Are you surprised? Well you shouldn't be. With a week left before the next Xpack launches I doubt that blizzard had much to say. I mean there were a couple of live blogs, I read through them. Not much revealed there we haven't seen before. As far as Blizzcon's go this one was kind of Wow light and for once I am glad I am not in a position to go. As much as I love Blizzard, I would want to go to a Blizzcon where my favorite game was the focus.
Not that there wasn't some focus. There was a Warcraft movie panel with some cool art. Depending on what you want to do, you can got to fightforthehorde.com or fightforthealliance.com and get signed up for news on the upcoming movie. So far they sent some artwork for tablets, facebook, and/or computers. I imagine as things move on they will have more stuff to promote what they are doing.
The question then comes, what does this mean for the announcement of the next Wow expansion. Traditionally this happens during Blizzcon, and Blizzcon, if it happens wont' be until another year from now. Traditionally. Does this mean we will be looking at two years of Warlords of Draenor?
Or the expansion being dropped within a couple months of being announced?
The second is a thought I don't like. Since I normally have to budget in two expansions, one for me and one for my wife, I like having some time to figure when to buy in. I would rather have two years of Draenor, and have them spread the content out a little more efficiently. If they had waited an extra month, month and a half for each major patch of Mists we wouldn't feel like we were in the middle of a downtime at this point. (Not that I can say much since we only killed Garrosh a couple weeks ago.) Dragon Soul was nicer to us as we had Deathwing on Farm for a couple months before Mists dropped.
In my opinion if we are going to see the next expansion in a year Blizzard will have to make the announcement in July or August. at the latest. The timing on this would have to be critical since if they make it too early, we are pushing through this expansion looking at what comes next and that doesn't feel good. Too late and people are scrambling to get the resources to buy the new expansion if you have to budget like most of us.
The other danger, and I can't remember where I read it, is the thought that if Blizzard cuts down the expansions to two raid tiers instead of the traditional three, topped with the price increase, people will start to complain they are getting less for paying more money. I think after ten years of no price increase on the monthly subscription for us Americans, that ten dollars is not much to complain about. I do think, looking at the fact that the price has increased elsewhere that eventually we will see our monthly subscriptions go up. Not by much, but enough to drive some people off of the game. Let's be honest. If they raised the monthly subscription by one cent, people would yell foul and jump ship.
There were some awesome things though, Overwatch looks cool. I think this won't be the last IP we see Blizzard introduce in the next couple of years. The best way for them to grow their business at this point I think is sideways into other area's they normally haven't touched. And they are doing it. Heroes of the Storm, and Hearthstone was only the beginning. Overwatch won't be the last. I expect to see a lot of cool new things coming from Blizzard.
That's it for now, see you in game.
Lag/Lazyeye
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