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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.
The problems are usually tied to the budget, so management in terms of 'executive decisions' which have relatively little to do with what the actual developers are capable of. I mean this is exactly what doomed Reforged, while other remasters like SC Remastered and D2 Ressurected were not total horse shit.
We're talking about ousting people like Bobby Kotick after the whole thing happens (source: Jason Schrier)
So we don't really know what will happen with WoW overall, if MS thinks they have enough confidence to devote more resources into it or what.
All I ever wanted was the truth. Remember those words as you read the ones that follow. I never set out to topple my father's kingdom of lies from a sense of misplaced pride. I never wanted to bleed the species to its marrow, reaving half the galaxy clean of human life in this bitter crusade. I never desired any of this, though I know the reasons for which it must be done. But all I ever wanted was the truth.
Because wow has collapsed from around 14 million players to 1-2 million and most of those are boosters or boosted. There is ZERO chance that MS looks at WoW and decides the status quo is fine. They are going to seriously shake up WoW. But one way to do it would be to bring in Rob Pardo to try to fix things with his studio.
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
You clearly haven't seen how microsoft lets 343 just constantly run halo into the ground for the last decade.
Yeah, they might get Pardo back like they got Staten, but he'll just be a fan favorite figure head to try and tell everyone things are okay now.
If they brought him back, the only thing I'd want him to work on is (TBC) Classic Plus, or a continuation of the RTS series like Warcraft 4 or a massive revamp for Reforged.
Modern WoW is really too disjointed for him to 'fix'. It's already too far gone in a direction that doesn't align with the Classic WoW design, and might as well continue its course while Classic Plus could take the brand in an alternate direction with new content built around Rob's original vision of the game.
If anything I think it would be hilarious if Microsoft one day buys up Dreamhaven and returns the IP back into Morhaime's control.
Blizzard should start outsourcing art in general, not necessarily from Bonfire. I would much rather have a bunch of artists commissioned new character customizations and armor designs than wait another 10 years for Blizzard to finally have an excuse to revisit them.
Well, clearly this isn't the case since all they can managed to squeeze since the updated models release in 2014 is 3 new hairstyles per model (I'm using hairstyles as an example as the most complex part of character customization). I'm not questioning the quality of WoW art team, I'm questioning why one of the biggest and most successful game devs in the world struggle with delivering these art assets on the regular. Can you imagine for a moment that you wouldn't have to wait half a year (or more) until a new major patch brings... 2 new chestpieces for you to transmog into what... looks exactly like all the other chestpieces that came before with a different texture? Can you imagine getting new character customization with every mini-patch every couple of months and not wait for another 10 years until they feel like they have to do it and try to sell it to you as a major expansion feature?
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