WoW Dev team size increases, are the recruitments beginning to show?

[Maggux]

Since MoP released in late 2012 the development team has increased by at least 40 %, with another 40 % increase to come (This was stated prior to patch 5.4 at Gamescon 2013, so almost 3 years ago). If this is true, the dev teams goal size is 96 % larger than it was at the release of MoP. This means that they had to recruit, integrate and train newcomers during MoP, is that why WoD was so underwhelming in terms of patch content?

With Legion we are getting in my opinion a lot of new content, with primarly Artifacts, Demon Hunters, World Quests, Surammar, as well as the content we expect such as class reworks, tuning, raids and new pvp systems.

The question is, how much content will Blizzard be able to make in the comming patches? I remember Landfall (5.1) as a great midtier patch with story development in quests and scenarios. New Factions for the players to grind to exalted. And all this was made by a team that's half the size of today, how much content do you think Blizzard will be able to deliever this expansion?

Edit: Added sources.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/wow.../1100-6422762/

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...-Arena-DLC-404

[Alvito]

Last time they bumped up the team drastically we got WoD, quantity doesn't mean quality.

[Baconeggcheese]

Dunno, but they said they learned the hard way that the increase in team size didn't allow them to make the same amount of content faster but instead allowed them to make more content in the same time frame. We'll see how much truth there is to that along with them saying they're going to pace the patches better over the course of legion.

[jellmoo]

Without details, team size is a nebulous and somewhat meaningless stat. What are these new hires? Did they hire more game designers? More animators? Is the bulk of the new hires related to the QA team?

Do you have links providing details?

[Maggux]

Last time they bumped up the team drastically we got WoD, quantity doesn't mean quality.

Yes, but those recruits were probably not put to work on WoD, but rather Legion and the patches to come, don't you think?

[Mad_Murdock]

Dunno, but they said they learned the hard way that the increase in team size didn't allow them to make the same amount of content faster but instead allowed them to make more content in the same time frame. We'll see how much truth there is to that along with them saying they're going to pace the patches better over the course of legion.

You'll see! Legion is going to have so much stuff, the forums are going to be filled with complaints about too much stuff (just like the too many dailys complaints)

[Maggux]

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/wow.../1100-6422762/

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...-Arena-DLC-404

Those are the sources I got.

[Baconeggcheese]

You'll see! Legion is going to have so much stuff, the forums are going to be filled with complaints about too much stuff (just like the too many dailys complaints)

I mean, at least early on from my alpha / beta experience there's already looking like way too much shit to do. Thank goodness I have no life or I dunno how the hell I'd keep up.

[MoanaLisa]

We'll know the answer to this once we see some patches in Legion. There will certainly be more than Warlords. There will certainly not be enough for some.

[Deleted]

Quality of the Class design went down into the ground. All the content of Legion won't matter much if classes are shit to play.

[Dystemper]

Quality of the Class design went down into the ground. All the content of Legion won't matter much if classes are shit to play.

This is my worry. It is not a matter of too much stuff to do, but the stuff being worth doing or fun to do. WOD had plenty of things to do, just most of it was not worth the time or effort

[unbound]

The question is, how much content will Blizzard be able to make in the comming patches? I remember Landfall (5.1) as a great midtier patch with story development in quests and scenarios. New Factions for the players to grind to exalted. And all this was made by a team that's half the size of today, how much content do you think Blizzard will be able to deliever this expansion?

I have a question now. How many more dungeons and raids have been added since the details of Legion were released nearly a year ago (August 6, 2015)? One more dungeon announced since that announcement (The Arcway)? Wasn't all the additional developers being added supposed to mean that many more dungeons and raids would be added?

In regards to having more developers, I haven't seen that official announcement myself. Did Blizzard explicitly say additional developers were being added to WoW, or that Blizzard was just adding additional developers? Because I'm sure they have added a lot more developers, but I'm pretty sure that had more to do with Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, Starcraft II, etc than with WoW...

[Maggux]

I have a question now. How many more dungeons and raids have been added since the details of Legion were released nearly a year ago (August 6, 2015)? One more dungeon announced since that announcement (The Arcway)? Wasn't all the additional developers being added supposed to mean that many more dungeons and raids would be added?

In regards to having more developers, I haven't seen that official announcement myself. Did Blizzard explicitly say additional developers were being added to WoW, or that Blizzard was just adding additional developers? Because I'm sure they have added a lot more developers, but I'm pretty sure that had more to do with Overwatch, Heroes of the Storm, Diablo III, Starcraft II, etc than with WoW...

They said it was for the WoW Dev team. Also we shouldn't have too many raids/bosses/dungeons, because then you can just speed through the content much easier due to the increased gear drops that comes with more bosses.