Hazzikostas’ description is encouraging, but is somewhat at odds with the recent claims made by multiple Blizzard employees on social media that the team was making “crisis maps” of what features to ship following a rash of departures at the studio.
“There's another one that's starting to load up right after…It's energizing for our players, but it also gives the development team much more flexibility in moving things around, just getting them out into players' hands, but doing so with more agility.” “The metaphor we use internally, it's like there's a ship leaving the dock every eight or so weeks now, and if the thing you're trying to get out there doesn't make it onto this one, it's okay,” he says. But with a more regular cadence of updates, it was an easy decision to simply bump the feature to the next patch, avoiding the team having to push itself “needlessly.” In the past, Hazzikostas says, pushing a feature like this would have meant players would have to wait roughly five months or more to get their hands on something the developers had been teasing for an imminent release. He says the original plan was to have it out in 10.0.7, but the team realized it was too buggy and would require “heroics” to make happen. As a specific example, Hazzikostas offers the just-released new cross-faction guild play feature, which debuted in patch 10.1.
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