Are games such as World of Warcraft representative of how PC gaming will be in the future?
I think it’s all about great games being made for the PC platform. MMOs will certainly be a genre that will play a big role on experiences on PC, but I think that if you provide other great games and great content there are different genres that are quite successful. If we didn’t think PC was the place to be then we wouldn’t be making Starcraft II or Diablo III and we really feel that it’s about creating great games. It’s like Field of Dreams – if we create great games then they will come and play them. We don’t feel that it’s a PC versus console conversation at all, we feel that it’s all about great games. Do you think MMOs are intimidating for the uninitiated or the casual gamer? Some MMOs can be, however we have really developed a mentality of making our games easy to learn and hard to master, so the uninitiated can get into the game and it’s a very easy and gentle learning curve for them. Eventually they’re doing very difficult things because we’ve introduced them to it gradually a
