Blizzard Entertainment is an American video game company. It was founded in 1991 by three graduates of ULCA (University of California, Los Angeles), Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce.
Since its foundation, Blizzard didn’t create many games, but the ones that they made are considered to be the biggest achievements in gaming history. Games such as Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo series and one of the most played online games of all time.
World of Warcraft alone already has five expansion packs: “The Burning Crusade”, “Wrath of the Lich King”, “Cataclysm”, “Mists of Pandaria” and the latest one is “Warlords of Draenor”.
After five years of creating the entire world of World of Warcraft, they launched it with no expectations. What they didn`t know is that it would become one of the biggest commercial hits in the gaming industry.
Through the years they managed to accumulate over 100 million accounts and since it is a p2p (pay to play) game, it became the highest grossing games in the history of gaming, earning a staggering sum of over 10 billion dollars.
In this documentary all of the creators and developers will explain the whole process of creating an entire virtual world and how it became one of the biggest franchises in gaming.
