Recently, World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas was interviewed by players and made some explanations on where the nostalgic suit WLK went. Ion said that the development team wants to listen to the players' opinions and will consider launching a new and redesigned version of the nostalgic service, and the players have their own choices.
Blizzard is considering a new retro suit follow-up
Asmongold asks:
"Now Wrath of the Lich King is coming out, and it's clear that it's on the right track... And then what? What do you think will happen after that? ”
Ion Hazzikostas replied:
"At this point, we'd love to hear from the players and the community as a whole on what people want to do next. We have a group of players who make nostalgia their home, and many have brought their characters from 60 nostalgia to Burning Expedition and possibly continue on to Wrath of the Lich King.
When it's all over, when you defeat the Lich King — sorry, when you kill Hayion, the ultimate leader of the Lich King's Wrath, you can't forget the Red Jade Temple — do you want to start over? Do you want to try a different version? Do you want to take your character into a new adventure? ”
"I guess a lot of people talk about Cataclysm and say, 'Oh, that's the end of World of Warcraft.
But I'll ask some interesting questions: What did you not like about Cataclysm?
Is it a hero dungeon?
Is the Land of Fire a bad regiment?
Is Twilight Heights a bad area?
Is it because of the random copy and random group book from the beginning?
Is it the problem of compressing the Talent Tree?
What would it look like if we were to tear down and redo these unlikable contents of the CTM? ”
Nostalgic suit PLUS
At present, the biggest call of the Warcraft community is "Nostalgia Costume PLUS", that is to say, the new content in the classic nostalgic world uses a different timeline from the original World of Warcraft, which is equivalent to developing a new parallel universe version of the nostalgic suit.
In fact, the plot and world setting of the expansion pack "Cataclysm" are not too much of a problem, and it is equivalent to completing some of the content left over from the 60s, such as Seamount, O'Danm, Grimbaato, etc., many of which are areas that have not been explained in the old world. Blizzard uses Death's Wish to change the landscape to tell the story of what happened on these maps.
But the reason why the CTM version has become a turning point in the transition from prosperity to decline of World of Warcraft is because there are too many game mechanics that have been criticized by players, and the idea may be good, but it is not fun.
The first thing that needs to be changed is the 5H at the beginning, and the outrageous difficulty dissuaded a wave of players at the beginning of the version.
The second is that CTM changed the 10-man and 25-member groups that were originally complementary in the WLK to a common CD and dropped, which directly led to the decline of the 25-man group and the large guilds. This is arguably the most failed change in the history of Warcraft.
In the end, the change of the talent tree also made the player very unhappy, and they had to point to the 31 points of one department to order other systems, which gradually evolved into deleting the talent tree and switching to a specialization switch, and choosing 1 out of 3 in each row. These were later shown to be uninteresting, and in 10.0 the Dragon Age Talent Tree was about to return.
World of Warcraft began to decline in the number of player subscriptions after entering the Cataclysm version, as shown in the following figure:
At present, the cancellation of random copies of the WLK nostalgic service is a major attempt by the nostalgic service team to make changes. If cataclysm nostalgic clothes are really going to be released, then Blizzard will definitely have to do a survey first, asking the community and players, "What content do you like?" "Then make a comprehensive consideration based on the player's feedback on the investigation questions.
Only by tearing down and redoing the original CTM and starting the real Nostalgic Warcraft 2.0 route can the nostalgic suit continue to be done.
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