World of Warcraft's executive producer says the game's recent maverick events like Plunderstorm and MoP: Remix are owed to a squad of madcaps called 'the live team'

A World of Warcraft Orc and Night Elf battle in pirate outfits.

If you've been paying any attention to World of Warcraft in the past year or so, you'll have noticed that things are getting a little weird. Not in a bad way—in fact, while other MMORPGs would struggle with a content lull before their next big expansion, we're only a few months out from The War Within and there's never been so many ways to get your WoW fix.

Season of Discovery, several flavours of Classic including the approaching Cataclysm, Plunderstorm (to be soon replaced with the harebrained, private server energy of Mists of Pandaria: Remix)—oh yeah, and retail. There's a lot to do.