Ten
Four more years for this saga and six more years for one after, which will be based completely on new story material and flop horribly.
Dragonflight
-added skyflying
Warthin
-added delves
Midnight
-adding player housing
Personally, I see them putting in more, not less.
If given the choice, they would probably keep at it forever.
But the reality is sooner than later…
…continuing to support and redo the old tech is going to cost more than it is worth it to
…with evolving AI tech, MMORPGs are going to become cheaper to produce and the market is going to become more diverse, drawing off more customers looking for an actual MMORPG
…they are going to run out of story; this was already seen with dragonfllght
I think that is when people will get their WoW2, only it won’t be called WoW2 or look like a WoW2. It will be a lobby game with increasing difficulty delves, dungeons and raids that are changed up and added to once a year. They will quickly discovered this does not work for raiders, so the raids will be scrapped two years in with an announcement citing their lack of profitability. However it will be very successful when it comes to delves and dungeons.
Now my crystal ball is tired and wants a nap.