![]() Or I could take an old character and re-explore some of those old locations for a hit of nostalgia. I knew if I started a new character, I’d be seeing the same content I'd seen a few years ago. It was fun to see new takes on old territory, but it also upended that comfortable familiarity, so reliable for so long.īefore Cataclysm, World of Warcraft felt a bit like home to me. The titular cataclysm reshaped huge areas of the world that had remained mostly unchanged for six years. Not only did it add new areas to explore in the game, just like the past two expansions had, it was the developers’ opportunity to dig back into the old content and rework it. Three years earlier, in 2010, the World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm came out. It was still home, but it wasn’t exactly the home I remembered. I was treated more like a special guest than the staple resident I was used to being. My parents got some new furniture in the back room by the deck, and things just felt different. The first weekend I came back home after being away at college for a couple months was the first time my house didn’t feel like my normal home. Home was also my desk, my computer, and the game I poured hundreds of hours into year after year: World of Warcraft. The reality, in any case, can never live up to that old idea we hold in our hearts.įor a while, home wasn’t just my house and my family, or my room on the second floor with the window facing east that let the sun light up my bed as it rose over the house next door. Sometimes home gets painted a new color, or a piece of home is lost entirely. Sometimes the people that made it feel like home move away. Home changes - sometimes physically, sometimes spiritually. ![]() ![]() Realistically, I think they’ll just start to roll it over.You can’t go home again, as the author Thomas Wolfe famously wrote, because home is never what it used to be. As for me, although it would be a ton of work, I think the separate expansion strategy would be the most amicable for everyone. Or they have a tentative plan they were going to unleash in November that was going to be divisive. It’s really tricky, and I bet Blizzard is crunching a ton of numbers right now. From then on, every few years, expansions and patches would cycle in until the game is “modern” again (with the “main” version of the game multiple expansions ahead). As in, Burning Crusade takes over entirely and morphs the game leaving “Vanilla” in the dust. We could also get a full incremental rollover of WoW Classic. In this hypothetical, Burning Crusade servers (and so on) would be separate from “Classic Vanilla,” so the original experience can be preserved in a living time capsule. Given the high demand for both BC and Wrath of the Lich King (arguably the two most popular expansions), getting some form of expansion access is likely in the cards. Or, Blizzard could incrementally add separate “expansion” servers for future xpacs, starting with Burning Crusade. The publisher seems to still be happy with how it’s performing, augmenting and funneling into the modern WoW subscription base (remember, one sub gets you both versions): so this could propel Blizzard through another year or so, minimum. This is a rather risky venture, as the playerbase would likely slowly dwindle, doing the same thing over and over. Instead, we’ll likely get it in February during Blizzard’s BlizzCon Online festivities.īut before that happens, what do you want from WoW Classic?īlizzard could keep the “Vanilla Classic” feel the same and isolated. So what’s next? Well, we probably would have gotten that news this past November if BlizzCon would have happened. As we reported recently, World of Warcraft Classic is quietly nearing the end of its major content cadence.
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