How long are we going to stay in this so-called medieval timeline?
While magic is nice to have in a game it’s not moving the timeline for advancement.
It would be nice to see a little bit of advancements in the game as far as new buildings or cities.
Roll a Gnome or Goblin. That’s your industrial style.
We need stuff that will actually work or not blow up.
Azeroth isn’t moving towards a glorious industrial future.
It’s moving towards having no future.
Goblins industrial style blew them up.
Gnomes industrial style diseased their entire city.
The other races are probably a bit wary.
Do you want a quest to work at a cotton gin for 10 hrs?
Magic is way more fun.
I think you’re playing the wrong game pal…
Yeah, because things were so reliable at the beginning of the industrial era in RL.
Magic changes the progression of societies, so I doubt it will ever move too far off.
I didn’t know we were in it. We have motorcycle and flying robots in Azeroth.
Honestly, in a world of magic, how necessary is technology?
Teleportation covers travel, Healing spells covers healthcare, heck mages can conjure infinite food!
We have seen industrial stuff in WoW before. Like the Iron Horde. But, there really isn’t a need to industrialize because well… Magic. We can make everything through magic with little to no cost. Food, portals, heals, even our azertie tanks run off azerite which is basically magic.
Are we getting horrible work conditions and +12 hours work shifts too?
Industrialization is best suited for races who either have an innate interest in such (Gnomes/Goblins), or races which do not have significant magical potential, or have magic as a cultural focal point. This is why the Iron Horde was strongly industrialized. I may be wrong but Shamans fell to the wayside. Kingdoms like Stormwind have a blend of mages and priests, so the likelihood of them advancing into technology isn’t all that great. Kul Tirans is a maritime nation with Tide Sages, so while they might embrace technology for improved vessels, the Tide Sages can accomplish much that technology could.
Technically we’re in less of medieval era, and more of a schitzo-tech era.
Yes, most armies field a lot of swordmen and bowmen, but we also have rifles (not just goblins and gnomes, dwarves regularly use rifles too), mortars, tanks, weaponized submarines, things that are decidedly more modern. And then pure sci-fi stuff like funcionally weaponized one to two man gyrocopters, mechs, mechs that also use the latest magic-imbued materials as weapons, and well… weapons of all the sorts before also using the latest in weird magical material.
Also we’ve seen a weird industrial advancement, but it was also via time travel by bringing the industry advancements from post WCIII back to WCI+II era. That was the whole Iron Horde THING after all. So even discounting that, there has been advancement anyways, even if the city buildings honestly don’t reflect it that well (almost like updating every major city every expansion would probably be expensive, development wise).
Yeah, all that old medieval tech like giant cannons, flying aircraft carriers, robotic suits, nuclear weapons, spacecraft…
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Things have advanced significantly since the first war, tho.
Actually Goblin tech is far more reliable than people give it credit for. Electricity is reliable, our house water piping doesn’t blow up so we got good reliable showers, vehicles aren’t blowing up.
And bombs blow up as designed. I mean really, what is your problem here?
WoW has entered the space age! It is very much in the industrial era, just in a different form than how it evolved in our world. Motorcycles, airplanes, helicopters, submarines, guns, spaceships, tanks, two-way radios, teleportation (both magical and technological)…it’s all there.
Blizz moved Warcraft away from its pure medieval roots in the RTS games to a steampunk fantasy with elements of sci-fi. But I don’t think Stormwind is going to be putting up any modern high-rise condo buildings anytime soon.