Let any race be any class

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How many people came before and said that, do you reckon?

Do you really think Blizzard will ignore the money forever? Even the pessimist in you must see that.

Race/class restrictions will absolutely be lifted. They are not core to the gameplay experience at all.

Mag’har becoming priests while regular Orcs can’t be did not break the game.

Tauren Paladins did not break the game. Why would Forsaken? Or Night Elf?

Gnome Hunters did not break the game. Why would Gnome druids?

Blizzard will life these archaic restrictions eventually, their competitors in the MMO market already have done so and it’s not affected them in any way but positively.

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So I guess lore doesn’t exist.

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I sure can’t wait to make a Shaman Blood elf :wink: will my totems be sin’dorei inspired :wink:

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It exists, it just doesn’t matter.

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all in favor of mechagnome druids, aka, the Autobolts and Deceivercons transformers XD

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Thank god you don’t work at Blizzard.

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the way this thread is going you might as well just agree with OP since he/she doesnt care for a discussion anyway

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I don’t need to. Many at Blizzard feel the same way about the lore. Their writers included.

I’ve been discussing plenty. I just think the arguments against are weak.

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Or maybe you’re just wrong. But no, that’s not possible in your eyes.

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I’ve yet to see any arguments beyond the incredibly vague “RPG”. And the strange idea that Blizzard cares about lore.

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no youve just been justifying your own point of view while ignoring everything people say because youre convinced youre right

so far your only arguments have been money and “other mmos are doing it”

the first is just you guessing and the second doesnt mean anything either since no mmo will ever be as successful as WoW is and thats without your suggestion

and before you mention FF, don’t, its not more successful.

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You seem to be implying that WoW’s race/class restrictions are somehow responsible for it’s success.

That’s not really true by any measure.

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Certain classes could be extended to more races sure but not ALL of them.

Otherwise…I will have to hear a darn good lore explanation why gnome and mecha gnomes who are obsessed with technology and building “better and faster” contraptions all the time or goblins who only care about makingz moolah…suddenly embraced harmony and “tree-hugging” and became druids?

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Druidism through technology, letting them pilot animal forms. Just like Tauren Paladins are sun druids.

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im saying wow has been the most successful DESPITE not having every class available to every race

thought that was pretty obvious tbh

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A combination of launching at the right time, a gameplay loop people enjoy and a pretty good marketing campaign/pop culture. That’s what made WoW popular. Obviously something as small as removing class restrictions wouldn’t stop that.

But it would improve the game. And it would make them more money. It’s a net benefit.

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you dont know if it would improve the game, you just think that because you want something

would it make them more money? who knows… it might just be the trigger people need to leave for good

i can make random guesses too

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I highly doubt that.

Plus a race/faction change gets them more than a single month of subscription. Ten thousand could unsubscribe because of this (And that’s being incredibly generous) and the money they’d make off those microtransactions would immediately make up for as if thirty thousand had left. And it’s an ever-evolving loop of money.

WoW’s modern success isn’t based on subscription numbers anymore. If people want to leave over this hypothetical change then Blizzard can let them and their shareholders wouldn’t give a damn.

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They’ve hardly loosened them every expansion… More like twice.

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Worgen Paladins

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