Two New Races, Expansion for WOW?
Are two new races coming to Blizzard's World of Warcraft? WoW Insider says yes, and may appear in a possible expansion called World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. According to unspecified sources, the new races will be Worgen (Alliance) and Goblin (Horde). Apparently, the conclusion that Cataclysm will include two new races stems from four new textures of Halloween masks found in the last PTR build: Helm_Mask_Halloween_GoF, Helm_Mask_Halloween_GoM, Helm_Mask_Halloween_WoF, and Helm_Mask_Halloween_WoM. Despite this, goblins in WoW have been a neutral race since the game's release.
In addition, the new expansion may very well change the face of Azeroth itself, updating the four-year-old MMORPG to better compete with Star Wars: The Old Republic launching next year. Rawcast theorizes that a massive water-based event will obliterate a good portion of Azeroth including the Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms (hence the use of Cataclysm). Granted the scenario is just a theory, the site lists several reasons for its conclusion, citing support for water-based adventures and low-level areas becoming irrelevant with each new patch and expansion.
If a new expansion and two new races will indeed be released for World of Warcraft, Blizzard will more than likely announce their existence during BlizzCon 2009 later this month.

Not to get into an argument here, but Blizzard is better than any other company about updates, they just released an update to WarCraft III and that game is over 7 years old. Diablo II got one last year as well and Diablo 3 is in development. I don't play WoW, but think as far as a company goes Blizzard really does care about it's customers and it's long term support for it's games even if you don't agree.
Sadly we just get more boring WoW news.
I especially like the dedication we are seeing to work on the D2 patch 1.13. It got delayed months ago, and they still haven't started work again yet. Oh and that last patch we got, 1.12...it lets you run the game without the CD in your CD drive or mounted in an emulator. Big deal. There were absolutely no game improvements.
Name me one other Developer that is even patching a game that is 8 years old. I am talking about a stand alone PC game not an MMO. I venture to guess there isn't one. I imagine with the announcement of D3, D2 lost some of it's resources and I would rather see D3 sooner than D2 get an update.
And they have delayed SC2 and Diablo 3 how many times now?!
To be honest, I would rather see new classes than new races. That would bring back at least a couple hundred subscribers for around a month or so before people get bored with level grinding again.
I used to play WoW 4-5 hrs a night for almost 5 years...found out that leveling 4 80's got boring after the 3rd one. and every one of them are in at least t7. -_- I hate addictions. Good thing Ima be trying Aion when it comes out in the US haha.
If the next expansion is indeed named Cataclsym, it will probably feature the underwater world of the Naga, the Maelstrom, created by the explosion of the Well of Eternity. That'd be sweet, except that I hate to fight in the water!
I dont know how they will be going from killing Arthas in Wrath of the Lich King to a completely different expansion. Since fighting the Lich King was the last part of the WC series (I think).
An update that completely disabled use of any map that wasn't developed by Blizzard.
They did it because they care.....