So i got thinking, World of Warcraft has had countless expansions the game has been around for ages. so with blizzard releasing WoW classic servers, do you think a WoW 2 is needed more than anything. when im talking about WoW 2 im not talking expansion im talking about an actual WoW 2 entire world updated entire story everything updated and new.
what would you want if we could get a WoW 2? what would you want added what would you want taken away , what features you would want added? or no to this and continue adding expansions forever.
I want your ideas. comment below and put your wants for a WoW 2 if they were to make one.
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You see that’s why we do expansions. So we don’t have to have a wow2.
A World of Warcraft 2 will be a completely different game than the one we know and love.
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Also, a 2.0 would fracture the community. Look at what classic did to retail, and expand that out. Expansions are a better business model and give the player better returns for loyalty.
A key pillar to MMORPG is permanence.
Disclaimer: I would rather have a higher sub fee and expansions included in the cost than to pay for a new box every 24 months. With the seasonal nature of power in-game, expansions don’t so much as expand the game but change the relevant context in which you can play. In fact, expansions break more past expansion content than they bring in tangible, long-lived benefits.
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The game’s basically a ship of theseus. In a few decades, I expect WoW to have VR and some unholy hybrid of Call of Duty and Diablo III mechanics
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I would be up for a WoW 2. This game has gotten way to instance based. Raid, M+ and PvP are the main form of gameplay and you can que into all 3. It’s nice for convenience but really cuts away the MMO feel.
People are also tired of the same old same old. Every expansion it’s just a re-fresh with a couple spells changed for each class and some new systems introduced. There’s only so much they can do with this and it can only last for so long. A major reason why the playerbase is dwindling away over the years. They need to think of something fresh and new, it’s what they’re paid for.
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I think there’s really no point to a WoW 2. It doesn’t do anything or solve anything, and WoW would pretty much be dead by the time it comes out 5-6 years from now. There’s way more negatives and almost no benefits. Most changes can be done on an expansion level just fine.
Expansions are better! And things like the level squish here show Blizz is thinking about the long term future of this game. If Everquest can reach 20 something expansions and still be going then WoW can use that model too.
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I personally don’t think they should make a WoW 2. They have pretty much lost the Warcraft fan enthusiasm at this point and the MMO market is hurting as a whole.
If they did insist on making another MMO, they should switch to a more current IP that is still favorable in the community…perhaps Diablo
WoW 2 could remove some of the restrictions that are built into the core of the game, like the 2 factions.
Oh and get rid of the bracers armour slot… I hate bracers.
No, and I would not play it.
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They can do this with the current game.
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They are never going to do a WoW2. It’s too dangerous on a financial standpoint. New MMOs are extremely expensive, time consuming to develop, huge resource investments , and highly volatile. It’s just not financially viable to risk it.
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This is an insightful point regrettably made by someone named “Toiletwater.”
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Hot Take: But I want to know what you think.
We already had WoW: 2. It was called “Cataclysm”
Hear me out here!
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World Redesign
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Character progression fundamentally overhauled
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Class “Specializations” entered their modern design philosophy
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Talents became entirely different
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Outdated mechanics like Weapon Skill was removed
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Flying added to the base game
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Much of the Vanilla story was rehashed and remade in the modern style
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The Vanilla experience was mostly gone from the game
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Professions became separated into only the modern expansion’s content
The List goes on, and on, and on.
Cataclysm was an expansion pack, sure. But it fundemnetlaly changed the design philosophy of WoW. So much so that we are still using its design philosophy today.
Hopefully we get another expansion of similar mettle sometime soon, and move on to WoW 3.
also your characters looks good as hell.
These are the sorts of changes I’m talking about. It doesn’t have to be “WoW 2.” It could just be another expansion the fundamentally changes major aspects of the game.
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I personally would be fine with a WoW 2, but I’m also fine giving up everything I’ve earned in WoW at the expense of saving the franchise that I love.
Understandably, I think there’s a lot of people who really wouldn’t be thrilled with losing everything they’ve earned over the years. Not to mention that Blizzard would seriously need to put time and effort into making a WoW 2 be a really darn good experience.
I’m currently working on a WoW 2-esque fan expansion (not a private server, just a concept to pass some time when I’m free over the summer) that keeps the existing game there, but revamps EK/Kalimdor, has an entirely new leveling path, and centers things around the open world (while keeping dungeons and raids as well, ofc).
WoW generates around $250 million a quarter in revenue and grows each year so it’s not realistic for them to just stop production of the current game and work on another because it would take years to make a WoW 2.0 unless they have another development team secretly working on it.
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WoW 2 would kill the franchise, as a lot of players have sunk thousands of hours into their current characters (I’m at about 425 days played myself) and would not be willing to lose all the mounts, pets, mogs and achievements they’ve collected. If they stopped WoW and made WoW 2, a lot of people (including myself) wouldn’t play it.
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Everquest made a huge mistake splitting their player base with EQ2. Same would happen here.
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Well, there doesn’t seem to be much love in Shadowlands either, to justify keeping things as they are, since the developers aren’t up to the standard they used to be.
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They never will, it would die before it even got started.