Blizzard Reveals Plan for World of Warcraft Forever Update Frequency

World of Warcraft Forever launches a week from today, and while the game will have a huge swath of content available on day one, there will be new content continually added to the game. But how frequently should fans expect new content to arrive? It sounds like Blizzard is willing to take things a little slower than in the modern version of World of Warcraft.

In a recent interview with IGN, World of Warcraft Forever principal game designer Kris Zierhut, said Forever will employ a slower cadence than Midnight's aggressive 8-week content cycle: "we're fairly convinced the correct [update] rate is something closer to once every four months or 17 weeks or three times a year."

This is in contrast with the modern version of World of Warcraft, which has had an aggressive update cadence since Dragonflight launched in 2022. …