Learn to wait folks: Blizzard “wanted to try” to release an expansion a year

 

We’ll have to source WoWInsider on this one, since the original WoW Forums thread has been deleted. Anyway, Elizabeth Harper reports that WoW Forums poster Alorn asked when we’ll be able to see a preview of the next expansion – since it has been reported that StarCraft, Diablo Series”>Blizzard plans yearly expansions, after all, and we’ve had previews of Burning Crusade really, really early.

It is reported that Nethaera responded that Blizzard is yet to claim that they’ll be producing yearly expansions, instead, Blizzard “wanted to try” to do so. Cue the sound of tire screeching, folks. Harper notes that just last August, Blizzard COO Paul Sams said this to GamesIndustry.biz: “Starting with The Burning Crusade, every year thereafter we plan on bringing out a new expansion set – so every 12 months.”

Okay, let this serve as a lesson that when it comes to Blizzard, “we plan” isn’t the same as “we will”, and just like StarCraft: Ghost, we’ll just have to be satisfied with “when it’s ready.”

Unless of course they really did intend to release an expansion next year, and Nethaera made a boo-boo with her response, and consequently got instructed to delete the thread. But that’s just us, getting ahead of ourselves.

 

We’ll have to source WoWInsider on this one, since the original WoW Forums thread has been deleted. Anyway, Elizabeth Harper reports that WoW Forums poster Alorn asked when we’ll be able to see a preview of the next expansion – since it has been reported that StarCraft, Diablo Series”>Blizzard plans yearly expansions, after all, and we’ve had previews of Burning Crusade really, really early.

It is reported that Nethaera responded that Blizzard is yet to claim that they’ll be producing yearly expansions, instead, Blizzard “wanted to try” to do so. Cue the sound of tire screeching, folks. Harper notes that just last August, Blizzard COO Paul Sams said this to GamesIndustry.biz: “Starting with The Burning Crusade, every year thereafter we plan on bringing out a new expansion set – so every 12 months.”

Okay, let this serve as a lesson that when it comes to Blizzard, “we plan” isn’t the same as “we will”, and just like StarCraft: Ghost, we’ll just have to be satisfied with “when it’s ready.”

Unless of course they really did intend to release an expansion next year, and Nethaera made a boo-boo with her response, and consequently got instructed to delete the thread. But that’s just us, getting ahead of ourselves.