What you need to know
- World of Warcraft is one of the industry's biggest success stories, with non-stop operation for very almost 20 years.
- Now owned by Microsoft, World of Warcraft has recently had a successful run with its Dragonflight expansion, alongside World of Warcraft: Classic modes.
- The next expansion, The War Within, just hit alpha testing ahead of an expected Q3 2024 launch.
- Recently, we attended an event in London to discuss The War Within with Executive Producer Holly Longdale and Associate Game Director Maria Hamilton.
- Holly acknowledged that the new-player experience is less than ideal, and said that improving it will be a big focus in the future.
- Maria Hamilton noted that the Horde vs. Alliance faction tension still has potential to flare up again, despite the current truce — but allowing individual players to play together cross-faction will remain in place, even if there was a wider faction conflict some day again.
