Each expansion we face some ultimate threat and every second expansion both factions turn against each other again. I’m just wondering when will people give up on these repeated motives or if Blizzard ultimately runs out of ideas on what to do with the game. What would happen if the factions found peace? What would happen if there would be no greater evil? There are just some reappearing lore situations that are happening too frequently and I don’t think it’s possible for us to keep “saving the world” every 2 or 4 years.
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Agree.
After Legion expansion, I thought faction conflict would never be a thing again since the Horde had Garrosh not a long time ago.
How was I wrong …
For me BFA is the end.
SL is just another Legion expansion before another BFA comes next corner.
All I wanted was to play a noble savage that adventures in the lands of Azeroth just as I did during Vanilla and TBC period before quitting due to RL reasons.
I guess that would be the end of WoW.
And I would be happy with that as all stories need to come to an end.
This one looks like one of those US TV shows that has gone for too long and eventually they had to cancel it because people got tired of it.
I once hoped to see Thrall and Jaina happy ending as friends.
The Horde ceasing hostilities, when Varian was going to the Theramore meeting.
How was I deluded …
Agree.
I am guessing they are running out of ideas.
Bringing Arthas story back is one example.
I guess they are probably trying to bring the WoTLK expansion times again.
I heard they are being successful in pre-orders.
Maybe Arthas is more popular than I thought.
Cheers.
dude imagine if blizzard allowed cross faction play. all those alliance casuals dying to buy boosts from horde top notch players. do it blizz
Based on past experience, never.
Based on past experience, never.
WoW will survive as long as it has enough people playing it. People will keep playing it until there’s content to be played. There’s some churn, there are people quitting, there are people coming back, there are completely new players. But in the grand scheme of things, WoW is still doing surprisingly strong. It’s not dying anytime soon.
If anything, we’ll blow the planet up sooner than WoW dies.
The real world will end before WoW.
I see Blizzard closing, selling the franchise to Activision and WoW dying out in a few years too.
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I’m guessing Blizzard will try to stretch the story as far and as wide as possible, but I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do. I would have rather see wow major plot lines that somehow end in a believable way, than to see another 15 years of story that they write just to keep getting profit off the game.
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When the expansion was announced and rumors of N’zoth surfaced I though he’d use the faction conflict to his benefit, keeping the factions busy fighting eachother. Instead the peace-cow happened and our “leaders” banded together to save him. Ugh…
Anyway, I’m thinking the game even with it’s repeated formula still has plenty of juice left.
If time really does flow differently in the Shadowlands theres an opportunity for something truly new and different when we return to Azeroth (if you consider that canonically we can’t leave until the end).
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The story became unrelatable since after WoTLK, to anyone who has read at least one book in their lifetime.
I mean Warcraft’s story was never that original or took itself seriously, but there used to be something likeable about it until it became ridiculous and everybody started coming back to life, or having shields of full immunity, or calling everything “mortals!!!”.
I don’t think the story has much bearing on the life of WoW as a game, as long as there are a few hundred thousand players still willing to play (as is the case with smaller MMOs), WoW could be around for decades to come.
Also speaking personally, I wouldn’t mind if WoW went back to how it used to be, with several smaller threats in the world, rather than focussing on the one Big Bad cartoon villain each expansion.
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Ooooh yeah you’re right about this one. This is actually a very good plot to use to expand the lore once we come back. Also what I definitely don’t want to see though is some time travel that would bring us back in vanilla, wotlk, or some of the older expansions in order to make us fix the mistakes that happened in the original timeline and then continuing through all the old ones to the ultimate new one. God i can’t even stress enough how much i don’t want to see some time-travel to the past happening
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Honestly, I just really enjoy killing stuff. With weapons that smash faces in or spells that melt stuff. As long as I enjoy these things and blizz keeps doing it well, I’ll still play.
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It’s an impossible question, because no one can tell when WoW will be shut down. Could be in two or in ten expansions from now.
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Well tbh if all those players who are always saying:
“this game is not what is used to be” and " you can feed the players s*** and they would still play it because there is nothing else on the market right now"
Would leave then I think we actually have a good portion of the player base gone and that day might come sooner…
But all those people have no lifes and can not find anything else to do so wow will most likely live forever.
WoW will die at some point, perhaps not so far away from now (5 years? 6?), it is losing players every expansion. But I don’t think when WoW dies this will happen because the stories get repetitive (they already are). It will likely happen because the mechanics are boring and don’t evolve much. Are you going to keep fighting mobs who cast spells on you in tank-healer-dps parties until you die? I sure as hell won’t. I’ll move to something new, possibly more relaxing, possibly not a game at all.
They will milk the franchise until it’s not financially sustainable anymore then they will end it.
I give this game another 10 years. It already has major hiccups but people are still very invested in it and their art team still carries them with every cinematic.
Blizzard is good at creating hype. The majority of us fall for it every single expansion release.
It’s like one of these long telenovelas that you got tired of but you can’t stop watching because you want to know how it ends.
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Just my personal opinion ofc but i see WoW going for atleast another 10 to 20 years, easy.
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Warcraft as a franchise may live, but given Activision’s reputation of swallowing up studios, Blizzard may whittle down to nothingness (as is already happening).
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I think it will keep going as long as they can turn a profit.
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In BFA did we reunite as the forces of Azeroth, and not Alliance and Horde
Im looking at the Anduin & Varok meeting before marching for Orgrimmar.
And since everything in WoW has been leading to " DEATH "
And Zovaal is apparently Titan ++ in Power, so like Double as strong as the Titans?.
Now!.. Look at the damage Sargeras caused to Azeroth.
Imagine what Zovaal could do, if he were to escape the Shadowlands and enters our Reality.
I just want us to LOSE our fight with the Jailer xD
The game will keep going as long as there is a market for it. Only an idiot CEO would sanction discontinuing one of the most profitable games of all time.
Lol, one of these threads agian. It will probebly go on untill:
a) the world ends.
b) the internet ends (same as a)
c) blizzard lose money on this game (same as a)
d) they reuse WOD as the next expansion (same as c)