Blizzard isn't completely sure what WoW Classic Plus is either
World of Warcraft's vice president says not even Blizzard is completely sure what WoW Classic Plus is: "Nobody can agree on what exactly that means."
In our new World of Warcraft interview during Blizzcon 2023, Holly Longdale - the vice president and executive producer of World of Warcraft at Blizzard - discussed WoW Classic Plus and revealed that the people working on it aren't even sure what it is. "The phrase 'Classic Plus' comes up all the time," Longdale explained, "and nobody can agree on what exactly that means." It's not just Blizzard that has a hard time unpacking WoW Class Plus, as players are also divided on its definition.
The WoW developer then touched upon the upcoming expansion Season of Discovery for World of Warcraft Classic, which is set to bring brand new features to the MMORPG on November 30: "At its core, I think what players are asking for is: 'We love Classic, but do something neat with it.' Right? And so Season of Discovery is sort of like a toe in the water."
Longdale continued: "The idea for the season came from how we tested classes, which was by level ranges, and how players made their own endgames within those level ranges. We thought that was super fun, and decided to build something around that. But another part of Classic that is its essence – at least for now, anything can change of course – is that it's built foundationally on what came before."
Touching on what some players believe WoW Classic Plus should be, the Blizzard developer added: "If we were ever going to say, okay, we're going to – again, I'm just paraphrasing what some people refer to as 'Classic Plus' – build a whole new zone or a weird timeline or some multiverse kind of thing, that's a longer conversation. So Season of
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