New World of Warcraft Expansion Unveiling at Gamescom 2015 – Live Stream August 6
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Join us Thursday, August 6 at 9 a.m. PDT for a special World of Warcraft event streamed live from gamescom 2015 in Cologne, Germany—where we’ll be unveiling the next chapter of the World of Warcraft saga. . . .

Tune in again Sunday, August 9 at 8:00 a.m. PDT for a World of Warcraft developer chat before the show ends, and find out more about what’s in store.

Stay tuned to our dedicated gamescom page for further details on the live stream. Those who are able to join us in person at gamescom can visit us at the Blizzard booth in hall 7.1. We hope to see you there!
This article was originally published in forum thread: New World of Warcraft Expansion Unveiling at Gamescom 2015 – Live Stream August 6 started by chaud View original post
Comments 507 Comments
  1. Synbaby's Avatar
    I think sub numbers have dropped even more since the last quarter, so they did decided to move up the announcement. That way they won't have to deal with any WOD hate at blizzcon this year because everyone will be distracted with NEW xpac stuff.
  1. ombus's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    It isn't a F2P game, all content is paid.

    yeah you pay 15 a month for the subscription.. but that + an expansion is my point. what i mean with "free patches" is that you pay the suscription and not another expansion every year..

    i dont want to become expansion patch expansion patch expansion patch..

    if those patches actually add a lot of content like would be old patches then maybe..
  1. Aelric70's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Wolfie of Medivh View Post
    I do think it would be fair for Blizz to offer a basic apology. I do'nt think WoD has gone as anyone wanted and an apology along with some hard plans on the future would go a long way toward mending some fences.
    Wow, the entitlement is strong in this one...

    - - - Updated - - -

    Quote Originally Posted by FixDestruNow View Post
    How about: FIXING THIS EXPANSION BEFORE TALKING ABOUT THE NEXT ONE??????
    How about learning the value of cutting your losses and moving on?
  1. araistlinx's Avatar
    Blizz sure has their work cut out for them with the desires of the populace. Every other page of what people want is a contradiction of the page prior. "It better have some new classes or I'm not playing<" followed by, "If they add more classes I'm not playing, eleven is plenty." Then the next slew of comments, "They better not make the expansion have trolls, I'm so sick of trolls," followed by, "I sure hope they have trolls, this expansion didn't have a single troll raid or instance."
    I do not envy them.
  1. MatadorMedia's Avatar
    The raids in Warlords have been pretty stellar; I've enjoyed them for the most part. All the other content / non-content was sparse and boring, and the garrisons were just one big troll from Blizzard. The main disappointment for me was the lore fail... sooooo much opportunity bringing back this big names and then we just killed them off immediately without much ado; Gul'dan is the only character than even got screen time really but there was no character arc there at all, he's just still evil so whatever. They tried to randomly redeem Grom but he didn't do anything worth redemption I mean the man is a murdering psychopath.

    I just hope they get the lore right on the next expansion. Sounds like we may be headed back to Azeroth to protect against another Legion invasion, meet up with Med'an (Medivh?) and do whatever Last Guardian nonsense with Tirisfal in this "Council of Glades." That has *some* potential; I mean I'll hold out hope anyway. I've been hoping for an elf expansion for a while now; Azshara is due for a return and there's a wealth of lore to dig into especially if the high elves return as the neutral NPC faction. But Warlords introduced Blizzard's new DO SOMETHING FLASHY & TOTALLY RANDOM WITH THE LORE ideas which were terrible but they may decide to continue on with that... OH LOOK SHINY NEW BULLSHIT IN KARAZHAN AGAIN, IT'S NEW LORE GUYS! Ughhhhhh. Trying to hold out hope. Can't wait to see the reveal but hard to shake this cloud of impending dread.
  1. obscurede's Avatar
    This is great news!!

    My prediction for the timeline of release of the expansion :

    1 - September - they will begin closed beta.
    2 - November - they will put out the cinematic trailer.
    3 - December - February - they will release the expansion.

    Calling it right now!

    As for the what the expansion is going to be about, I hope its about the south seas and azshara. Burning legion would appear at the end of the expansion or something along those lines.

    I just hope its a 2 year expansion. I just started playing WoD and honestly, not really enjoying it as much.
  1. fxtech's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by araistlinx View Post
    Blizz sure has their work cut out for them with the desires of the populace. Every other page of what people want is a contradiction of the page prior. "It better have some new classes or I'm not playing<" followed by, "If they add more classes I'm not playing, eleven is plenty." Then the next slew of comments, "They better not make the expansion have trolls, I'm so sick of trolls," followed by, "I sure hope they have trolls, this expansion didn't have a single troll raid or instance."
    I do not envy them.
    Cant agree more , they cannot please everyone I for one who enjoy WoD raiding right with all my guild.
  1. mileskg21's Avatar
    are people forgetting that they use atleast 2 months just for raid testing
  1. Mormolyce's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zstr View Post
    what a retard blizzard move,
    can cancel blizzcon...
    With SC2, D3, HS, HoTS and OW to talk about maybe it's time WoW skipped a Blizzcon?
  1. mmoc985e663195's Avatar
    Ermahgerd!!
  1. Idletime's Avatar
    I just hope they take us back to Northrend this time. Cata redid Azeroth, MoP introduced an island, and WoD redid Outlands. Maybe a new baddie in Northrend to chase down? That would be awesome to redo that continent. Maybe take us forward in time this time to prevent a dystopian future.

    I would also finally like Instagram and Facebook integration. The Twitter thing was rather popular with the playerbase so it would only make sense that they finally get with the program and allow us to post our conquests and achievements on these social networks. I'd also settle for Reddit and Google Plus integration.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mormolyce View Post
    With SC2, D3, HS, HoTS and OW to talk about maybe it's time WoW skipped a Blizzcon?
    Blizzcon was founded on WoW though, and it is the biggest draw. It's the proven frontrunner MMO of all time, and last Blizzcon they simply didn't have enough discussion. We got a Q&A and a lore panel, and there was not very much discussed beyond this which was a crying shame. People attend Blizzcon mostly because of WoW, and it should remain that way. People have directed their entire lives around this game, and not so much around their other titles. If WoW gets no press or attention, it will hurt a lot of our friends who stream for a living and we should be supporting them and not abandoning them. Blizzcon without WoW is simply leaving their success in the rear view mirror. It's like General Motors deciding to stop making cars and just focusing on motorcycles in the future.
  1. azurrei's Avatar
    After the utter failure that is WoD, not surprised they are forced to announce this so early - pre Q3 end hype to maybe shore up those horrible sub numbers... I bet we get some sort of Beta invite chance nonsense for subscribers before the end of Sept.
  1. Mukki's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Zstr View Post
    what a retard blizzard move,
    can cancel blizzcon...
    Yet I bet you'd be complaining if they waited til Blizzcon to unveil it since we'd be looking at another long ass wait for the next xpac. Wake up man, what planet are you on?
  1. Sunseeker's Avatar
    Ugh, didn't I just shell out $50 for an expansion? It feels like I did that just last week.
  1. mmoc972a289242's Avatar
    100$ this time ?
  1. Obsurd's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Idletime View Post
    I just hope they take us back to Northrend this time.
    Such a TERRIBLE idea. Let me guess, started playing in WotLK, right?
  1. MatadorMedia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Ithildine View Post
    100$ this time ?
    Nah. They'll just put up copies of the Expansion on the Black Market Auction House and make players keep buying gold with cash trying to outbid each other.
  1. mmocc75861ccdb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Obsurd View Post
    Such a TERRIBLE idea. Let me guess, started playing in WotLK, right?
    I started playing at the start of TBC and think all this going to Draenor business was a terrible idea.
  1. mmoc972a289242's Avatar
    "...the next chapter of the World of Warcraft saga. . . ." this one contains 2 pages and during all this new great expansion, even hot fix nerfs will cost you an additional 10$.
  1. Teaon's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Demontjuh View Post
    ...unveiling the next chapter of the World of Warcraft saga
    ......chapter of the World of Warcraft saga
    ..........the World of Warcraft saga
    ..............saga
    saga > naga

    !!!!....naga expansion confirmed....!!!!
    HYPE..!!!
    ILLUMINATI

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJLSzsEjpWM

Site Navigation