07-19-2005, 10:20 AM
Seeing that the game has so many holes, especially in the late and end-game I was wondering if Blizzard will introduce an expansion for WOW. Expansions are nothing new to the MMO-World. Everquest had several, UO, DAOC, FFXI, even Planetside had one.
Expansions for a MMO are basically content patches distributed via retail. Along with bug fixes of course. Also look at the history of Blizz' games:
- Warcraft 2 : 1 expansion
- Starcraft : 1 expansion
- Diablo : semi-expansion with Hellfire
- Warcraft 3 : 1 expansion
- and of course: Diablo 2 : LOD exp. (which made the game complete for me at least.. but I digress)
So I believe they will announce an expansion for WOW this year. Probably before Christmas. This would also explain the shoddy implementation of version 1.6. Blizz' programmers are working on the expansion instead of working on bug fixes.
-Arnulf
Expansions for a MMO are basically content patches distributed via retail. Along with bug fixes of course. Also look at the history of Blizz' games:
- Warcraft 2 : 1 expansion
- Starcraft : 1 expansion
- Diablo : semi-expansion with Hellfire
- Warcraft 3 : 1 expansion
- and of course: Diablo 2 : LOD exp. (which made the game complete for me at least.. but I digress)
So I believe they will announce an expansion for WOW this year. Probably before Christmas. This would also explain the shoddy implementation of version 1.6. Blizz' programmers are working on the expansion instead of working on bug fixes.
-Arnulf
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