Ghostcrawler's Cataclysm Post Mortem

[JohnGabriel]

I almost wish they'd stop this game here and just make WoW2.

[Ualaa]

I almost wish they'd stop this game here and just make WoW2.

They could make a wow2, but if they didn't continue the existing wow, I don't see it going too far.

Basically, they would be saying everything you did up to now counts for nothing.
And "x" years from now, we'll make a wow3 and discontinue wow2... meaning everything you did in wow2 was also a waste of time.




Ignoring that playing a game doesn't really get you much outside of the game, and enjoyment of the game is the only real purpose...
IE, playing wow or watching tv or reading a book are equal wastes/good uses of time.

The continuity of the game, or the improvement of your character over time.
The gaining of achievements, titles, or just beating encounters that were too hard at one point but doable later.
That's the benefit of the game.
Over time those add up.

Canceling the game, say its over and you won or lost, that defeats the whole purpose of an ongoing RPG.




I'm not saying make wow2 is a good idea or a bad idea.
Just that canceling wow1 would likely kill wow2 before it started.

[kate]

They could make a wow2, but if they didn't continue the existing wow, I don't see it going too far.

Basically, they would be saying everything you did up to now counts for nothing.
And "x" years from now, we'll make a wow3 and discontinue wow2... meaning everything you did in wow2 was also a waste of time.




Ignoring that playing a game doesn't really get you much outside of the game, and enjoyment of the game is the only real purpose...
IE, playing wow or watching tv or reading a book are equal wastes/good uses of time.

The continuity of the game, or the improvement of your character over time.
The gaining of achievements, titles, or just beating encounters that were too hard at one point but doable later.
That's the benefit of the game.
Over time those add up.

Canceling the game, say its over and you won or lost, that defeats the whole purpose of an ongoing RPG.




I'm not saying make wow2 is a good idea or a bad idea.
Just that canceling wow1 would likely kill wow2 before it started.

I don't even know what WoW 2 would mean, but I agree that they can't just launch a new game, call it WoW 2, and end this one.

And I don't even know what the benefit to a WoW 2 that was independent of WoW 1 would be - a better engine, graphics updates, cleaning up old messes, adding new features are all things they have done to the original WoW over time, so why not just keep going that route? If they wanted to start completely from scratch with the engine/client/server they could do it behind the scenes and then just roll people to it as part of an expansion or something.

With non-persistent world games sequels make sense, but with MMOs they don't make as much sense when incremental upgrades over time essentially yield an entirely different game.