Warlords of Draenor was announced just the other day, but that hasn't stopped Blizzard from revealing that another expansion is already in the works at the studio.
Draenor is the fifth expansion in the long-running MMO, but even before that content is unleashed on gamers, work has already begun on the subsequent add-on as Blizzard seek to increase their output with regards to World of Warcraft.
In an interview with Polygon, Blizzard's Mike Morhaime explained: "It's going to be on us and our development team to continually look at ways to evolve the game and keep it relevant and look for new ways of maintaining engagement within the game. We view expansions as a huge opportunity to do that."
Morhaime continued: "We recognize that we need to release them on a faster cadence than we have in the past. So we're investing in the team and our resources to enable us to do that."
The number of gamers subscribing to the long-running MMO has been on a downward spiral for some time now, but expansions (like last year's Mists of Pandaria) bring fresh players to the servers and inject new life into the game. Morhaime explained how Blizzard were making sure that they were able to introduce more content with increasing frequency in order to lure in new and returning players.
"We also have to start looking further down the road and planning further out. We've already started working on the expansion after this one [Warlords of Draenor]. We've never done that in the past. We've been doing one expansion at a time, sort of a very linear content creation model, and we've looked at ways that we can parallelize that. So that while we're working on this expansion we're looking at the new one," he concluded.
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