WoW II - Fresh or refurbish?

[Haterate-doomhammer]

@Zyne-khazgoroth

Do you have the fear that all our characters, armor, mounts, pets, achievements, everything we worked so hard for and collected after all these years will be wiped

Why would you fear this? Its just a video game, its not that big of a deal. It has no impact on your life whatsoever.

[Shadybolt-thrall]

@Zyne-khazgoroth

What do you think will happen when WoW II comes out or if will ever be a thing?

It won’t be a thing. Because here’s the reality of it … what would it be?
A new MMO? Ain’t happening as long as WoW is around, and if it ain’t around anymore… why would a second version of something which died of old age work?

WoW is still going strong as the king of traditional MMOs. Because it is doing it is own thing and not doing that many modern things really. It is just a good game that has been the same thing it has been for the past 20 years, effectively, and with new updates every so often that really changes how it is played … but just not the core gameplay aspect of the game.

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If that no longer works, then why would WoW 2 work?
At that point, if Blizzard wanted to make another MMO … they would just make a new one without any of the baggage of WoW.

@Zyne-khazgoroth

[…] it is finally coming to an end being that Blizzard has done all they can with the Warcraft story after The World Soul Saga?

They have already stated that WoW is going to continue after the Worldsoul Saga and there’s no reason to think it’d stop after that.

[Gunfist-moon-guard]

I doubt there will be a WoW 2. There might be Warcraft 4, but not another WoW.

[Evangeliøn-kelthuzad]

Reading between the lines I think that people want more realistic art style - Azeroth through the lens of Skyrim. Not a different play style. And you can’t achieve that with the current engine. From there, redesigning everything from the ground will be a massive effort - which means money needed. Conclusion - not expecting WoW 2. Why do people want WoW 2? Who the playerbase is - the millennials. The millennials are now grown ups and as such require more realism. Player housing, anyone? The Disney like art style was appealing and held until their teenage years which ended approximately around 2013. And then WoD came out. Maybe if AI advances further and new instruments are developed that can recreat such game worlds for newer graphics on the fraction of the cost, maybe we’ll get more realism. Otherwise no one will invest recreating a 20 year old game.

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

@Zyne-khazgoroth

Same reason they did for Overwatch 2

Yeah, and that worked well.

[Ionfluxe-dalaran]

And yet something that gets rehashed that is inherently a bad idea. Would you jump off a bridge if someone told you to do so multiple times?

[Akston-area-52]

WoW 2 would be a bad business decision. It will not happen.

[Ermgerlerger-illidan]

No to WOW 2 at all. The biggest selling point of retail WOW are the collections. There’s no way they would be able to do a WOW 2 and allow us to keep those pixels we collected. It would have to be a completely stand alone item like WOW classic is for it to work. Otherwise you’re just doing another expansion on the existing set up.

[Phlynch-sentinels (Phlynch)]

@Benaffilock-westfall

I think there would be a “world of blizzard” before a world of warcraft2. Id love it if it was a fresh game with no carry over from any game but played like a MMO/arpg and allow you to make your character “any” character from any game in it. Id love to be one of the lost vikings running around or maybe a crusader from diablo 3 or the zergling burrowing underground to ambush an orc peon trying to harvest lumber

Heroes of the Storm RPG would be amazing.

[Keymah-moon-guard]

@Ionfluxe-dalaran

And yet something that gets rehashed that is inherently a bad idea.

On the contrary, I think a WoWII would be awesome, with updated engine, graphics, and all the modern bells and whistles, though admittedly it’s probably not an economically viable idea at this time.

I think we all recall hundreds and hundreds of threads that were subsequently always shot down, about a Classic WoW…

One can always dream…unless they have a heart of stone that is…

[Ionfluxe-dalaran]

First, thank you for a reasonable thought out response.

Blizzard made classic because it was to fight the loss they were getting economically from private servers.

If they did make a WoW 2 not only would they be rewriting all old codes to match up with the new system but new codes for new content as well. And who knows if our characters would transfer over. Years of work just for a new version? Doubt they’re going to put that much work on their development team.

[Lepta-thrall]

@Zyne-khazgoroth

Do you fear that all our characters, armor, mounts, pets, achievements, everything we worked hard for and collected after all these years could potentially be wiped?

Not only do I not fear this, it HAS to happen for everyone without exception otherwise it’s not WoW 2, it would just be another xpack.

WoW 2 needs to be entirely fresh.

WoW 1 would still be around because many people would stick to their stuff, but not much support would go into it from blizzard and there would definitely not be any more new content. It would also go free to play and be plagued by the even worse kind of players than what you see right now.

But I don’t think any of this will ever happen. We are more likely to see WoW 1 continue and get ported to a better engine before they make WoW 2.

[Laugh-kaelthas (Laugh)]

@Zyne-khazgoroth

If BC was WoW 2, that would mean we are currently playing WoW 11…

You’re in for a shock when you notice what the current patch is.

[Crumbs-saurfang (Crumbs)]

@Platinumtwo-benediction

you’re essentially paying a renters fee, albeit a very long and old fee. lol.

And if you live in Oceania, your rent just went up lmao

[Kardrick-whisperwind]

I could see the possibility of a WoW2 possibly after The Last Titan as that is currently the most logical place for it. If they did I would hope that they use Unreal to build it and I would hope for a character copy from WoW too WoW2. But seeing as how they haven’t done it yet chances are it won’t happen.

I response to people saying TBC was WoW2, no it was WoW1 version 2 and if you really want to go the we’ve already had WoW2 route then Cata was WoW2, Legion was WoW3, and DF started WoW4. But we are actually in WoW1 v11.

[Zyne-khazgoroth]

Yeah I agree we are in WoW1 - v11 hence why we are in patch 11.0

If it were a new game, each new game would start at 1.0.

[Benaffilock-westfall]

@Phlynch-sentinels

Heroes of the Storm

it would be pretty awesome to be in a goblin sub as a night elf ghost snipping diablo from 300 meters too! hehhe

side note, its funny that i started doing BFA and azshra (spelling) boss looks really close to lilith in diablo 4 already.

[Modguud-benediction]

I’d prefer a complete reset. There are way, way, way too many collectibles in the game for any of them to have any value at this point.

I also think if the devs had a new engine to design the game and game world it would allow them to create content that is a bit more engaging outside of group content and combat that is more exciting not because We have 57 buttons to press as fast as humanely possible, but because we can actually roll and dodge attacks etc etc.

I expect WoW 1 to exist alongside WoW 2 by the way, so no you won’t lose your 780 mounts and 999,999,999,999,999 battle pets and 9.9x10^99999 transmogs

[Styx-earthen-ring]

If it were to to allow us to keep our characters and collections, it wouldn’t be WOW 2 … it just be a revamped version of the current game.

I doubt many players would be interested in the starting from scratch in the same game world. It would have to be an entirely new game and not progression of the existing IP.

[Beaupeep-draka (Beaupeep)]

All I know is if my characters don’t transfer over to whatever new game that would be, then I would be done with WoW.