Oh, is that so? Can you show me your market analysis on how you arrived at this conclusion? Looking forward to seeing your commentary over existing brands’ financial positions and EPS futures, as well as the blended EBITDA projections from said brands that helped you determine this is a dead market.
I’ll wait, because you obviously must know something that the entire finance team over at Riot missed when putting together their capital budget and ROI projections for their upcoming MMO.
I don’t need to be a weatherman to tell you which way the wind is blowing. Smarter people than us have tried and they fail time after time. You don’t need to worry. WoW is going to be around for a long, long time.
In many ways modern WoW is WoW2 in other ways it’s just a retread of the same stale formula.
Graphics wise retail is pretty amazing for the style of art. Game wise it’s still just tab target attack table game play running in the background.
I assume you want a change to the latter.
But to what?
On another note, WoW2 aside, what modern WoW needs are classic style closed servers (no transfers, no boosts, no cross realm, no LFR, no auto queue for dungeons) but with more guild and community building tools added in.
Asking for a WOW 2 is almost the literal definition of insanity. The same developers giving you patches today will take 4-5 years to rebuild WOW with better graphics. The game play will practically the same because it is the same developers. Heck, they might even use the same game engine with some updates.
If wow2 was every put out how many of us do you actually think would switch over?.
The only reason I and assume many others play wow at this point is just because we have so much time spent invested in it. Actiblizz can not be trusted to make another mmo and have it be successful.
The only way there will ever be a ‘WoW 2’ will be if Blizzard time skips by a few hundred or thousand years and gives us a completely different setting. If you seriously expect them to re-release the same MMO they have now but on a new engine, well, sorry dude, but it’s never going to happen.
Other MMOs had these first. DAoC added skirmishes and had Darkness falls. UO and AC had zones that dwarfed WoW. EQ’s story is far beyond WoW. What WoW had was an accessible EQ lite set in a popular franchise.
I honestly don’t think current Blizzard has the capability or the ambition to make a game as big as WoW 2. Diablo 4 and Overwatch is as big as it gets.
And yet you suggest absolutely nothing about what it could be. What this “world of possibilities” even slightly entails. What would even be different between what we currently have and this vague hypothetical game. You aren’t suggesting anything at all beyond WoW but with a 2 on the end. Forgive me for not being blown away by your vision.