For 20 years. There have been hundreds if not thousands of posts about the end of World of Warcraft. Some discussing a world shattering event in the story itself. To talking about when Wow’s servers may shut down forever.
Well from what I heard lately. Blizzard Dev’s are actually planning out Wow’s next 20 years. So we don’t have anything to worry about. Hence, this thread isn’t about the the real end of Wow. Which is pure speculation. It’s about the many Wow players fascination with the End of Times, The Apocalypse, Armageddon!
Now I will confess, I am also fascinated by this topic. You know; fire from heaven, zombie outbreaks, the sea turns blood red! Oh my, oh my, run for your life the world is coming to an end. Panic in the streets. etc. And then the aftermath. The world in utter devastation. Humanity reduced to a few lonely survivors struggling to find food and weapons to fight off the unmentionable horrors roaming the ruins.
In Wow’s story line there have been such monumental near world shattering events. But what is it about The Apocalypse that is so enthralling to people? I like many have enjoyed many books and movies about the end of times and what happens to people at the end. And have lived the shattered world of Wow Story expansions such as cataclysm, And the infamous zombie blood plague event. And the burning of Teldrassil, etc.
You would think that people would not like such horrifying things to take place? But apparently there is a wide audience that eats up this fantasy. So my question is what is it about the end of the world that people find so fascinating?
Azeroth’s had a yearly apocalypse since 2004.
Elementalists trying to raise Ragnaros
Cultists trying to bring C’thuun back
The Black Dragonflight doing Black Dragonflight things
Kael’thas and Vashj tried to suck the water and magic out of Outland
Illidan existed
Algalon tried to reoriginate the planet
Cultists tried to bring Yogg Saron back
Arthas tried to take over the world, again
Deathwing tried to burn everything down
The Zandalaris invaded and hooked up with the Mogu
Garrosh went berzerk and sided with the Sha . . . which are just remnants of another old god
Then we had time travel shenanigans
Then Guldan brought the Legion back
Then Alliance and Horde tried to burn each other down
And almost unleashed a nascent old god called Ghuun
And almost brought back N’Zoth
We don’t talk about Shadowlands
Then dragons did a bunch of dragon things
And now Xal’atath is trying to find an affordable shoe store.
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Thanks Boredumb. That’s a great list.
If I don’t get a cherry pie I will push this big red button I found.
Thank you for the laugh.
That last line had me ROFLing.
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If it did end officially I often wonder if we would still be able to play the whole thing? Would it still be a playable game without updates just from start to finish? EverQuest is still around and that is older than World Of Warcraft. I never played that one and made fun of my friend at the time who did. People will continue to say that WoW is going out of business though because they wish it would. That doesn’t mean it is now or even after 20 years from now.
Of all the things to destroy the world, Sketchers not making a pair of Step-Ins in her size wasn’t on my bingo card, that’s for sure.
Uh yoggy was just wakin up an corruptin folks. He corrupted titan watchers idk about cultists
I mean… haven’t we already fought off THE apocalypse like… half a dozen times already?
I’d really like to get back to just… collecting bear tails and fighting Alliance for a while without a looming apocalypse.
A corpse can wish, I guess.
And through all of that, we still can’t create Ogre characters
The twilights hammer is the only “prophecy” I remember.
Hoping the do something wild in midnight.
The earth bellows, fissures devouring the weak and the strong alike.
The wind howls, snatching up bodies like leaves in the breeze.
The water screams, shearing coastlines with the ease of scythe through grain.
The fire roars, turning plains and forests to charcoal and ash.
The Twilight’s Hammer descends, and all of Azeroth will hear its knell.
Add your Voice to our glorious chorus,
For it is the song that will end the world
I just don’t see them pouring the huge amount of resources required for such a huge and dramatic event just to end the game, when they won’t do it while they’re maintaining it.
Whatever the story says, destroying the world is just a different revamping of it. That’s a huge investment to make just before you cut off the revenue stream.
This will happen if that asteroid swinging by in 2032 slams into Irvine.
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Truly a sign of the end-times! 
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