Blizzard Expects More World of Warcraft For Another Decade

<p>Like so many of us have dreamed&comma; <em>World of Warcraft<&sol;em> is forever&comma; and Blizzard intends for something short of that&period; Next month&comma; the globally acclaimed PC MMO series will celebrate a decade-long run&comma; but that won&&num;8217&semi;t be the end says lead designer Ion Hazzikostas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking with CNET about the game&&num;8217&semi;s tenth anniversary&comma; Hazzikostas said he&&num;8217&semi;s absolutely sure that the game will live on at least another ten years or more&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><em>I definitely can&&num;8217&semi;t tell you what our 20th anniversary is going to be&period; I can tell you there is definitely going to be one&period; I have no doubt saying that&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re definitely planning into the future&comma; talking about what the next expansion is going to be&comma; and what the one after that is going to be&comma; just in terms of big picture storylines&comma; how can we start setting things up now&comma; where do we want the game to go&period; Ultimately it&&num;8217&semi;s all one step at a time&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The <em>World of Warcraft d<&sol;em>evelopment team has swelled to unprecedented numbers and since then&comma; Blizzard&&num;8217&semi;s reportedly considered expansions beyond <em>Warlords of Draeno<&sol;em>r&comma; though no firm details have been announced about these projects thus far&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Blizzard is expected to talk more about its plans for <em>World of Warcraft<&sol;em>&comma; and its other franchises&comma; during BlizzCon 2014 next weekend&comma; and we intend to bring you all the news from the show as it unfolds&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The legendary MMO series was also the most recent to pay tribute to Robin Williams in its latest expansion&comma; breaking the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;robin-williams-live-world-warcraft&sol;">genie out of the bottle<&sol;a>&comma; so to speak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A <em>World of Warcraf<&sol;em>t movie from Moon director Duncan Jones and Godzilla studio Legendary&comma; simply titled &&num;8220&semi;Warcraft&&num;8221&semi; is also in the works&comma; and has since <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;world-warcraft-movie-pushed-back-early-2016&sol;">been pushed back<&sol;a> to a <strong>March of 2016 <&sol;strong>release&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So&comma; even after you&&num;8217&semi;ve gone on your first date&comma; graduated&comma; gotten married&comma; had kids&comma; or even finished reading this news article&comma; <em>World of Warcraft<&sol;em> has every intention of staying strong &period; Tell us&colon; What are some of your favorite <em>World of Warcraft<&sol;em> memories&quest; Were you there when the all-consuming saga first began&quest; Or have you just recently jumped on the online bandwagon&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnet&period;com&sol;news&sol;world-of-warcraft-ten-year-anniversary-interview-ion-hazzikostas&sol;">CNET<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;