I don’t personally think WoW 2 will ever happen.
The only thing that could change my mind on that is if we had some kind of miraculous resurgence of broader cultural relevance around Warcraft. That could be another movie or tv show that hits an audience outside of the current player base in a way that made a new approach or entirely different game based on Azeroth worth the serious investment it would require.
Having said that,
That will happen one day. It is inevitable.
They will keep WoW up, regardless of whether or not we ever get a WoW 2, as long as it remains financially advantageous to do so.
I certainly hope not, and I don’t think so. Here’s why:
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If this was the very end of Blizzard’s intention for developing WoW, that would’ve leaked. Secrets cannot be kept in the age of the internet, and some employee somewhere would have spilled the beans.
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It would be in Blizzard’s best interest to tell people this was the end of WoW because it would bring a LOT of people out of the woodwork to be here for the game’s conclusion.
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The Worldsoul Trilogy has been sort of held up as a “righting of the ship,” a “cleaning up this mess,” as it were. It would naturally follow that after the mess has been cleaned up, the way will have been paved for future storytelling.
Is it possible that The Last Titan is the end of WoW and Activision Blizzard will be chucking the game into maintenance mode after that? Sure. Anything is possible.
But I don’t think so.