I was considering the War Within and the implications of this massive arc for three expansions…… and got to realizing all the alliance and horde and pretty much friends and want to defend Azeroth. So how does a game keep the “Warcraft” in the game? what if instead of Horde vs Alliance, we get to “re-roll” as it were, to a faction like Azeroth vs “Big Bad”? And some fancy new wow2 engine and a whole new planet? We have other planets, but they are all broken up or completed invaded by void people. So what is holding us back from exploring a “universe of Warcraft”?
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Do you have any idea how expensive it would be to move us all to a new planet? Have you seen the amount of inventory some of these people have? It’s ludicrous!
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I don’t want to live in a universe where the horde and alliance are holding hands and signing we are the world.
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Wow2 won’t happen. If they use a new engine and all account stuff isn’t transferred, many people including myself would stop playing as all the time we put into our accounts wouldn’t be in wow2.
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100% this. I’d be calling it quits and never looking back.
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It was for charity! Charity! Oh, look Alliance.
I’m beginning to suspect the orphanage is a range.
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The way I see it, the warcraft has always been us vs whatever we’re fighting. The faction war has always come in second when you factor in the fact that we always end up ‘working together’ usually to defeat whatever big bad the expansion brings.
No thanks.
Eh, feels like that’d be a bit much not gonna lie. I def get where you’re going with it but ehhh
Isn’t this what we’re already doing? Since Shadowlands. We’re in the Azeroth faction and keep fighting big bads… Maybe they just need to be bigger.
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We could be the void lord faction hahaha!
ALL your mounts will be summoned to carry your stuff.
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This WOW 2 talk needs to be buried.
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I dunno about bigger. I distinctly remember fighting the toenails on Deathwing…
There is always a new enemy out there to crush and then make friends with.
Bigger impact, bigger story. Not necessarily stature.
I really hope we play cat and mouse with Xal’atath for the next three expansions as the story expands and only her minions fall immediately. That would allow her to become a bigger bad guy than say the Jailer who has supposedly been working behind the scenes for 10,000+ years and dies in an expansion.
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Wow 2 was the Burning Crusade. A whole new engine will probably not happen imo.
Yes this, after all the time I have sunk into this game I would never move on. Been here since 2004. Tried SWOTOR and Final Fantasy. Just couldn’t move on. Kept being pulled back here.
We’re already playing WoW 3, and WoW 4 will be the Worldsoul Saga.
The game is almost unrecognizable from its classic counterparts. It’s an all new game built on top of an old one.
Don’t expect “WoW 2” to come out, not in our lifetimes. Not until well after the creators of this franchise are in the dirt and so are we. It is not a sound financial decision. The move to an MMO sequel has almost never worked. I think the only example of this happening is maybe Lineage in Korea and other Asian countries.
The MMO rush is over. People don’t really want to play MMOs anymore. The style of gameplay is dated. People want lobby based games.
skip , we have plenty of second part examples that failed such as everquest 2 , runescape 2 etc
Any chance the next set of expansions can see us facing off against the Arathi empire.
Instead of making them another allied race, we will eventually form an alliance with, how about making them a hostile force we will need to vanquish.
A whole new landmass to explore and fight on. A new enemy to fight regardless of which faction or race you currently play.
Would be a good compromise in my opinion between where WoW is currently and where it started as a faction war.
When you think about it, WoW 2 is probably inevitable.
The foundation WoW was built upon can’t be upgraded forever; eventually a rebuild will be unavoidable.
We’re arguably well past the point of needing it, but Blizz has very good (and legitimate) reasons to not “completely start over” due to concerns with players possibly not carrying over to it.
Safest bet would be something similiar to Classic now, where multiple games are on the same subscription snd the current/latest version of WoW 1 stays up and running but is no longer updated.
… but yeah, the risk of WoW 2 not catching on with both old abd new players is pretty high.