Tbh I think my outlook is even more cynical. Blizzard makes probably 15-40% of their WoW profit from expansion sales, as the subs plummet between those, and they know it. So pushing expansion packs is lazy and makes them the most money for the least amount of effort, because people want to check out the completely new stuff and effectively drop the equivalent amout of 4..6+1 months of sub at the minimum. If I had to guess I'd say the spike is probably still 3 if not 4 times higher than the average subscribed player level, meaning they probably make roughly somewhere between 1 to 2.5 years woth of subs just during the inital sale; for an expansion that usually lasts about 2 years. They'd be utterly mad to drop B2P if my estimate is even just vaguely in the correct ballpark.![]()
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
The world revamp dream will never die!
This is literally a non issue, Blizz can come up with w/e excuse. Shadowland gets destroyed/Covs decide to repay mortals and help them/Covs decide the root of all problems is on Azeroth and want to prevent them/Jailer was after Azeroth soul, so Covs decide to send some of them to defend it, or just some of them simply want to travel. We already had random NPC Kyrian chatter saying he wants to visit Azeroth. Absolutely ZERO issue in believably explaining Covs joining us. SL is, after all, a fresh lore, and can be bent easily.
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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.
While it's true that Blizzard could pull just about anything out of their rectum, the reality is that class and race lore is one of the few areas where they are rather anal retentive (probably because it can be used to deflect work easily), usually to the effect of not having races and classes combinations that people want. For now it goes against what they have stated and done in the past. They didn't want a repeat of pandaren and they claimed allied races were a BfA feature IIRC. Adding races is one of these things that you simply can't take back and I wonder if Blizzard really wants the bizzarrer aspects of the shadowlands to remain forever in the conciousnes of the playerbase.
That being said, I feel like having blue humans run around orgrimmar would be insanely funny.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
You mean Pandaren being neutral? Easy soultion: Kyrian+NF for Alliance, Venth+Necro for Horde. They already sort of divided Azeroth dead NPC's like that. And these AR's would bring lots of players to the yard with their good looks and lore. BfA Ar's alr seemed very popular.
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.
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 makes even less sense for Covenant races to be bound by Azeroth factions than it made for allied races like Vulpera etc.
Having a split of the four Covenants to fit two into each faction is just a horrible idea overall.
Horde gets the super cool Venthyr and something skeleton like while Alliance once again gets the chop with recolored humans and derp looking Satyrs? No thanks.
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By the way, the only way to fix the lore massacre that Shadowlands is, is to completely destroy and get rid of the Shadowlands and the concept of afterlife in WoW altogether (as others suggested). If they do that, they can basically retcon 99% of the stuff from Shadowlands again as it was only a one expansion thing. I hope they’re doing this.
MAGA - Make Alliance Great Again
9.2 new zone I guess
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...-Ones)-Azeroth
9.1.5 was just confirmed by the new Classic test build, fwiw.
They added a file that lists deprecations of interface features for 9.1.5.
Usually these come with PTR builds, but they've been merging the interfaces/clients between Mainline/Vanilla/TBC so they gave us this file a bit early. Does mean 9.1.5 is likely on its way to PTR soon-ish, though. The usual news sites should pick up on it soon.Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
More content is always nice. Though I have to wonder what actual substance 9.1.5 could have in the Shadowlands. For some reason I feel like Blizzard is not going to have content have us return to Azeroth, at least not before the final patch, but if not then I suppose Brawlers guild is due any moment now.
The world revamp dream will never die!
So we will get 9.1.5, huh. Hopefully it's something beyond Legion timewalking and brawler's guild.
Unlikely but I'm hoping it's a Heritage Armor/Allied Race patch![]()
Certainly makes you curious what the scope of such a patch would be.
I won't hold my breath for my previously suggested micro rip cord, I expect a bit more about sylvanas and some gameplay updates like brawler's guild I guess. Maybe some much needed alt friendly upgrades.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.