As long as the whole thing doesn’t turn into Destiny 2… I’ll deal with it lol
and if it does, it will be because that is what Blizzard’s WoW team wants, not because Microsoft dictated to them that they must have them.
Microsoft Xbox under Phil Spencer does not do that. They do not meddle with their game developers. It’s part of why their games take so damn long to release. Because MS Xbox doesn’t reign their developers in, they leave them to their own devices to release when they are ready, and to do whatever payment model the Developer deems necessary.
All those things about ESO listed in the OP of this thread…all of that existed before Microsoft acquired them. It was 100% Bethesda decisions there.
Well you can wish good or bad for what comes of the merger but whatever Microsoft does is out of our control it’s gonna happen either way.
I more interested in seeing what they change not overly positive or negative just very curious.
ESO’s free play mode is dramatically more forgiving than WoW’s. You can continue to play any expansion level you have purchased indefinitely, at max level, with your maxed out gear. Every expansion is preserved and continues to be playable indefinitely. You can buy and access new expansions without a subscription.
WoW immediately invalidates all a past expansion as soon as a new one comes. All features are nerfed, all gear turned to vendor trash. If you want to play without a sub you are capped to level 20, limited to obsoleted content, extreme trading and chat restrictions placed upon you. By your metric, WoW is extremely P2W. Oh boo hoo, if you don’t pay your sub on ESO you can’t deposit in your craft bank. In WoW you’re treated like a cockroach if you don’t pay your sub.
Sure, it could. It could also have a lot more gnomes, that doesn’t mean MS is interested in pushing it.
Actually, I think that should be the next outrage thread: Microsoft is going to turn everyone into gnomes!!!
People really need to throw their late 1990s/early 2000s opinions on Microsoft out the window on this.
Under Phil Spencer, Microsoft’s Gaming division operates much differently than ya’ll are assuming.
Who really cares who initiates it? Also, I never stated it was because of the MS stuff anyway.
I just know it has to happen when a game is dying.
The people in this thread who are assuming that such things would be forced by Microsoft, clearly.
If there is anything that Microsoft would dictate regarding WoW, it’d probably be that if (very big IF) a Console port were done, it’d have to be cross-platform with PC, rather than separate. Because Xbox’s whole thing is crossplay these days.