project is supported by David Kim, a developer who has been working on Diablo IV for over three years.
Prior to that, the designer worked for 13 years on StarCraft 2 with add-ons and Heroes of the Storm. The switch to another team was announced by a Reddit user who tracked changes in profile Kim on LinkedIn. The studio veteran received the title of Lead Game Designer and two months ago began work on the famous MMO.
What does this mean? World of Warcraft has such big problems that it needed a very experienced designer like Kim. It is unlikely that Diablo 4 is at such an advanced stage of production that it does not need it. Or Blizzard found a more talented candidate to replace him – Joe Piepiora, who also previously worked on Heroes of the Storm and Diablo 4.
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