Have you looked on the Warcraft forums recently? If you have you can\’t fail to have noticed the amount of interest the next expansion is provoking. Hardly surprising given how good it currently looks.

One issue that has not been addressed is the time scale. Blizzard are famous for \”ready when it\’s ready\” and that\’s to be commended, but in this case it does leave a few questions unanswered.

Ok, Cataclysm seems a long way off. Patch 3.3 has been out a while, yet the vibes we are getting from Blizzard is that there will be no major content additions between now and Cataclysm.

Let\’s read that again. \”No major content additions between now and Cataclysm\”

If you look over the patch history since the games release in 2004, it shows that major content has been added approximately every 4 months. I am counting the expansions as major content updates, not just the \”one tenth\” increment patches.

I\’ve checked retail and e-commerce sites and found that the most optimistic date for Cataclysm is \”Quarter 4 2010\”. The average date is \”November 2010\”. Optimistically ten months between content additions. Probably a year.

No content additions for a year? Don\’t get me wrong, I play in a pretty progressive guild and we have some way to go in the Icecrown, but a year?

I can assure you of one thing, not just progressive raiding guilds, but just about everyone and their donkey will have exhausted the Icecrown well before November 2010. Will we all be sitting twiddling our thumbs with BiS items for all our characters for months waiting for the next content?

Does Blizzard expect us to wait for months with no new content? Are we just to keep paying the subscription and wait?

No, read between the lines here. Blizzard will not let us run out of end game content. It is the game\’s lifeblood,. both for the players and for Blizzard financially.

There are two possibilities.

Patch 3.4 will come out. Probably introducing more Troll lore and getting the Worg back-story moving or…

4.0 And Cataclysm will be out much earlier than expected.

Mentioning either of these in Warcraft forums will get you called all the names under the sun. But understand this. Blizzard will not let the game run out of content for high end players (i.e, most players) It just won\’t happen. Running out of content would be a financial disaster for Blizzard, and they know this.

Of course if you have thought of another way let me know, the comments box is open.

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