An interesting post. I think that the first option is the most likely, if only because option 2 offers no potential for future stories (and it would feel lame af), on top, and option 3, while offering a lot of potential, would be especially whacky to work with. As far as I can tell, only a small handful of HIGHLY skilled sci-fi writers have managed to make those "oscillating" (so to speak) timelines work... And I really doubt that Danuser & co. will be able to pull off something like that... In a non-cringey way, that is.
how about making Stratholm for the argent crusade its own nation, where both horde and alliance can come to and do their Reputaiton quests and more interesting stuff.
When it comes to ALterac I think they would try to rebuild their own kingdom, but beeing neutral and make their own faction which would be Neutral to the horde and alliance, it would really fit them and beeing in the mountains they could be a very good trade hub.
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They have, just think about it Legion, BFA and Shadowlands... have been doing alot of updates to base elements of the game and done alot of Upgraded Grapics on NPCS and different world envierments, so the most thing they would have to do is to plan the Lore and do it right.
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While I would like to agree with the genal premise, if you think you are commander right now then you don't know what a commander is. You are essentially a child with god tier powers that gets ordered around whenever it matters and you have a few goons you can send on missions to placate you for the remainder of the time. You don't command anything. You don't strategize, you don't give orders. We are free-lancing heroes.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
Im more thinking as a timeskip periode... we're in Shadowland for 2 years, Azeroth ends up 20+ years old and everyone that remained in Azeroth rebuilt the world and a new order is in place which will (obviously...) become the next vilain of 10.0
it would be cool if we come back and nobody knows who we are and we are back to being random adventurers
Come back to a dead world as the sword we all forgot about finally causes Azeroth to bleed to death in the decades (days) we have been gone. World no longer sustains life. World of Warcraft ends because, in the infamous words of Dark Helmet, “ Good is dumb.”
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Not in a world where Golden or Danuser are in charge of writing.
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Lolno. We may be are referred to as Commanders, but we don't actually command anything. Even in warfronts, aka the in-game battles, we are not commanding !@#$, we're just footmen/grunts with OP gear. Did we command ANYTHING during the war campaign, or during the battle of Dazaralor? Oh right, we were just following orders from whatever bigwig was in charge.
As I said, the war table is at best something to placate the god tier toddlers that the player characters are so they feel important. In reality even there we are just pencil pushers since all we do is sign off on missions. You might be right that the whole commander feeling worked better in WoD and to a degree legion, but in BfA we are at best a squad captain of the handfull of followers we have. Everything we do is dictated by someone else, if we are lucky we get to pick which orders we fullfill first. If we were actual commanders we'd be capable of giving march orders, which you could maybe RP if you are a guild leader but that's about it.
There is a reason why recently they've settled for champion/hero. It's the thing most applicable to us. Pretending we are an official military figure within our faction is at best misguided, flat out misleading at worst. We aren't. We have no political power, we have no power to advise our superiors, we can't do shit in this regard.
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You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
going back via portals has nothing to do with it.. lorewise you will stay in shadowlands for the entirety of expansion. Like in WoD lorewise we were never going back and forth just because we were using portals. Also when u use some portals you basically go back in time lorewise
I would think it is far more likely what some other poster mentioned in regards to this:
The time difference is more a plot device to explain why things have not changed diddly squat in the time we were in Shadowlands, and how the feral scourge invasion is not really a problem running rampant as you would imagine such a thing being for 2 years or whatever time an expansion lasts.
Not to mention, this is hardly the first time Blizzard has heavily hinted at timeskips, or generally implied that time moves differently in whatever zone you are in. It was played up to no end how time moves differently in the Twisting nether, and in the end it was solely used to explain how Alleria and Turalyon had been fighting the Burning Legion for Millenia despite only a few decades passing in our time.
The world revamp dream will never die!
What I read from that was "We have no idea how the story will go after Shadowlands or how Time differences will work yet, depends where we wanna take the narrative to suit our gameplay" cause remember, Gameplay first! Screw Lore, story, consistency, world building etc. that's blizzard's mantra. Not even kidding, look it up.
By the way, If they DO a timeskip the game will die. SW:TOR did that too, a 5 year time skip storywise that ruined the story consistency, ruined RPers and their storylines (Minor issue but still a factor), everything became muddled and untrackable. To me, trying to find ways to timeskip forward or back a few years tell me blizzard have no competant story tellers, another reason to put ontop of the fact that they do retcons every year which tells me you don't have any good lore people in the dev team.
Doing such skips Is like them trying to "Reset the board" and If you just had good story tellers and lore people you could do that yourselves without a timeskip, but then, why would a billion dollar company hire someone competant in such a thing when their first worry is gameplay, not lore.
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