(See bottom.) The first one the top spot was World of Warcraft: High-End Loft Stuff The most recent virtual goods addition to the wildly popular Sims 3, WOW WOTLK Classic Gold which came third in the month. BioShock 2 was released at fifth place, which is in front of Sentinel's Fate expansion to EverQuest II -- a rare glimpse in Sony Online tainment's massively multiplayer online game in the charts. (The Collector's Edition of the expansion was 13th spot.)

Who attended: Blizzard tainment has a method of attracting crowds. It is not a surprise that the senior vice director of design and development for games World of Warcraft drew more than a few people to his talk during the 2009 Game Developers Conference. The gaming executive gave attendees an opportunity to taste Blizzard's exclusive sauce during his presentation, entitled "Making an Industry Standard (and trying to stick to it! ): Blizzard Design Philosophies."

What he discussed: World of Warcraft began the session by pointing out that designers have different beliefs and still produce excellent games. In light of Blizzard's long history of releasing one of the most acclaimed games in the business The attendees were keen to know what the studio considers to be significant. Naturally, World of Warcraft obliged.

The first priority of Blizzard is to place gameplay first. World of Warcraft said that it was never logical for him that a game firm would promote its technology over the game. For Blizzard all of the various disciplines within the company that range from design and art to programming, are focused on the game. He also warned the fact that games design doesn't have to be as significant than other fields and that designers may have a amazing idea, but the user experience might not be perfect.

Giving an example of how design could get into the game, he discussed the way that the game in World of Warcraft, druids were only the male Night Elves. But in World of Warcraft, it did not make sense to restrict the profession only to one race and gender and the lore needed to be updated.

The second design principle was the idea of "easy to master, but difficult to master." World of Warcraft said that Blizzard is a little off of this idea but changes the phrase to "easy to master, nearly difficult to grasp." Since the majority Blizzard's titles are based on multiplayer, he stated that it's crucial to have an the highest level of detail to allow for many hours gaming.

The executive in charge of gaming went on to explain that he didn't comprehend why many developers devote the majority of their time creating an entire single-player game that lasts for 10 hours and then decide to add multiplayer at the close of development. This is absurd the executive said, given that the fact that a good multiplayer game could last for many hours.

According to him, it was the case that Starcraft II team had the multiplayer mode of the game up and running for two years prior to when it began to introduce single-player buy WOTLK Gold  content. Additionally, it's more manageable to balance single-player games after multiplayer tuning was done, he stated.