The game is 15 years old. You can be damned sure that Activision is demanding an entirely new game for that real “triple A experience”.
A MMO takes years of development just to get to an Alpha phase. Consider that if WoW 2 is in the works, then that is still at minimum a 20 year run with 20 year old tech.
Seeing what players respond to both positively and negatively over these last few expansions is the best possible feedback for them to develop the core systems for an entirely new game.
Any hopes of a vanilla WoW experience with a new engine and graphics are pretty much laughable. It would be developed with the past 15+ years of player psychology in mind, especially when it comes to microtransactions and addictive triggers.
There is just no way they’re going to let this cash cow ride off into the sunset.
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Stop trying to make WoW 2 happen. Its never going to happen.
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The ONLY thing I can be sure of is that Activision wants to make money and that probably means WoW 2 will be a mobile game.
I’m not trying to make it happen…it’s a market inevitability.
These new devs and programmers coming in don’t want to be limited by tech that is older than they are.
We, as players, are making fun of the horrible models during the in-game cutscenes as well as other engine limitation.
Since WoW has been around, every other major Blizz franchise has seen at least one sequel. They could have simply added more expansions, engine updates, etc…yet they chose not to because that doesn’t get hype and sell the same way as an entirely new game does.
If you look at the MMO market as a whole, sequels are very common.
Stuff like the Garrosh scene is just Blizz being lazy though. The escaping from the Maw cutscene was an in game cutscene too and it looked really good comparably:
Blizz is never gonna do WoW 2 because it will lose them a lot of their playerbase who use crappy old computers that barely run WoW as it is, plus they already have a fairly loyal playerbase for WoW 1. Its a lose lose prospect with no reason to happen.
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The same could be said about other MMO’s which eventually got sequels. Yes, the playerbase was sometimes upset and split up due to it.
The problem with that assumption is that the new WoW would have to draw it’s playerbase from current WoW players.
The game would be a huge draw for people who have completely given up on WoW and moved on, as well as pulling in players who haven’t been WoW players in the past.
A new MMO has never meant abandoning the previous one, as far as I’m aware, except for the extreme example of FF14.
Everquest got a sequel, Guild Wars 2, Asheron’s Call, Runescape, A Perfect World…not sure how many others.
Guild Wars 2, for example, brought in a major amount of players who never played the first one.
They may not LITERALLY do a WoW 2. But they might do a different MMO with AAA style graphics and such.
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Yes this is entirely possible.
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If Blizzard was gonna to do a WoW 2 they would have already done so.
They’ve seen this in the alpha AND beta of BfA AND Shadowlands.
Yet, they pushed forward heedless of feedback.
WoW2 will fail because the people making the important decisions aren’t playing the game.
The people working on the game don’t play the game. They hate the toxic atmosphere from the community and from management.
They’re only here for a paycheck and passion is nonexistent.
If all these multiple borrowed powers and interlocking systems are just a preview of wow2, wow2 is going to fail hard.
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Tom Chilton got shuffled off to another project that is, allegedly, not like anything they’ve done so far. That’s obviously not a WoW 2, but could be something worthwhile.
Sounds like wishful thinking my guy.
“DoN’t yOu gUyS hAvE CeLl pHoNeS?”
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Honestly, yeah.
WoW is great but it hasn’t aged well in many respects. It’s a great big pile of new content and improvements - and each layer is more ugly and dated the further you go down.
Seems like 70%+ of the content won’t be covered in any individual playthrough because you’ll be too overleveled for it.
WoW def needs a clean break and a new game.
P.S Blizzard pls give us undead versions of all the races, ty
P.P.S I know this will give the undead a much wider variety of appearance options, but everyone else gets to be alive so it evens out.
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Blizzard can give the game a facelift and have basic graphics settings.
The greater chokepoint is telecom infrastructure, which is painfully out of date in the US and Canada for no reason. MMO devs could do some amazing things if everyone had access to cheap fiber internet.
WoW 2 will never happen. And if it did they’d have to copy everyones mounts, toys etc over or else there would be a mass exodus of players.
If True, they will do a Calamity and destroy the world/s and start everyone at level 1…. Introduce entirely new concepts, specs, races, and classes.
The NPCs will all talk about the calamity and how they can’t remember the past…. Wait I’m already playing that game… due to the calamity I can’t recall the game though.
Wait until subs drop so low that no one cares.
Wow runs on a nearly 20 year old engine. Something has to give at some point.
Can you imagine graduating with a BS or MS in computer programming or whatever, getting a job at a Triple A studio, being all excited etc… Telling your friends you’ll be working for a Triple A studio etc… only to show up on day one and they tell you, “this game engine is 20 years old. You learned about it in your Intro to programming course under the chapter ancient programming/ history; Good luck!”
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The problem is wows player base. The die hard try hards can’t let go of the past. This isn’t 2004, you don’t have 80 hours a week to raid, and no one cares about your hard mode mount from WOTLK.