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Cool, thanks for this info.

Little warning OhMikeGhod, btw, the poster of those ideas apparently has a tendency to send some less-than-polite private messages with some less-than-savoury (albeit creative) language. I'm sure it won't bother you but it might mean that you're not as confused as I was. Sadly the only PM I've had!

Anyway, back to the point.



I've wondered about this too. I think WoW has it in it to last for some years, and I don't know if adding levels each time is the best way to go. Other MMO's have managed to add expansions without adding new levels, but I'm not sure how successful they've been, as WoW is the first game in which I have reached the level cap.

They would have to be pretty creative. I think that problem is some time off, anyway.

They could always do something where you still get experience but instead of gaining levels you gain attributes, or swap out uselss attributes for ones that are more helpful to your class.

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that is was the star says after your link just in case other may not got to the link.

on think i did notice is that if they are doing 5 expantions they are planning to put out 3 or 4 of the within the next 7.5 years

Don't split hairs. The point is if the game goes on for 30 years and releases in that time span 15 expansions, this offer will only be good for the first 5. On the other hand, if something happens two months from now and Lich King is the last expansion ever, then they're still covered and don't have to provide 3 more or get sued.

I'd just like to say that I do not see the Worgen being introduced as a playable race, they seem to much tied into the game already, and will be even more so in Wrath of the Lich King. Also, they are, according to WoWiki purely evil. Also, there is no specific reason to why Wolfenhold should be the home of the Worgen. However, the Xorothian Planes clearly is a zone on the world of Xoroth, where the Dreadsteeds of the Nathrezim, or the Dreadlords, reside. So, as one person stated several times already, it's rather the Nathrezim that will be the new playable race for the Horde (Pandaren going to the Alliance for reasons you can read on WoWiki). This works because "the dreadlords lost much power when several of their most influential members fell to the Forsaken armies under Sylvanas Windrunner’s banner. Now the dreadlords seem almost a myth, a story told to frighten children". Blizzard could make it so that the dreadlords allied with the Forsaken have re-establsihed their contact with their homeworld and had their brothers join the ranks of the Forsaken, and therefore with the Horde. Of course, I do not see this happening either, thought, due to the looks of Varimathras in the game. My Undead Mage reaches to his knees. There is no way Blizzard will introduce a huge race with wings as a playable race.

So... chances are there will be a race we do not know of yet. What did we know of the Dranei before the Burning Crusade? Perhaps there is a lesser race who inhabit Xoroth, who, through connections with the Dreadlords of the Forsaken, who they will probobly share a common history with the Dreadlords. That is my guess, anyway.

What one needs to take into consideration is that the new races will be played from level 1, so they should somehow fit into the old world. Remember that the Blood Elves in Silvermoon City doesn't know about what their Prince are doing, because what you play in Everson Woods doesn't take place during the Burning Crusade.

I must say, I have been one of those posting thread about "the South Seas and the Maelstrom" will be another expansion, "the Emerald Dream" another and then there will be expansions where one ventures to other worlds like Outlands. I did not believe there was an actual planned end to World of WarCraft. But having read the original post of this thread my take has altered. Now I, as all of you, can see the future of the Warcraft franchise.

As World of WarCraft take place slightly after WarCraft III, I believe that Blizzard intended to end this era in the WarCraft universe with World of WarCraft. As one can guess if the zones in the original plans is truly from Blizzard then one can predict that "the Legion set", which zone levels indicate there will be no more levels, will be the last expansion of the game. The Burning Citadel will feuture Kil'Jaeden as the final boss, and the head of the Burning Crusade will fall, and the Burning Crusade will have been defeated. The Burning Crusade, whom is responsible for creating many of the greatest villians in World of WarCraft, without them there would have been no Lich King, no Illidan, the Orcs and the Humans would never have meet, there wuold have been no Wars of the Alliance and the Horde, as there would not have been an Horde, no Forsaken, no Blood Elves. So fighting off the top of the hill will be the last thing, and if those zones are true, that will happen.

So evil will have been cleansed from the universe and all will be good. The End.

With the cliffhanger of Sargeras spirit still floating around in the Twisting Nether, unable to take form as there are no body strong enough to hold his mighty presence. Until...

WarCraft IV, we rejoin the races of the WarCraft universe hundreds, maybe thousands of years later, and many of the characters we know of will be long gone, but a new evil have rised, to take revenge on the mortal races who once destroyed his plans to rule the universe. Sargeras has returned, legends of old must be told to defeat evil once again, but the new shape it has taken requires new allegiences and new ways to fight it. A long time has passed, alliances that once were are no more, new ones has been made, the world has changed, old homes have been retaken, new ones have been found. WarCraft IV will be a huge hit, and a few years later, the next installment of the WarCraft franchise will see the light of day.. World of WarCraft II.

//Zarc the Dreamweaver

Edited, Aug 22nd 2008 2:14pm by ZarctheDreamweaver

Technically, the tauren were also as close to the Night elves as to the orcs, and probably would have no love for the blood elves nor forsaken, but they had to create a dichotomous faction line. There's no real reason that the taruen would be enemies of the night elves though, they were friends.

So, while they did assist Rexxar, the wiki says they match closer to the alliance and are most likely found with alliance company. They're still unaligned though. Since their culture is all about teh beer, I could see them being close friends with the dwarves. I don't see helping an individual that happens to be part of the horde as proof of anything. That happens all the time, heck besides WoW, there's not really any clear factions.

Honestly, maybe by then they'll have broken down the faction system. :O There's all the mechanics in the game right now that they could just push a few buttons and the horde vs alliance thing would simply go away. You could be aligned with whatever factions you wanted, you have rep towards any of them, there's code in place for learning the other langues, etc.

Perhaps we'll get a Brewmaster hero class which can only be Pandaren. :P

Can we just sticky this? or do we bump this every 10 days or so?

well the zones seem to match up for WOTLK and this post was made back in sep 2007, almost a year ago now so I guess we can assume its 100% authentic.

By the way, I still say Nazrethim and Pandaren.

didnt blizz tell news fellows during a blizzcon that they plan to release a hero class with every expansion now?