Blizzard has already said there would be another expansion after Cataclysm.


And no to a Free-for-All server. Trade channel should explain why without much more evidence needed.

 

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would be nice but would never happen. its pretty clear that sort of pvp is not even on blizzard's radar and never will be.

I wouldn't be shocked if this ends up being the last xpac for WoW. It all depends on their new mmo I guess.


what blizzard says means nothing as most people here already know.

 

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Practically nothing? Riiiiiight.....

 

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lol, ya I heard Blizzard decided to stop making money.

 

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Yes because not making another xpac for WoW means blizzard isn't working on anything else.

 

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Yes, because I would definitely decide NOT to sell anymore widgets if I had 10 million people in line to buy one.

I would play FFA server. I hate the carebear PVP that we have and they think they are sooo good at it. o_O! You can't even communicate between factions. I can't feed on the tears of that slayed noob at my feet threatening to have me banned because he knows a GM IRL. Lol.

For the TLDR crowd: Not all FFA PvPers are dicks, WoW FFA PvP server would not hurt you and some of us want it.

The claims that all people in favor of FFA PvP are jerks and griefers is about as fair as the generalization that all PvEers are role-playing, lonely proto-nerds that need to kills some dragons on the internet for socialization.

Many of us on Darktide, and in other FFA PvP situations (shadowbane, AoC, while they lasted etc), are Antis that oppose RPKers. Its a more thrilling and authentic PvP experience when you choose to get along with your friends, and give battle to your enemies. Forced and incontrovertible faction loyalty can cause its own form of grief. Tell me true, have you NEVER wanted to roll the trade channel champs, or that guy that totally stole your titanium ore? I like FFA, and I play wow on a PvP server, but I won't kill you if you don't give me a reason. I'm not alone. The presence of douchebags in WoW is ubiquitous. A lot of people on a FFA server would kill you on sight, with a song in their hearts. If that doesn't life your luggage, don't get on the plane! I for one like hunting those little pricks. Frontier justice.

As to the problems of implementation, FFA PvP code already exists ala the gurubashi arena and ring of blood, etc.

All the older MMO historians are pointing to Mordred, and thats fair. But it should be remembered: At its height, did DAOC even reach 1 million subs? WoW is enormous and might have enough interest in it (how could I know for sure?). IF there is, a WoW FFAPvP server would be pretty cool imo. DAoC also offered the best world pvp that imo the genre has ever seen, so that splintered the interest (which was already well established with Mordred came out).

As to balance concerns, I can only laugh. Blizzard and ghostcrawler seem so oblivious to solutions to the problems that already exist I can't see adding one FFA server (that I would be fine with them ignoring, just laissez-fair style 'here it is, player beware) making trouble.

 

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Yeah I think there is going to be a lot of broken hearts a year from now as far as what blizzard does with world of warcraft it's store and subscription plans for certain content.

 

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