07-30-2007, 06:21 PM
Quote:To say that "you can play new content at blizzcon" means that an xpac will be out soon is silly. I'd be suprised if it wasn't Zul'Aman. I seem to recall the TBC being announced and teasers about the content well before anything was playable.
Yeah, I'm sure that the "new playable content" is the Zul'Aman patch. We may see an announcement of the next expansion , but I doubt their pipeline is so full as to have a playable alpha of ZA and a playable alpha of new expansion. If I recall correctly from the last pre-TBC days, they have the same team doing patches and expansions.
However, because it would easy to field an unrelated team, I think we'll see the announcement of an upcoming title other than SC2 or WoW 3.0. Blizzard's built an absolutely massive customer service and support organization to service their WoW customers and they need things in the pipe for when WoW eventually experiences a ...ah ..."reduction in active subscriptions".
Or maybe they're going to close up shop and spend their days doing laps in the money bin. It does take a lot of hard practice to swan dive into fat sacks of cash, after all.