It's been over three years since Blizzard first launched their massively successful fantasy MMO World of Warcraft. One of the reasons for its popularity is the fact that the game has relatively light system requirements. Of course this comes at the expense of leaving out some advanced in-game graphics and effects. But a new chat with a Blizzard team member at Eurogamer indicates that the game could someday get a graphical overall.

In fact when the upcoming expansion pack Wrath of the Lich King is released it will add some optional high-end graphical effects to the game. But according to Blizzard producer J. Allen Brack a complete graphical overhaul of the game was considered as well for this expansion and could be considered for a future expansion pack. However, Brack points out that some players might still play the original World of Warcraft client for a variety of reasons and as he states, " . . .the idea that we would spend so much time and energy on something and have people go, 'meh, that's not really for me,' that's not very exciting." So don't hold your breath for any DirectX10.1 upgrade anytime soon.