Next Expansion " Mists of Pandoria"

[thefunk]

Why is 100 the limit ? Did Chuck Norris say so?

I'd like to see a third playable faction (alliance, horde, gnome) and scaled zones so the game isn't such a graveyard.

Realistically, LESS LINEAR QUESTS AND HARDER QUESTS. not that I have time to play anymore mind. In fact, for anyone with more than 1 kid, how do you manage to play at all?

[Alemi]

Why is 100 the limit ? Did Chuck Norris say so?

It's been mentioned many a time since vanilla. Here's a statement by the lead producer for WoW, but if you want to call him Chuck Norris - that's cool too.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/73567

IIRC, it has to do with how the background databases are set up. Adding fields and tables to existing tables is much more a feat when you're talking about thousands of tables talking to each other and containing information for so many characters.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

It's been mentioned many a time since vanilla. Here's a statement by the lead producer for WoW, but if you want to call him Chuck Norris - that's cool too.
http://www.tentonhammer.com/node/73567

IIRC, it has to do with how the background databases are set up. Adding fields and tables to existing tables is much more a feat when you're talking about thousands of tables talking to each other and containing information for so many characters.

Apologies if this seems like picking nits and I might be stupid today but I don't see anything in your linked article about 100 being confirmed as a cap. Maybe there's some other context but nothing from that Blizzard guy confirmed it and it seemed like he specifically avoided confirming an end-game level cap of 100.

Did I miss something?

[Tonuss]

Yeah, I'm not seeing where he says that there is some sort of hard-coded level limit of 100.

I'm not sure that you could actually create a hard limit of 100. You're either limited by the spaces in a field (in which case the limit would be 99 or 999, not 100) or some form of binary or other calculation (in which case I could understand a level limit of 128, but not 100).

Actually, now that I think of it, a database could put 100 values into a two-space field, since computers can start counting from zero (0-to-99 is 100 values, the game could display the value +1). It just seems incredibly short-sighted to have limited a field to two spaces instead of three in a level-based game where you planned to get to 100.