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New Scourge Invasion Coming?
3rd Jul 2008 01:45 PM GMT | Maticus | 8 comments
People have asked on the official forums if we can expect to see another event similar to the Scourge invasion which took place when Naxxramas was released. Game designer Kisirani gave some insight into how Blizzard approach these in-game events, what prompts them to make them, and how they decide what the majority of players want.
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| Torchure, you seem fond of saying that this would be popular and entertaining for "players," but you're not speaking for the majority. I completely understand that this is something you would like to see, and the events you're pitching are something that would interest you and people like you. But those people are not the only people who play the game, and in more or less every example you've given thus far, you bring forth something that can end up being a phenomenal inconvenience for an individual who has just started the game or has a very limited time to play. When designing events for World of Warcraft, we have to keep all players and supported playstyles in mind. The "casual" player isn't less of a person than the hardcore; what's important is to make such events appeal to everyone in some way, new or old, dedicated or casual. We do have some things in the works, but please don't expect a city to be razed or some such event. If we were to raze Stormwind, for example, that's a whole slew of quests and the like that would have to be rewritten or repurposed -- and that's just the quest load alone. There are dozens of other tasks associated with that, including art and programming... and while this is occurring, dungeons aren't being made, new and more relevant content isn't being created. It's replacement of content rather than an addition, and therefore the world isn't necessarily the richer for it. It's a matter of priorities and smart use of manhours. Creating a new dungeon or epic quest line, for example, gets far more bang for the buck than a one-time event that replaces old content and never again plays out, even (or especially) at a large scale. This isn't to say that we won't have one-time events, as I'm quite sure we will, but the odds of the world drastically changing as a result are slim and shouldn't be counted upon. By doing that you often destroy existing content, and that's not something that should be done lightly. I'm sorry you dismiss the holidays so out of hand, as they're becoming fairly meaty and should have something to entertain most people, even if only for a little while. We'll keep on making world events, holiday and not. I appreciate your passion, but I'm afraid world events likely will not take shape as you wish them to. |
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Tags: scourge, wrath of the lich king
Comments
56 days ago
This has come about because the first couple of quest NPC's on arrival in northrend tell you to take revenge for the razing of Darnassus and Orgrimmar
56 days ago
Ah, so someone was complaining that the NPC's just "announce" that the cities were razed instead of actually having an army show up and destroy everything? Yeah, unless Blizz suddenly starts instancing different phases of the game, there's no way you could justify the loss of the capital cities in practice. Looks like I'll just assume that they were rebuilt "very quickly". lol
Hoji.
Hoji.
56 days ago
We will probably just see an expanded version of the Naxxaramas launch event where necropolises appeared in multiple locations beaming down undead, they then moved on to the cities with hordes of (level 10-20?) undead outside them and occasionally rare spawn 60 elites in the citys themselves killing npcs and dropping blue loot.
56 days ago
Apparently Orgrimmar and Darnassus will be razed in the event.
56 days ago
thats weird... why would the scourge only go after those two cities when they have two of their bigger enemies over on the top of the other continent... you would think that the lich king would want to take revenge on the forsaken for taking over lordaeron or try to finish the belfs off... but whatever...
56 days ago
razing darn? what's the point? the new world tree doesn't work, so what's the point? lets see... uc maybe cause arthas got betrayed by sylvanas...
56 days ago
Let's just say that the Scourge did hit UC and SMC, why then would the Alliance go after the Scourge on Northrend then? They need one city of each side to be attacked, and the two closest cities, which could be nailed by a single expedition, would be Darnassus and Orgrimmar.
Stormwind is far more out of the way, the Exodar and the Isle it occupies might still not have been discovered by the Scourge, that leaves Darnassus.
As for why Org as opposed to UC or SMC. Well, you'd need a city that was open to everyone, including those without TBC. That would mean UC or Org, Org is reachable by sea, UC far less so. Org can be reached by the same expedition that would've nailed Darnassus, not so for UC.
Add to this the heavy presence of the AD near UC as well, and if they had to pick Forsaken or Scourge, they'd help the Forsaken nail the Scourge.
Tactically, it just makes more sense to go after Org then.
Stormwind is far more out of the way, the Exodar and the Isle it occupies might still not have been discovered by the Scourge, that leaves Darnassus.
As for why Org as opposed to UC or SMC. Well, you'd need a city that was open to everyone, including those without TBC. That would mean UC or Org, Org is reachable by sea, UC far less so. Org can be reached by the same expedition that would've nailed Darnassus, not so for UC.
Add to this the heavy presence of the AD near UC as well, and if they had to pick Forsaken or Scourge, they'd help the Forsaken nail the Scourge.
Tactically, it just makes more sense to go after Org then.
55 days ago
It was probably also since the Forsaken play such a large part in the Northrend storyline already.
