People will not accept dated graphics indefinitely. In the long run, this is probably for the best as I believe both models are incompatible and lack cohesion as currently implemented in WoW1. I have a feeling that this is exactly what Blizzard intends to be the future for WoW1. I’ve written extensively on this unfortunate trend. Here are a few more reasons why I think Blizzard is working on WoW2:īefore our eyes, the very nature of WoW is changing from PVE to PVP e-sport. Could the same thing be happening right now with WoW? This had disastrous ramifications on the quality of EverQuest as their “A” team moved to EQ2 and the original EQ was left with their “B” team who ended up producing their worst expansions in EQ history such as Gates of Discord and Omens of War. Among other things, I charged that SOE had purposely gimped EverQuest by taking away precious development dollars and was secretly funding EverQuest 2. In 2004 before the infamous EverQuest Guild Summit, I penned an open letter to SOE. History has a funny way of repeating itself in the video game industry. The answer: I honestly believe that the sequel to WoW, World of Warcarft 2 is currently being designed and scoped out if not in some form of pre-production. We also know that Vivendi is using the profits to subsidize their other enterprises. Still, those things don’t account for all of the money. What then are they doing with those profits if they are not being spent on the game? Of course we know they are siphoning off WoW subscribers dollars to fund Starcraft II, Diablo III and a mysterious unannounced console MMO. It’s pretty obvious that they have not invested that money back into WoW given problems such as a disgruntled playerbase, infrequent content updates, ridiculously long expansion development cycle, long-standing server instability, and an understaffed customer service department. The reason I started thinking about it is the fact that Blizzard made over $520 million in profits from WoW in 2007. About a week ago, I started pondering the question: is Blizzard working on WoW 2 yet? Sure enough, Tobold the resident Nostradamus of the MMO world just posted a thought provoking article on that very subject.
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