Yeah, I think they’re just hesitant or put it as lower priority after Deepwind and Seething were poorly received. It would’ve been cool to have a battleground made in Revendreth or Ardenweald.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Maybe too similar to Seething Shore, and it could be like stationary mine carts or whatever, but I just thought it’d be neat to see those zones.
Towers of doom was probably the craziest map I’ve ever played. So many insane comebacks.
I swear they need to open up a map developer tool to the public and allow the community to make arena and bg maps (like SC2).
Blizzard would still have the final say of course, but having a huge rotation of new maps every season would be a change of pace if nothing else and importantly it wouldn’t cost blizzard any development time.
SC2 is the best parallel that I know. They took community-made maps, which are usually much better since the community tends to have a passion for it, and made them part of the official ladder rotations.
Obviously lines would have to be drawn and restrictions placed, but overall I think it would make pvp more fresh at the very least.
Fun fact, since May 21, 2013 we have had one battleground added and that was Seething Shore. So in 5 expansions now and 10 years there has only been ONE new BG added. And it was one that is still buggy to this day. From Vanilla to WoD (5 expacs) there was 11 battlegrounds added which is basically 2 per expansion. Strand of the Ancients was REMOVED in 8.0.1 so we have broke even really.
Ya. I agree. Even its the same game modes. Be cool to see some new BGs maps. ‘Capture the flag’ in a castle, with lotsa LoS. Be cool to see them reuse old maps even, like ‘King of the Hill’ on a stormwind map. They already have to graphical/physical maps created, why not use them for PvP scenarios?
I’d enjoy seeing some cool new features too though, like lifts, random wandering NPCs that one shot ppl, etc.
EDIT: they are partnered with CoD that does this…not sure why they haven’t learned. CoD uses the same basic game modes, just changes the maps, and ppl eat it up like its brand new content
Warfronts should’ve been PvP, like a moba style thing, but they went and made them the worst form of content (LFR), which obviously was abhorred and quickly abandoned.