Blizzard is changing into a printer manufacturing company. They planned it from the start and the whole wc3/wow thing was just a massive arg and an advertisement for their new product line of printers.
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first ones ducked out once they started getting annoyed at the cyan cartridge always running out in their 3D god printer and not being able to print without it
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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561287824964452363/915916086183096330/unknown.png
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Exactly how I remember it.
Makes me unironically think about what they would have done with Warcraft Reforged if they’d actually gone ahead and tweaked some of the dialogue and story to be more in line with WoW.
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Perhaps we should be grateful that they only made very minor changes to the campaign. If Danuser had pulled a George Lucas to align WC3 with his grand vision…
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I hated the purists for it at start, now I am gratefull.
(but then again, I doubt they knew they would do this expansion back during Legion!)
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Gods no. Stoooop. Or else Warcraft fans would have already been in arms and pulled a Bastille on Acti-Blizzard’s headquarters.
At first, I thought that the leak saying Sylvanas will become Azeroth’s new World Soul (after the Jailer kills the one we’ve had thus far) was so silly that it had to be fake.
Now I’m genuinely scared.
Edit: Can you imagine World Soul Sylvanas appearing like the sun from teletubbies, but at the core of Azeroth?
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Calling it now.
Azeroth’s Titan will be a Sylvanas look-alike.
I mean it could be worse.
It could be a 3d printed robot.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Did somebody say “Bastille”?
Prepares pikes and guillotone.
If nothing else, Warcraft is now a very handy example I can point to for “why exploring the cosmology of a setting is rarely a good idea”
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They’re treating it like Wow is Sci-fi MMO instead of a fantasy MMO. When you boggle 
down so much into systems, you end up getting Shadowlands.
Fire Danuser and his team.
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Tell that to FFXIV Shadowbringers. I dare you.
In a way that’s kind of different? It’s more about time than space.
I’ve used the phrase “mundane fantasy” to describe WoW before. Essentially the fantastical elements are so thoroughly baked into the setting, treated as unexceptional and commonplace, usually without any consideration for what (portals are a useful example - in Classic, lorewise they were difficult to make and hard to maintain, something which has gone completely out of the window) impact it would have on the world. The sheer amount of magic in the setting hits a point in which it comes across as entirely dull - elementals getting used to make Ice Cream and so on, but in the same setting where a Druid or Shaman has immense cultural significance to some people.
I think this is the final nail in the coffin, really. Not even Gods and the creators of the universe are special anymore. It’s all just big computers.
i only play good games sorry
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Especially when the original cosmology was already laid out in such a way that could be explored in little stints, and ultimately had plenty of material left over still to use for other small explorations.
Like all those yet unseen Titan facilities on Azeroth.
the fatal flaw of the 3d print prototypes of those shadowlands leader characters being ‘not centrist enough’ is extremely funny
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Spoiler alert here. DON’T READ IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE SHADOWBRINGERS.
Summary
The way they describe the Source, the thirteen shards and how they fit into the Calamities and the Elements is frankly part of the FFXIV cosmology, even through it’s about time/different dimensions (Which better explains than perhaps Blizzard could than let’s say, WoD did).