They should have saved the Black Empire for this arc

[Ahuatzi-barthilas]

Honestly, I think they should have had an entire expansion dedicated to the black empire

The story could have been Xal’atath invading Nyalotha to pacify it and bring it back under the void lords heel, while N’Zoth opposes her

[Naovi-moon-guard]

BFA exhausted quite a few narrative points that should not have existed in that expansion, it was so all over the place.

Ny’alotha was a huge waste and relegating Naz’jatar with the (temporary) defeat of Azshara to a sub-par patch was criminal.

[Pellex-hyjal (Pellex)]

@Naovi-moon-guard

BFA exhausted quite a few narrative points that should not have existed in that expansion

I’ve always wondered whether the devs had to cannibalize another planned expansion’s story in order to recover from the disaster of early BfA.

Remember the publicity from the Blizzcon before BfA released, where they showed maps of all-red Kalimdor and all-blue EK? And how they promised Silvermoon and Exodar would be important in the coming war as the “last bastions” of their respective factions on a newly hostile continent? And how there were multiple datamined warfronts that never showed up in the game? It seems pretty clear to me that a lot of plans were hastily changed.

If this is right, it’s one more reason to be annoyed at BfA—it may have robbed us of a good Black Empire/Argus-themed expansion by squishing them into a raid and a patch respectively.

[Sigmar-frostmourne (Sigmar)]

What warfronts were these? Definitely wanted a dwarf vs Tauren one for the transmogs

[Gornur-nerzhul (Gornur)]

@Sigmar-frostmourne

What warfronts were these?

• There were plans for a Southern Barren Warfront.
• Script commands in live displayed the Alliance laying siege to Silvermoon.
• Script commands in live displayed a naval invasion to Bilgewater Harbor in Azshara.

[Sigmar-frostmourne (Sigmar)]

Those would have been good

Also I’m pretty sure the horde would have canonically won the unimplemented ones

[Pellex-hyjal (Pellex)]

See these threads for more discussion of how BfA didn’t match up with its initial publicity:

"I Feel Lied To," Post-BfA Version

Back on the old board, there used to be a thread titled “I feel lied to.” Some of us were using it to collect statements from the devs that implied certain things about the way BfA was going to go–not just plot, but in tone and theme as well–and that had not (so far) panned out. Now that BfA is officially over and all the “wait and see” stuff has been seen, I’d like to recreate that thread so that we can take a look back and see if any of that stuff makes more sense now. And if not … what hap…

[Speculation] Battle for Azeroth: The pre-rewritten story

(Introduction) As mentioned in the “What went wrong”-thread from Reallyhappy I’m opening up a separate thread talking about my personal speculations. The general premise of this thread is the idea that “Battle for Azeroth” was indeed rewritten at some point in its development cycle. I’m thinking about the timeframe around Blizzcon 2017, where the cinematic was shown to the public alongside the feature-trailer. Before we dive in deeper and I try to gather some evidence supporting the idea, I wa…

[Pigzig-nagrand]

black empire seems like a time travel expansion to me
probably makes more sense than draenor. we dont know much about the time so the game designers have a lot of freedom.

[Shredow-wyrmrest-accord]

Nahh, if they had, people would’ve whined about N’zoth suddenly being a servant of higher powers. Better to let him have his moment before bringing Xal’atath and the Void later.