BlizzCon 2023: World Of Warcraft's Development Pace Is Faster Thanks To Dragonflight As Devs Looked To Address Shadowlands Feedback

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During BlizzCon 2023, the World of Warcraft team announced that the next few expansions would be releasing at a faster pace than players are used to, highlighted by the fact that the MMO developer showcased the next three expansions on stage. The team's development process to do so apparently is a result of feedback from Shadowlands' glacial pace of content releases, according to the developers in a group interview over the weekend.

BlizzCon 2023's Opening Ceremony was a hit with many fans as Chris Metzen energetically took the stage to showcase the future of WoW. Part of that future, the Worldsoul Saga, will unfold throughout the next three expansions, all of which were also announced during the ceremony. This glimpse into not just the immediate future, but the distant one is a sea change for the Warcraft team, and it was accompanied by the announcement that these release cycles for the Worldsoul Saga will unfold at a faster pace than players are typically used to.

During a group interview with media over the weekend, Lead World Artist Kristy Moret wouldn't commit to any specific timeline or cadence with which players can expect to see these expansions all hit. Still, she did mention that while the team is working on the first expansion in the new Worldsoul Saga, The War Within, they are already working on the second release, World of Warcraft: Midnight. 

«We can't speak to any specific numbers, but yes, it will be faster than, you know, two years — we'd like to make sure that folks are not finishing up the Worldsoul Saga in 2030, right? We want to get it a little faster clip than that. So we've worked on restructuring our teams and our development pipelines so that we can parallelize a lot more work and make it so that