The post is about a feature idea, hopefully I have been clear in explaining it below:
I have a feature idea that I think would really enhance the game.
Currently there is chromie time where you can “experience” an expansion and play through it but the thing is, you cant really experience it and I will explain why:
For this example I will use the burning crusade expansion as a way to elaborate my thinking.
When you select TBC from chromie, you just get send to outland, thats it, from there you just do quests but not in a campaign fashion, there are all these important dungeons and raids that just sit there, (they are important for your story but you will never find out), after doing quests in outland and the different zones, you hit level 60 and thats it, you must leave TBC campaign/expansion.
Now what did you experience? did you start your amazing story from start and until the end, no, did you manage to feel, wow what an experience that was, I got to enter the dark portal and face Illidan and his horde of demons just like in the cinematic, no you did not. The only thing you did was level in zones and then it ends.
Now guys I am someone who reads through every quest so I can have the full experience of the story. Blizzard created some time ago, these amazing expansions full with its unique stories, like the wrath of the lich king or in this case TBC. Blizzard should not throw its unique story, different races from the past and hard work in vain, chromie time, (sorry to say) just does not do justice to these expansions. So let me tell you about my idea, a cool feature that does not require that much work and would really make the game fun for new and old players.
The feature is as follows:
- You creatue a new character, (in this case we are creating a draenei),here are your starting area choices: The regular expedition tutorial, Ammen Vale, The Burning Crusade campaign, The Wrath of the Lich King Campaign, ects.
- You choose TBC campaign, First the cinematic plays and then the old draenei BC cinematic plays, here you start as usual in ammen vale (remember draenei) but you are in a campaign timeline, you get to experience everything in order, the quests are bound to eachother so you dont accedently do a quest for example that is supposed to be done before another quest, everything IS IN ORDER, and it says," to continue the campaign, accept this quest", like in DF if you abandone the quest by accident or something. Then you venture in to outland as usual but the quest that was removed is there, I think it is called highlord kruul unleashed, I dont know, I was not there for the event before TBC launched. As usual you level in zones but this follows a campaign, so you have to do dungeons as well as the raids in an story orderly fashion, you can complete these dungeons and raids through scenarios, they are of course not challenging as it was during the expansion and it is solo like in the expedition tutorial with the crew members but should any player also be there the same time as you, you can also see them/interact with them, complete it with them, just like in the Tutorial starting zone. After you reach level 60, the expansion/campaign is completed and just as in mop remix, this character is of course available to you. Or after you reach level 60, you are teleported out of the timeline (just as it is now with chromie).
Now I want to be clear, this campaign is only for leveling a character 1-60 and experience a story while doing it, it does not come with new contents or rewards or anything of the like. no new abilities, nothing of the sort. just as it is now with chromie time but just a more enhanced version of the campaign. NO new quests or anything, everything stays the same.
Blizzard does not have to do anything, just use the old content, I guess the quest tracker which show what you do next is something kind of new and the raids scenarios but thats not to much to ask.
In my opinion I think it would be such a cool feature, I created a blood elf for example and loved leveling the character, experiencing how they reclaimed the ghostlands and got introduced to the horde, and hearing npcs saying, we must venture to outland, to our home. after I completed the quest with saurfang, I got accepted by the horde, then nothing else continues, and I dont know if the blood elves during this have yet found out of keal`thas betrayel or there is some quests that leads to them finding out.
FYI, I will still play through the BC campaign and I have never been to the isle of quel danas, so please no spoilers, obviously I know of illidans fate and have been back and forth to outland but nothing story wise so please no spoliers, we are just discussing if the feature is a good idea. Thank you!
I am really interested in what you think of this? and is there a way for blizzard to view this idea of mine.
Just no need to bend the expansions out of shape to make it linear when they were not. WotLK could be nonlinear and you still heard of the main villain no problem at all.