When will Warcraft 4 be announced? Place your bets!

(not actual bet)
 
So at some point there'll be a Warcraft 4. That's pretty certain. Warcraft 3 even had a sort of cliffhanger (part of which has been addressed in other Warcraft products, sure).
 
In my opinion it'll probably happen in 3 years or so.  2014 announcement, maybe 2015 release. It's fun to guess!

Never. 
 
WoW ruined the Warcraft storyline. 
 
There is absolutely no way WC4 can come out and make any damn sense in terms of story.  It would just be ridiculous.

Never say never.  But yeah Blizzard probably has a 4-5 year perspective on it. They'll do the 3 Starcraft single player campaigns first, at least

WoW has fucked up all chances. I'd rather a Warcraft then a Diablo or Starcraft

It's true WoW has fucked the storyline MAJORLY, but who knows what happens post-Cataclysm?

Looking at Blizzard, isn't it more likely they announce it "soon" (2011-2012), and then develop the game for 5-6 years?
 
Having said that, I'm really not holding my breath for another RTS Warcraft product. I think it's more likely to see a WoW 2, or something like that.

I don't expect another RTS Warcraft, I totally foresee World of Warcraft 2 being released at some point in the far distant future though.

Why put effort in a good rts sequel that people most likely will buy if you can just keep milking WoW? 
If they would have made a world of starcraft the chances for starcraft 2 would have been way smaller... 
Also WC3 wasn't that good IMO because  of the hero system and it was so hero heavy... i hate that!, but thats just me

I just read that WoW officially killed Arthas,and now a new asshole is the Lich-King. 
I am calling it.Anything Post Warcraft 3:Frozen Throne(Besides Warcraft 4 that is) is complete total bullshit and is officially not canon.You don't use an MMO to drive forward a story that was getting interesting.Money loving idiots. 
And here's hoping that most of the GB community won't die of old age by the time Warcraft 4 will be released.

" Never.  WoW ruined the Warcraft storyline.  There is absolutely no way WC4 can come out and make any damn sense in terms of story.  It would just be ridiculous. "

Never, they will milk WoW for aslong as humanly possible. By that time they will have killed off every single lore character. They will focus on Starcraft for their RTS needs.

I'll say never.

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I just read that WoW officially killed Arthas,and now a new asshole is the Lich-King. 
I am calling it.Anything Post Warcraft 3:Frozen Throne(Besides Warcraft 4 that is) is complete total bullshit and is officially not canon.You don't use an MMO to drive forward a story that was getting interesting.Money loving idiots. 
And here's hoping that most of the comunity won't die of old age by the time Warcraft 4 will be released.

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WoW 2 will come out before Warcraft IV.

Man, I want me some new Warcraft. REAL WARCRAFT DAMMIT.
But I'm pessimistic and think it will be announced around 2013. Or maybe that's optimistic.
 
It would have to be a sequel to TFT, ignoring WoW. 
Make it an alternate timeline or something, just don't even dare to reference "A brave group of heroes" in the lore even once!

" Never.  WoW ruined the Warcraft storyline.  There is absolutely no way WC4 can come out and make any damn sense in terms of story.  It would just be ridiculous. "

I could see them announcing it in 2013 - for a 2017 release.

" I could see them announcing it in 2013 - for a 2017 release. "

" @Meowshi said:

" Never.  WoW ruined the Warcraft storyline.  There is absolutely no way WC4 can come out and make any damn sense in terms of story.  It would just be ridiculous. "

They'll just do Warcraft 40k. They've raped Warhammer all the way this far, why stop here? "

" @demonbear said:

" @Meowshi said:

" Never.  WoW ruined the Warcraft storyline.  There is absolutely no way WC4 can come out and make any damn sense in terms of story.  It would just be ridiculous. "

They'll just do Warcraft 40k. They've raped Warhammer all the way this far, why stop here? "

 I thought Warcraft 40k was Starcraft? "

" @ProfessorEss said:

" I could see them announcing it in 2013 - for a 2017 release. "

haha "

" @Thegerman: Warcraft 40K>Starcraft I like the lore better. And yes,the Space Marines and Eldar are similar to the Terrans and Protoss. "

Announced? Real soon.
 
Released? Ten years, and half a trillion dollars from now.

" @FirePrince said:

" @Thegerman: Warcraft 40K>Starcraft I like the lore better. And yes,the Space Marines and Eldar are similar to the Terrans and Protoss. "

you mean warhammer 40k right? and i never said anything is better then something else. and Zerg = tyranids :P  "

" WoW 2 will come out before Warcraft IV. "

I'm not going to say "Never" but Blizzard is working on more WOW, Starcraft 2, Diablo 3 and some unmentioned 4th game rumored for consoles, so I doubt they are going to get around to Warcraft 4 anytime soon. 

" @CitizenKane said:

" WoW 2 will come out before Warcraft IV. "

you know what this means^^ "

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OK, maybe not never, but I'm not expecting it any time in the foreseeable future. "

They have 2 more Starcraft games, Diablo 3 and who know how many more WoW expansions, not to mention the yet to be announced next MMO they have hinted at. 2015 would be optimistic .

2014 seems far enough away.  The Dev team uses WoW for their content related to Warcraft now.  But Blizzard has always loved making their style of games.  Hence Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2.  
 
It will happen, but not anytime soon.  I expect WoW 2(They made D2, so why not?), before that.  The Devs have talked about their love for the idea of Warcraft 4 in many posts.  But D3 has yet to even enter alpha, Wings of Liberty is part 1 of a 3 part trilogy.  Cata comes out later this year.  Most likely fall or Jan.  Then there is the "next gen. MMO-RPG, not inside any of Blizzards universes."    So all of the Dev teams are clearly very busy, for a while.    
 
Also, lets not forget the WoW movie.  Even if its a bomb, like most of Sam Raimi's movies, the WoW fanboys will probably love it.  He has made a few really great movies and even the bad ones, aren't that bad.

When Bobby Kotick needs a new yacht.

Idk if there will ever be another Warcraft RTS. At least not anytime close to now.

After the next Duke Nukem game.

But dude, the thought of Blizzard announcing Warcraft 4 at the same time as WoW2 makes me happy.

It'll happen eventually, I guessed 2014 as well. There will be a backlash of people crying about how WoW destroyed Warcraft's story, but Blizzard will put their top creative men on it, and it'll have a great story that takes place after WoW's stories.

WoW has pretty much continued the warcraft storyline so far beyond warcraft 3 so unless you play all the stuff that happens in WoW in RTS form, then I don't see it happening sry.
 
Also the people going wow 2, why would you ever commit a suicide like that? It's just dumb and you have to be functionally retarded like the Everquest people to pull that off.

Not for a while. They're working on a new MMO, Diablo 3, StarCraft 2 and I think there was a unannounced project that probably isn't getting nearly enough priority. I do remember that they wanted to make a new IP too, so that kind of complicates matters.

 "You can't kill Arthas in a short cutscene that will play out a million different times with millions of different people. Ugh... I'm seriously bothered by this. "
 
So by this logic you are saying that you hate it when more than one person ever plays and beats any video game. Millions of people played through GTA4 and had its ending cutscene play out millions of times, did that bother you as well? 
 
As for a WC4, I am going to have to say that it wont be "soon." They are still finishing up the Starcraft 2 expansions and probably won't be wanting to jump right back to making another RTS. They also have Diablo 3 and that unnamed MMO to work on. As well as continuing to churn out content for WoW. Start up a new project anytime in the foreseeable future seems like a massive division of labor that they could use elsewhere.
 
There is also the massive roadblock concerning lore. Do you make it pick up after WC3 and negate all of WoW? Then you undermine the story and everything anyone has done in the game, which could have a very negative reaction from fans. If you have it take place after WoW then you have to know all the details on what will happen in WoW's story ahead of time. If you have watched any of the videos of them talking about writing lore and whatnot then you know that they just have rough ballpark ideas on things they want to do in future expansions. For the longest time they weren't sure if they wanted to make Outland or Northrend the first expansions. The idea for Cataclysm wasn't even conceived until years into the game's life.  So things like that would complicate development of WC4 in all kinds of weird ways.
 
If we ever get another traditional RTS Warcraft game I don't think it will be this decade.

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OK, maybe not never, but I'm not expecting it any time in the foreseeable future. "

I doubt they will ever do Warcraft 4, or WoW 2 for that matter, and how far can they want push WoW? I will say the next Blizzard game is going to be World of Starcraft. They did it as an April Fools a few years ago, so they have at least thought of it. WoS just doesn't have the same ring to it as WoW thou...

 I will say the next Blizzard game is going to be World of Starcraft.

Two thousand n never.

" I doubt they will ever do Warcraft 4, or WoW 2 for that matter, and how far can they want push WoW? I will say the next Blizzard game is going to be World of Starcraft. They did it as an April Fools a few years ago, so they have at least thought of it. WoS just doesn't have the same ring to it as WoW thou... "

" Never.  WoW ruined the Warcraft storyline.  There is absolutely no way WC4 can come out and make any damn sense in terms of story.  It would just be ridiculous. "