Part of the team Blizzard Entertainment, responsible for the creation and support of World of Warcraft, switched to the development of a secret online game codenamed Project Titan. This was explained by the creative director of WoW Tom Chilton (Tom Chilton) in an interview with The Orange County Register .
According to Chilton, the process of transition to a new team of employees gradually."We do not tell them," Okay, team WoW - got up and went to work on the Titan MMO ". We try different people in two teams and planning to make two equal strengths," - he said.
Transfer of employees from one project to another does not affect the quality of a series of World of Warcraft and future additions World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, the release date is not currently declared. "We always hire people and train them to last 4-5 years, so that they fit into the team WoW", - said Chilton.
Earlier, on March 1, 2012, Blizzard has fired 600 of its employees. The development team World of Warcraft, made according to the time of the statement, "not affected", while 90% of laid-off had nothing to do directly with game development.
Project Titan - Blizzard secret development in the genre of online role-playing game (MMORPG). About it became known in 2007, when the company confirmed that it is developing a "second major MMO". Since then, no official information about Titan has been reported.