"As much as I hate the topic here, it should happen. World of Warcraft has been going on for more than 5 years, has the graphics and engine of the previous generation's systems, and other than fueling Blizzard with embarrassing amounts of cocaine money, has no real purpose in gaming anymore."
No real purpose in gaming? As opposed to the million of push-button-sequence games out there like Rock Band and Guitar Hero? No offense to either but this game has made (is still making) a greater stride towards national connectivity and social networking that any other game could even dream of achieving. I would MUCH rather "fuel Blizzard with embarrazzing amounts of cocaine money" for HOURS and HOURS and HOURS of new content rather then "fuel Activision with embarrazzing amounts of cocaine money" for minutes of new content.
As for the "previous generation graphics", did you ever think that its the only set of graphics that everyone can handle on there PC's without having to go out and buy this amazing ass computer to play it on? I can think of 10 games off the top of my head that people needed nice computers for just to even render the graphics. They are simply making it an easier interface for everyone while maintaining a beautiful environment. If that sounds unfair than I apologize for everyone here who cant got out and buy the next generation of graphics rendering just because we have something called bills and families.
"It was a fun romp through the beautiful forests, and interesting terrain when I played, but was considerably better when 60 was the cap, still fun, but slightly tedious when 70 was the cap, and now feels like it's moving into Sonic and Mario land with WOTLK and Cata. Wow really needs to die."
So you credit it and then remove that credit by giving no reason for it needing to die other than you feel like it's moving into Sonic and Mario land. The problem with Sonic and Mario being bad was the content, not the direction. Any Mario and Sonic game could have been sooo much better if it was made with more care. As much care as they put into WoW.
"Not that we should remove blizzard's massive money erection, but maybe they should make a sequel, with a better engine, or maybe they should take starcraft into MMO land, or maybe they should do something else other than spend 90% of their funds on making this game shine."
What you're saying here is end the original WoW, slap all of its players in the face and make them start over in a sequel? Rediculous. That's the reason for all of the expansions! They dont want the players do to do all of this shit and then lose an entire community by just saying "LOLZ we gotz ta upgrade the graf on dis. start over.". No.
90% of there funds?
Tell that to Starcraft 2.
Tell that to Diablo 3.
They're even merging accounts with battle.net because of Starcraft 2's online play.
Starcraft 1 servers are still up! people still play it because of user map settings!
Now, when SC2 comes out (if it has user map settings), there will be soooo much more
online play.
There is no need for them to "make this game shine". It sparkles just fine.
"Warcraft 3 and WOW are all they've done over the past decade and it wasn't until a year or two ago that they said "Oh by the way! We're also probably maybe working on trying to begin to start a possible sequel to Diablo2 and Starcraft possibly maybe...""
So? It's better than making alot of horrible choices on rushing games to the market for
a quick buck and then having a community that you worked so hard on building hate you.
Look at all the damn star wars games there are.
Its the reason they stopped making Starcraft: Ghost.
"So, when do you think will Blizzard sever the line between themselves and WOW? Will it still be going in a decade, or do you (like me) feel that the new expansions and patches are needless polishes on a game that's worn down and old?"
Sever the line? Why would they do that?
They dont look at a game for its simple qualities like Next-gen graphics or
just some new gimmick that comes out. They look at WoW the entity of people that
it has become. This game will be around for as long as either (A) enough people play it or
(B) they can maintain the servers. Which, by my observation will be a long time.
Im under the impression that the topic creator plays alot of games that are for cheap thrills.
Console games more specifically. Im not putting them down, but there a difference in the Left 4 Dead community on PC than there is on Xbox 360.On PC it's all about content.
