Blizzard has "six or seven" World of Warcraft expansions planned; "easily 10 years worth of stuff" - Sensationalist Headlines

I think they should make a brand game instead of 10 more expansions on the current engine. Like sure, they could use some of their assets, but the world textures and the world models are really old and bad.

[QUOTE=Karmah;45845814]I think they should make a brand game instead of 10 more expansions on the current engine. Like sure, they could use some of their assets, but the world textures and the world models are really old and bad.[/QUOTE] they're very slowly upgrading everything with each expansion.

[QUOTE=Coffee;45845840]they're very slowly upgrading everything with each expansion.[/QUOTE] i think people will just keep seeing it as the same game. i think it is time for something new

They're afraid to make a new mmo because it will probably end up like the rest.

[QUOTE=Deaglez7;45845957]They're afraid to make a new mmo because it will probably end up like the rest.[/QUOTE] I don't think a new Blizzard MMO would ever be unsuccessful, but they'd probably be worried that people would rather stick with WoW than move on.

[QUOTE=BuffaloBill;45844491]While I completely understand not wanting to give up your major cash cow just yet, for FUCKS sake make something new already![/QUOTE] Starcraft II and one ex pack came out since WoW. Diablo 3 and one ex pack came out since WoW. Hearthstone (and one ex pack?) came out since WoW. Heroes of the Storm came out (kinda) since WoW.

[QUOTE=mopman999;45845860]i think people will just keep seeing it as the same game. i think it is time for something new[/QUOTE] See the issue being is that that is not true in the slightest. Most people hop out of WoW cause of the questionable design choices brought on by WotLK and Cataclysm. MoP was an amazing step back towards BC era WoW, and WoD seems to be even better. If they keep going uphill like they are now, there's no reason for "something new", because each expansion is generally good enough to hold you off till the next

[QUOTE=BackSapper;45845197]All I want before WoW dies off is the Emerald Dream storyline.[/QUOTE] Well lucky you there's a [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stormrage-World-Warcraft-Richard-Knaak/dp/1439189463/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409420832&sr=8-1&keywords=stormrage]book[/url] That has that storyline. There's fuck all left ingame for the Emerald Dream except from the Rift of Aln, and that'll most likely be answered in the inevitable big old god baddie expansion.

[QUOTE=RetaDepa;45846250]Well lucky you there's a [url=http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stormrage-World-Warcraft-Richard-Knaak/dp/1439189463/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409420832&sr=8-1&keywords=stormrage]book[/url] That has that storyline. There's fuck all left ingame for the Emerald Dream except from the Rift of Aln, and that'll most likely be answered in the inevitable big old god baddie expansion.[/QUOTE] Exactly, they've answered this question a few times, never officially, but they've pretty much said the same thing, that the Stormrage novel covers pretty much everything Emerald Dream. That there would never be enough content or story left for an ED expansion, at most you'll see a dungeon, scenario, and in the very unlikely case a raid.

[QUOTE=Tenrys;45844505]Then you will end up paying $200 for the whole game + all of the expansions if not more, the story will have been raped in every possible way, and the game will be as easy to use as a baby toy.[/QUOTE] Lets assume the WoW maintains at least five million subscribers. That $200 for every use would be a billion dollars. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY!

[QUOTE=cqbcat;45847107]Lets assume the WoW maintains at least five million subscribers. That $200 for every use would be a billion dollars. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY![/QUOTE] You won't end up paying $200 for previous games as Blizzard has a habit of adding previous expansions to their battle chest and will most likely continue doing so.

I'm excited for anything involving Old Gods/Titans.

[QUOTE=Skyward;45846008]I don't think a new Blizzard MMO would ever be unsuccessful, but they'd probably be worried that people would rather stick with WoW than move on.[/QUOTE] Because they would, didn't everquest 2 suffer because of it? Creating a second MMO and saying "well, all your mounts and collectibles are worthless now. Come play now!" doesn't work well. [QUOTE=Tark;45845068]Where the FUCK is my Warcraft 4, Blizzard. I've been waiting 12 years.[/QUOTE] It'll come, I'd bet a ton that it will after starcraft 2's last expansion is done. Did their RTS team begin working intensely on warcraft 3 immediately after the previous? Fuck no, they went and made starcraft before warcraft 3.

lota hate for WoW, i mean i just got off sub because i can't afford it at the moment (college and rent) but its not fucking broken or raped dry of story, its just a game that has a lot of cool content, a lot of orginal stuff and what they're doing is just continuing the story line, the next expansion is pretty much all story and quests and content

Where's Warcraft 4 Blizzard.

Wow is an astonishing achievement of the gaming world.

[QUOTE=genkaz92;45848098]Wow is an astonishing achievement of the gaming world.[/QUOTE] same with the simpsons in the TV world, but look at what people say about it now. "thats still a thing?"

[QUOTE=Atlascore;45844870]Because the game's subscriber count is rapidly bleeding out, at it's current rate they'll barely have two million people left two years from now. In other words, they're soon going to hit a point where having over a thousand people work on a single game is no longer economically viable, which means expansions will take longer to make and/or have less content, which means the subscriber count will suffer even more.[/QUOTE] They just added 40+ people to payroll to work on WoD and they have a dedicated team working on the next expansions zones already. The numbers won't hold up if they can stop having year long gaps between content releases. [QUOTE=Skyward;45846008]I don't think a new Blizzard MMO would ever be unsuccessful, but they'd probably be worried that people would rather stick with WoW than move on.[/QUOTE] This. There is absolutely no reason for Blizzard to release a new MMO when World of Warcraft is still so successful. It's better to just shift people to that project and pump out the content faster for a guaranteed success than gamble on a new project that, even if it is successful on it's own, undercuts the most successful sub-based MMO of all time.

[QUOTE=icemaz;45845092]I'm not someone whose actually played WoW, but if that was true then why does it have so many people playing it? And if it's been broken over time with updates, why does it still have so many people playing?[/QUOTE] Because people are strange. I've put a fair chunk of time into WoW as well(Maxed out a hunter in Cata, 80'd a mage, got a BElf and a Worgen far enough to join instances) and I agree with J!NX. The gameplay is [b]awful[/b] and the only way the game is in any way enjoyable is when you're playing with a close friend. I'll never touch it again. Didn't play Mists and I won't play WoD either.

Let it die, just let it die!

[QUOTE=Coffee;45845090]It's never going to happen.[/QUOTE] Why? I know basically nothing about blizzard, but why exactly do you think they won't make Warcraft 4? Fill me in.

I still think Activision corrupted Blizzard.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;45853858]Why? I know basically nothing about blizzard, but why exactly do you think they won't make Warcraft 4? Fill me in.[/QUOTE] There's no money in it unless you massively change the way a game works, and if you do that, you may as well make a new game. I highly suspect that any ideas, plans and concepts for a Warcraft 4 were scrapped in favour of working on their MOBA title, [del]Heart[/del] Heroes of the [del]Swarm[/del] Storm, since it's a MOBA and MOBAs print money and it's a Blizzard title, so people will flock to it regardless (so it will print money)

[QUOTE=icemaz;45845092]I'm not someone whose actually played WoW, but if that was true then why does it have so many people playing it? And if it's been broken over time with updates, why does it still have so many people playing?[/QUOTE] Because people have shit standards, are easily swayed by the same grade school marketing tactics and have absolutely no patience. Same reason pre-order bullshit and shitty DLC is prevalent in gaming culture. People can never just stand back and admit something is shit and refuse to take part in the cycle. It'll be nice when the industry inevitably crashes and forces the cycle to start anew. Hopefully we'll get another 10 years of good gaming before we go back in time again.

World of Warcraft will not end, now that blizzard be able to make new villains, make older villains come back, and other things out there that we have to deal with. I love world of Warcraft because of it's story is great, this game has the best cinematic that I have ever seen that is almost the same quality as a movie teaser. every expansion give us new contents, new classes and races to play as, and so many things to keep us busy. In the Storyline, we still yet to permanently kill off the burning legion, we yet to kill Mal'ganus, the manipulator of arthas, as he still exist and not permanently slain as we thought he was dead... We also have not yet killed Kal'Thuzad has we still not found his own phylactery, he could be waking up bolvar Fordragon, the new lich king as we speak... I will not think that the end of the world of warcraft will not come... as they still have this prophecy that if the titan's come back, it's Armageddon for Azeroth. I won't be surprised if there was an old god expansion to where a old god came to azeroth from outer space to contant the old gods imprison in azeroth... They could actually introduce one of the worlds that the burning legion controlled orcs sacked during our conquest against the burning legion till we reached Argon, the homeworld of the Draenai... They could introduced a third faction in the making, to where finally sylvanas moves away from the horde and founded her own faction, with 4 other new entire races to boot.... causing a WvWvW PvP to happen for PvPer's and other things as well.

[QUOTE=Best4bond;45844508]If you're in the beta for WoD you would see that WoD is going to vastly improve WoW, I think that they will be able to stabilize their loss in subscribers and even gain some.[/QUOTE] Nope. Demographics have changed a lot these few years. People want everything but WoW now. I bet some people who still play WoW are still in it because they sinked a lot of money on it.

I JUST WANT WARCRAFTT FOURrrrrr )':

I think people who say WoW's days are numbered are really blowing things out of proportion. To a ridiculous degree. The population is diminishing, sure, but it is still massive. And I cannot for the life of me see the community reaching dangerous lows for years and years to come. People are dedicated to WoW. As in fully [I]dedicated[/I]. Games this size and of this influence don't disappear overnight. They don't disappear over a decade. If you ask me, 10 more years is totally realistic. It may not top the charts for those 10 years but it'll likely be alive and well for most if not all of it.

[QUOTE=AntonioR;45845159]How many Assassin Creeds, CODs, Battlefields will we get in the next ten years ?[/QUOTE] 10

While the WoW population is still significant, 10 years is a lot of time. With each new MMO that comes out, some of the WoW players migrate to the new game. Some of them stay, a few of them return. I'd say most don't resubscribe or get burned out. There aren't many people starting to play WoW from scratch nowadays, and given the increased subscription fee after November, there'll be even fewer new players in the next years, unless the new content is really good, at a lower price and heavily marketed.