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. And while that approach has meant players of the modern version of the game have something new every couple of months, some have said the updates often feels rushed, with bugs and repeated content. We've all done some form of invasions several times in the last couple of years, after all.

Zierhut did say that Blizzard experimented with a faster update schedule in Season of Discovery, an experimental Classic game mode that came out in 2023, but "we cut it down to closer to that eight week or 10 week schedule. It felt way, way, way too fast."

But by going with a four month update schedule, Forever will also avoid the content droughts that some older expansions were infamous for.

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