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World of Warcraft Expansion Pack (working title) is a game expansion to the highly acclaimed World of Warcraft. No release date has yet been given.

General information

Blizzard and the Lead Producer of WoW Shane Dabiri has officialy announced that they are working on an expansion pack for the their Massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft.

Rumors

These are rumors and should not be taken as anything else.

• The expansion pack will integrate real-time weather effects all accross Azeroth. However Blizzard has not said that weather effects have been pushed back to be included in an expansion pack, but rather the hints available point it to be released in an upcoming content pack.
• Characters will be able to learn other racial languages, even those of the opposing factions. It should be noted that this has been rumoured about every single patch or upgrade made by Blizzard so far and that it's been reported that language development has been put on hold for the foreseeable future.
• At least one new race for each faction. Goblins were planned to be the fourth Alliance race before they were replaced by Gnomes. Ogres were featured as a playable race in an April fools joke in 2004 (former Blizzard April fools jokes have revealed to be true in the past, most noticeably the Secret Cow Level joke included in Diablo II. )
• The introduction of Blood Elves and Pandaren as a playable races.
• There is speculations that the new game's name will be "The Burning Crusade" due to the fact that Blizzard Entertainment reserved the rights to the name in May 3, 2005. The name hints that the Burning Legion will have a large role or at least be the focus of the expansion.
• The 3rd continent of Northrend will be made available in the expansion. (Screenshot from Collector's Edition "Behind the Scenes" DVD)
• Extended cities with player housing neighborhoods. In Stormwind the blue instance portal behind a large portcullis is a hint for this.
• The addition of a third faction, most noticeably one consisting of Nagas, Blood Elves and Draenei. This rumor has been taken with skepticism due to the fact that it would require Blizzard a large amount of time to redesign existing world content with additional towns, flight points and quests. There is no supporting evidence for this as of yet.

Sources

• Official World of Warcraft forums in a post written by Lead Producer Shane Dabiri, confirming that an expansion pack is being worked on as we speak.
• 1up.com article about the confirmation

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