World of Warcraft 2 - a new beginning

[Astraluna]

It would be a very nice thing to do if we could start from zero, after this or the next expansion. Let's face it, the story of the game has become such a joke that it's simply not more believable.

How to do it: the legion and/or the void win. Everyone of us dies.

Here is a quick idea how this can be set up:
- there will be a final war between horde and alliance together and the freshly arisen titan Azeroth VS the legion and the void
- this epic battle will see Azeroth being able to destroy Sargeras, and the war seems to be won
- but... the void will bring to the battlefield an unknown entity of unseen power
- Azeroth gets killed and we all start to die under this new foe and our entire world ends
- basically 99% of all life on the planet dies
- end of WoW

World of Warcraft 2 - a new beginning
- improved graphic with a less cartoonish and more realistic style
- Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdom, and the other continents are still here, the world didn't suffer much changes from the war.
- so basically the world map remains the same (no nostalgy issues) but the zones are much bigger and more fascinating thanks to the new graphic.

You play as one of the few survivors and throughout your journey, you will help to rebuild destroyed cities, form new alliances and improve everything the war has ruined.

Our great enemies will slowly come back to visit us again, as they realize our fragile civilization is not over.

[Vampyr78]

- improved graphic with a less cartoonish and more realistic style

Why? Warcraft always had cratoonish/comic book look to it. They have tried with early builds of WoW with realistic style and that idea was quickly scrapped becasue it didnt' feel like Warcraft.

[Stickiler]

- Azeroth gets killed and we all start to die under this new foe and our entire world ends
- basically 99% of all life on the planet dies

- Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdom, and the other continents are still here, the world didn't suffer much changes from the war.

Lmao, a war so horrific that 99% of all life dies, INCLUDING THE PLANET, but somehow no changes happen to the planet? You're worse than those writers you like to criticise so much.

[Kiivar86]

- improved graphic with a less cartoonish and more realistic style

This is a horrible idea for this alone. Warcraft has always had a cartoonish style, and it ages far, far better than realistic. To get rid of that is to jettison Warcraft itself.

At that point you might as well just make something brand new.

[Zebir95]

I'm glad op is neither a writer or a developer

[GabrielKnight]

- basically 99% of all life on the planet dies
- Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdom, and the other continents are still here, the world didn't suffer much changes from the war.

[Astraluna]

Lmao, a war so horrific that 99% of all life dies, INCLUDING THE PLANET, but somehow no changes happen to the planet? You're worse than those writers you like to criticise so much.

Also covid killed 99% of people yet the world is still the same

[Alanar]

Also covid killed 99% of people yet the world is still the same

No its not lol.

[Ielenia]

It would be a very nice thing to do if we could start from zero, after this or the next expansion.

How to do it: the legion and/or the void win. Everyone of us dies.

The single most important reason, in my opinion, for anything like "WoW 2" ever happening is simply the fact that players would lose their collective shit if they lost everything they've worked for years to acquire to start fresh:
• All transmogs
• All pets
• All mounts
• All toys
• All titles
• All achievements
• All reputations
• All their alts
• All their gold
Everything would be gone.

A "WoW 2" at this point in the game's time is practically committing suicide.

Let's face it, the story of the game has become such a joke that it's simply not more believable.

And nothing guarantees the story's direction would change if Blizzard "reset the world".

World of Warcraft 2 - a new beginning
- improved graphic with a less cartoonish and more realistic style

Pardon my french, but FUCK no. The cartoony graphics is part of WoW's identity. If you want "realistic" looking games, go play other "realistic" looking games. Final Fantasy or ESO or whatever.

- Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdom, and the other continents are still here, the world didn't suffer much changes from the war.

Aside from, you know, the complete and total devastation of 99% of all fauna and flora in the entire planet, leaving it basically barren and likely unable to sustain life, of course. I mean, you didn't think that whatever came down to kill "ninety-nine percent" of Azeroth's population would care at all about the environment, right? Especially demons or the void.

[Valkyrst]

This conversation has NEVER been had before. /s

[Linkedblade]

The single most important reason, in my opinion, for anything like "WoW 2" ever happening is simply the fact that players would lose their collective shit if they lost everything they've worked for years to acquire to start fresh:
• All transmogs
• All pets
• All mounts
• All toys
• All titles
• All achievements
• All reputations
• All their alts
• All their gold
Everything would be gone.

A "WoW 2" at this point in the game's time is practically committing suicide.


And nothing guarantees the story's direction would change if Blizzard "reset the world".


Pardon my french, but FUCK no. The cartoony graphics is part of WoW's identity. If you want "realistic" looking games, go play other "realistic" looking games. Final Fantasy or ESO or whatever.


Aside from, you know, the complete and total devastation of 99% of all fauna and flora in the entire planet, leaving it basically barren and likely unable to sustain life, of course. I mean, you didn't think that whatever came down to kill "ninety-nine percent" of Azeroth's population would care at all about the environment, right? Especially demons or the void.

Sunken cost is sunken cost. This is how wow retains it's playerbase: sunken cost and fomo. The player doesn't actually own any of those things, and it would make zero sense for them to have to port those entire collections to any future game. It's also strange to insist they have to if they were to create a new game in the Warcraft universe. Name any other game that has done this, one exception may be pokemon. I agree with it being suicide if they were to do it while WoW has a steady playerbase, like it does now.

[Ielenia]

Sunken cost is sunken cost. This is how wow retains it's playerbase: sunken cost and fomo. The player doesn't actually own any of those things, and it would make zero sense for them to have to port those entire collections to any future game.

It's not just "sunken cost" here, considering the OP is advocating for an almost entirely new game, with new graphics, new engine, new NPCs, new story and a completely zero'ed out blank slate start for everyone. It's a complete tonal shift. It wouldn't be the World of Warcraft I've played for over a decade.

Imagine if the TV show Breaking Bad, on its last season, went from a live-action drama show to a comedy cartoon on its last season. How do you think the show would fare?

[Dejiko]

I think the only benefit to a WoW2 would be to liberate some players from their unhealthy attachment to the game.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

It would be a very nice thing to do if we could start from zero, after this or the next expansion. Let's face it, the story of the game has become such a joke that it's simply not more believable.

A reboot or a timeskip or even a new IP isn't going to solve the fundamental issue that current Blizzard's writers are bad. We have seen over the past decade that they cannot get the audience to care about their new concepts, characters, or lore. That's why Blizzard has to keep bringing back Jaina and Thrall and going back to the Horde vs Alliance well, because those were characters and stories that were created by good writers who got the audience to care about those ideas.

[Dald]

If the art style changed, it wouldn't be WoW at all. The art style is iconic and shouldn't change dramatically.

[sensei]

I'm glad op is neither a writer or a developer

Pretty sure the OP just copied and pasted something shit out by ChatGPT.

[Segus1992]

Also covid killed 99% of people yet the world is still the same

Is there a joke I'm missing here? Covid killed about 0.1% and definitely impacted the world. Imagine what something 999 times as deadly would do.

WoW2 will not happen, and a graphic style change is even less likely to. Realistic style graphics in MMOs is for shitty games that want to pander to lonely whales through tit physics.

[Shadowferal]

WoW 2.0 could happen if they used separate servers.
Recreate the underlying structure of the storyline, redefining it, restructure classes, racials, differentiate quests, etc...and yes, everyone starts at zero. Current players can keep their toys on "current servers. Others start fresh on WoW 2.0 servers rediscovering a sense of wonder and exploration.

[Orange Joe]

I'm glad op is neither a writer or a developer

Fancy meeting you here. Did asmon start this discussion also?

[shoc]

WoW 2 is Palia