We've known other planets existed since WC1![]()
We've known other planets existed since WC1![]()
People act like this fantasy world is real and some day we will run out from places to go. On every expac most zones are fresh lore, usually well known place turn out to be just 1 zone (Outland - Hellfire, Northend - Icecrown, Broken Isles - Broken Shore). And some zones fits better as climax of story, Argus is perfect example.
Not to mention literally every continent could be fully revamped. Currently almost every expac is optional (and lorewise nothing stop them from just puting old continent as Chromie option).
Don't forget places like Naigtal which we saw in the 7.3 patch and which have gotten more lore added in Shadowlands.
It all kinda goes back to the big question of why go to new areas all the time when we could spend that time in older zones getting a more coherently flowing narrative.
I don't need each patch to include a dedicated Darkshire patch, but I would have loved at least a couple more in-depths visists to important areas like Stratholme to see if it at least stopped burning one day.
The world revamp dream will never die!
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
The world revamp dream will never die!
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
That is a pretty good explanation actually.
Still though, that is not something shown conclusively in-game, much less whether there are efforts to stop that, or even what the general status is of the area surrounding it. In Cata pretty much the entirety of the Western Plaguelands were cleansed, and the effort to cleanse the Eastern Plaguelands were well underway, surely there should be some significant progress on that front, not to mention the repatriation effort from both Forsaken and Human refugees migrating back to their homelands and having a squabble over land partially aggravated by Sylvanas.
The world revamp dream will never die!
A member of the Legion, Wrath-Lord Lekos, said Azeroth was the last one standing but we've been to a few planets in Legion that haven't been conquered (Elunaria, Bonich, according to wowpedia). Additionally, in the Illidan novel, Illidan says there are several other worlds left, and Xe'ra confirms this as well, though says Azeroth's the only one worth saving.
I'm sure there's other worlds that they missed somehow. The universe is vast, after all.
Another easy explanation. Stratholm has concentrated forces of Scourge and Scarlet Crusade that bunkered there too well and made retaking efforts too costly. I mean, Scarlet Monastery also still stands, and it's next to Undercity. So was Black Rock Spire with Old Horde.
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
It's completely out of nowhere. And Final Fantasy XIV is doing basically exactly that. This would be hilarious honestly, but in a very, very negative way, especially so shortly right around FFXIV did it.
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I didn't start a discussion about which patch is bigger etc. I just said I expect 9.2 to be akin to 8.3 due to various reasons. And then I said 8.3 was quite "light" in comparison to 7.3 or 8.2 as it took place in slightly revamped zones and didn't offer several completely new zones.
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Who said that? When was it said? Because I don't recall Ion or any other Blizzard upper tier employee to say that 9.2 is bigger than 9.1. I know they said that it will be very surprising and "epic" or whatever, but I never linked that to the size or content of 9.2, I always imagined it's about the story in 9.2.
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Oh and lol @ people that think the next expansion will be delayed until Q2/23 just so we can possibly have 9.3. That's just hilarious. Y'all are really thinking they're going to keep Shadowlands around for another 24 months?
Q2/23 is WotLK territory. That's the biggest possible Classic release they have available and be sure they're cashing in on it massively. There's no room for a retail expansion.
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MAGA - Make Alliance Great Again
9.1 launch mid June
9.2 February
9.3 September
10.0 august
Anyone thinking we aren’t getting 9.3 is under the delusion that we will end the expansion early because they don’t like it
Some use the excuse of the jailer getting to the arbiter in 9.1 when we don’t even know what that means
Keep in mind 8.2 ended the faction war but we got another patch
The next expansion won’t launch until late 2023 all the recent delays did was at most shorten the end of expansion content drought unless you think it somehow killed 9.3 but had no effect on 10.0
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You say that about BfA, but honestly the Light v. Void storyline has been showcased just as much as the Old God stuff was in BfA. Let's not forget we have an entire half of a zone dedicated to the Light along with a dungeon boss. The expansion srot of began with Turalyon being made king regent.
If BfA could get away with ditching faction war completely halfway through and substituting a different expansions ending then why can't Shadowlands?
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would it though??
25 months from 8.0 to 9.0 with the last end being effected by multiple delays
7 months from 9.0 to 9.1
7 months from 9.1 to 9.2
7 months from 9.2 to 9.3
then you figure alpha for 10.0 about 2 months into 9.3 at best which would be early 2023 then we get at least 5 more months of testing which would end up in late july and then add on a few weeks for prepatch and you get august or september
i mean i understand that in the past the first patch was out faster but we also got like 10 months of the final patch at minimum and suggesting the late 9.1 launch means we wont get 9.3 means you believe that they suffered such delays that they have to scrap the last patch while also at the same time not being behind in 10.0 creation.
also at the launch of bfa we had as much story for what would be the 8.3 patch as we did for nagas in 7.0 and it wasnt expansded until 9.1.5
“Who said that? When was it said? Because I don’t recall Ion or any other Blizzard upper tier employee to say that 9.2 is bigger than 9.1. I know they said that it will be very surprising and "epic" or whatever, but I never linked that to the size or content of 9.2, I always imagined it's about the story in 9.2.”
Eh, you’re right in that he said that. But an Azeroth invasion isn’t interesting.
More is going to happen.
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No no no no no. While I disagree with Nyel, are you seriously of the idea that 9.2 is going to be Light and/or Shadow shit? Are fucking serious?
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We also have Elune and the WQ, and we don’t really know Life’s true role in this conflict yet...
So...
i have to honestly ask if anybody actually believes that the delays only affect the patches themselves up to and including current development and do not cause a delay in 10.0