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Blizzard confirmed: Turalyon and Alleria Windrunner involved in next Xpac!!!!
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Blizzard confirmed: Turalyon and Alleria Windrunner involved in next Xpac!!!
Blizzplanet has just updated a small news post about the MoP launch event, where Chris Metzen took questions from fans about the game.
He confirmed that Turalyon and Alleria Windrunner will return in the next expansion of World of Warcraft.
this looks like great news for warcraft 2 fans!
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Was just getting ready to post that no one will remember he said that in two years.
I want a mmorpg where people have gone through misery, have gone through school stuff and actually have had sex even. -sagil
Aren't you just a ray of sunshine.
Someone give this guy a tissue and some Pepto-Bismol
It's not much of a fan for World of Warcraft or of anyone who does like it.
That spans two novels. Also see the Elf Paladin not being attacked at Valiance Keep in Hellfire...
This news is good since I always wanted to know what became of Turalyon after reading Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal. However, I will only be interested in playing if WoW changes it's gameplay which is unfair but I just can't play the model anymore.
IIRC when they announced MOP they also said that they will be increaisng the frequency of expansions combined with lower price points per expansion, it seems to me that Blizzard is exploring or prepairing it self to go "F2P" with frequent paid content patches simmilar to what Turbine is doing. Even if WoW wont go full F2P during its life time I'm pretty sure that Titan will not have a traditional sub since a company like Blizzard which is pretty much branded it self and has its own target audience unlike say SOE which brands its individual IP's. So i really don't see Blizzard wanting to be in a situation where it got 2 games competing for subs from pretty much same pool of players.
Don't be surprised if you'll see another expac releasing 8-10 months down the line, they never talked about any expansions so shortly after releasing one, not to metnion they've started talking publicly about it more than 6 months ago.
Nothing from Blizzard could ever excite me any more until they change their game up. I am tired of that gear threadmill and raiding centric endgame so never again for me.
Ohh and who the hell are those 2 people?
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Blizzard has been trying to have annual expansions for the last 6 years
2006
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/08/24/blizzard-planning-new-wow-expansions-every-year/
Starting with The Burning Crusade, every year thereafter we plan on bringing out a new expansion set - so every 12 months," says Blizzard COO, Paul Sams.
2012
MOP Design Interview
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/interviews/9918-Behind-the-Design-of-WoW-Mists-of-Pandaria
The Escapist: You guys have a lot of content that you're bringing with Mists of Pandaria: the new class, a new race and the whole new continent. How did you balance the workload of getting those all done in the same timeframe as you did all the other ones?
Greg Street: [Laughs] I'm not sure we did in the long run if you look at the current patch 4.3. It lasted a lot longer than I think was ideal for the player base. It would have been great if we had had the expansion out soon and it's just, it's always a hard call of, "Do you want to put so much content in an expansion, because then the expansion's really exciting or do you want to do smaller expansions so the players get them more frequently?" We've said for years that we need to get expansions out more frequently and we've just not been able to pull it off yet.
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They will be killed off by a Horde player either through the Horde player slaughtering them and a couple thousend Alliance soliders single handidly, or from the Horde player throwing an explosive burning poo sack at them. Or they will be evil and loot Pineatas.
Joking pessimissim aside, eh cool I guess. Haven't picked up MoP or even sure I will, but still I guess its cool they're revisiting old characters.
Yeah i know, but judging from the amount of content MOP has, and how quickly they setup players to clear trough it it actually might be plausible that they are trying to pull it off, they never admited to working on expansions just after a release iirc, not to mention they talked about having a full team working on the next one in feb-march this year allready.
i agree - you never know
but Blizzard said something similar right after Cata about faster expansions
May 2011 (before MOP was announced)
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.283002-Blizzard-Hopes-Faster-WoW-Expansions-Will-Halt-Sliding-Subscriptions
"We need to be faster at delivering content to players," Morhaime said. "And so that's one of the reasons that we're looking to decrease the amount of time in between expansions."
"What we have seen so far is that people have been consuming this content very quickly, and so the subscriber levels have decreased [following the release of Cataclysm] faster than in previous expansions," he added.
anything can happen; but the track history speaks for itself
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That might get me back for a while. Pandas on an island, not so much.
Yes but they can leave the island... run RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
This piece of news came out a few years too late to excite me. Back in the BC days I'd be all "OMGWTFBBQ GIVE ME TURALYON NOW!!!!!", as I was still a huge fan of WC2 and its story... but right now?
Blizzard butchered its own Warcraft lore so much it's kinda hard to say I still give a damn.
In agreement here. Played the hell out of the WC sereis games but now the lore is so blah to me and it's hard to get anyway excited about the game lore at all anymore especially since they literally killed Thrall in Cata as in all of a sudden he was a shintao monk where I thought was utterly retarded. WoW has strayed far too much away for the roots of the game lore now.
AMEN MAN AMEN TO THAT!!!!! It's just sad that they did that.
Quality level of Blizzard products went down tremendously *sigh, TBC was the last great xpac.
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