I can’t WAIT to play this…
Imagine doing raids in these graphics! Ohhh Boy!
Blizzard used to be the ‘gold standard’ in games. This will bring them back =P
NEW WoW in Unreal Engine 5
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No it wont.
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Did you see the link? That looks bad A…
Bro we all saw this like 5 years ago
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Awww man. They never followed through?
I just caught wind of that.
It’s some guy’s hobby project. It’s extremely unlikely Blizzard Activision would ever willingly shell out licensing money for a competitor’s engine.
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What engine drives that dude’s eyebrows? Jesus…
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That’s too bad. Blizzard will be left behind. =/
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i cant even have my satisfying smooth 165 fps in valdrakken as is, i doubt theyd manage to make that smooth 
That’s too bad. Blizzard brings in a lot of $$$…or they used to, don’t know about nowadays. Shrugs
They would do well to upgrade.
that engine is trash people need to stop begging for this game to look like every other boring unreal game
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If that’s ever released,…I’m 1st in line.
That will be easy since there wont be a line. 
Part of WoW’s success is the stylisation and the fact that it runs on many older systems. Turning the graphics up like that will alienate people who like the art style and many who simply cant run this.
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Unreal Engines are wierd… sure they can make game worlds look amazing, though everything after UE3 have some terrible clipping bugs and often make the world or characters look dated fast and muddy.
UE3 was probably the peak of the engine’s design, it still has and still offers amazing effects, and solid looks while making the largest variety of art styles still look good without some bizarre wet shine or muddy element to it while having the least bugs to it.
Iirc, UE3 has more (successful) games built with it versus UE4 and 5 combined.
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WoW simply cant look like that and actually be a good game.
They would have to charge a $500 per month subscription and only people who can drop money for an 8k computer could play it. The game itself costing 2k as well as each expansion.
See - Star Citizen
Game is creeping up on a billion dollars of crowdfunding and to this day they dont have a single fully fleshed gameplay loop and cant even fit more that like 50 people on a server with a single star system.
But it sure is pretty.
Several games have tried to be ambitious graphical mmorpgs and they flopped because the majority of people simply cant afford the hardware to run it stable while still looking decent. Most people would have to play at minimum graphic settings so it would actually look WORSE than current WoW.
Also. Content suffers GREATLY, because it takes much more time to create such detailed realistic fidelity, and to fix all the bugs from all the added complexity, so it’s actually a playable game, than to just bust out some mid cartoony graphics that have a much smaller footprint as far as testing goes.
And the result is that the mmo has to shut down because all that fidelity also requires much more hardware/server power, which is way more expensive than keeping it simple and effective, available to almost everyone.
Just google how much money Honda made last year and then compare it to Lamborghini or Ferarri.
It’s exponentially more profitable to sell something cheap enough to where everyone can afford it, than it is to sell something super expensive that few can afford, by a such a large margin, one who manages a successful business for profit wonders why luxury products even exist.
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Blizzard REALLY needs to hire this guy. If a game like that comes out…I’m all over it. =P PROJECT GRUNT: ORGRIMMAR REMAKE MAP TEST IN UE5
Lmao this would kill subs really fast. Most of wow players play on toasters…
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It was never something they did, it was a third party that rendered it.
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I really don’t get the hard-on for a UE5 WoW.
Yeah sure UE5 makes some games look good, and is a decent enough engine for 1-10 player games, but do you know how absolute trash it would be in a live game with 60+ people on the screen?
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You think Valdrakken lags now, just wait 
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