Here is a video preview of the new raid dungeons in the upcoming Cataclysm expansion
9.02.2009
WoW's Cataclysm Expansion Facts from Blizzard's Cory Stockton
As if the all the changes that have taken place so far in World of Warcraft aren't enough, could it be possible that Blizzard is now talking about making a World of Warcraft 2? The folks over at Blizzard say the thought of it has never even been brought up. Blizzard as well as the rest of the WoW community seems to be happy with the patches to the current game. In many ways most patches are like mini-expansions due to the amount of new content that is added.
Speaking of expansions, there is much fuss over the already now public news of Cataclysm – the new World of Warcraft expansion. According to Blizzard there are going to be changes that will affect the entire game. One of the most anticipated upgrades is the additions of two new races but from Blizzard they say that will only be the tip of the iceberg.
Here are some question and answers from Blizzard front-man Cory Stockton: (courtesy of Wired.com)
Wired.com: There were a lot of leaks this year: the name and the two new races for the Cataclysm expansion hit the internet before BlizzCon. Do you think Blizzard is becoming more careless or is it just harder to keep a secret?
Cory Stockton: I think we’re just getting bigger is the issue. When you have 4,000 people in this world-wide company, I think it’s just hard for things to stay secret as much as we were able to do it in the past. A lot of people have access to a lot of information in the team in order to keep the product up to date since we have to ship patches so quickly. I think that makes it harder to keep things as secure as we would like. Definitely lessons learned though from this, for sure.
Wired.com: We won’t be able to go back to old world content post-Cataclysm. So what does this mean for new players? And what about players who don’t buy Cataclysm?
Stockton: Everyone’s going to get (the world changes of) Cataclysm no matter what. You can be on vanilla WoW. You can be on Burning Crusade (expansion), on Northrend (in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion). No matter what it is, all of the changes to the level 1 to 60 zones will be patched down to everyone. Now granted, that’s going to be a large patch, but everyone will get that content and be able to quest using existing races and classes. You could level up through that just like normal. That’s just going to be part of (patch) 4.0.
Wired.com: For people who are nostalgic for the old world before Cataclysm, is there going to be some way to revisit Azeroth as it was before?
Stockton: I think that’s what Caverns of Time is for. We’ll definitely have the ability to do that kind of stuff, but we are also going to do a huge world event leading up to the Cataclysm. Some time after patch 3.3 and after (the Lich King) Arthas is defeated, you’ll definitely see a giant world event that affects the Alliance and the Horde very, very much. It’s going to change everything for them. It’s probably going to last something like a month. Something similar to the zombie invasion before Northrend. It will be something that will roll out slowly over time. But we are planning to do a huge world event, so everyone will know the Cataclysm is coming.
Speaking of expansions, there is much fuss over the already now public news of Cataclysm – the new World of Warcraft expansion. According to Blizzard there are going to be changes that will affect the entire game. One of the most anticipated upgrades is the additions of two new races but from Blizzard they say that will only be the tip of the iceberg.
Here are some question and answers from Blizzard front-man Cory Stockton: (courtesy of Wired.com)
Wired.com: There were a lot of leaks this year: the name and the two new races for the Cataclysm expansion hit the internet before BlizzCon. Do you think Blizzard is becoming more careless or is it just harder to keep a secret?
Cory Stockton: I think we’re just getting bigger is the issue. When you have 4,000 people in this world-wide company, I think it’s just hard for things to stay secret as much as we were able to do it in the past. A lot of people have access to a lot of information in the team in order to keep the product up to date since we have to ship patches so quickly. I think that makes it harder to keep things as secure as we would like. Definitely lessons learned though from this, for sure.
Wired.com: We won’t be able to go back to old world content post-Cataclysm. So what does this mean for new players? And what about players who don’t buy Cataclysm?
Stockton: Everyone’s going to get (the world changes of) Cataclysm no matter what. You can be on vanilla WoW. You can be on Burning Crusade (expansion), on Northrend (in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion). No matter what it is, all of the changes to the level 1 to 60 zones will be patched down to everyone. Now granted, that’s going to be a large patch, but everyone will get that content and be able to quest using existing races and classes. You could level up through that just like normal. That’s just going to be part of (patch) 4.0.
Wired.com: For people who are nostalgic for the old world before Cataclysm, is there going to be some way to revisit Azeroth as it was before?
Stockton: I think that’s what Caverns of Time is for. We’ll definitely have the ability to do that kind of stuff, but we are also going to do a huge world event leading up to the Cataclysm. Some time after patch 3.3 and after (the Lich King) Arthas is defeated, you’ll definitely see a giant world event that affects the Alliance and the Horde very, very much. It’s going to change everything for them. It’s probably going to last something like a month. Something similar to the zombie invasion before Northrend. It will be something that will roll out slowly over time. But we are planning to do a huge world event, so everyone will know the Cataclysm is coming.
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