The problem is that they don’t show us this in game, look what he said: “digital books”, cmon, show us the passage of time and repercutions in game, give npcs dialogue boxes talking about the world, you don’t even need to make quests or voice acting, just put text in the game, holy molly.
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Incredible respect for Moira’s kid spending maybe 12 years as an infant now, absolute dedication to infancy
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I mean, we have that don’t we? Greymane discussing the fact Anduin’s still off being Sylvanas’ new Human Male Boy Toy and Turaylon’s getting “ideas”, and then the Blood Elves and Nightfallen coming together in Holy Matrimony.
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Also.
If the rumors about Malfurion are true, this could be a thing.
https://makanidotdot.tumblr.com/ is the artist…
And I am cackling maniacally.
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Anyway 5 year timeskip + Return to Lordaeron questline making the resettlement of Lordaeron and Gilneas clear canon gives me some hope that they plan to do something with the old world focusing on those areas
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Reasonably confident that kid is an SCP at this point.
Best part about this is it’s 100% in character. Man, talk about personal growth. I went to seeing Illidan as some edgelord badass back in the day to realizing what a sad, shallow sack of a Satyr he is.
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I mean, he’s a good character but the poster child for social expectations and pandering turning even a good person into a horrifying monster.
Ironically, being trapped in the Twisting Nether for thousands of years as a spirit, rather than being stuck in a cage you wouldn’t leave a feral dog in, helped fix a lot of what was wrong with the boy. Admittedly, he spent most of that fighting and fleeing from the Legion agents trying to capture his now-bodiless spirit, but y’know, therapy takes many forms.
I loved at the end how he was all “I have done so much wrong, but I’m going to talk you two up and encourage you to not make my mistakes, and have good lives together.” and both Malfurion and Tyrande … have not changed. In the slightest. The culmination of 10,000 years of personal drama and grudges and their responses are 6-year-old-holding-their-breath-until-you-agree-with-them level of WUT. I loved it so much.
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Personally i loved it. Illidan had to make it about him, and both Malfurion and Tyrande wanted no part of any of it.
Cut those toxic people out and throw 'em into a sun.
And now Sargeras is spending all eternity with his angry ex-boyfriend. Tyrande dodged a bullet there.
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There is Only War
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As for changes to the world that have been discussed or foreshadowed, such as the resettlement of Gilneas, those will not be happening during the fast-forward. As cool as it is to show locations and populations evolving because of story progression, we want events of this importance to be in-game questing that our players experience for themselves (as with the reclaiming of the Ruins of Lordaeron in the 9.2.5 update) rather than having it happen off-camera.
I can’t tell if that means “this is an important development that will be in-game as a questline at some point in DF” or “this is too important to take place in a timeskip so we’re just gonna leave it ambiguous for another decade or so”
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Retconning your crappy death lore is literally the only thing I care about. None of the rest matters to me in terms of “motivation to come back” whatsover.
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Who wants to RP as having let me crash on their couch for the past five years?
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I am going to wrap up current storylines and my characters will enjoy the peace and quiet.
Going to fully embrace it the time skip. I may set up some minor accomplishments that I don’t mind having happen outside of Rp. Anything major development will just not really happen.
Yay! We had it right! Year 35 seems to be on the money!
I wish they would release their timeline already but it would be easier if they just did WoW=RL timeline. Just saying.
now that they’ve confirmed they’re not going to rebuild gilneas or lordareon or anything i don’t care
the only things i could have cared about with the time skip were changes to the world and that’s not happening
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Ah, nothing like a good five year stretch of peace to enjoy stability and reflect.
Pointedly ignoring the smoldering tree and gassed-out Lordaeron.
Yessiree, nothing to do now but relax.
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I really love how this basically means the Night Elves and Worgen have been homeless for… seven years now?
If I wasn’t so over it I’d be foaming at the mouth, but instead I like to imagine there’s a cardboard city around the Anduin and Varian statues.
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That’s right. Peace and reflection means no rebuilding.
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enekie I think you meant this as a joke but I’d let you do this genuinely
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It’s not a “proposed” timeskip. It’s the lore of the game at this point.