WoW has been on a roughly two-year expansion cycle since the beginning, give or take a couple of months with each release. If 10.2 ends up being the end, any chance it’s because they’re looking to squeeze it to an 18-month cycle to increase income from the box price?
I’m not going to dwell on it much until they announce at Blizzcon, but just a thought.
To be honest, I don’t know ,if the price as is at 24 months content to 18months when you buys it it would be useless because you bought it to 24 at the start. It would be best at 18 months to be cheaper but there really no telling since it is now a Microsoft company.
The only way they could squeeze it to 18 months would be to cut down on content.
That would probably be a bad idea.
Already known what the next 7 expansions are.
World of Warcraft: Snikrot and the Sorceror’s Stone
World of Warcraft: Snikrot and the Chamber of Secrets
World of Warcraft: Snikrot and the Prisoner of Tol Dagor
World of Warcraft: Snikrot and the Goblet of Fire
World of Warcraft: Snikrot and the Order of the Phoenix
World of Warcraft: Snikrot and the Half-Blood Prince
World of Warcraft: Snikrot and the Deathly Hollows
And after your expansions:
They can Unleash the youngest Titan. The horde and the alliance will worship and try to gain his favor.
World of Warcraft: Kaioon’s Day Off.
We steal Khadgar’s dad’s Ferrari and cruise around Dalaran getting up to 1980’s hi-jinks and antics.
you also said you want to be able to have a rare tickle battle to the death
If that is what they’re doing that is fine. If the next expansion isn’t on eastern kingdoms and kalimdor(sp). I’m taking a break until we return. Sick of new zones and all that.
I want to return to true Azeroth. Yes I know classic is there and nope not playing it. I did that when it was current or (retail).
It’s easy Blizzard. All they have to do is have Chronodragonius, the evil time dragon, put us in suspended animation for 10,000 years
But no…they did that with these almost dragon lizard flightless birds called Drakthyr
But maybe there’s hope for Sky pirates and the other side of Azeroth
The 25% extra on the box price is trivial in the scheme of things. Less than a month sub time. What wouldn’t surprise me though, is if someone finally took into account how many players were lost in the end of expansion content droughts. That would explain wanting to go through quicker transitions from one expansion to another.
Hopefully they adopt a new policy: 18 month Expansions
X.0.1 0-2.5 Month of Expansion - S1 - Initial Expansion Release, First Raid
X.0.5 2.5-5 Month of Expansion - S1 - First minor patch, new World Events
X.1.0 5.5-8 Month of Expansion - S2 - First Content patch, Second Raid
X.1.5 8-10.5 Month of Expansion - S2 - Second minor patch, new Megadungeon
X.2.0 10.5-13 Month of Expansion - S3 - Second Content patch, Final Raid
X.2.5 13-15.5 Month of Expansion - S3 - Second minor patch, new World Events
X.2.7 15.5-17 Month of Expansion - S4 - Fated mini-season
Y.0.0 17-18 Month of Expansion - S0 - Prepatch for next expansion is loaded
24+ Month Expansions get extremely stale very quickly…
The answer is no.
They tried shifting to more rapid expansions in WoD and it was a catastrophe.
Also:
Three-tier expansions are the norm. There’s nothing unusual about what’s happening with DF in terms of content releases.
what if they unleash giants 
LOL. No wonder everyone thinks retail WoW is going to be a dead game.
Hmmmm……
/10ch
i think they made a new expansion