The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Auxis]

Where is that?

The image on this site. It's down In the article, an image of all of the franchises. The warcraft one is represented by a night elf huntress in green armour.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dig...-impact/%3famp

[Nightshade711]

Doing these two announcements in the same year would be hilariously confusing.

Next expansion they turn WoW into a Mount & Blade styled RTS where you’re still playing your character but leading an entire army.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Where is that?

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/10/...sion-blizzard/

[huth]

Imagine a 'A Warcraft Tale' kinda spin off game in the vein of what LoL did with their recent spin offs.

A AAA or AA rpg based in warcraft telling stories we havent experienced but dont want to be confined to rts/topdown gameplay. Gives them room to try out new things in terms of development.

Isometric western style, ARPG, 3rd person (e.g. Elder Scrolls, Elex or something like that) i'll take it. Just no Dark Souls.

Hell, i'd take a Zelda-style (pre-BotW) Action Adventure.

[Well Done Steak]

I don't think I'll read anything stupider today,
A lot of people who played or still play WOW - play it because they started and had fun in RTS games Warcraft 1,2,3 in the first place.

Additionally, it's a perfect time to embrace the lore and outline the future for the entire Warcraft IP

Mhmm so old fans are what should be pandered to instead of trying to bring in fresh players. Yeah no.

[Samin]

Looking at the blizzcon early access stuff
Looks like we might be getting starcraft stuff
New shirt
Maybe means a new game which with Microsoft taking over makes sense because they will want to use every IP

I'm not sure if that kind of influence will really show this quickly - but Microsoft is definitely the one big publisher who hasn't given up on RTS - or at least tolerates them.

[Santandame]

So we have had a lot of discussion on lore reasons to go to the backside of Azeroth, and what is preventing us from going there. But what would people actually prefer it to look and feel like? There is afterall no real lore besides the likely options of a fissure, Dwarves, and a potential crater of some kind filled with water where Elun'ahir was.

Personally I would love for it to be reminiscent of the old South Seas expansion concept with islands surrounding the Maelstrom. You could finally have the South Seas expansion we always should have had, and it lets us have Island exploration done right.

The fact they didn’t do this in BfA blows my mind, the entire using our own ships business. It’s been one of the most requested systems for around 10 years.

If we go to Avaloren, I just want Camelot. Old school, traditional, classic western fantasy.

[Cheezits]

November 7, finally.

https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/...600wIVWYQ&s=19

That banner art goes INSANELY hard.

[Well Done Steak]

Easily. It just happens in a different part of the world from what WoW is dealing with. Or in a different time. WarCraft 4 could play many years after WoW, or before.

That you lack the imagination to come up with it doesn't mean it isn't possible.



Totgesagte leben länger.

RTS' biggest issue is probably execs trying to hard to make them esports instead of just making the damn game good. The problem isn't the genre. It's that most recent attempts are crap and would still have been crap 20 years ago.

It also sounds a lot like you, specificially, don't want a WarCraft 4 and try to make up reasons why nobody else should get one either. Instead of just not playing it.

So instead of adding to wow, make an entire game to tell those stories instead of just doing it in wow where it belongs????

Yeah no

[Sondrelk]

November 7, finally.

https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/...600wIVWYQ&s=19

Surprising it isnt October 31st/November 1st. Seemed like the perfect time to end the season.

[huth]

Mhmm so old fans are what should be pandered to instead of trying to bring in fresh players. Yeah no.

They've already shown the games pandering to younger generations. Might as well throw something in to keep the old guard happy. The company is large enough to do both, you know.

Besides, this whole argument is bullshit anyway. "Young people only do x", "Y is for old people only" has never really held.

[Cheezits]

Surprising it isnt October 31st/November 1st. Seemed like the perfect time to end the season.

Probably because they are going to reveal the tree or something big at Blizzcon that connects the two expansions.

[Raetary]

That banner art goes INSANELY hard.

It does look really damn cool.

[huth]

Probably because they are going to reveal the tree or something big at Blizzcon that connects the two expansions.

Or because everybody is busy with BlizzCon and they don't want their servers exploding in the middle of it. Same reason they don't do anything over christmas break.

[Santandame]

In case of low subs, bring out the Illidan.
I mean he did not get his reunion with Azshara.

Illidan as a character still has plenty of legs and very little closure. We didn’t see him on screen with Malfurion or Tyrande at all. He’s yet to be reunited with Azshara. Then there’s the entire business with his destiny being THE champion of Light. AU X’era is still floating around, and I imagine she will want to claim him at some point. Add in the fact that he seems to be unofficially Azeroth’s defacto champion.

[matijwow]

That banner art goes INSANELY hard.

It has Merithra instead of Ysera. I thought they were bringing Ysera back.

[Magistrate]

My sources:

Microsoft wants big expansion of Warcraft IP, so...

- "Warcraft 4" coming
- Pace will pick up on Warcraft shows, web series, books, etc.
- Biggest announcement, however, likely will divide playerbase: "World of Warcraft" is becoming just "Warcraft"
- Metzen will announce all this at Blizzcon

Ok props for posting this on your actual account, but why would WoW be renamed just Warcraft? Then you'd have Warcraft 3-->Warcraft (WoW)-->Warcraft 4? What number would WoW be? Would 4 be an MMO or an rts? This doesn't make a lot of sense.

[Woggmer]

Well then it has to be implemented better, narratively and mechanically.

The WoD Intro was a full scale battle, so was the Legion intro, and both were done pretty well.

Make every large scale battle like that and an RTS is pointless just for the sake of showing large scale battles.

You forget that BFA had these special mission table quests that was part of the bigger War Campaign that was happening behind the player's backs.

Stuff including the Alliance retaking Southshore, Horde occupying Strahnbrad as a vantage point, The Bloodfang Pack taking control of Fenris Isle... All this stuff is also canon and actually "progressed" the world... like after the war ended, The Alliance is now cleaning up and rebuilding Southshore again from being a plague/slime-infested wasteland.

[Raetary]

It has Merithra instead of Ysera. I thought they were bringing Ysera back.

Ysera is temporarily back, Merithra is taking over as Aspect.

[Magistrate]

So we have had a lot of discussion on lore reasons to go to the backside of Azeroth, and what is preventing us from going there. But what would people actually prefer it to look and feel like? There is afterall no real lore besides the likely options of a fissure, Dwarves, and a potential crater of some kind filled with water where Elun'ahir was.

Personally I would love for it to be reminiscent of the old South Seas expansion concept with islands surrounding the Maelstrom. You could finally have the South Seas expansion we always should have had, and it lets us have Island exploration done right.

Elunahir was in Un'guro, I thought.