World of Warcraft is nearly 20 years old. Over that time, we've seen numerous other games trend from follow-ups and sequels to staying put and going the way of expansions and updates. World of Warcraft has always done the latter, and that's how it'll stay for the foreseeable future, though Blizzard acknowledges that "at some long, distant point down the line" it may have to confront more drastic changes.
Traditional sequels to multiplayer games like Halo and Call of Duty are fairly standard fare in the grand scheme of things, though over the past few years we've seen also a few live-service games undergo huge overhauls before slapping a '2' on the end to finish it off – Overwatch 2, Counter-Strike 2, and so on. It's a topic that recently popped up during an EA investor call, with company CEO Andrew Wilson batting away an Apex Legends 2 hypothetical since "the version 2 thing has almost never been as successful as version 1."
