As he is being handed creative control over the entire Warcraft universe, do you believe there is anything this will change for Classic including Hardcore?
Hardcore, probably not for the time being. Classic and retail; absolutely. I have strong suspicions that we have a new type of Classic coming our way.
Either way, I’m excited he’s back!
That last classic+ “leak” that everyone assumed was fake because of how ridiculous it seemed actually did mention Metzen was put in charge, so that might mean classic+ isn’t just a fantasy.
The official announcement says he’s Creative Director for the entire Warcraft universe and it mentions adventures plural, so that could mean he’s pushing changes in both classic and retail or possibly also working on a new warcraft game.
Guess we’ll know in November.
Doubt it will have any effect on hardcore classic
He will have zero impact on Classic.
I doubt he’ll have much of any impact on retail.
Or it means the person who made up that nonsense about Classic+ has read the same press releases the rest of us have seen.
Classic+ is never, ever, happening.
Hopefully nothing to do with hardcore
Tentatively standing by but not excited about it.
Aw yeah, classic+ time!!
There was an interesting job opening that someone mentioned a few months ago where they stated that there is a new job title. Not sure if that part about the new title is true but probably. Note that the title specifically says Classic:
Senior Game Designer - WoW Classic job in Irvine, California, United States of America | Game Design jobs at Blizzard Entertainment
These two lines stand out:
- Communicate and collaborate with other teams to take revered, reimagined, or all-new gameplay experiences and systems to a whole new level for players.
- Document and plan the execution of designs that recreate, and improve upon, previous WoW experiences.
Anyway, I’m cautiously curious but we’ll see in the future what happens.
Like classic itself and hardcore were never ever happening?
Don’t think it will mean much of anything.
Never say never!
Those required $97 worth of programming by some guy they found on Upwork.
Classic+ is never, ever, neverever, happening.
I sure hope Era and HC stays the same … .or even more hopefully get some of the stupid changes rolled back … and bugs removed.
And the we can always hope for a new shiny. At least I will until proved wrong.
Nothing with Classics I am sure, their story is already done. Probably just Retail.
And why do you think that?
People said the same thing about Classic at some point and here we are.
It cost them $87 and two boxtops to program Classic.
Creating Classic+ will cost many tens of millions of dollars for a niche game.
Ain’t happening.
They charge for the expansion, sell it as an expansion to the original game. Easy return on their investments for art that is already created and re-used from decades ago.
Rofl.