Depends entirely on a couple of things.
1.) Same mentality and focus on E-Sports and PVP?
2.) Same willful ignorance of the playerbase?
3.) Same neglect and contempt for roleplaying communities?
4.) Same lack of customizations (spells included).
5.) Same whack-a-mole mind-set on the lore?
6.) Same refusal to punish Devs or Authors who spew hate on Social Media?
7.) Same Balancing of Classes, with Mage always catered to and others ignored?
If any of those exist, hard pass. The day they added Arenas back in Burning Crusade, they really messed this game up and incentivized the most toxic part of the player base. Should of stuck to keeping PVP a small scale side thing for mogs etc. Trying to turn WoW into an E-Sport was the stupidest and most selfish decision the Devs ever made. This is an RTS / RPG, not a FPS. That’s why the Battlefronts in BFA were the best versions of this stuff.
No.
I’m on the band wagon getting strung along with what is.
If WoW 2.0 came out, that would be the end for me. I’d kill it cold turkey.
Don’t need another MMO. I already have one.
Now, if they said “12.0 is a complete engine rewrite so the pre-patch is going to REALLY suck this time and, oh yea, your hardware is not worthy” that would be different. I’d probably ride that out.
Simply, I’m not abandoning my years of digital experience for Yet Another.
But, no, I wouldn’t keep playing for 4 years. I doubt I’d be back in 4 years. If they want to do that, they can do it in the background on their time, not mine and release it like any other expansion.
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Arenas weren’t made to cater to e-sports. E-sports weren’t even a thing at the time and the closest thing to it was DOTA which got played at some tournaments. Arenas were more a change to reward the player for their actual skill over their time investment. Getting rank 14 didn’t take skill so much as time. It became more manageable with skill, but it was ultimately “did you grind more honor than everyone else on your faction that week?”
Ironically, arenas were meant to bring pvp gearing to casuals since you could play 10 games and get items after a while instead of needing 22 hours of pvp a day and sleeping in your AV queues over 2 months before you could get blues.
If it took 4 years, i would love to see first a some sort of endless stuff, and maybe a “there is no current expansions” and you could really do any and all stuff at max level, with your friends like it was the current expansion. So that way there is like 9 different expansions to have tons of fun in!
As a programmer and gamer, I do think a revamped engine would be absolutely amazing for both the programmers and game designers, as well as for the gamers.
If there aren’t leadership shakeups then no, it will just be more of the same we already get in WoW 1 that I’m not interested in.
I was holding out. After Square Enix rebooted FFXIV, I was hoping Wow would follow…. Here we are watching the game bleed players to FF.
If I get invested in my character in FF, it’s gonna take Blizz doing an amazing job with wow 2.0 for at least an expac or two before I come back. I want to see consistency from blizzard. For two long we have gotten a great Xpac only to see it ruined by the following 2-3 expacs. I’m don’t with the BS.
No, because WOW 2.0 would be created by Activision Blizzard, not the Blizzard who created WOW to begin with. And with Activision Blizzard’s track record with these last few expansion packs, it would just be the same product.
I mean, if we guarantee that it’s “good” based on my own personal preferences, I’d be willing to spend my time elsewhere while I waited. But that’s a REALLY big hypothetical. Everyone has different expectations and wants for the game. It won’t be “good” to everyone no matter what they do.
Realistically, I think essentially pausing WoW for 4 years to work on a sequel or whatever would do more financial harm to Blizzard than what they’d gain from it. It’s a pipe dream for people that want to “enjoy the game again” and nothing more.
Too many people would just take the opportunity to quit and not look back. And a WoW 2 would never pull the numbers the original did. It’s important to remember just how much of an insane anomaly WoW was in the MMORPG market. Blizzard won’t have that happen twice with the same game.
True. I believe WOW 2.0 will happen once Activision Blizzard runs out of ideas for their cash shop.
That’s like saying ‘Would I wait for the world to end’
Because WoW 2 isn’t happening.
Blizzard has absolutely no reason to make WoW 2. None.
It won’t magically bring back players who are bored of WoW right now. It’s just going to be an expensive endeavour that ultimately may not even pay off.
If it’s a new team, I’d approach it with caution because it could still be crap.
That’s the thing with me too. If I get invested in my FFXIV character as I did in Heavensward, it will take a TON for Blizzard to pull me back. Legion and Artifact Weapons did it. BFA? Not so much.
Frankly I rolled my eyes at the BFA Cinematic (the first time I ever have at a WoW cinematic also) because in my mind when I heard Sylvanas rambling about "—what makes us strong…"
My mind played the following out in place of her monologue. “Lovely. We really are doing this bull---- again…” Honestly getting Allied races was the thing that saved BFA. Without that I’d of left again. The story for BFA and the war was well done, but it made zero sense save as another means to inject evil Sylvanas / The Horde is evil narratives into the game again.
Wtb a story where the ALLIANCE is the aggressors for once. Sylvanas could actually do that for us if she returns to life, or worked with Calia. Perhaps Thrall and the other Horde NPCs realize she’s been used like a puppet and she wants to make amends.
Frankly though it won’t work easily since Jaina and other Alliance NPCs are Horde sympathetic now. The story in general has moved on. I think it’s time for factions to end once and for all. It’s made things too toxic.
That said, if Turalyon went LUX VULT! I’d be glad to fight him and Yrel.
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I thought i wanted WoW 2 years ago like Mop era. The end of Legion would have been a perfect time for WoW 2 lore wise.
Fast forward to now i dont want WoW 2 just because i dont know if Blizzard have the talent, vision and passion for it, should also note i think upper management has way to much of a say in creative spaces, they wouldnt make a game for gamers first, D4 shows us that already.
If they had asked this question pre classic it would have been better, since they could have ran classic to Wrath and had 5 years to develop a new game while still keeping some of the player base interested.
Personally i can’t see Blizzard making another MMO again, I think they would rather go mobile since they are a less risky, require less money/devs to make and they are easier to walk away from than a MMO once launched.
The next great MMO will most likely come from a smaller company.
If it has the same devs a face lift and lipstick wont change the fact that the game is still a fat ugly pig
No. I wouldn’t wait. This is most likely my last MMO.
Once D4 is out (assuming its not another disaster)? Absolutely.
Yes but a well thought out stream of classic content needs to be available over this duration.
There is ~15 years of wow content to draw form.
Playing WOTLK fills about 6-8 months of content Naxx 1-2 months -> Ulduar 2-3 months -> trial 1 month -> ICC 2 months.
The cata is kind of a meh xpac almost not worth doing, MOP would be a good one… legion would be a terrific one IF the game launched on last patch (with the legendary buy with currency system in place).
Maybe if they had player voted polls on which xpac to roll out to fill the void while they worked on wow2 (similar to the classic survey).
It depends. If it’s like what they did with FF14 where your character carried over to the new game and retained everything, then maybe. If it’s a clean slate with all your characters wiped, then absolutely not.
I’m sure the decades-old engine has constantly been causing problems with developing new content and refining the game systems, and a complete remake could fix all of that, but I wouldn’t want the current WoW devs to be in charge of it. Retail WoW barely resembles the old WoW as it is now. If the current dev team tried to redo it, then I’m sure they would completely ruin it and change everything since they don’t understand what it was that made WoW popular in the first place. It would essentially be WoW in name only.
As long as it isn’t made by Blizzard.
Or Ion. Be funny if he tried leaving and taking the IP.