Chris Metzen Is The New Warcraft Executive Creative Director

It’s been nine months since Chris Metzen took on the role of Creative Advisor on the Warcraft team and effectively returned to Blizzard. Now, he’s taking on an even bigger role. Today, Blizzard announced that Metzen has taken on the role of Executive Creative Director of the Warcraft universe.

It should be noted that when the developer announced Metzen taking on the role of Creative Advisor, they stated that he would focus on the MMORPG starting out, but that his role would expand to other projects across the IP. Based on his new title, this seems to hold true. That means we should see Metzen’s stamp not only on World of Warcraft, but also single-player content, and whatever new projects they come up with.

We don’t know what those projects might be. Your guess is as good as ours, so start speculating. Whatever it is, Metzen is qualified to lead it up, having been the Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development at Blizzard before he originally left the company.

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