Who knows? But I’m not calling it a scam like the OP did because we truly don’t know how this will play out. If they even do manage an expansion per year format they may be changing the flow of content to compensate for it.
If I was doing a yearly expansion for WoW I’d probably make 3 major patches for the year (11/11.1/11.2) with some minor ones thrown in, this way you can still have the story of the current expansion have a start, middle and end for story stuff. M+/Raid/PvP seasons would be four months then and you can have three seasons in an expansion rather than four in a two year expansion.
Yeah, something like that sounds completely plausible and fine.
Maybe they could make it 14 or 16 months instead of a year; to allow for a ‘post last raid’ smaller patch to help the story along into the next expansion.
This does not make sense. One season per expansion for 12months would be the same as players logging in per season finishing in 2 weeks and then log out. Only this time it will be a dead game for 11 months and 2 weeks.
Each expansion will have its own seasons and mini patches. That I am sure of.
I agree, Blizzard realized whats the trend and adapted to it to cash in better. Its just business
Dragonflight road map had 3 major patches with 2 minor in between. Is easy to assume after Chris speech, that the 3 major patches turned into expansions and the minor patches, into major.
Agree but ask yourself, how many players are willing to pay every year or so, for a new expansion? Because this is the direction Blizzard is going, lets not be naive.
Something like this crossed my mind but I think while this pace would be great for some, it’d be too fast for others. Like Tah said, if they’d still go with three patches I’m guessing it’d be 14-16 months or so.
My concern is it might actually mean two patches per expansion for the next three expansions, and then indeed yearly. Depending on how Midnight would be tied into TWW you could argue it’d actually be one expansion, or an expansion and a half, for the price of two. But as said before, it’s too soon to conclude anything definitive. The proof will be in the pudding!
Watch the video, he literally said they not planning to waste players time and having them getting old before they complete the Saga. That will go on for a few years only.
3 expansions over lets say 3 years, is the same as BFA was , you only had to pay 1 expansion fee , instead of 3
Wait and see, after all …we talking about Blizzard. You know, the ones who were saying they wont monitize the trading post and then they put an incomplete mage set on shop with 500 tenders so you can get the 2h staff to go with it
Dont be naive. Its Blizzard.
Three major patches + prepatch crammed into a single year is WAAAY to fast for my taste it means about 3 months per patch .
Now don’t forget that they have taken to increasing item levels by ridiculous amounts every patch meaning that all your gear is reset every patch .
This means mindless grinding the same character 24/7 and not playing any alts , or doing other activities like transmog hunting , rep grinding and mount farming .
3 patch +1 pre-patch for 2 years so good . The only problem is that we seem to be missing patch in Dragonflight , so we might get stuck for 1 year of 1 patch .
They could add 1 more patch to Dragonflight maybe killing/fighting Iridikron to explain how that purple Dragon soul thing ended up in Xal’atath’s hands
I have the feeling that this is intentional to reduce the time of the expansions. Shadowlands also felt cut short, same as Dragonflight
I guess Blizzard noticed the trend in players not being able to play the game for more than a couple of months before quitting, so instead of addressing the bigger issue, they remodeled WoW expansion releases after the playing habits of its customers.
We consume everything very fast in the game and then complain the game is dead and theres nothing to do? = take the big patches, add a few bells and whistles, and turn them into expansions.
WoW is not making enough money of subscriptions + game price + payed services like trasnfers + in game shop items and gold selling , which basically doubles the sub ?
How do games like Guild Wars 2 , Divinity: Original Sin 2 , Baldur’s Gate 3 make enough money to stay afloat , with ONLY the game price and payed services ?
WoW is making more than enough money . So much in fact that it is the milking cow for the whole blizzard franchise .
Yes but thats a different thing. There was content drought because of covid but the expansion was cut short because of players feedback. There should at least have been another major patch. Anduin was clearly intended as a end game boss not a mid tier.
