No sequel for WoW... yet
videogamer.com recently sat down with Frank Pearce, Blizzard's executive vice-president of product development for an interview where he dashed the hopes of World of Warcraft 2.
Pearce clearly stated that Blizzard is currently more interested in expanding World of Warcraft -- going as far as confirming that the company hasn't even begun to think about the design of a sequel for the game.
"We haven't even started to think about a sequel," he said. "The team still has a huge wishlist of exciting features to add on top of what's already been implemented since launch. Not to mention, we're all still playing the game pretty heavily ourselves, and there's a lot more content that we want to see as players."
With 9.3 million subscribers happily supporting the game, there's really no good reason to consider focusing development on another product in the same franchise -- not to mention the same genre. Another disappointment for those looking for dates -- Pearce quickly shot down any chance of prying a release date for Wrath of the Lich King out of the dark recesses of his mind.
Head over to the Frank Pearce interview to read more; they'll also have StarCraft II, Diablo III (yes, you heard it right) and Starcraft: Ghost on Monday.

- Thumbs Down
- Thumbs Up
- +1
TyraelosI'd have to agree with you completely. The people who can't seem to enjoy the game full are the ones who either focus on 1 character completely, ie: raid 6 days a week on 1 toon or have about a million of them. People who are either TOO focussed or just not focussed enough. This is ofcourse....opinion. The people I see enjoying the game are the people who are taking it easy and just enjoying as many aspects as they can - doing all the quest lines, sucking up the lore, exploring dungeons and heroics, experiencing some raid content in either a causal or even hardcore basis, but basically those that take the time to concentrate on more than getting uber lootz or having 5 characters on every server.
I also agree that I'm not ready, nor wanting for a WoW 2. I'd rather they just develop and keep evolving WoW. If I had to leave my 3 70s behind (and my growing little ones) I think I'd not bother with mmorpgs anymore. You put time and energy into playing, just like the devs put their time and energy into creating - and to just drop it all for something else isn't my idea of what I want my gaming experience to be. It's like they spend time and energy for money, we spend money, time and energy for fun - but if something ELSE comes, what we did/had is wasted/gone to some extent.
If there were to be any 'sequels' I'd hope that we were able to port our characters to it at the very least. Otherwise, no thanks.