This A and B team is the biggest copium bs anyone could ever come out with in WoW.
I tend to subscribe to the revamp idea in some capacity, but to play devil's advocate these buildings could easily be a passion project by a bored asset dev or something commissioned to provide experience to a grad/new team member.
IIRC the darkmoon rollercoaster is a good example of this, some devs made it for fun.
Eh, doubtful they will hold off on an announce for lore reasons. Both BFA (3 Nov 2017) and SL (1 Nov 2019) were announced prior to us learning of the transition lore from their raids (Antorus opened 28 Nov 2017, 8.3 released 14 Jan 2020.
I think someone suggested this 50-100 pages ago; I would tend to agree that we'd be either looking at the Game Awards in Dec or Dreamhack in Feb, leaning towards the latter so they can piggyback 9.2's launch on the new expansion hype.
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There's also the possibility of them being used for some new area, and they're just replacing outdated buildings while they're at it without any specific intent.
Eh, they didn't exactly have much. Particularly Ny'alotha, which didn't really contain any hints to SL at all.Eh, doubtful they will hold off on an announce for lore reasons. Both BFA (3 Nov 2017) and SL (1 Nov 2019) were announced prior to us learning of the transition lore from their raids (Antorus opened 28 Nov 2017, 8.3 released 14 Jan 2020.
I'm fine with the story going backwards a bit regarding power, as long as the story's at least good, and sets up the more "cosmic" side of things well enough. BFA was a MASSIVE step down from Legion in terms of threats, yet N'Zoth still ended up being a well enough threat, lore-wise.
And this is completely unfounded guesswork. We don't know how they're working, if they do it simultaenously, if they alternate between retail content patches and expansion content etc.
Assuming how little they did with Shadowlands and how much they were able to do with Legion and BfA, one must assume that they shifted workpower towards 10.0 very early during the Shadowlands-cycle. Because there were no official major layoffs when it comes to developers and creative staff.
MAGA - Make Alliance Great Again
So, after reading both this and another thread, I got some conclusions:
A. 10.0 is a World Revamp.
- And this means that Blizzard still loves WoW, and was working on 10.0 since BFA/Legion era.
B. 10.0 isn't a World Revamp but still a lot bigger than Shadowlands.
- And this means Blizzard still wanna put effort into WoW, and will try to give the game a comeback.
C. 10.0 isn't a World Revamp, comes only in 2023, and is smaller than any previous expansion.
- And this means...
Option D: Dragon Isles expansion, N'Zoth was alive all along, the Ren'dorei emerge to oppose him and help the dragons, is announced at Game Awards 2021 (December 9, 2021), comes out on or before December 31, 2022.
The Void. A force of infinite hunger. Its whispers have broken the will of dragons... and lured even the titans' own children into madness. Sages and scholars fear the Void. But we understand a truth they do not. That the Void is a power to be harnessed... to be bent by a will strong enough to command it. The Void has shaped us... changed us. But you will become its master. Wield the shadows as a weapon to save our world... and defend the Alliance!
The Void. A force of infinite hunger. Its whispers have broken the will of dragons... and lured even the titans' own children into madness. Sages and scholars fear the Void. But we understand a truth they do not. That the Void is a power to be harnessed... to be bent by a will strong enough to command it. The Void has shaped us... changed us. But you will become its master. Wield the shadows as a weapon to save our world... and defend the Alliance!
When shadowlands alpha started most zones were nearly complete art wise if I'm remembering correctly. We barely got anything bfor 9.1 and 9.2 is big but not 1.5 years to develop big. Either they are working on a revamp for 10.0 or the future, or the next expansion is far on along in the art department already. What have the artists and world designers been working on for the last year and a half other than the small 9.1 or 9.2?
Next xpac is either massive without a revamp or has a revamp. Nothing else makes sense to me.
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Which is why they have to have either 10.0 art almost done by this point, or a big project aka world revamp.
Either way the next expansion has to be big. There's no other explanation for why the art team has produced so little on a year and a half.
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Last we heard the wow team is growing and bigger than it was during WoD and Legion. Either 90% of the dev team is lazy and incompetent, or they are working on something big. Doesn't have to be a revamp, but it's something.
Some spoilers about after the raid:
https://twitter.com/Stiven_SRB/statu...91434933624835
Dont know if anyone has posted this, but it appears that Sylvanas will be a person of importance after the raid?
He's making a good point, I mean if it's not a revamp then it's a big expansion, like Legion, otherwise, Blizzard isn't putting resources in WoW as they did in the past, doing only the bare minimum to milk the community as much as possible before the game becomes a ghost town.