Will you be playing WoW in 2044?

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lol /pet :dracthyr_hehe_animated:

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If I’m still playing WoW by 2044 that will be simultaneously good and bad news lmao

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You disturbed the 20y dudes minmaxing session coming play esports in mmo and watching tiktok on second monitor, with your small talk saying “waddup guys” :joy:

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we are the boomers now

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:dracthyr_crylaugh:

What’s worse is I thought I was the cool young guy.

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Grandpa Simpson already said it “…and it’ll happen to you, too!”

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…doubt I will be around by then - if I am, mentally aware and wow is still around, then hopefully I can watch whatever YouTube/Twitch equivalent streamers playing :+1:
… I would love those sci-fi movies come true where you are placed into a game forever! :grin:

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Don’t you mean First Lady musk

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i wanna know what the new wow asmon of that time be like.

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Hehe - good point :grin:

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This! Consciousness on hard drive! :dracthyr_yay_animated:

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imagine, me being whatever rank puny is and im super mature. its hard to see i know

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But 20 years is a long time.

If you go 20 years back, then you’re comparing to a game from the early 2000’s. That’s fine, those games still hold up. I can play Diablo II any day and have fun with it, and it’s from 2000. With the expansion Lord of Destruction from 2001 it even looks okay.

But if you go back another 20 years…

The games you’re comparing to then are Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Tetris!

That’s the evolution in games.

And now you’re imagining that WoW will still be here in 20 years. Sure. A 20 year old game will still be around in another 20 years. Why not?

But what will the new games look like in 20 years?

Still playing WoW at that time would be akin to having stuck with Pac-Man since 1980!

And how many Pac-Man fans from the 80’s are still playing that game today?

Personally, if the games industry can’t improve and innovate enough in the next 20 years to make WoW look as primitive as Pac-Man today, then the industry may as well close down.

Surely in 20 years we’re going to have such cool games that no one’s going to consider a game from 2004 anymore than people today consider Pac-Man their go-to game.

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WoW is like the Metal music of gaming. It is eternal. You don’t find WoW, it finds you. Once it finds you there is no escape and no escape is sought.

I know you aren’t quitting after this trilogy and so do you.

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I played Tetris Effect recently. Amazing game. It’s basically just Tetris, but the visual re-imagining of the game makes it a modern experience.

I would never consider playing the original Tetris from 1980.

Alas the conclusion is sort of that there’s some inherent gameplay that is timeless (stacking blocks!) but it has to exist in a modern setting to be relevant.

And isn’t that what we see in the gaming space these days as well? All those Remasters that come out are indicative that the inherent gameplay is fun, but it still has to be delivered in a modern setting to be relevant to players.

I find it hard to imagine that WoW is somehow an anomaly here.
There’s some parts of WoW that just inherently work – like the open, sprawling fantasy world and the character progression and customization and massively multiplayer and so on – but like with all other games, it has to exist in a modern setting for it to be relevant.

And in 20 years, the WoW you’re looking at today, won’t be modern.

Just think about the advancements in AI. Do you think you’re going to be satisfied going up to an NPC in WoW in 20 years and get a plain text box? That’s going to appear as ancient as the text-based adventure of Zork I from 1980 does today!

It’s wildly conservative, both in terms of general technological advancements and the gaming industry itself, to imagine that in 20 years you’re still going to log into WoW in good ol’ Stormwind and run up to an NPC and right-click and grab a quest to kill 20 boars and be satisfied with that.

Can you really not imagine that the gaming industry can deliver something better in 20 years than that?

Weird rebuttal. The vast majority of people who have played World of Warcraft have quit. The notion that those of us who are still here are bound to be here forever is silly. If one can look past one’s immediate attachment to the game and zoom out a bit, 20 years is a very long time. If you’ve played since Vanilla, then you’re only half-way! Even me saying I’ll quit in 5 years is a ludicrously long time, all things considered!

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same .as long as i am alive and the game is ,ofcourse

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I think I’m roughly the same age as you and I do play Classic Tetris. It has no t-spin and the newer games do, making it never ending. Someone who post here who is also in our age range also plays Classic Tetris and has brought it up enough to be worthy of remark.

People are silly though. If you, specifically like the game enough to play this long and become a forum regular why would you think you’d just stop liking it?

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Not entirely true there are tons of very successful indiegames with retro pixelart graphics, vampire survivor, binding of isaac, pizza tower etc.

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Lots of games that are now indie are the same as AAA games when I was a little kid. I like current indie games better than I like current AAA games.

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Assuming no major health issues, I will be 68 and I suspect still here. Plus point kids will be fully grown so I will be able to raid again :wink:

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