During a group interview with Associate Design Director Maria Hamilton and Lead World Artist Kristi Moray at BlizzCon 2023, we've learned that the three expansion Worldsoul Saga is set to conclude before 2030!
Chris Metzen suggested that the Worldsoul Saga would be coming in quicker than players have been used to? What does that timeline look like? We can't get into specifics, but yes it will be faster. We want to ensure that players aren't completing this saga in 2030. Teams have been restructured to be able to create this whole saga.
With The War Within set to release sometime before the end of next year, this may be slightly faster than the current cadence of approximately two years between each expansion.
What efforts are being made to differentiate all 3 coming expansions from each other? Each expansion will be a full expansion with a full suite of activities and zones for players to do. While the story will carry over, there's also a lot of individual smaller local stories that will animate these new environments. Want to ensure that we can cohesively tell the story across 3 expansions, but that each one is independently exciting and standalone. Zones and story in Midnight are already underway. Very good now at working at multiple things simultaneously and have built out that pipeline to be able to work on expansions in parallel.
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