I don’t buy it.
I believe they do change writing direction, but I think mid-expansion is too short a timeframe to make that drastic a change.
For example, I think they changed Sylvanas’ direction between the start of Legion and the start of BFA. I DON’T think they changed her direction between BFA patch 1 and BFA patch 3.
Also, why would Barrens have been a Warfront? As it would have been the Horde pushing deeper into Alliance territory(so, like Hyjal or Exodar), not away from it.
Oh sorry I have missred you. My bad!
She’s Fargo’s favorite, so I don’t see her going anywhere in Shadowlands. Maybe I’m wrong, though.
the fact there is an entire eu story forums is blowing my mind right now
Because narrative was the Alliance was winning after 8.1 and pushed back.
But we might see these warfronts with SL
The EU story forums are mostly dead, the only regular thing there are Ereviens troll threads
Why is that?
Right, but Darana was describing the plan to have Kalimdor become all Horde. If that was the plan, it wouldn’t make sense to have the Alliance push them back to Barrens in Kalimdor, while ALSO making it to Silvermoon in EK.
Ohh well the Plan of the HORDE was appearently.
But yes now I understand what you meant.
this, it was never the plan lol, it was just a hook in a trailer
idk i knew eu had its own servers and i guess forums but its just weird actually clicking and browsing it. seeing like a whole different separate community for the same thing. its like the star trek crew looking at an alternate version of itself.
i think they did changes you may consider drastic… the cinematic we never got about the victory at darkshore, the other two warfronts, the ending of terror of darkshore supposedly it was really bad on the first iteration and was changed because of the backlash it got from nelf fans.
i agree
so you guys could lose and then win something? remember ion said the war was planned to ebb and flow between the factions? those other two warfronts were supposed US invading your territory and getting kicked out.
Well, it was also a the plan discussed in A Good War between Sylvanas and Saurfang. But I agree, the writers never intended it to succeed.
I don’t consider that drastic. Blizzard ALWAYS ends up planning more than they can deliver in and expac and ends up cutting things they planned(Abyssal Maw, Shattrath, etc.). But cutting out steps is not the same as completely changing direction or ending.
What I don’t understand is: Why they allways wite stories that have a goal that could impossible be achieved due to gameplay reasons.
It would ultimately be impossible tthat:
etc…
Why not stories that can happen and where you don’t know from the beginning how it ends.
We know we will defeat the jailer because his goal is the destruction of all.
We knew Sylvanas would lose because she wanted to kill the whole alliance.
We knew Nzoth will be defeated no matter what
what, like have you ever read about war I dont understand what you are talking about the characters arent omnipotent
Are you complaining that theres drama and tension in stories?
uh because wow can never end? else how they will keep us buying the next expansion?
I don’t think there’s anything gameplay impossible about Alliance getting pushed from Kalimdor and Horde getting pushed from EK. Especially when the expansion opens with the largest strongholds of each, falling.
Nobody disrespects Erevien-sama! Erevien is the king of forums.
Hubris, incompetence, or road blocked by deadlines and developers.
We dont know if she will or WoW. I kinda recall discussion like this back in Cata/MoP that somehow Garrosh was never going to be killed off.
The main difference is that Sylvanas is one of the last loose ends of Warcraft. Blizzard was always bound to make her death/exit from the game extra dramatic!