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World of Warcraft |OT3|
- Thread starter charlequin
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Should have just waited a week for MOP greens.
Enosh
Member
nah, wanted to do some stuff with the priest now ^^
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
Because cannibalizing their own market would be dumb? WoW has a set ending in the works for some time now? What is supposed to be an expansion after we do a Burning Legion set?
The frequency of updates and new content can't keep up like this much longer (inb4 hurr durr what updates?) it updates a lot more than most MMOs, with an expac every 2 years almost to the letter, it won't be a good thing to keep going with another MMO going at the same time.
I got a couple ideas, but they're all pretty far-fetched I admit. Somewhere in here Allen Adham says that Blizzard is going to make a new MMO, before someone else does it.
For the longest time I thought Titan was going to be a non-competitor to WoW. Some F2P something-or-other, maybe some kind of console game. If anyone could do it they could right? Well it's been years now and WoW is 1 1/2 years off the 10 year mark. Going for another 10 just doesn't seem plausable to me is all. I know right now it seems like it would be dumb, but they are slowly shedding subscribers. Putting their eggs into one basket and releasing a new Warcraft MMO (and lets be realistic, they haven't made a new IP in over 15 years, it's gonna be WoW2) that is a reboot or redux or sequel to WoW is what I can see happening. Like someone else said, EQ2 being released killed EQ, and it didn't do too well itself. TOR came out and killed SWG, not the same developer but it was up to Lucasarts I'd imagine. It probably would've worked out better if TOR didn't flop, but it's not unheard of.
I don't know if the expac after MOP will be the final, but I'd bet money that it's a Burning Legion Focused one. It's being heavily hinted at in the MoP Narrative. The Klaxxi and Wrathion storyline is foreshadowing a need for the Alliance and Horde to work together very soon. Whether or not it's some sort of Burning Crusade "cataclysm" that re-shapes the 60-70 experience and we re-visit outland, or if it's a full blown Argus assault and putting an end to the legion once and for all.
Why bother keeping a corpse alive for the next 10+ years with a influx of players every now and then when you can create an entirely new juggernaut?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Because WoW is probably just a unique fluke that started at the exact right time to become popular. It doesn't seem unlikely at all that they're worried about killing a cash cow in exchange for a moderate level of success with whatever the successor is.
Man, after having played Snooze Wars 2 it's amazing how superior WoW is in every. single. way. Excluding all the content that was added over the last many years just the snappy controls is like a slice of heaven compared to GW2. You have so much incentive to actually level and gear at least changes while you level. Plus I really, really missed the good ole' quests - So much more relaxing than crappy dynamic events and jumping puzzles. Also art the style of WoW is amazing, so unique and breathtaking even after all these years - Not that sterile, generic looking crap with barely any view distance that other MMOs seem to cling to.
So good to be back, appreciate it even more after having seen an alternative.
So good to be back, appreciate it even more after having seen an alternative.
Because it makes money. D3 has a large audience overlap with WoW but that didn't stop them from 'cannibalizing their audience' and releasing it. We don't even know anything about Titan, which for all we know will be a F2P shooter, and you're assuming Blizzard is going to kill off their 10 million sub cash cow for it when MMOs with 1% of that audience have continued to thrive?
Blizzard will continue to release WoW expansions for another decade, at minimum. Just because you can't think of any ideas for new expansion settings doesn't mean they don't exist. Blizzard has already hit most of the predictable settings for WoW expansions, but there is plenty of stuff left to do. They could try to make concepts like an Emerald Dream or Azshar-focused expansion work. They could do another Burning Legion expansion (or multiple burning legion expansions). They could do something completely new like Pandaria.
Even if Titan is great and eats a large portion of WoW's audience, they will still continue to make WoW expansions.
Learn2read
Member
FYI, the Scenario just came live
Too bad the queue doesn't actually work.
Enosh
Member
premade group worked for eu people try that ^^
Yeah watched a video, looked terrible, but gotta get my stupid vanity item.
There are purples, but not sure where you get them, helmets & weapons/shields.
Edit: Apparently if you solo queue it doesn't group you with people, you do it with npcs.
GasProblem
Member
Huh? You can do a scenario with NPC's? I solo queued but got put in with two other people.
The people I got queued with dc'd before they made it in, so I was alone but with npcs that followed. Stupidly easy.
It does, I solo queued and got hooked up with two other tanks.
It takes like 10 minutes to do and it's non-elite / low-hp mobs. There's no real bosses or anything it's just a group quest. A level 81 could do it.
Holy shit Fall of Theramore is so bad. That was incredibly half assed.
Edit: Its very literally a few easy mob packs followed by some Jaina dialog, then a few more mob packs, and Jaina storming off in a huff. Then you get a box with an ilvl 384 epic inside, and you are done.
Wow..... I hated the zombie event, but I would have taken that over this any day.
Edit: Its very literally a few easy mob packs followed by some Jaina dialog, then a few more mob packs, and Jaina storming off in a huff. Then you get a box with an ilvl 384 epic inside, and you are done.
Wow..... I hated the zombie event, but I would have taken that over this any day.
Horde'd it up for you
PRety much this... I hope the other events will be more interesting because frankly, that was terrible
This is probably why they released it a week before the expansion instead of much earlier.
Yes, it's (apparently) disappointing. Fortunately the full expansion comes out in only a week so it doesn't matter much.
Tbh, if it means they spent more time on the permanent 85-90 content instead, I'm okay with the 'launch event' sucking.
Yep. I wish I got some good transmog gear out of it that would look cool, but overall I think you're absolutely right.
Liquid_Bike
Member
This is why we can't have nice things. Everyone complains so much about little inconveniences and now Theramore is what we are stuck with
The DK rampage from Saturday night was way more fun then Theramore in my opinion.
Yeah, same here.
The whole scenario was kinda meh. The Mini Mana Bomb is kinda neat, but that's it.
For Horde, you're basically just performing a feint to distract the Theramore forces. Then shit happens.
Also, I was following this dude around and we ran smack into Jaina's room. Insta-killed us pretty quick. lol
I mean..... just wow, that was so incredibly lazy. What I dont understand is why they waited to release it like this allowing the hype to build.
CrashPrime
Member
is there a wowhead link showing what you get for completing the scenario? i don't feel like logging in unless its cool.
Robin64
Member
Can you post a pic? All I got was an ugly mail helm on my hunter.
Edit: n/m I see it on WoWhead
I've been playing World of Warcraft since 0.6. Third phase of the Beta test. In the seven or so years I've been playing I have never played something so awful.
My god.
Please don't do what someone in trade did and waste the money on a Woodchuck for it.
Horde get a clicky item that throws an arcane bomb. Alliance get a tabard.
eudaemonic
Member
Horde Side:
The blood elf you rescue was a traitor who was supposed to be sent there to help Jaina by one of the members of the Violet Hold. The whole reason their barrier broke to begin with was because he was weakening it for the Horde. He was caught and captured and in the book they say he escaped but not how... (the barrier was just supposed to be a distraction anyways).
I know all that, because I read spoilers for the book. There was zero story in the scenario
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mysteriousmage09
Member
And that everyone, is the send off Theramore gets for getting permanently wiped off the map. That scenario was an insult to the entire WoW community and salt on an open wound for Alliance players. Even with the "it's not a real pre-launch event, it's just a quick scenario" argument, its still a piece of shit. There was simply no thought or effort put into it. It was lifeless and lazy on a whole new scale and to top it off, it takes less then 10 min to clear it. Seriously, the first part of "Escape from Durnholde Keep" where you take out the guards and set the buildings on fire and kill Lieutenant Drake is far better then the entirety of this so called scenario.
Fucking pathetic no matter which way you look at it and everyone that cried a river over the zombie invasion event can piss off.
Fucking pathetic no matter which way you look at it and everyone that cried a river over the zombie invasion event can piss off.
A tabard that summon a Theramore banner.
CrashPrime
Member
Nice, thanks.
Looks like I better do this on my rogue. http://www.wowhead.com/item=90033 = only the 2nd non-mainhand dagger in the game to use a sword model. Transmog importance going forward.
eudaemonic
Member
I know all that, because I read spoilers for the book. There was zero story in the scenario
What are you talking about? That Blood Elf had at least five lines of dialog. :\
But yeah... I saw a wall of yellow-ish text and I was killing dudes and not reading through it.
On the Horde side, it also doesn't come anywhere near setting up what's to come with Cairne and Garosh and other members of the Horde. I was seriously hoping to see more of an internal conflict in the run. Otherwise, I felt nothing.
Most of the game I'm treated as a special cow who contributes to the best of the Horde. This is an instance where I just felt like a peon and out of the loop.
What are you talking about? That Blood Elf had at least five lines of dialog. :\
But yeah... I saw a wall of yellow-ish text and I was killing dudes and not reading through it.
On the Horde side, it also doesn't come anywhere near setting up what's to come with Cairne and Garosh and other members of the Horde. I was seriously hoping to see more of an internal conflict in the run. Otherwise, I felt nothing.
Most of the game I'm treated as a special cow who contributes to the best of the Horde. This is an instance where I just felt like a peon and out of the loop.
A peon who almost got murdered by his own faction, yet you're supposed to hate the alliance going into MoP. Hmmm....
RPGCrazied
Member
The scenario...
Not bad. Short, but that is not what bugs me. What bugs me is the loot at the end. 4 runs all I got was fireworks. The last run I did, the box vanished and I got nothing. Come on, I don't want to have to do this a million times for an item.
The bomb is cool, but get rid of the cool down, and let it hurt at least mobs.. even if for 1 dmg or something.
Not bad. Short, but that is not what bugs me. What bugs me is the loot at the end. 4 runs all I got was fireworks. The last run I did, the box vanished and I got nothing. Come on, I don't want to have to do this a million times for an item.
The bomb is cool, but get rid of the cool down, and let it hurt at least mobs.. even if for 1 dmg or something.
mysteriousmage09
Member
Why the hell do you care about the ilvl 384 items when Panda greens will replace everything 10 min into the expansion?