Blizzard Says Legion Is The "Best Expansion Yet"

The developer doesn't want to focus on the decline of subscribers.

Earlier this week Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft lost 100,000 subscribers in the past three months, and that it will no longer be revealing subscriber numbers. Instead Blizzard will focus on making the game as good as it can be.

Game designer Brian Holinka spoke with GameSpot during BlizzCon 2015 about the subscriber decline and the game's upcoming Legion expansion.

"We don't spend a lot of time concerning ourselves with it," he said about World of Warcraft subscriber slides. "We focus mostly on just trying to make the game as good as it can be."

According to Holinka Blizzard didn't want to rush it with Legion, an expansion he said represents World of Warcraft's best offering to date.

"It's just us re-evaluating how certain features are coming along and [asking ourselves], 'Are we happy with this?' Because ultimately, when we come out with an expansion, that's the time for everybody to come back to the game and get really excited," he said. "So we want to take all the time we really need make something that is up to the standards that everybody expects. We just felt like we needed this time to continue to make things better. And really, ultimately, Legion is shaping up to be I think probably the best expansion we've ever made."

Holinka also thinks that the Warcraft movie might draw new players into World of Warcraft.

"It's more of a broadening of the exposure of the universe to everyone," he said about the movie. "For us, our focus is just the game. Whether the movie's there or not, the expansion--and the quality of the gameplay experience and content--is really what going to help people stick around and play the game. I think it will get a lot of people excited; it'll probably turn a lot of people to [Legion] and that'll be a good thing."

Legion will be World of Warcraft's sixth expansion.