World of Warcraft Classic is expanding with the return of Burning Crusade, the first ever expansion pack for WoW. Following the announcement of WoW Classic Burning Crusade, Shacknews video editor, Greg Burke sat down with John Hight, the executive producer for World of Warcraft, as well as Brian Birmingham, the lead software engineer on WoW Classic, to talk about the game, the upcoming expansion, and what kind of expectations fans should set for future balancing.
According to the developers, many of the decisions surrounding how they change things up in WoW Classic all come down to what feels right. By default they try to stick with what the classic experience would have consisted of, however some interactions and experiences in the original version of the game could leave players feeling excluding due to how they were designed. When it comes to systems like this, players should expect to see some changes—though they should be fairly minor—just to help make things accessible to all players and classes.