Blizzard announces team working on 6th Expac.

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INB4 a Blizzard apologist says subscriptions are you 'renting' the use of your character. Which is crap because it clearly was their business model and intention from the beginning that would also be used to fund development of new content. But it gives you an idea of the type of people we're dealing with.

Or how about not putting words into imaginary people's mouths and creating a strawman argument.

"I bet someone says this. But that would be stupid. See how stupid this sounds? That's who we're dealing with."

[Eazy]

They should probably work longer for a GOOD expansion instead of rushing everything for money.

[NuLogic]

I'm guessing story, art and music are mostly done. While the bug, systems and balancing people are still at work on wod.

[Camthur]

The real question is why should they release any faster? After all, a good many of you people give them your money every single month no matter what they do.

It's probably a simple math formula for them where they weigh potential additional revenue from new content vs additional costs from development.

[Revi]

I dont think you get it. Warlords of Draenor isn't out yet, and they are already working on the expansion that comes after WoD.

Yeah, and they always say that. It's not stealing any work power from WoD development. They worked on WoD while MoP was in beta, and look how little they had done when it was announced.. "Working on" in this case is ideas and art at most, not actual content creation.

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The real question is why should they release any faster? After all, a good many of you people give them your money every single month no matter what they do.

It's probably a simple math formula for them where they weigh potential additional revenue from new content vs additional costs from development.

Uhm, I think you're missing the part where the price of the expansion itself is equal to other brand new games, and more than pays for development.

[TheTaurenOrc]

Or how about not putting words into imaginary people's mouths and creating a strawman argument.

"I bet someone says this. But that would be stupid. See how stupid this sounds? That's who we're dealing with."

There is no strawman. I've seen it everywhere, fansites and official forums how x is not covered by the sub fee or you don't own your character the sub rents it, blah blah blah.

[Zaqwert]

I guess Activision has finally got WoW to where they want it, they'll churn out a new mediocre xpack annually I bet.

[Raugnaut]

Nothing new really, they always have an expansion in the works, hell they had TBC being made while Vanilla was out, same with WOTLK when TBC was out.

They have a team working on 7.0 right now, the new zones, races, ect. 6.0 is NOT out yet. They are discussing 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0. This is a first time.

Will have to wait and see. I really only play WoW for mounts now anyway.

[Yig]

No, this is not the case, they've only worked on the next expansion during the course of a current expansion. They didn't start WotLK during Vanilla. They didn't start Cata during TBC. They didn't start MoP during WotLK.

You can find interviews going back to Vanilla where they have talked about countless hypotheticals being juggled to one extent or another. On the WOTLK collector's edition making of featurette it was said they have around 30 Hero Classes in various conceptual stages, THIRTY. Some have interpreted that remark as a joke or snarky remark.

You really have no idea what was being worked on when, and what Chilton means now in terms of plans beyond vague ideas they want to tackle along with half explored experimental mechanics out the wazoo.

For instance, Chris Robinson has said they've messed with a depth of field effect it he engine more than one time and decided against having one. Who knows what crazy things are alive on a computer in Irvine somewhere?

[MoanaLisa]

I'm just curious if they will tell us what it is at Blizzcon. I doubt it, but it would be cool.

I'm curious about this too. If they really intend to have a 12-month expansion with Warlords they won't be announcing the next one at Blizzcon otherwise. It's this one or nothing.

A well-paced 18-month expansion would be better perhaps. Otherwise it's sort of mind-boggling to think we could be in beta for the one after Warlords in nine months. I suppose they could announce something and not give up a lot of details about it. Some sort of event like they had with the cinematic for Warlords might have been a dry run for non-Blizzcon major announcements. Other than tradition they don't really need to wait for Blizzcon to announce anything. And if they have events like the cinematic reveal they can cut down or avoid altogether annoying questions from subscribers.

[Camthur]

Oh, I'm sure they enjoy that 100+ million dollar infusion they get whenever they release an expansion. However, they probably pull that in per month easily between subscriptions and the market. Every month they push an expansion off is just another one where they get a chunk of change in their pocket. Sure, they might lose some people over those months, but they still are making a massive profit in the mean time.

People might get bored from no content, but they chew through it so fast that it's pretty much impossible to not have bored people around.

[greysaber]

between bardarbunga, ebola, #IS and obama; i don't see how they can expect the Earth to still be around by then...