Full GameSpot Interview
When asked about if the 20th anniversary would be an opportune time to revamp Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms, Ion mentions that a revamp is something “likely to happen” in the future, but with no timeline for it set in stone. However, the team learned many lessons from Cataclysm and would have ways to allow players to return to old versions of zones if that would ever happen.
Ion Hazzikostas
We are definitely open to it at some point. It is a shortcoming, if you take a step back and think about World of Warcraft as an ongoing living world, if we’ve kind of painted ourselves into a corner where we have all these iconic locations but we can’t really use them because they’ve already been used.