#personally next year I will be playing the dragonflight content for free because fuck paying for another wow expansion

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I have heavy doubts that World of Warcraft committing 3 expansions/6 years to a storyline is a good idea, given their very hit-and-miss track record. Imagine if they'd been like 'get ready for our 6 year EPIC SAGA - it's called Battle For Azeroth!', and consider why I doubt it's a good plan.

It could be good. Maybe if it means they can put more thought into it instead of rushing out a complete expansion every 2 years. But...it's Blizzard so probably not. They are the 'cool idea in theory, shit execution' company. More likely rushing out 3 expansions as normal that happen to be directly related narratively, right?

Thrall featuring heavily though? Always cool. Earthern dwarf land? Pretty cool. Anduin looks like he's finally gone through puberty, which is good. (Although I've already seen someone saying 'wah they've made him UGLY'. Adult woman, if your definition of ugly is someone believably aging older than a 14 year-old boy, and they have some facial hair, facial lines, and short hair, while still being a conventionally attractive man, that sounds like a solid you problem.)

Are the Earthern that hype though as another Dwarf allied race reskin? Are the Nerubians really a compelling, exciting idea for the main villains in an expansion, rather than just forgettable side enemies until now? Could be cool I guess? You know the art team's gonna knock it out of the park as usual, so the zones should be great looking.

Not a great fan of the prospect of Arachnids: The Expansion, though, in the 'stop-putting-fucking-spiders-in-every-zone' game.

Apparently Chris Metzen's back involved, so maybe that'll help?

All-in-all, just the usual case of 'this thing WoW's doing will probably be disappointing garbage, but might on the offchance be good'.

HOWEVER

THEY'RE REALLY GOING TO PROGRESS CLASSIC TO CATACLYSM CLASSIC??

Who's going to fucking want that? Actually who? Cataclysm, the expansion universally considered shit. Cataclysm, the exact expansion that reworked the whole old world, making the original Azeroth extinct. Cataclysm, the expansion where those reworked zones are still the ones in the current game, unchanged, so what's the fucking point?

Wrath of the Lich King was the end of classic WoW because of that overhaul. They're going to replace Wrath Classic, and once again the original old world questing experience will be gone, and the only way people will be able to experience that will be private servers.

The private servers that were popular and Blizzard didn't like it so they shut them down then made Classic because of the amount of interest and now they're going to do the same shit they did on Live and create the same situation again and the private servers will become necessary again anD ARE THEY FUCKING STUPID?