Will Blizzard turn Retail WoW in the direction of being an MMORPG again?

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I came to WoW from Everquest in 2008 and at that time WoW (Lich King) did still feel like an MMORPG. I was coming from a hardcore MMORPG and and from being in a full-time raid guild so the bar was set pretty high with my expectations for WoW. While not difficult with the grinds and raids that didn’t affect WoW being a true MMORPG in my mind, it just felt easier or faster, however you want to describe it.

In your opinion, will Blizzard ever bring Retail WoW full-circle into being an MMORPG again?

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Are you asking if they will remove all the QOL changes? Your question is extremely vague.

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Massive :white_check_mark:
Multiplayer :white_check_mark:
Online :white_check_mark:
Role playing :white_check_mark:
Game :white_check_mark:

How exactly is this not an MMORPG?

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It’s a single-player game with optional multi-player gameplay.

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It’s as much a MMO as Destiny 2 is

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So is Classic WoW. I played World of Warcraft before the Burning Crusade launched, and I was able to level without grouping up or talking to people.

Many player still have nostalgia goggles on.

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Roleplaying :unlock:

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there roleplaying, you know, casino roleplay

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Falls disappointingly short in a couple of those…

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I think you’re mistaken on what QoL versus “game changing” actually is.

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You can not do a lot of Classic content without conversing with people.

That has absolutely nothing to do with nostalgia. You’re reaching and you know it.

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Retail is a single player game with people irrelevantly running around you. The RP element has been lost.

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It’s basically Fallout 76. Any interaction is simply accidental.

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LFR was introduced to allow everyone to see the raid content. Before this only the top % of player base could see the raid. Wasting resources for on a small amount of the player base is stupid.

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What specifically are you asking for? What do you mean by making it an MMORPG again? You haven’t said what specifically you are looking for.

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This is only true so far and no different from Vanilla. If you want to run a dungeon, do a raid, do pvp, then this statement isn’t applicable. If you want to group up to do quests or do them solo, then you can very well do that in any version of the game. You’ll never reach what’s considered “endgame content” playing by yourself.

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Blatantly false.

Explain how it is not massive, multiplayer, or online. Because it is all 3 of those.

Where is roleplaying missing? Have you never been to an rp server? People roleplay all the time

That’s your opinion. How exactly does it not meet any of those.

What are you on about?

Your opinion.

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If I was not able to kill a creature in the open world, I would skip the quest until I was stronger.

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Yes retailers…no one is threatening to take away your transmog or mount collecting. We’re talking about immersive leveling that poses some challenge. A need to work together to accomplish things. Classes that might have weaknesses to offset their strengths. Heaven forbid maybe they would tone down ae and out some
Skill checks into instances.

But most likely they won’t. They want to keep the game “accessible” .

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I’m sorry to say but when you want the maximum number of players experiencing the content that took a lot of time and money to create then this is sort of unavoidable. Maximizing profits and all that. Even (yes I’ll concede) to the detriment of the game.

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