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World of Warcraft: Get Ready for the Latest Update!

We have a lot of fresh and intriguing information about World of Warcraft's future, not just in terms of Dragonflight but also maybe in the next ten years after that.


Therefore, it is all but certain that the next expansion is already under development, contrary to what many people have been saying. Blizzard also provided information on how they intend to organize the lore, so there are certainly plans for even more.



It appears that there won't be any more standalone tales featuring a lone antagonist like Wrath of the Lich King. But starting with the so-called third age of World of Warcraft, expansions will interact with one another.


What does this information mean, and believe me, there is a lot to unpack. With the release of the Dragonflight pre-patch and the next expansion, there is a really neat feature that can be quite helpful.


World of Warcraft: Get Ready for the Latest Update!
World of Warcraft: Get Ready for the Latest Update!

In other words, Preach Gaming went to the Blizzard headquarters and spoke with a number of the developers. They revealed quite a bit of information, and let's just say it is roughly equivalent to an official statement. At this point, this is not yet an official blue post or Blizzard interview type thing.



The most significant development is therefore that Blizzard is designating Dragonflight as the beginning of World of Warcraft's third era. This, from what I can tell, shouldn't surprise any of you. The'saga' was to come to a close with Shadowlands, according to Blizzard. Remember that these are extremely ambiguous terms, and that this era pertains both to the lore and, to a lesser extent, the gameplay aspect of the game.


Imagine the first era as being classic up to perhaps the Cataclysm, and the second as being Warlords of Draenor up until Dragonflight. Thus, many of these novel features, such garrisons, battlefronts, torghast, and even parallel afterlife worlds and time travel, are experimental.


We don't anticipate that this new period will completely obliterate everything, but it appears that they are adopting a different strategy.



One of the topics they discussed was the fact that they essentially added new features with each expansion, but when people didn't like them, they just outright abandoned them. Examples of this would be the garrisons or even Torghast.


In the new period, they intend to essentially restore these functions in order to improve them and address their shortcomings. Unrelated to this, they supposedly revealed that housing won't be arriving anytime soon and that the engine just cannot make this work, at least not in the way they would like it to.Unrelated


This has both positive and negative aspects, in my opinion. Practically speaking, this implies that instead of expansions like Wrath of the Lich King, where the Lich King was a nasty man, followed by Cataclysm, where Deathwing was a bad guy, and then Pandaria, where Garrosh was a bad guy, everything will be seamless and flow into one another.


Considering that WOW is almost 20 years old, getting these one villain-type expansions made sense at first, but logically the plot becomes entirely absurd.



Just consider it. We attacked Outland, engaged in the Northrend campaign, watched Deathwing decimate half the planet, engaged in a civil war among the Horde, traveled to Alternate Draenor, were invaded by the Legion, and then engaged in a protracted conflict.


Actually, what Blizzard confirmed with this is actually a good thing, and we have noticed this with the steps they had taken up to this point. I mean, this makes sense from a gameplay perspective, but when you add all these things it just seems so ridiculous.


For instance, they added the time skip to start a new period and to help them remove themselves from these events, and they essentially told us all of this in a blue post.


 
 
 

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