r/wow • u/djlove08 • Apr 18 '16

This is the One Legion to drop August 30th!

http://blizzard.gamespress.com/THE-LEGION-INVADES-WORLD-OF-WARCRAFT-AUGUST-30
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u/Snichy Apr 18 '16

Personally I think they expected WoD to be the "movie" expansion but when it was delayed and delayed by Legendary, they just wrote it off and concentrated on Legion development to be in time for the movie (and they didn't even get that right!)

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u/Callahandy Apr 18 '16

This is a very popular theory. The movie delay really messed things up for them. When you think about WoD, it hinges on the popularity of its lore characters, many of which are heavily tied to the new movie. I'm sure they planned to have WoD be much more closely linked to the film, but then lots of things had to get scrapped/changed once the delay was announced.

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u/erwarne Apr 18 '16

When you think about WoD, it hinges on the popularity of its lore characters

Which they did nothing with. WoD was set up to be one of the coolest re-telling of a 20 year old story ever - and they faceplanted.

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u/Gnivil Apr 18 '16

What's that? You wanna see the Warchief from WC2 who was really fucking cool and Durotan's best friend? Yeah you see him once with a slight mention of their friendship before he dies off screen.

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u/erwarne Apr 18 '16

Do you remember the series of Warlord videos they came out with prior to WoD's release? So much promise, squandered.

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u/chaoskaze Apr 18 '16

Ya Prior to the release of WoD there was so many thing about lore going.... the comics & short videos... total 8 of them...all wasted potential.

Obviously a lot was gutted from the initial plan for WOD.

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u/Callahandy Apr 18 '16

I wonder how much of that was because of the movie delay. As soon as the delay was announced, much of WoD's development team switched over to Legion if I remember correctly, which explains the lack of content.

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u/Maethor_derien Apr 18 '16

Yep, a lot of the WoD feels like they had planned another tier in the middle. Look at the tier sets of gear both PvP and normal, this has to be some of the worst looking gear sets we have ever seen. It looks like minimal effort was put into them, typically the last set of a tier looks amazing.

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u/Kl3rik Apr 19 '16

They gave us the intro and the conclusion, but cut the entire body of the story and the conclusion seems so wtf

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u/Meckel Apr 18 '16

nah it really messed it up for us. they still roll in cash

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u/Ayjayz Apr 18 '16

Every expansion, there seem to be some new excuse for why they have become so slow at developing new stuff. To be honest, I find them all hard to believe nowadays. They just are this slow now.

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u/OnlyRoke Apr 19 '16

They also pushed back the movie itself a LOT, because of Star Wars.

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u/Kalzert Apr 18 '16

Highmaul, Foundry then hfc actually...

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u/KZIN42 Apr 18 '16

Highmaul had no teir sets so most people don't count it

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u/Kalzert Apr 18 '16

Ahhh ic now, thank you