{"id":91252,"date":"2026-10-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91252"},"modified":"2026-10-15T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:45:28","slug":"how-wow-forever-is-pushing-the-envelope-and-what-comes-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91252","title":{"rendered":"How WoW: Forever Is \u201cPushing The Envelope,\u201d And What Comes After Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not often one of the biggest games of all time gets a do-over. It&#8217;s even rarer for a game to get a third attempt. But that, in many ways, is what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wow-forever-is-more-than-classic-its-wow-2\/\">World of Warcraft: Forever<\/a> is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Developer Blizzard is pulling from 22 years of hindsight for what is the third major version of its landmark MMORPG, set to launch on November 4. That two-decade span includes not only the release of 11 WoW expansions, but also the re-release of the original WoW in 2019 and its subsequent &#8220;classic&#8221; expansions, as well. In the years since WoW Classic&#8217;s launch, Blizzard has gone from &#8220;no changes&#8221; to &#8220;some changes,&#8221; taking lessons learned from each Classic release and using them to inform their future work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With WoW: Forever, Blizzard is finally going beyond replicating history and is instead forging a new vision for its genre-defining MMO, even if that vision is one firmly rooted in the past. GameSpot recently had the chance to talk with Clay Stone, associate production director on WoW: Forever, and Holly Longdale, executive producer and VP for WoW, about how Blizzard approached making a &#8220;new&#8221; version of original WoW, its approach to Forever&#8217;s endgame, and what players can<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not often one of the biggest games of all time gets a do-over. It&#8217;s even rarer for a game to get a third attempt. But that, in many ways, is what World of Warcraft: Forever is. Developer Blizzard is pulling from 22 years of hindsight for what is the third major version of its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":91254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91255,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91252\/revisions\/91255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}