World of Warcraft Forever gets its full release on November 4, and while the MMO will stay tethered to the two vanilla continents, Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor, it sounds like future updates could add some of the areas we've visited in the expansions.

I recently got a chance to sit down with Blizzard principal game designer Kris Zierhut to talk about the future of WoW Forever, and when I asked him if there were threads the developer could pull at to find new content "without going to outer space," Zierhut responded by saying: "Correct, correct. Now, that said, the Dark Portal exists, Northrend exists, Pandaria exists, and we could make minor forays into those areas. We might have a dungeon or a quest that takes you there for a mission or two and come back."

So, rather than going to these places for these multi-year epic quests, like going to Northrend to stop Arthas, it seems like these would be little jaunts to a different part of the world, then quickly returning back to the vanilla continents.

Zierhut emphasized that any journeys to other parts of Azeroth would be brief, saying: "But the key detail there is Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are your home. You don't have capital cities, you don't have auction houses and innkeepers and things like that outside of Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor. We won't introduce new capital cities in this plan. Okay. You always come home."

Later on in the interview, Zierhut clarified that the versions of these continents wouldn't be the same as what we've visited in the expansions.

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