After world soul saga, what is after? wow 2

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Will wow 2 ever happen, I think its the best time after world soul saga.

Just imagine new graphics (does not need to be realistic, just more advanced), new story and zones in new planet or something. Set in future after many years. Opening scene would be explaining what we went through all these years, 30min long movie like cinematic to explain it all.

Start fresh from beginning without leveling system (as we are all advanced fighters, yet in new area so we need to start some things fresh) - this would cater to already established playerbase with mentality to play competitive as games should be, but with some new twists (sandbox twists), mainly focusing on advancing systems through crafting and gathering and preparing for content, new systems (settlements building like - not exactly building, but advancing through events / systems / crafting and weeklies), these settlements would change with new patch, giving us more content and story quests, the whole world would change with each new update, not focusing on exploring new zones (new zones could come as expansions), but advancing through already established zones and making new era for both horde and alliance.

Imagine if we start having all kinds of upgraded systems for crafting and gathering, new professions, focus on farming and preparing, and also advancing in new zone through many innovative ways. Basically everything is open and sandbox, you choose your own path, will it be to provide for your community by grinding in open world and doing all kinds of mixed content, thus having some knowledge about how game is, or will you only participate in m+/raid/pvp and play competitive, in the end it’s on you how will you play and everyone should appreciate that sandbox design.

What if they open us possibilities to some new genres, like sandbox survival building game, or something similar. To work as a whole server to upgrade your zone. Guild events where you play games with other guilds, it can be PVPVE events somehow playing like these medieval games where you compete. In the beginning it’s all about celebration, but later can be mixed up with new expansions how vibe will shift.

I think we need WoW2, but if done well and good cartoony graphics as well. We need more sandbox systems, yet not fully designed to cater to laidback crafters and farmers, sandbox yet full of competitive already established systems.

I think it’s really important that if we are going to have WoW 2, that game should drop some oldschool systems like leveling, and design sandbox game yet competitive one, because after all, being competitive is getting out of comfort zone, and that can do good for one life. These fully sandbox games are fun at first, but get repetitive and boring without real competition, whether it is bad combat or something else, it really gets into comfort zone quickly and then all fun is gone, there is only numb feeling left.

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The development of any such game may take many years. Perhaps too much time and investment for live-service games that seems to be the norm nowadays.

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why? they can have some 4 years easily, to make some 5 new zones and systems, no leveling at all, so just main quests and systems that will freshen the game and change it as well.

Imagine if there is no leveling, they can also do guild wars 2 progressions systems. Imagine if they get free time from all these mathematics solving problems with numbers. Basically ESO mode progression with adding new tier sets only with each new patch/raid, or sometimes nothing at all, just new mechanics and tactics for bosses. Basically no needed balancing except some few things. Adding new spells could be a way of changing how you play the game, it shouldn’t be all about gearing and progression. I think just having new zone/raid/dungeon, with new vibe, would change how you perceive the game (as well as new spells and rotations), tier sets as well.

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I’m not interested in a wow 2 personally. I can’t see the appeal.

After the trilogy I expect they’ll make another expansion.

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Why? why not change things? Why would you keep in your comfort zone for the next 20 years, why not freshen the graphics and change how we all see the game. It will work out well if they keep same combat and idea of competitive focused MMORPG (with added new systems to cater to open world content and farming / progressing)

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After WSS they will just make another Trilogy im pretty sure.

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Because it usually means losing everything. And that’s like starting over in a new game.

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I would prefer that they keep announcing 1 expansion at a time honestly…

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Okay but why though ?

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it keeps me engaged more with each update. now we all know some of the story and how it will go. the moment of surprise is important for this game. its all about mystery and what is to come. now we kind of know everything and that story will end (first chapter of wow).

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We dont know everything based off of the names alone. There’s plenty of surprises yet to come within Wss.

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we just dont know how to story will play out, but we know main thing, and that is that first chapter of wow will end. imagine if we were to get surprised by the announcement of the last titan story, and that we speculate about what that expansion is about. i think we would be much more bewildered by the end of expansion cinematic, rather than metzen explain to us what will happen, and that they are finishing story built to this moment.

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I think Blizzard will be avoiding any ‘2’ fiascos like the plague considering each time in recent memory they’ve tried to overhaul a game, they’ve ended up having to revert a lot of stuff and ‘remake’ the old one again.

Overwatch 1 > 2 was a strict downgrade that only now in 2025 are they around 70% of the way of remaking Overwatch 1 again. Currently readding 6v6, just readded lootboxes, even small things like fonts are being returned to the OW1 style.

Diablo 3 > Diablo 4, same deal. They tried to remake the wheel, but for the last 2 years they’ve largely just been readding stuff from Diablo 3 and trying to make it as much like Diablo 3 as they can.

Even with WoW itself, Dragonflight was Blizzard saying ‘this isn’t working’ and returning to talent trees after years of trying to make MoP talent ‘trees’ interesting.

All this is to say, i very much doubt we will see a WoW 2 for a long time, perhaps ever. Blizzard already ‘remade the wheel’ by perfecting the MMO genre back in 2004. It is hubris for them to try it again, and they already failed twice post-covid, so they likely won’t try a third time with their baby.

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From a business perspective upending your cash cow with a risky sequel that may alienate your core base is just a bad idea, and creates unnecessary risk.

Particularly when your cash cow is performing well, like WoW is at present.

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Said, the level 27 classic WoW toon :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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yes I agree with your statement, but still I would really like WoW 2 with new freshen graphics and ideas, to leave azeroth forever as well, I think that would be awesome end for everyone and new great start for next 20 years to remember! This would be for me at least, if we get new graphics, like removing my old shell and getting into new one to remember and take care of.

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Not to mention we don’t really have an example of an MMO that is already good, remaking itself and being as good if not better.

When Runescape attempted it, it broke the game so badly that they had to make Old School Runescape.

When FF14 did it, it was because the existing game was terrible.

When Guild Wars 2 came out, Guild Wars 1 was already a good game and it instantly alienated a large chunk of the playerbase.

If you think of Legion was ‘WoW 2’, that only happened because of how terrible WoD was, allowing Blizzard to abandon it early and go full steam on Legion, and lets not forget that a large part of why WoD failed was due to these enormous changes they tried to implement during a normal expansion cycle.

If they did ever try this, it would be a ‘second team’ type thing, where Microsoft hires hundreds of extra developers to make a better ‘WoW 3’ which would inevitably involve poaching the best from the existing WoW team, making the current product worse… all for a gamble that what they’re making is better than now.

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No thanks not interested.

I like my leveling. And I am absolutely not willing to part with anything I collected over the last 20 years and it would take them ages to import everything over

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so much so that they don’t even make new race skeletons now because it takes too long to adjust 10,000 pieces of armour to fit them right.

ditto for hat hair. too much of a job for them to adjust all hats for all races and genders so that they can display all hairstyles.

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Yep all races we will get will have the same skeletons. Sure they maybe able to tweak it a bit here and there with not to much work but they will stay with what we have.
Only other way would be like the dracthyr and that didn’t worked out that good