World of Warcraft turns five years old on Nov. 23, and G4 has kicked off the celebration a little early with a series of retrospective interviews with some big names at Blizzard. X-Play host Morgan Webb sat down with Game Director Tom Chilton, Lead World Designer Alex Afrasiabi and former Game Director Jeffrey "Tigole" Kaplan to look back at the history of WoW from day one.

The combined videos total more than 35 minutes in length, so there's a lot to digest in the retrospective. There's nothing particularly noteworthy mentioned in the interviews, but they're certainly worth viewing for fans who are interested in hearing Chilton, Afrasiabi and Kaplan reminisce about WoW's history and explain their duties at Blizzard.

For those of you who don't know, Kaplan left the WoW team to work on Blizzard's next big MMO project, which he's "super excited about" but couldn't discuss in detail in the interview. However, I thought his views on Cataclysm were worth noting: "Personally, I'm somebody who made some of the earliest content in WoW. I can't wait to see what the dev team does with it. I can't wait until they throw out some of those old quests and come up with new stuff because they can make stuff that's so much better than anything we were making five years ago that it's going to be absolutely mindblowing. Just to see Azeroth evolve and to see World of Warcraft evolve, I think it's nothing but a good thing."