Blizzard will not be churning out content for
World of Warcraft until the sky rips in half and the ground begins bubbling blood. In the meantime, it looks as though Blizzard is quite content with putting out expansions through the global warming crisis. In an interview with
MTV Multiplayer, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime confirmed that his company wouldn’t toss out content for
WoW forever, but will strive to “decrease the amount of time in between expansions.”
From the interview:
[O]ur goal that we've talked about is to put out an annual expansion, but we haven't quite been able to do that. We had one early last year and now we're sort of late this year, but we do want to decrease the amount of time in between expansions. Although we'll probably never get it down to a year [between each one] because there's just so much content. We do want each expansion to be considered a big value for players.
While I don’t play WoW, I can only imagine this is music to the MMO fan’s ears. How many of you think you will still be playing this for the next few years? Are you glad that Blizzard will continue to support it and are obviously willing to consider it a viable title years down the road?
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8:02 AM on 11.18.2008
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On the other hand it might be wise to take heed to the lessons learned in Ultima Online where by the end of the game new players could not become involved because the requirements to be able to play within the game became so outrageous that only long time players stood a chance.
Before WoW, I was playing GuildWars for 3 years, the only reason I stopped playing that game after so long was because Anet announced Eye of the North to be the "last" expansion for the game (and then went ahead and announced Guild Wars 2 at the same time). In waiting for GW2 I ended up with a WoW box in my hand, and now I don't care for GW anymore, WoW has my attention now <3.
If you stop giving people a reason to play they'll eventually stop playing. Expansions make people come back (I have a friend who got into WoW on 3 separate occasions, launch, BC launch, and now WoTL launch).
Seriously, WoW needs to end sometime or we'll never see another Warcraft RTS.
It obviously appeals to loads of people, but the people i know who play this have no life outside the game..kinda sad really...
Now I agree with previous statements that Warcraft 4 needs to come. But yet I also can't see it coming until WoW has "ended" , which i think will be a estimated lv 100 clearly. and if they increase the level cap to 85 , 90, 95 100 etc per exspansion it'll last out and ppl will still buy it.And if memory serves WC3 was 2002 and if we use starcraft as a mesuring stick your looking at a 2012 announcement date.
At least the environments. The characters do have a sort of charm to them.
Thats 100 levels... Its gonna take AGES to get to there for a new player.
I'll not flame you for that. The graphics are way behind other MMOs, but it adds to the install base and ease of entry for those with less than stellar rigs. It doesn't really bother me, especially since my graphics card is pretty good.
They've discussed a graphics upgrade around the release (or after) the next expansion.
I personally wouldn't want them to update the engine. That would either mean having to buy a totally different game or a better pc to run the damn thing. I like the way the game looks. It's got its own style which doesn't really require tuning up.
Unfortunately that's not enough to keep me playing. =P
I bought the battle chest during the summer and played it for like a month straight. Now i'm still only level 25 it seems like there's not much I can do without getting my ass kicked. I'll get back to it at some point but I kinda enjoy progression in video games. Maybe I'm just not a natural born grinder.