Blizzcon is pre-alpha. Alpha launched like 5 months after Blizzcon. It was a blank non-textured piece of land in Alpha when it was first launched. Shortly after the entire island disappeared.
Here was the Q&A from 2015. It wasn't mentioned even once. It was only on the early map. http://massivelyop.com/2015/11/07/bl...t-qa-liveblog/
It was never announced as anything. It was only clarified it would've been future patch content during beta after they had scrapped the idea for something cooler. Blizzard never would've said anything had the entire internet exploded over it going poof from Alpha.
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Yes, Blizzcon was pre-alpha too, sorry. I meant that Thal'dranath wasn't on the first map we got to see. However, it was on the Blizzcon map after that, and there was a lot of discussion about them adding it to the map when it was shown, and Blizzard clarified in a Q&A (might not have been the Blizzcon Q&A, but it was pretty soon afterward if not) that it was going to be patch content. Then alpha came out, the island remained a flat, blank area for a while, and then it was removed and Blizzard said it was being replaced with something better. There was a lot of threads here about it for a while and a lot of outrage when it was removed, because it was announced as patch content and people thought it was being cut before Blizzard announced Argus. Sorry if you missed all of that, but it did happen.
The direction of the story likely shifted during development, and they either turned the Broken Shore into the hub it is today or moved where Argus was intended to arrive in the plot (if at all).
Otherwise, the only answer could possibly be "a later patch" or "nothing at all."
What if Thal'dranath will be a island risen by naga/og guys and leads us into the next exp.
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Oh my god let it go already.
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No the players create the "shit storms". Don't put this on Blizzard.
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Good job completely missing the point. We knew NOTHING of what Farahlon might have been and some players decided to hype it up with conjecture and rumor and then when it doesn't happen somehow that is Blizzard's fault. Knowing this community if they had actually gotten Farahlon they likely would have done nothing but bitch and whine incessantly about it.
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What claim? All this outrage and bitching is based on a god damn map from literally years ago at this point. Get a fucking grip.
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Doesn't matter. Once the QQers decide on a narrative they have little interest in actual facts.
I'm going to tell you something that's going to shatter your reality about the gaming world: Just about every game has content cut from it. Most of it is cut before it's even shown. Shocking, I know, but most times developers are a bit overly ambitious or something just isn't panning out the way they wanted to.
Also, in the case of Thal'dranath isn't it actually good that they bailed on having another Zone devoted entirely to an elven city/ruins? I mean, WoD went to complete shit because people bitched endlessly about "Orc Fatigue" so they ended up scrapping their original plans and shoehorned Demons and Gul'Dan in as the main threat of WoD.
Consensus seems to be Argus, instead of doing Thal, then ending the expansion with Tomb.
So better question at this point: what would Thal'dranath have included? Typical midtier island and raid? But what would the raid be.
Tbh I thought it was gonna be like a new Ashran but have no idea who came up with that idea.
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I recall seeing from beta that there were more Laughing Skull there. Considering WoD lacked a middle tier maybe it could've been WoD's Isle of Thunder, but yeah who knows. True people likely would've bitched anyway lol. And I don't really know that we needed more of WoD...
You saw I quoted someone, right? Because I think you're missing the context of my reply.
Someone: "Blizzard replaced TD with nothing"
I reply: "OH MY GOD, BLIZZARD CLAIMED THEY'D REPLACE IT WITH SOMETHING AND DIDN'T? THEY NEVER GO BACK ON THEIR STATEMENTS THOUGH!!!" (Sarcasm.)
Good chat though.
Sometimes, I just can't even:Originally Posted by Teffi
Originally Posted by Nixx
So many people saying broken shore but it's clearly Argus.
I'm not 100% sure... I mean they might have scrapped the original idea for both Thal and the Broken Shore for Argus. Maybe they figured that they really needed a lot of time to work on Argus to make it exciting. It could be why the Broken Shore is so lackluster as well. Possibility that the Broken Shore was never meant to be a quest hub like it is right now and would have just been something alongside the island in order to breach the Tomb. If you think about the buildings we repair then it makes sense as well. They were the ruins of elven structures. Not saying that elf ruins wouldn't exist on the Broken Shore but that place is abysmal and nearly 100% destroyed. Wouldn't it make much more sense to visit Thal and find the buildings there and set up a base of operations to assault the Broken Shore?
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My guess is that Broken Shore and Thal were going to go hand in hand where Thal would be our base of operations with which to assault the Broken Shore. It makes sense when you consider that the buildings we rebuild constantly are the ruins of elven structures. Probably wanted a big ambitious patch and then realized that Argus needed to be really cool or else we'd all rage really hard and that they needed to refocus their efforts and zone design on Argus and not some silly island.
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