Say what you will about BFA as an expansion, but thematically and aesthetically it’s the last time the game legitimately felt like World of Warcraft. Would you want Blizzard to add Boralus (and I guess Zuldazar) to Season of Discovery? The zones can be reimagined, they don’t have to be exactly like they were in BFA. I think it would be a cool way to expand the classic world and introduce some endgame content to it. You can do the same with Northrend too, but keep it as Classic without any official expansions being added. Do you support this or not?
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Why add in a couple of zones from an iteration of the game from Classic WotLK that is floundering?
Id rather they add zones or other elements originally intended for Vanilla into SoD, such as the Azshara battleground.
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Absolutely not.
There are so many other places we could go and not violate continuity. Anywhere destroyed by Deathwing for instance, like the original troll islands from the Warcraft 3 demo for instance. Or we could explore the Oracle Caverns or Barrow Den in Kalimdor. Or explore the OG Dalaran Sewers. Or explore the pre-Cata Hyjal. Or…
I could keep going.
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Man that would be awesome if they dropped the shield and they had something there waiting for us.
Some suggestions are like when you go on vacation to some nice exotic place and the first thing someone wants to eat there is Taco Bell.
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There’s so much fiction seeded into Classic via Warcraft 3 and the early books that it is wild to me to ever imagine wanting “demakes” of Retail content.
Like that’s not even scratching Caverns of Time. There are so many events that are too far removed from Retail to get a Retail Caverns of Time instance but could fit in Classic. The theft of the original Dragon Soul. The second theft of the Dragon Soul in Day of the Dragon. Arthas’s first trip to Northrend. Arthas’s second trip to Northrend and his battle against the Illidari or his journey through the depths of Azjol Nerub. The whole Hakkar the Houndmaster thing. Etc etc
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I love completely subjective statements presented as fact.
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So shadowlands and dragonflight felt like wow to you? Because it sure as hell doesn’t to me
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So?
BFA feels just as Retail as other Retail expansion. It’s equally not Classic even if Kul’tiras existed for a long time. Disney-Pixar versions of Kultirans do not evoke the Warcraft 2 vibe that they tried to go for.
The last Classic style expansion was Wrath. Cata through WoD represent the middle era, and Legion onward is modern.
Yea I find what retail WoW is certainly has a lot of, how can I put it, soft aspects about it. Everything is a redemption arc. Everyone is forgiven. No one is truly eliminated. It’s just boring.
I originally started in '05 enjoying the strife and struggle between Horde and Alliance and how vicious the RTS were before it.
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Even in the “war” expansion it was about the Horde and Alliance leaders cementing their friendship.
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That’s what I am liking so far being back in this faction rivalry ladened Season of Discovery. Era had it too of course, but waiting to see what they might do like with Ashenvale (albeit not perfect) is the factor I look forward to the most.
So far so good, not perfect, but I am digging some of the nuance so far.
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Dragonflight? Yes. Shadowlands? No. Glinda’s point is, that there is no fact to what you are saying because what you are looking for is an emotional answer.
A smarter multi-billion dollar indie company would look at what the OSRS team did with offering an alternative development route of their game’s lore and gameplay, and see that there’s a pretty large audience for that sort of thing (to put it lightly).
Unfortunately, Blizzard is not this sort of indie company—as evidenced by the fact they didn’t think it might be a good idea to run SoD in a way that allowed them to make baseline changes without affecting the Era players as well.
Maybe if we all buy some more WoW tokens and store merch, things will improve!