A legitimate leak of solid information

World of Warcraft, those three words will either inspire admiration for a genre-defining MMO of 2004 or just insult your intelligence. Either way, you are reading this article because you are wondering how long before they stop beating this dead horse with a stick? Well even after a “dramatic decline” in subscribers, Blizzard is still sitting pretty at 11.4 Million subscribers. I guess the answer would then be, not anytime soon. We all know that World of Warcraft's servers will remain live for as long as the game makes more money than it costs.

This however, doesn't mean there will forever be new expansions. The end of the World of Warcraft is in some ways, closer than you think. Although this bit of information may have remained under the radar for some gamers, in December last year we saw a 'Product Slate' allegedly leaked from what seemed to be a Blizzard Investors/Shareholders Meeting. This slate portrays the development timeline for all of Blizzard's current IP's, and the reception of this information was at first a bit skeptical.

As time has passed though, we are starting to see that this information is becoming more credible and might in fact be a legitimate leak of solid information. If we take this at face value, we can see there are two more expansions left for World of Warcraft. What makes us even pay attention to this? Well there are a few factors that could in a sense provide a little credit to this product slate.