It’s worth noting that if you’re away from reality for X amount of time, and when you return, Y amount of time has passed and all the story that’s occurred in your absence is then dumped on you- it is a time skip.
I think what Ion is pushing back against is the idea a MASSIVE time skip. Because people are already taking that idea and running with it to come up with all kinds of scenarios where major chunks of the main cast get moved around, factions move around and the world gets a major revamp.
I’m pretty sure that there will be some passage of time that’ll occur while our characters are away and we’ll be retroactively filled in on the details. Just enough time so that the events they need to set up the central conflict of 10.0 to be established. It could be only five hours. Or five days. Or five months. Or more.
But it’s obviously a number that’s yet to be pinned down this early in the process. Not to mention the fact that WoW has always been sort of intentionally vague and noncommittal with its timeline whenever it can get away with it.
And whatever the number is, they obviously don’t intend on putting enough weight on it to satisfy the hardcore lorehounds who’d try to use it to draw larger conclusions about the rest of the world.
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maybe people wanted some distance from the fiasco that was bfa and the time skip was… just a hope some people had, that the world changed for the better while we were gone.
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And I was so looking forward to singing the chorus!
It’s just a raid to the left
And then PVP to the right
With your hands on your keys
You bring your best in slot
But it’s the never ending grind
That really drives you insane
Let’s do the Time Skip again
Let’s do the Time Skip again
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Yeah no. By the time of Classic the last 30+ years in Azeroth have basically been 2020 on Repeat. It’s been a NON STOP clownfiesta.
Orc invasion in warcraft 1 was 5 years from Dark Portal to the sacking of Stormwind. Second war was mercifully about a year. The period between the end of the Second War and the start of the Scourge and Legion Invasion was the only peaceful timeframe and lasted in the neighborhood of 10 years. Plus, it was only relatively peaceful. The events of Day of the Dragon, Lord of the Clans + Blood and Honor in Lordaeron, the Stonemasons’ revolt in Stormwind, etc.
It’s been on 100% SEND IT mode from then on.
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Any kind of real shock isn’t on Ion. I mean, people just read waaaay too much into speculative things in informal Blizzard communications. If it’s not in a BlizzCon announcement or in the release version of the game, then… Let’s take it with a grain of salt.
I mean, this is the same mindset that has folks swearing that Teldrassil’s half-regrown because some PR manager posted a flippant tweet punctuated with a winky face.
Seriously, guys. We spend half the time complaining that WoW’s lore team acts like they have an annual retcon quota on their performance commitments. What’s the take? “Consistency means nothing! Blizzard changes lore all the time! Except the stuff that hasn’t happened yet! That’s set in stone!”
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On one hand, bummer, I guess?
On the other, he could just be pulling our leg. It isn’t the first time someone of authority in WoW lied about the situation.