Nah I wouldn’t. I think a WoW 2 is all around a bad unnecessary idea and would doom the game.
And why even keep playing WoW 1 for that long when it’s going to die and be lost anyways? If Blizz said no content for five years then they actually would lose the majority of their players. I’d likely eventually leave too just out of boredom.
Also WoW’s engine is fine. If I remember they use their own custom-made one. I’m sure they constantly update it. I don’t know why people assume it’s the same thing it was in 2004. The gameplay and graphics are great and up to modern standards. This is WoW’s unique art style and it suits it very well.
Patches usually come out on pretty solid schedules already. It was just this one time that it took longer for unrelated IRL reasons. That’s not the game’s fault.
I would play a WoW 2…IF they made it a more updated, realistic art style with real customization for the characters, immersive solo RPG storylines as well as the MMO group content, etc. It would have to be literally a different game for me to leave this one for that one.
No. One would assume they’d hire a dev team for THAT game and keep their own dev team for THIS game until they were ready to stop producing content.
These false dilemma questions are just that. There is no either/or here. They can do both, and if they ever make a WoW 2, that’s how it would go down. They’d put out a last expansion for WoW and set it up for maintenance mode while prepping the release of the new game.
I would wait four years, possibly more depending on the price. I don’t think it is necessary though, the client can be completely rewritten from scratch and still run on the same servers we have now. It wouldn’t need to be WoW 2, it would just be a new client running on the same servers.
WoW is basically on its 9th iteration now. There’s usually pretty substantial code/gfx changes each expansion. The last few expansions have really pushed the boundaries on asset quality for an MMO that can have hundreds of people on screen and still run in the 75+ fps range on entry/mid range gaming computers.
While it would be nice, it’d be a waste for me if the writing quality was still the same as what we currently have.
Good graphics on bad writing and possibly mediocre gameplay is wasted potential. To me wasted potential is worse than no potential at all.
It’s like those stupid Quantic Dream games. Impressive look wise for their time ( emphasis on for their time ) but oh lawdy are they awful games in general. And the people who actually work on those games tend to be awful people as well. I don’t mean the actors I mean the actual developers. GOD I hate David Cage, sorry had to get that out of my system
Not with the current dev team. I don’t trust them with anything. I want Ion especially to step down before any kind of 10.0 development or anything. He is the biggest cancer. He can go back to raid designer, but we need someone who actually wants to make a fun game and communicate with the community.
These forums are more lively and discuss the same game. I have been on Oceanic servers and EU servers in the past for better ping when I lived abroad, but the forums are kinda dead.
The more I think about it, the only reason to have a WoW 2.0 is get a better engine for the game. Blizzard could “reset” the game right now if they wanted. While it may not sound fun, WoW needs an xpac that mainly about getting the world back in order. No super crazy big bad, just some little bads. Interesting storylines, overhaul the crafting systems, guild systems, give new life to pvp, and an update of graphics. There are things that can be done without WoW 2.0.
The only way they could make WoW 2 happen would be to carry over or reward players of long standing accounts in the new game. Otherwise it will crash hard like every other mmorpg that came before it, simply due to the fact people aren’t willing to start over without their 3,000 mounts and huge transmog collection they’ve acquired over their 50 alts.
I think the only reason we haven’t gone full cash shop/Micro transactions is because wow isn’t known for that kind of thing, so it staves them off a bit
Wow 2 though would probably be full on cash shop and micro transactions
I’d rather they put more resource into this game, and pay more attention to the open PvE style of game play that was a big part of their initial success.
I wouldn’t mind. I think wow is starting to fall behind, starting to feel like it’s getting old. But I love this universe, so I would stay for better or worse. I think at some point they won’t have a choice but to release wow 2. And I call bs on all the people who would not join because they’d lose so many items from their collections. I wouldn’t mind. I use the same 3 mogs on my characters and they ride the same 5 mounts all the time. All the people leaving for FF don’t seem to care either. One thing that would hurt me though is the loss of a majority of races.
The issue isn’t the engine. Sure, the engine is beginning to show its issues but the predominant issue dictating the current course of the game isn’t the engine. It’s an incompetent development team on all fronts. The same team that would be creating WoW 2.
WoW 2 wouldn’t be a restart unless they cleaned house. All it would be is like when a company “fixes” their game then releases it to another market. Cash in on people buying the game, then scoot before they realized it’s still the same unplayable mess. Bless Online was a very good example of this and was so bad that Steam bent their refund policy for people due to the amount of people wanting refunds over the terrible mess.
Or what is soon to be Archeage 2.
A restart on the game won’t change the company behind it that is preferring short term gain over long term gain. This isn’t an engine issue as I said. It’s a design team that’s very incompetent with shareholders that are increasingly greedier. That’s what happened when MMOs went from a passion genre of game developers that played games to being a fad when all the investors jumped aboard and demanded return on their investments.
Same thing with movies. They went from telling a tale, or making a visual adaptation of a popular story to being something they cater to markets hoping to sell tickets and recuperate their investment. A lot of movies barring that would never have gotten the green light, but they knew people would buy tickets because of certain actors, or the movie preaching certain messages so that’s why every movie now is a political soapbox. It sells tickets. Isn’t like they care about these ideas.