
Yesterday, the popular MMO franchise, World of Warcraft, has announced their 6th expansion. Although the release date has not officially been announced, it trails the release of the current expansion, Warlords of Draenor, by less than a year. Warlords of Draenor was released on December 14, 2014. Prior to this, there has been over 2 years time between expansions.
Warlords of Draenor was supposed to solve the lack of subscription issue that happened during Mists of Pandaria. Mists, just wasn’t what the people wanted to see. However, for me, Mists of Pandaria showed me more of what I wanted to see in comparison to the current Warlords of Draenor. WoD was the first expansion since Wrath of the Lich King to allow players to advance 10 levels instead of 5.
WoD came with a variety of features including paid character level boosts, WoW tokens, new zones, garrisons, and updated artwork for all races. World of Warcraft was convinced that this would be the expansion that would be everyone back, making each part more and more like “vanilla” WoW. During WoD, players were even able to participate in “Timewalking Dungeons” which would allow them to complete old content amidst getting gear that would be useful to their character at max level.
According to users on YouTube, Warcraft did not provide everything they promised for WoD, and they are remaining hopeful for Burning Legion. Nixxiom Machinima writes:
“I want to be excited. I wanted to be excited! I’ve been waiting for the Demon Hunter class since Vanilla and now it’s here! Still… Blizzard, you really under delivered with WoD and all the features you said you’d put in, but didn’t. This doesn’t mean you can’t redeem yourselves though in the eyes of many. Work hard and good luck! I have faith.”
For me, after leveling from 90-100, I am burnt out and don’t know if I can manage to make it to 100-110. However, I am willing to take the risk for the promise of new max level content. A lot of people play WoW for different reasons, but for me, I do not like questing and would take it out of the game completely if I had the chance. I am wishing the best for Burning Legion, however I hope Blizzard can delay the release long enough to feel like I had adequate time to play through WoD.