How to save WoW? Thoughts, reasoning, suggestions

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@Cortador-gehennas

We can return to that period of time from which the very first WoW started, when the main enemy of the Alliance was the Horde, and vice versa.

You lost me here.
I do not want a main Alliance vs Horde storyline ever again. There can be tension between the factions, but that’s it. It should no longer be the focus of WoW’s story imo.

@Cortador-gehennas

And when there was a single evil that was approaching the already warring World.

Which is exactly what they’re doing with the Worldsoul Saga.

@Cortador-gehennas

The process of leveling up a character. This process should be difficult.

No, it should not. I strongly disagree with your take.

@Cortador-gehennas

a sense of danger should always accompany the player. There should be competition between players for resources, but at the same time, to obtain some resources, you need to unite and overcome difficulties together

I hate every single thing in those sentences. No, I don’t want to compete for resources and I DEFINITELY don’t want to be forced to team up to be able to do content while leveling up.

@Cortador-gehennas

There must be an atmosphere of hostility towards the opposite faction.

Nope. I’d rather be friends.

@Cortador-gehennas

PVP content. PvP should be an integral part of both character leveling and end-game. There should be no division of items into PvP and PVE.

This. Would. Kill. The. Game.
PvP is niche. Most players are not here for PvP. Forcing it on players does not work.
I cannot stress enough what a bad idea this would be.

@Cortador-gehennas

Talents. There should be a varied talent tree that would allow building dozens of working builds, depending on the gear you have, and not like now, when there’s only one perfect build and rotation that hangs on Wowhead, and which everyone uses like monkeys copying…

That will happen anyway; there will ALWAYS be ‘one best build’. And a lot of people WILL copy that. Most players follow the herd unfortunately.

@Cortador-gehennas

But then in subsequent patches, this mount could be bought almost for gold… This was just a spit in the face of real fans of the game…

We disagree again. Old stuff shouldn’t stay exclusive, because that’s all it is: Old stuff.
Share it so everyone can enjoy it. Hoarding old toys like a greedy jealous child isn’t fun for anyone except the greedy jealous child. It’s way past time to stop rewarding such behaviour.