Continue the ninth week of the World of Warcraft version 9.2, partners who do not have a suit do not forget to go to the Metamorphosis Garden to change a suit, the effect of the two-piece set is still very powerful.
Back to the point, the other day, Blizzard released a promotional animation for the new expansion pack Age of Dragons. It is not difficult for careful partners to find that in terms of plot development, the new "Dragon Age" and the existing "Shadow Country" do not seem to have any hard connection, and such a "broken file" design will never appear in the past.
Why is the new expansion pack doing this for the first time? Personal analysis is as follows;
1. The more the plot develops, the more "paste", simply wave shuffle
For glory, for the sake of fooling you Mother Earth all the time, for the sake of the tribe, for the sake of the alliance, for the sake of Azeroth! All in all, in any previous version, before the foot men and women set off, there would be a 100% slogan that would give the players a wave of brainwashing operations. This is Blizzard's tried-and-true design, and the execution of this design is naturally a needle-like plot.
But the problem is that this line has been pulled for too long, one pull is more than twenty years, and until now, it is completely the existence of nothing without a head and tail. And the game feeling that translates into a player is "Who am I?" Where am I? What have I done? Anyway, it is a confused existence.
unbelief? Casually combine a few popular NPCs for example, and everyone will experience what it means not to play cards according to common sense;
The faithless Viren: "Holy Light? It's a hammer! I won't even tell me who my son is, and I don't remember this vendetta for a hundred thousand years." Player: Vidikal is not shouting at you!
The lonely tall and handsome rich: "Bye bye, I went to play chess with Old Master Sagras, and I am not sure that I can still set some secrets out." Hunter: The boss is not there, T0 is not guaranteed.
Sylvanas Windwalker: "You're all crap!" Ah, I'm sorry, reckless, I went to the wall of the abyss." Night Elf: That's the end of it?
King Sarufar: "Right, right! Two or five boys, I am the two or five boys in your mouth! Nothing wrong at all! What? What can I do? "Player: ...
Little Watt King: "Avenge the Night Elves?" I'm sorry, Xiao Wang, I don't have that kung fu! Hey, what's going on? How can the more you look at the face of the Windwalker, the more enduring it becomes? ”
Gianna: "Sal this man, I see the line!" Well, Blue Dragon, I can see it too! ”
See no, no one is serious, and none of them can pick it up! Let this wave of people pick a new version of the plot beam, then the World of Warcraft must not close the door to blame.
So, Blizzard simply came to wave tore it down and redo. Although the effect is immediate, the corresponding problems also exist. It's like after watching the promotional animation of the new expansion pack, many players will have several questions popping up in their minds: "Give me a reason to go over there?" Don't say a word for the sake of Azeroth? ”
Blizzard: Don't ask, just ask for Azeroth.
2, novice players are too scarce, can only use the inherent classic gameplay to stimulate the old players who have fallen off
To say that scarcity is to be exaggerated! As an authentic old game, after more than ten years of experience, the novice players I have met are really few.
New players are almost none, and old players have various reasons and various postures to fall off, so you don't have to think about it to know that its corresponding gamer group is naturally getting smaller and smaller. Eggs can't be put in a basket Li'er Blizzard also knows, but the problem is that the other products in the family bucket are not in contention, thinking about it, I have to work the World of Warcraft.
What do old players like? Like the simplicity of the old world, OK, then make a big world for players to explore and reminisce. Love the colorful nature of the Talent Tree? OK, then make a more diverse talent tree for you to point! Like professional manufacturing? Yes! The experience of more work and more will also be implemented...
Speaking of which, many players must ask, what about the Reduced Talent Grid, which has been in several versions for several years? What about some majors that have already abandoned several versions? Doesn't it all say that good is a design that weakens the threshold for novices?
Blizzard: Where did the newbies come from? Don't open which pot to mention which pot line?
Finally, I would like to say that although the new expansion pack is suspected of being out of file in the past of the plot and the design of the gameplay, it is not really a file break, after all, the new expansion pack is still connected with some of the inherent old versions. Also, some of the gameplay from the existing version will be carried over to the new expansion pack.
To put it bluntly, for the peak era of World of Warcraft, players miss it, and Blizzard also misses it. Although it took a long circle and returned to the starting point, the obsession of always seeking a breakthrough in the process cannot be ignored and despised from beginning to end.
Finally, a few words, that is, recently there have been players who have asked when "Dragon Age" will be launched? Personal speculation is mid-April 2023, and the reasons include the following;
The launch time of the old version is mostly about 350 days after the conference (up and down 50), in view of some non-resistance factors, the orientation right float, that is, 400 days (don't forget that there is a follow-up 9.25). Of course, if the player is desperately urged, then the large online test link is also likely to appear.
Well, today's content will be talked about here first, tomorrow will not see or disperse, Bye~