{"id":3720,"date":"2009-03-27T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"blizzard-releases-detailed-wow-quest-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/3720-blizzard-releases-detailed-wow-quest-stats","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard releases detailed WoW quest stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/57891\" target=\"_blank\">Shacknews<\/a>&nbsp; reports that Blizzard&rsquo;s former WoW director spoke at GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco yesterday, revealing some interesting statistical tidbits regarding the world&rsquo;s most popular MMO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; There are around 7650 currently active quests in World of Warcraft<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Between 30 June 2007 and 5 March 2009, some 8,570,222,436 quests were completed WoW.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; A daily average of 16,641,209 quests are completed in WoW<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan revealed that at launch, Blizzard aimed to provide 600 unique quests, the figure required in order to compete with Everquest&rsquo;s estimated 1200. As WoW players will know, the game posses enough quests to keep players busy, but is also designed in such a way that players will run out of quests from time to time. This was a strategic design choice, and Kaplan reveals that it was a contentious issue within the studio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WoW quest break down <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Original WoW: 2600<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Burning Crusade: added 2700<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Wrath of the Liche King: added 2350<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8,570,222,436 World of Warcraft quests completed between June 07 and March 09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}