It's official, at least if you believe CEO types. Blizzard's Mike Morhaime has stated that their new MMO isn't going to be a sequel to Warcraft.
Looks like the Blizz team don't want to accidentally release a WoW-killer themselves; they're making a "different massively multiplayer experience".
"I can answer that. It's not going to be a World of Warcraft sequel," said Morhaime, in a chat with Wired.
"So let's just say it's going to be different and it's not going to be a sequel to World of Warcraft. It will be different. We're not trying to replace World of Warcraft with this new MMO. We're trying to create a different massively multiplayer experience, and hopefully World of Warcraft will still be going strong when that one is released."
On your marks, set, speculate!
Source: BigDownload