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I wonder how the new player experience will be. DF ist basically out of canon like SL - at least that was the argument why BFA stayed mainline until 60 -, so BFA stays till 70 then War within?
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Palum
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I thought they meant irl like that he's got this plan for another 20 yrs of wow
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Qhue
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I suspect they are just evolving what have become themed major patches into full-fledged expansions. Not to say that the expansions will have as small a chunk of content as the current .X do, but that the delta between some of the .X and enough for a full expansion has gotten small enough they figured 'eh...why not just go that extra mile for some $$'
I'm just glad they are getting back to the more global storyline of the huge fucking sword stabbed into the planet.
I'm just glad they are getting back to the more global storyline of the huge fucking sword stabbed into the planet.
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Daidraco
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The expansions will likely be the size of a major patch and they'll charge between 35 and 50 bucks for each one. So instead of someone on a budget thinking they can only afford the base edition, they'll now get the ultimate edition at 50 bucks and Blizzard will get 3 purchases in the same time span. Basically, all Im seeing out of this "three expansions" thing is just Destiny 2 levels of greed.
This is of course, AFTER you purchase the initial expansion for full price.
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Wombat
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Yeah, this just strikes me as the current X.Y.5s will be the new point releases, and the current point releases will just be slightly inflated into new 'expansions'.
Even worse, the quick blurb has them reusing Quel'Thalas for 'expansion' 2 and Northrend for 'expansion' 3, so who knows how much actual new geography we are dealing with.
All of this is frankly fine in a free to play game where you can pick and choose expansions as you wish (e.g. Destiny 2), but I haven't heard anything about them dropping the sub fee here.
Even worse, the quick blurb has them reusing Quel'Thalas for 'expansion' 2 and Northrend for 'expansion' 3, so who knows how much actual new geography we are dealing with.
All of this is frankly fine in a free to play game where you can pick and choose expansions as you wish (e.g. Destiny 2), but I haven't heard anything about them dropping the sub fee here.
Kuro
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It should take about 20 years to max out your Warcraft Rumble account free to play
Palum
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I'm probably fine with that if it's actual content. Like if they drop a patch every quarter, and hotfix/balance shit monthly, and expac yearly, I'm good with this.
If they do xpac launch plus just another raid and dungeon unlocks after 6 months, not a good look.
So funny enough that one leak with the micro expansions and going free to play was actually correct if you think of it as a conversation about their new direction rather than a literal "expac content leak"
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Cybsled
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I would counter argue that them going back to prior areas is a good thing. One issue that WoW has had for a long time is how disposable many areas feel - they put out all this content, and with rare exception, none of it ever gets used again. It sort of cheapens the history of an area or what was done there. FF14 is a bit better with this, as they are rather infamous for going back to previously unresolved plot elements or picking up older stories/continuation in zones. They'll even update NPCs added for content put in 10 years ago so their comments will reflect current shit you've done. WoW sort of did this for a little bit, then they drifted away from that until somewhat recently. In WOTLK, if you had done the Onyxia quest as Alliance and then talked to Bolvar pre-Wraith Gate, he acknowledged what you did and how he considered you an ally. It gave importance to what you did in the game and helped you feel more invested.
moonarchia
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Not even all that interested in next xpac just yet. I still have waaaaaaaaaay the fuck too much to do with the current one. In the couple weeks I have been back I got my 3 70s almost caught up on gear. Just got my dragonewt to 70, so now I have 4 to do weeklies on. Next week's patch is supposed to have regular flying, so I am definitely hyped about that. They removed the rep requirements for it too. So all I will have to do is explore the new zone and I am donezo. At some point they bumped heirlooms up to 70 too, so now is a good time to get things plowed. You won't even have to stop for gear until you are 70 and looking to optimize once you have full 402.
Burns
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You will have plenty of time to tire of Dragonflight. Ion just said alpha is planned for "Spring," so it's likely almost a year away.
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Yeah, everything is really positive and going in the right direction.
Is it too little too late?
It took them 10 years to learn that disposable content is bad and to have evergreen content as a goal.
It took them 20 years to iterate on mounts and to have a proper alt system.
They haven't figured out yet how to reuse beloved old zones and are three expansions past the lore being exhausted, fingers crossed for the next two expansions on that front I guess...
I don't have enough faith in them to invest in this again.
