It was Blizzard's World of Warcraft was born

Blizzard founder WoTLK Classic Gold Mike Morhaime, who recently quit the company, talked about the project during Gamelab. Gamelab convention which took place in Barcelona earlier this week. He said it was planned to be a "next-generation MMO," but it proved to be too ambitious.

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"We failed to control the scope of the project," Morhaime said, according to Eurogamer. "It was extremely ambitious. It was a brand-new universe, and it was going to be the next generation MMO, which could do all kinds of things. It offered different styles. We were sort of building two games simultaneously and it was a struggle to make sense."

It was Blizzard's World of Warcraft was born from the ashes of Titan, and Morhaime spoke more about how the greenlighting of that game "one of the most beneficial decisions we've ever made."

"We made something that wasn't likely to get shipped for a long time it could never even shipped, and turned it into a great game," said the man.

World of Warcraft buy WOW WoTLK Classic Gold game director Jeff Kaplan, who worked on Titan said, "We failed horrifically in every way ... Every way an endeavor can fail. That was devastation."