FFXIV Endwalker expansion closes the Hydaelyn and Zodiark story arc, and now Blizzard is claiming WoW 9.2 finishes a story that dates back to Warcraft 3. Are these two things connected?
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WoW narrative: Sort answer, SUCKS…! And it really a same too. The warcraft universe has so much content that could be used, but alas, the "main devs" of the company right now just fail it all together as the seem to have "more important things" to do than do their ACTUAL FREAKING JOBS…!!
At this point, i am wondering if they dare to go and start charging Acollonn and Noble, and any other warcraft lore youtuber, so they would be allowed to make their lore videos…
I don't believe that 9.2 being the "end of a saga" was planned as an counter to Endwalker. Basically I think this was planned before endwalker's announcement.
However. I do believe that the language used was intended to draw parallels between the two announcements.
I'm pretty certain a good portion of that development team didn't know there was an end to this saga with in a patch as well.
Your right rurikan it was just a tree no one ever really went to…..but that's part of the problem. You can go to any hub in FFXIV and there will be players there doing content because there is always something to do.
Hey, thanks for reacting to the video! Your insights were hilarious.
Wish I could offer you some tears, but the way the writers handled Teldrassil… I honestly couldn't care less 😉
Ffxiv told us a story. Wow told us they told us a story
Come on, man. If you're willing to say that Blizzard would align release dates to counter other game release dates, why wouldn't they do this? Of course they would. This expansion's big bad that you just learned about, who somehow is connected waaaaay back to Warcraft 3? Well, it's coming to an end in a finale! They are for sure pulling a fast one and have given up on this story, because it's ass. I loved Warcraft 3 and Wrath, but this is a stretch, dude.
I don’t believe for a second that Blizzard is coincidentally ending a Saga then very same season FF XIV is releasing Endwalker. Not a chance in hell.
I really need to stop watching any WoW related content. It's gone from genuine curiosity as to what's going on after quitting the game, to morbid curiosity of how big of a dumpster fire it could become, to just being straight up exhausting and depressing.
Oi! I'm from Gridania! 😂🤣
The divide between the real or made-up "ending a saga from Warcraft 3" is basically the divide between whether they are delusionally egotistic or just vile.
I think it's both. They believe the grandioseness of their project and how everything they do is the pinnacle of the Warcraft name, but also they are lying, because having a definite end to something is the opposite how they do things in this game. Always locked in for engagement, always hyping up the next patch, always just at a milestone for the next milestone and retroactively changing that should be stable part of the lore.
Also, words are cheap, Blizzard's words have even less of a worth. Everyone knows that the devs mouth are sealed shut by NDA's and marketing department red tape, so everything that comes out of it publicly is saturated with PR to the brim.
What is with your hate for trees??
Eternity’s Endwalker 😛
Arthas will be in the patch so yeah it is a WC3 ending TBH – at the same time they are marketing this way to try and compete with FF for sure.
We knew End Walker was going to be the end around mid post patch heavensward. We just at the the time didnt know how soon. Yoshi p been teasing the end for that long.
And that was over the dev blogs with one line sentences each tease.
Oh damn, Fortnite is ending their chapter 2 storyline in Dec too.
Remember when they did the W3 reforge reveal , when they said they were gonna rework the story , also known as retcon , to make it fit with wow.
Yeah now i think i know why. And i also think i know why they didn't go through.
I didn't hear a substantive counter argument to how they aren't doing this in direct response to Endwalkers and other games like GW2 also doing an ending. This end of a saga was completely out of their ass and only now is it announced, well after FFXIV and GW2 have pushed their narrative endings. Yeah no Blizzard is just scraping together what ever bullshit they can to keep with the trends and be part of the club.
I feel they thought on calling it a conclusion of a saga to start 10.0 ultra fresh, and think of it as a new start, so they are rushing either way
To be fair, wow always end the story with each expansion. They can’t write well enough to have a story over multiple expansions. However, saying it started in WC3 is ridiculous
I can tolerate them screwing up characters like Sylvanas or look over delivering a weak narrative for an expansion. But the moment they decided "hey so we are gonna retcon the one game a lot of lore fans loved and many people started playing WoW for in the first place for its story", as if the scam that was Warcraft 3 Refunded wasn't a low blow already, that's the moment it just doesn't matter anymore if they somehow manage to make a good expansion or fix their game in the future, the story is "dead" and therefore the franchise in general might as well be. There is just no going back now.
11:00 — So, I was about to write something elaborate about the points but it seems you're not interested so I wont bother.
Same shit like 343 did to the halo franchise. Lets just make BOOKS!!!
I agree with burning down Gridania. The elves are stuck up assholes.
I mean, Warcraft was originally intended to be a Warhammer game until they had to change stuff around when they couldn't get permission.
I totally believe that they would look at Final Fantasy and say "hey, that end of an era thing sounds pretty cool, why don't we do that?".
Not Gridania !
I remember back in the BFA Prepatch, when the War of the Thorns scenario was still live. I was a Horde player and I was *honking pissed*. I wanted something that could actually genuinely split the playerbase. Something where you genuinely don't know who is in the right.
I suggested on reddit: have her fire a warning shot, or begin the seige. Her intention would be not to destroy the tree, but to besiege it, and hold the citizens hostage. It all goes wrong, however, when one of the shots hits a seemingly innocuous warehouse in Darnassus… the warehouse storing the Azerite the Alliance has been stockpiling, and waiting to ship to the Eastern Kingdoms…
And that resulting explosion nearly rips the tree in half.
Sylvanas and the gathered Horde leaders look on in horror at what just happened… and she gives the order to fall back, and prepare the Undercity for a seige. The Alliance will be coming for us.
If the story had played out like this, there would be players genuinely on both sides. People condemning the attack by the Horde. People saying The Alliance shouldn't have been stockpiling Azerite like that. Like the Horde was afraid would happen. With this story beat, there would be grey areas, and we could have had people genuinely split on this issue.
What did we get instead? Our genocide waifu said "burn it!"
The Warcraft 3 story ended in WotLK. Them saying that this is the end of a story arc and trying their attempt at something like a live letter with the 9.2 dev video is just them trying to parrot FF14's recent success after they realized that trying to copy Marvel wasn't working for most people.
As Clispe and Pharrell said, "Everybody meet Mr. Metoo"
100% a desperate reaction to endwalker.