There’s defenders who have been trying to say that TWW is considered an expansion, but Blizzard and Metzen specifically said they will be pushing out expansions a lot quicker. Anyone who has been playing this game long enough is aware that an expansion is not something you push out every year. A big patch is what they are capable of doing, and that is what TWW feels like. In fact, the next two “expansions” are also going to be patches.
To put some perspective on it, I’m going to use Shadowlands as an example due to the way its patch system worked. When SL was released, we got our new zones, new hub, and new story. Level squish happened and the cap increased. The year after, we got a raid and Korthia. We were stuck in Korthia for months until Zereth came out and the next raid. After that, we were done content wise.
Dragonflight was able to match the content of Shadowlands, though it beat it because of the last couple of patches that gave us the final raid area along with the Emerald Dream events.
Then comes TWW. We get a landmass that doesn’t even match the past zone content and one raid. I constantly hear that it’s all because this is a “mini expansion” but why not just call it what it really is: a patch. Normally, getting into word wars is useless, but an expansion typically means a lot of new areas and a major change in the game. But I hate to say it…but TWW feels like a Dragonflight patch more than it’s own standalone.
Even if you say that the next two “expansions” is meant to start the real story, doesn’t that just prove the point even more if TWW is the prologue? TWW just feels like Korthia or Zereth Mortis with extra steps.
We are barely pass the first patch with how they fumbled the bugs and gameplay hotfixes in the past two months. There won’t be more than two seasons at this point.
Look, TWW is tremendous, okay? It’s not just a patch, it’s an expansion, believe me. People saying it’s like Korthia? Wrong. We’re getting new zones, new raids—BIG stuff. The next expansions? Going to be huge. Blizzard’s speeding things up, and that’s what we need—quick content, quality content. Those saying it’s just a patch? Sad! Expansion means growth, and that’s what TWW delivers. So let’s stop the fake news, folks. It’s an expansion, period. Everybody’s saying it, and everybody knows it. Huge success.
Getting ready !