Nah, they'll just auto port you to your hearth home at the time of the expansion if you are still in that area. I've already had similar things occur.
Also, According to my source, they are already trying to get Icecrown finished. Onyxia's layer, as well as and mainly the new Argent Coliseum, are just a hold off so they can fine tune the instance, much like how Naxx was a hold off for Ulduar. And if it is coming out when I think it is, then there is going to be a rather large gap of no new content, so I'm guessing the new expansion is going to come out sometime early next year. It looks to me like they are getting desperate for keeping players in the game, as a lot of the old long time players are all leaving, and that drop is larger than the gain. Sure, there's lots of new comers every day, but only so many of those turn into long term players, which is where their money is coming from. And yeah, the overall WoW fad is slowly coming to an end, so if they don't milk it as soon as possible, it's going to die before they get it to level 100, which is why they are making new expansions in the 5 level increment, rather than 10. It also explains why they are giving the long term people what they always wanted (redone Azeroth, Heroic Deadmines/SFK, better old quest rewards). They are that desperate, so much that they did the ugly job of redoing Azeroth. Imagine how much a pain it would be to have to go through every glitchy area and make it safe for a person to fly over it and not realize how cheap they were when the first game came out (I've seen these areas myself and it's pretty bad at how cheap they were).
So yeah, I can see how other's think the game is boring, but to me, the new expansion looks like I want to keep playing the game, because it's finally going the way I would prefer, and won't be the same as it is now, where if you want to raid, you have to give up your life, because only hardcore players will raid and not suck enough to make the group worthless (even 10 mans), and the only way to get into a hardcore raiding guild is to follow a raid schedule as well as not suck balls, and it is only fun for so long until you just can't take it anymore and have to stop raiding. I'm still in my hardcore raiding guild, but I told them to bump me down to just a regular member, because I no longer wish to raid on a hardcore schedule.
Also, they are making a new pug system, which will be multiple server wide, making it easy to pug raids and dungeons. This is a big step forward, and gives people who don't wish to go hardcore a break. While pugs are very dicey on raids, the more people you throw in, the lower the chances are that those people will suck. Basically, all you have to do is know the leader personally, or be the leader, and know that the leader is a good one and doesn't tolerate total idiots, and will boot and replace them.
