However, lead designer Tom Chilton stated in an interview with the Southern California newspaper The OC Register that there has been a ”slow trickle of expertise” going from the World of Warcraft dev team to the Project Titan team - and that the trickle may turn into a flood in the future.
None of this is related to the 600 layoffs that Blizzard made late last February.
”I do believe there’s room for us to have two highly successful MMO games. I don’t feel like there’s going to be a time where we just say ‘OK, everybody on the WoW team, pack it up you’re moving over to the Titan MMO.’ I don’t see that as being a realistic probability. I think we’re going to try to staff up both teams and actually end up with two large, strong MMO teams.” said Chilton.
It makes sense, since the Warcraft dev team has very little to actually work on, and World of Warcraft could be an excellent training area for new MMO devs.
World of Warcraft’s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, is expected to be released later this year for PC and Mac.
