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WoW: Forever Effectively Replaces the Sequel Fans Wanted, as Blizzard Admits It Won’t Risk Throwing Away Its “Incredible” 25-Year-Old Engine

A group of fantasy characters from World of Warcraft: Forever, including a warrior with a sword and a mage with a staff, overlooks a mystical landscape with a large tree and rocky mountains.

When Blizzard unveiled World of Warcraft: Forever at BlizzCon 2026 as the third permanent version of WoW, the implication was that the true sequel some fans have longed for is nowhere to be seen in the studio’s plans. Indeed, Kris Zierhut, World of Warcraft: Forever’s Principal Designer at Blizzard, clarified to IGN exactly why there are no current thoughts to make WoW 2: I think one of the things that’s singularly great about WoW is we have this game and this world and this design that has been continuously developed for the last 25 years. And we keep making it […]

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