WoW 2.0 concept

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All the same expansion, but we play through them in a version where the main baddies won, and we’re X amount of time after that event.

  • Nilla: 3 years after Emperor Thaurissan summons Rangaros and gets his way
  • TBC: illidan has had 4 years to anass his armies and carry out his plan ( i don’t know much about TBC lore)
  • Wrath: Arthas has conquered all of Northrend and set up shop in Silvermoon
  • Cata: Deathwing has culled most of Azeroth and terraformed it for the old Gods

So on and so forth. Be a good way to introduce a lot of new characters, carry a darker twist to the main WoW story lines, allow some of the much wanted races to be character playable

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I personally would rather go back to the dark ages.
Make it happen when the Horde stepped out of the Dark portal.
Show the fall Lordaeron and the events that made “Vanilla” happen.

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Could be the intro. Could be the new Vanilla and then continue on from there? Admittedly i never played the original Warcraft games so i cant speak of those times

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The only thing that would allow them to do WoW 2.0 is if it took place with full immersion technology (think Sword Art Online).

Otherwise, most people wouldn’t be too keen on losing decades of progress on their WoW 1.0 account. The experience for 2.0 would have to be fundamentally different and not just “we updated the graphics and physics engines for the game”.

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It would be a standalone game. No different than playing 2 games at the same time.

But i could go for a true IRL HC mode like SAO

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The point is that people aren’t willingly going to abandon their collections to go play “WoW but different.”

If I’m going to play a completely different game, that’s what I’m going to do. Especially when I know my collections wont cross over.

Heck, that’s the main reason I’ve never touched classic.

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Isn’t this just the Time Rifts event?

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Isnt that how Classic works though?

Is it? I didnt do many of those so i dont know

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I’m going to guess that you are wildly overestimating the amount of people who play classic AND retail…at least on a serious level.

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I wish wish, wish the player base was there to do a sort of concept where different Azeroth’s are the results of different major events. That’d be cool. AND then we could PvP the other servers.

And then. then we can still have factions, but they mean nothing! So we can cross lines.

And then instead of fighting each other, locally, we fight together to kill those other losers.

We can have our Kumbaya and crush it’s will too.

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I mean, on a conceptual level, yes. Each of the rifts is an alternate universe where a different villain won. (Not all of them are 1:1 with expansions, like, there’s one where the Old Gods were never defeated by the Titans in antiquity.)

Obviously they’re not all that in-depth, since it’s just a world event, but like… you don’t use a story concept for a side event like that if you think it has real legs. So I’m guessing they don’t think the “alternate villain victory” idea is worth pursuing in a big way.

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If that’s the case. Why not take it ALL the way back to prior to the sundering.

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Imo something that would be cool is to expand on the time rifts we saw in DF.
A world where the alliance were the aggressors. One where nzoth won.

Heck throw us back in time to the idea above. The great sundering and the xpac is leading up to that point and we actually “lose” in that the great sundering happens.

Would be a cool way to revisit history and expand on that lore and see it first hand.

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I personally would actually like that very much. Get you out of this timeline / reality all together. Plz go

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I’d love to join the timeline where Arthas succeeds in resurrecting the players into becoming his champions at the end of ICC.

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Also a good idea if they were ever to make an expansion for classic.

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100% and I’m convinced one day they’re going to do it. It’s why I’ve never been against the cash shop.

And no, I don’t plan to buy the Brutosaur.

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Its not about who plays both. Its about people willing to start over.

Classic was wildly popular, for nostalgic reasons. Something theyd already done before. This would be no different, minus the fact its an entirely new story altogether.

Im not taking this idea seriously, its just for discussion points. I think the bigger issue with having a standalone is…its no different than what the next expansion “could” be. Like MoP remix. It would never make it on its own whike WoW itself still existed in a healthy enough state

To a time where Yrils ancestors are holding you captive! Lol