Release date, new classes, races and setting discussed.

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VideoGamer.com: We saw the implementation of a new class with Wrath of the Lich King. Given what you've said that would make it unlikely that we'll see a new class in the next expansion?

Chilton: “I would say that it makes it less likely. Not impossible – there may be a time that we do two classes back to back and maybe we'll do that. Maybe we won't. We'll just have to wait and see.”

On the possibility of making playable races that currently exist in Azeroth:

“There are a lot of them we already know about that are creatures that are out there. I don't want to give away too many of the things that we have going on in our minds for different possibilities. But there are certainly possibilities that don't necessarily limit us to coming with completely new things that players will never have seen before. In fact one of the things that we learned from doing the draenei is that it's important to seed the race in the world. It was harder for players to get the draenei thing because they kind of came out of nowhere. They'd been referred to in previous Warcraft games, but nobody had really ever seen or dealt with them. So it was a little harder to do, whereas with Blood Elves it was a lot easier.

“What we learned from that is we do, wherever possible, want to seed that potential, even if it's in a small way. An example I could throw out there would be, in Blackwing Lair we had the drakonid race. We always looked at those and said, oh that would be a pretty cool player race, it would be cool to play as one of those guys. There's not a lot there as far as, where did they come from and what are they? But they are in the world and it wouldn't be completely inconceivable that a player would end up being able to play that, and we could continue to expand on the depth of that race.”

VideoGamer.com: So it would be fair to say that there won't be any more aliens arriving in a spaceship?

Chilton: “Yeah! It certainly could happen, but wherever possible we're going to try to make sure we introduce and pre-seed the races before we actually use them as player races.”

Be sure to check out our interview with Tom Chilton, where he explains the changes Call of the Crusade will bring.

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