I think Blizzard should make a whole new expansion for classic WoW after it has been out for a bit. This idea of an expansion would NOT be The Burning Crusade but some other different timeline of the future. This mythical expansion should keep classic WoW classic. What I mean is, character classes, specs, etc should still be unique, no flying mounts, no free epics, no LFR/LFG etc. People loved the hard work in classic WoW and the community and difficulty around that work. It was the experience of a lifetime. We now have a chance to go back and start there again and if enough people wanted it, have a whole new expansion for classic that never existed and that has the advantage of hindsight.
Blizz, make it happen! A whole new WoW classic expansion announced in the next year!
Every time this has been brought up, its been extremely divisive but… I do believe it’s something that’d be amazing if Blizz decided to go through with one day. An alternate timeline that keeps with the old gameplay style of Classic WoW could be something incredible.
Naturally, also keeping 60 Naxx locked servers would be important… but ones that move forward into a new timeline would be… phewww, wow. Imaging WoW without the blundrous writing of the past, Kael’thas becoming a hero, a whole new twist on Arthas and the like, the potential is immense.
What’d be the most important is if they kept the focus on the world, and not the players becoming the god-like unstoppable heroes on live.
I’d love for them to do this!
Retail has morphed into a different game, with different core mechanics and I miss a lot of the RPG elements of Vanilla, in my opinion
I think we can get best of both worlds by having a default classic wow server and than also have classic wow seasons for those fresh heads. And any future expansions will be separated from the default classic and classic season servers. We see this model as successful in other games.
WoW expansions have multi-year development cycles and require hundreds of developers. They only make sense with a very large playerbase.
The playerbase of Classic players at max level is likely to be tiny compared to Retail. Probably less than 5% of Retail’s playerbase.
Blizzard has said many times they do NOT want to develop two MMOs simultaneously. What you are proposing is just that.
Retail moves the game forward. The developers have a chance to get creative and push the envelope, trying new things with gameplay and graphics. Sometimes they hit a home run (Legion). Sometimes they fumble (BFA). But the game is always moving forward.
Classic is about showing where the game has been, not about moving forward. I doubt the developers would be interested in spending an enormous amount of resources designing content for 15-year-old tech. And any such development would be counter to Classic’s goal of serving as a museum of WoW’s roots.
but with bringing in new content what about class balance? should it stay the same, should we make other tanks viable? aka give all tanks a taunt? or is that all going to far?
We go back through the Dark portal and find some stupid brown Orc we never met before, from another timeline, has brought all kinds of crazy schematics to the horde and they’re refusing the Demon Blood.
I wouldn’t play it. Could be some interest in horizontal progression without increasing the level cap, but any time the level cap is increased, previous end-game content becomes a ghost town of irrelevancy.
I agree that it’s a museum piece and that it should be. It’s one of the biggest reasons I argue against a lot of changes, however a new expansion wouldn’t have an impact on this.
If classic is about showing where the game has been, then I hope the devs are looking because next to making a museum piece the most important aspect of classic is looking back to what success was.
For me retail is in a garbage heap and it has been since cata. That’s the way it is for many and has been. Just because YOU feel like retail is good now does not mean that everyone does and since blizz doesn’t report sub numbers you can’t prove it’s in a better state now, or during legion, than it was prior to cata.
That would be cool, but it wouldn’t happen. Developing games is very expensive and creating TWO games simultaneously is absurd. It would also be very confusing having to follow two storylines… the closest thing to happen is Blizzard starts to revert gameplay in retail back to how it was in vanilla.
They could maintain classic servers and create expansion servers.
If they do it cyclically like most private servers historically have, then when it’s time to release a new content cycle server, you could flag one PvP and one PvE (and one RP if the community is large enough) as being “Expansion”. They’ll start in Vanilla, but after Naxx TBC would launch.
Then you could still play Classic if you wanted to.
Actually, we meet:
During his Journey. Turns out he was in the wrong loop that time. We remain just as baffled as he is.
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