Game was showing its age over a decade ago.
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Why would they, though?
Also whatâs your idea of âwow2â? and donât say âanother engineâ.
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Theyâre having too much fun with classic. As one machinima indicated, theyâve released vanilla 3 times now and tbcc once so far. Wrath classic is next. I honestly believe their dev team is more into maintenance mode than creative mode and the company is being driven by marketing (re-packaging old product as new or improved or nostalgic) rather than development (of new product).
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probably never
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Cataclysm and MoP was WoW2, totally revamped the world and gameplay. WoD and Legion was WoW3, redid the graphical side of things and revamped the games systems.
Now weâre in some WoW76 spinoff limbo.
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Never is the answer.
The Warcraft story is over.
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Depends on your definition of âWoW 2â. To some, itâs overhauling the game. To others, itâs making a second version of the game from the ground up.
The first method could break the game with all the spaghetti code from dev quotes Iâve read. The second concerns players on whether theyâll retain preexisting player data.
Either way, thereâs no certainty on whether the investment in such a thing will yield a profitable return, given a variety of circumstances.
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Weâve already been playing Wow2 and Wow3, after 18 years.
Theyâll never make a ânewâ MMORPG of Wow; once this is done that is it. Theyâll keep making this as long as each new expansion sets preorder records, as Shadowlands did.
âTitanâ was turned into âOverwatchâ; some thought it was going to be a sci-fi MMORPG. They didnât think there was a market for it. So I donât see them making a new âWowâ MMORPG.
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Theyâre struggling to make anything to add to WoW1âŚ
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If you believe what theyâve said in the past, Blizzard has stated they wonât make another MMO. So never.
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What would a WoW 2 do though that canât be done in an expansion? And that would actually be necessary?
What part is showing age too? If itâs just graphics in the oldest zones those can be updated even in patches.
Blizz really has nothing to gain from a WoW 2 and everything to lose from the pointlessness of that massive endeavor.
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Never. MMO sequels are rarely successful
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Why would a customer buy a WoW2 if it would be made by the same people they believe ruined the first?
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Itâs the lemmings wanting a UE5 overhaul needing top end specs, and some forced re-introduction to a world that forgot the player-characters.
People wanting a new mmo in all regards except the planet being called Azeroth. Aka addiction.
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Oh I know. Which is like the most shallow reason. WoWâs graphics from Cata onwards are fantastic anyways. 
People are still so wrapped up in past nostalgia. They miss the old days when they were teenagers playing a fresh game and WoW was simpler and new. They want a new game, but a modern one and not Classic. Without any thought or regard to what the consequences of that project would be.
Fortunately Blizz will never listen to this particular destructive request. So itâs a non-issue!
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Itâs high time for a wow mmo ARPG to compete with lost ark. With all the bells and whistles of a wow mmo and all the sweet action of an ARPG which is probably the next two decades of successful mmos. ARPG is the new nearby future whether all the 3D lovers like it or not
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imho,when we evolve from wow1.
They should and it could work, but theyâd need to do 2 things:
1.) âWoW 2â seemlessly replaces âWoW 1â - It just goes away. They try to have both, even if you can pay for both with 1 sub, all theyâll do is divide their existing community. Weâve seen this with WoW Classic/WoW BC/WoW Retail⌠all itâs doing is dividing an increasingly small playerbase and barely leaving enough people to fill so much. You canât add WoW 2 into that, as itâll be a deathknell to WoW 1 and stunt the potential of WoW 2 right off the bat.
2.) They would need to allow WoW 1 players to bring everything over that stays with them from the end of one expansion to the beginning of next. Meaning Achievements, Mounts, Transmogs, Pets. Or at very least, rare ones - things that took a lot of work that comparatively few players have. Otherwise, WoW 1 players will not have it⌠17+ years of collecting, hundreds/thousands of hours grinding⌠all taken away from them in the blink of an eye. I would genuinely feel bad for these folks.
They tick those two boxes, then redo WoW on a new engine, new vision, new scope⌠I think it could work.
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Iâve felt for a long time that this game needs a clean slate. Everything new is built on top of 15+ years of baggage, which is largely why I donât think having a ânew player zoneâ has any real effect on bringing in new players. This will offend other long time players who are deeply comfortable with the status quo, but the game needs a reason to bring in new blood at this point, and the current gravity well theyâre jumping into is (pretty clearly) not conducive to this.
I think WoWâs graphics are fine, but it might give them an opportunity to increase efficiency and jettison legacy issues.
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