In an interview with GameDaily.com from last August, Blizzard’s VP of game design Rob Pardo hints that Warcraft 4 might be on the cards after Starcraft II finally ships.
With the WWI approaching, which features a playable version of SCII, does this mean that we may see Warcraft IV in production sometime soon?
The way that we develop things, each time a development team becomes available, because they’re done with creating the games that they’ve been doing, they have a lot of say over what their next game is. So what it would take is for one of our teams to decide that they want to make Warcraft RTS and of course, there’ll be some talk about doing that and I’m sure after StarCraft 2 ships, it will be one the ideas on the table for that team to do, but that’s pretty far off in the future and it would really be determined by a combination of the dev team and the company leadership.
Think thats looking too much into what he said. He just said that if they wanted to make a Warcraft 4 then the team that becomes available would want to make it.