@Blizzard: Ideas to revitalize vanilla as an expansion

[ssishtar]

Dear Blizzard, I don't know what happened but you appear to have an idiotic dev team. There is basically no resemblance in what you created in 2005 and what you do now, none, null, nada. There are so many solutions to revitalize WoW Vanilla, only your lazy incapable devs didnt search for them. Why the heck you pay them for, to ruin a brand ?

But enough of this, I will just tell a few ways to bring vanilla back as a "new expansion". Here we go:

1 - Bring back vanilla with the super duper technology that the later expansions have, aka all the eye-candy present in WoD. Nicer textures, etc. Same game, but much better looking. Totally doable. this alone will bring back at least 2 million players who will wanna play Vanilla with the new technology. Another 1 million will follow them just because those 2 millions will say its insanely nice.

2 - Start create content for Vanilla, Diablo 3 has paragon levels that increase only some stats, can work in vanilla too. Arenas could be brought to vanilla, even 1v1 arenas.

3 - Assemble a decent story regarding lore, Metzen can easily write one where everything that happened AFTER Vanilla was in fact some Emerald Dream illusion that put everybody to sleep, he'll just think of something, its not brain surgery really. So basically all expansions were just a dream. Therefore, you can continue the story/game with Arthas alive and Illidan alive. Do you realise the huge potential of Arthas and Illidan alive can bring ? We're back again in saddle, baby ! Who knows whats gonna happen next with those 2 mofos alive and kicking !

(my note: killing both Arthas and Illidan, both extremely popular characters basically killed the whole story. WoW without Arthas and Illidan = nono. And no, we dont want the angel ilidan or arthas, we want the real thing we grew up with)

4- No matter what, stick to max lvl 60 and add tiers that could be cleared only by achieving bigger Paragon levels. Remember how you did with ICC buffs to help guilds clear? Same thing only smarter smile emoticon And imagine, this way even noob guilds at one point will be able to clear AQ40/naxx, since they will just brute force them. Make those Paragon levels REALLY slow to be gained.

(my note: one of the biggest stupidities made in wow, on same tier with "resilience", was to create new worlds like Outland, Northrend and etc. This diluted the population, forced the company to go cross realm and crap like this. Vanilla only needed some extra Paragon levels and more content at lvl 60.

This was just a few my mind found in 10 minutes. I guess a full board of devs could actually find more lol. Or not, thinking at all these crap expansions that were forced down our throats for 10 bloody years... The funny thing is that what I wrote here is 10x smarter than what they did, yet I am not a millionaire smile emoticon

P.S. If I would be the admin of this page, I would forward this to someone in the dev team /Morhaime, Metzen, GC, somebody with enough brains to understand it and with enough self criticism to realise that what I just wrote here could bring hundreds of millions of dollars and its at least 10x time smarter than all the expansions combined;)

[Mryul]

please dont.


they need to make a vanilla progression server, and then NOT touch it. AT ALL.

all the ways a single blizz dev could "add" something to a vanilla server already gives me nightmares

1...2..3... we have cash shop, lfg teleport, name change, faction change..





idc what they do with the retail version

[Halcyon702]

Easiest for them to just say, "Hey remember those bad guy time-dragons, now theyre attacking the past and you have to save the future".

Opens the door for new content also, paragon levels type thing might be good if it doesnt go to infinity or melee would just go nuts. Ive always wanted more world pvp incentive similar to DAOC, territory or relic type goals, people would prolly be down for some new things and some redundancy fixes as long as it doesnt change the spirit of the game.

[Mryul]

they can do that with retail, not legacy servers

[ssishtar]

You dont get it, it would be "untouched". what I wrote here would happen only after it ends, after you clear naxx or at least reach naxx. no vanilla experience would be altered or touched at all, its just an idea to be able to continue the original story, despite of the idiotic changes that they already did.

currently, blizzard needs a get out of jail card, so they can go back at roots and reset the stupidities they created and reset them for good.

[Mryul]

people dont want anything after naxx. they want to keep everything as is.

they can experiment with retail

[ssishtar]

people dont want anything after naxx. they want to keep everything as is.

they can experiment with retail

dont tell me that you were not disappointed when you walked out of azeroth and you went outland or nothrend or dunno where. dont tell me that you wouldnt've prefer that the story would've continue after naxx. I for example, as a player who actually seen Kelthuzad dead in 2006, was sad it was ending and I had to go Outland in search of a total different animal.

my point is: expansions are bad for games like vanilla where the perfection is achieved in the 1st version. the only thing a dev team can do is to just try to make that game better, without altering it and only by ADDING things to it, things that can be withdrawn at any point if they dont succeed.

morale: what I wrote here are all things that would leave your beloved vanilla completely intact, same experience, same everything, only provide a continuity after naxx.

[Baaja]

WoW needs the Final Fantasy XIV treatment i.e. do a 2.0/A Realm Reborn and revitalize the game and make it how it should be.

[ssishtar]

WoW needs the Final Fantasy XIV treatment i.e. do a 2.0/A Realm Reborn and revitalize the game and make it how it should be.

^this

[Marcas]

They could move Hyjal to open up in vanilla after Naxx. That would keep classic going. They could unlock other zones in the same way.