This week’s Mobcast welcomes the Legendary Thread reunion, teased on last week’s Geekbox.  The podcast begins with the origins of World of Warcraft as told by Blizzard’s Sam Didier, Cory Stockton, and Greg Street, who continue to cut in throughout the podcast with inside stories.

As may be expected, the crew can’t help but discuss how they got initially addicted to WoW and how they eventually tried to get put the game down.  Demian talks about how he’s been going cold turkey for two months after five years of addiction, only to pick up a new drug – Dragon Age: Origins.

To wrap up, everyone thinks about whether or not they could play another MMO after WoW.  With Jeff as editor-in-chief of EA.com, it’s natural that he brings up one of the more competitive upcoming games, The Old Republic.  Ryan closes it out by saying that World of Warcraft’s vast community (11.5 million!) makes it an excellent social hub, thus making it hard to dethrone.

Welcome to an extra special, Warcraft-themed Mobcast this week, celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Warcraft series and fifth anniversary of World of Warcraft.

EA’s Jeff Green, PlayFirst’s (and Bitmob designer) Karen Chu, and GameSpy’s Ryan Scott join me for sort of a Legendary Thread reunion, and we’ve also got interview clips with Blizzard’s Sam Didier (StarCraft 2 art director and Blizzard lifer), Cory Stockton (WoW’s lead content designer), and Greg Street (WoW’s lead systems designer). Read the full interview here.

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