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Another Warcraft RTS?

posted 2008/11/26 at 6:30 PM by Skyfire

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They could create an RTS based on, say, the first three or four expansions of WoW. Warcraft V could be an RTS based on the next three. You see where I'm going with this, of course.

They may build a prequel to WoW — say, the War of the Ancients, or any of the 10,000 years between then and present.

Blizzard could restrict the current workings of WoW after Wrath and continue on from where they are presently with an RTS. This is the least likely, since WoW is so popular, and it seems unlikely that they would cut off progression in WoW to facilitate the creation of a new, unproven game. Making more expansions for WoW is also more cost-effective, since they don't really have to make a completely new game (a new expansion, but that's just adding to the code for the current WoW, rather than coding a new engine and such).

It could be in the far, far future and having nothing to do with the current timeline. This is probably the second least likely, as it spoils the current timeline for us. :)

It would be set on other planets with other races; a Warcraft IV could explore the titans or the nathrezim or what not. This seems unlikely in the perspective that Blizzard probably shouldn't abandon the races we already know and love (and we all love the night elves, don't we???), but otherwise, could work.

How would you do it?

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Comment by Skyfire Your wall of green overwhelms me! =D

One subscription for two games would be required imo although it'd probably get knocked up to maybe $20 a month.Part of me is biased as I've known lots of friends leave the game (or at least disappear from my radar) and most of my remaining in game friends have been playing since day one, not since expansion two. So my personal experience is of people leaving, not of them signing up--although I know that's the case for many thousands of new players.I'll admit that I'm blowing hot air a little here... I'm not a lore buff.Of course, the whole thing is Blizzards IP and they're more than creative to make something up that not only works but works well.extremely honestly, I doubt I'll care what will happen. I have a lot of faith in Blizzard by now--after years of playing their games religiously--and I'm sure I'll be loving the future games whatever they are and whenever they may be released.Comment by Slyfox101 Problem:

The only unknown game in development is a next-gen MMO

/endthread Comment by Skyfire Problem: The only unknown game in development is a next-gen MMO

/endthreadComment by b4e7z what i do know is that blizzard stated just before the release of BC, quite some time ago, that any game following wc3 would exclude events that happend in wow, thus making players go and kill illidan and stuff..

dont know if this is still like it since many things changed regarding wow/wc staff etc...

we´ll see ^^ Comment by Arkaen
humans for 3k some odd years.Comment by Skyfire
humans for 3k some odd years.Comment by ltfudge Really I think Blizzard would let WoW fizzle out first, as it will inevitably, and then they'll make a WCIV set a few years after whenever WoW ends. It wouldn't be like them to make a game set so far in the past, because they don't want to tell a story that's already been told. The developers want to create new lore, not make a game based off of things already established. If there's any reinvention of the War of the Ancients then it will be told in the form of a movie, if the Blizzard movies get off the ground. WCIV would probably be the headway into the next-gen mmo, which I can see easily being WOW2. WoW may have one more expansion left it in, whether it open water content or the Emerald Dream, I don't know, but after everyone reaches end game at 90 I think most gamers will be ready to quit and have something else. So I see the next two-three years as the fizzling out of WoW, and WCIV could be on the horizon by 2012. Which I personally look forward to, as a big fan of RTS and the other WC games. I then see WoW reinventing itself for a new generation of gamers, unless a World of Starcraft dominates the scene. Comment by eddy656 WCIV could be on the horizon by 2012. Comment by GenXCub Warcraft: Keeper of Time

You're a member of the bronze dragonflight fixing time against the infinite dragonflight.

Then you don't have to worry as much about continuity, and can even build a new continuity on this part of the lore, which seemed to have dropped off the map. Comment by smidgen Personally i think they should remake WC1 with better graphics and gameplay, I never got to play that one, but it sounds quite interesting.

Second choice go ages back in time like The Sundering or The war Of The Ancients. Comment by Flameborn You should take into consideration that time travel is now possible in WoW thanks to the Bronze Dragonflight (of course due to infernal meddlings of the Infinite Dragonflight...). That in means in a split-second (Faster than you can say "Flame Wreath! Nobody moves! Oh shi-... ) we can have an all-out war that can last a millenia and in no way it would affect the ongoing WoW experience...Its cheesy but possible

(Edit : wrote this before I read what GenXCub said...he beat me to it :) ) Comment by Hunterkllrb I know mmo's that that have been for over 10 years, that aren't anywhere near as popular as WoW, and they are still updating, and being successful and stuff.
WoW could still last for a long while, but it is most likely that it will be looking very different from the WoW we know now.

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