How would you save World of Warcraft?

Sell the IP to a company who cares about it

>>714080945 (OP)
It is beyond saving. No one really cares about MMOs in an age where everything is online already.

But given practically infinite funding and a free hand, I'd reboot it from the moment Thrall wakes up from his nightmare at the start of WC3. Move Blizzards HQ from degenerate California to a chud country like Hungary, hire only huge fucking nerds really into video games instead of culture warriors and I'm pretty sure something of value might be produced. Although every single one of their IPs would have been rebooted as they are irredeemably pozzed with stupid shit like star god kerrigan. I'd also pour money into fun little mid-level side projects class Heroes of the Storm, and a sequel to Lost Vikings and Blackthorne as not every game has to be a massive AAA hit.

>>714080945 (OP)
add sex

Shut it down and make a new MMO.

>>714080945 (OP)
Do what OSRS does, and make everything soloable or doable with a duo.

Drive off the current m+ tranny fanbase

You'd need to literally reboot it from the beginning and outright ostracize any faggots and furries out of the company.

>>714080945 (OP)
Death. I'd put it down for good

>>714080945 (OP)
There is nothing left to be saved

I don't know anymore. It's not even recognizable.

>>714080945 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4GISDHFsr4

I'd silo the progression of each type of gameplay content so that it is completely seperate from each other. This means removing leveling, but keeping the campaign. There is absolutely zero argument for forcing people to level a character to max level just so they can play a co-op game with their friends. Character power comes from progressing in each silo of content and is specific to that content (M+, Raids, Delves, World content).
I should be able to play whatever class or spec I want, and I should be able to get a friend to play with me without them being forced to spend hours and hours getting a character to max level they might not even enjoy playing.
MMO's are a dated concept and carry way too much baggage which takes away from what is otherwise a really fun co-op game.

I'd also make it so you can see players are NPC's more than 100 yards away

I'd also completely remove the concept of 'realms' and just use the already existing phasing shit to keep all areas populated (As it was intended)

>>714081973
Having a pointless time-wasting levelling phase in front of each character class is no different to forcing people to play through the Half-life 2 campaign before allowing them to play through Left4Dead with their friends. It truely is retarded.

>>714081973
I'd settle for Mythic+ only servers tbfh

Nothing needs to be done.
Blizzard has shown that they respond to feedback and are actively improving the game.
Two features that come in mind are the upcoming player housing and the ability to see who is a leaver in group finder.
They also made massive improvements to the user interface even though I still prefer elvui.

>>714080945 (OP)
Remove woke
Women are sex objects
The Alliance kills all Orcs except for a small faction, so people can still play them.
All of the furry races are killed, and players have to re-roll (except for the cows)

>>714080945 (OP)
Kill it. Put it out of its misery

World of Warcraft. . . 2

Vanilla+ can only happen once the obese weeb Akalix dies of lung cancer

You can't.

>>714081347

Between men

>>714080945 (OP)
>Mythic + reworked to no longer be a speedrun
This simple fix could save world of warcraft

>>714080945 (OP)
Unite the playerbase, why did they split the game into 30 versions with 30 servers each? They need to get everybody on 3-5 servers, game is a ghosttown until then

>>714080945 (OP)
You don't. MMOs are literal scams with no gameplay, no story, bad graphics, and cost infinite money. That is the most anti-gaming slop imaginable.

>>714080945 (OP)
It's unironically beyond saving at this point.
You can't remove dungeon finder and cross-server raids and recreate server community at this point. People will just quit in masses.
You can't put back PvP servers after you turned every server into PvE carebear server.
It's almost impossible to unfuck the classes after they ingrained their Diablo 3 class design deeply into their core mechanics starting from Warlords of Draenor and Legion.
You can't remove Mythic+ which is the biggest source of cancer and elitism ruining the game and even makes raiding not fun anymore.
I haven't played for years, but I'm not aware of any of these having fixed.

>>714081335
>It is beyond saving. No one really cares about MMOs in an age where everything is online already.
So why do we have "WoW is so dead, its over (for real this time, i swear!)" threads on a daily basis then. Doesnt add up

>>714080945 (OP)
by running your own private wotlk server for your frens

>>714080945 (OP)
WORLD OF WARCRAFT.......TWO

>>714080945 (OP)
saving what? wow classic is a complete game, the game is done, nothing to save it is already saved

>>714082091
Levelling IS the content, retard. WoW at its height was about levelling, not whatever "delves" or shit trannies are into npw

>>714080945 (OP)
You can't, Blizzard is under Activision and as long as the graph looks good the investors won't give a fuck. The people that are ruining the game are unironically the people still playing it, you would see massive changes to WoW if the players stopped playing, but they're not so retail will just continue it's shit spiral. The lore and garbage cringe cinematics/animations everyone is laughing at currently is just something not even 1% of the retail community cares about, the vast majority logs in to farm old dungeons for transmogs, farm achievements, does raids/mythic+ spam, nobody cares about the story and what the next main villain will be, that time is long gone.

So if you want to fix WoW, as in retail I assume.. then kill all the retards still playing it

>>714084440
Because WoW is dead, retard. Its not a video game you can play anymore. The terminally online, addicted redditors are the only ones left, who started playing in high school 15 years ago and sticking around because of sunk cost fallacy.

It's less about saving WoW and more about saving the whole MMO genre. I guess to start:
>actual teamwork possibilities during gameplay, rather than 5/10/20 people playing essentially solo near each other
>reasons to interact with other people, especially in game rather than external tools
>no addons (especially DBM-like stuff) so that players are on an even foot
>genuine mystery/adventure, things cannot just be searched up on a wiki whenever you want. Wish I knew how to do this but it needs doing
Even after doing all of that it still probably wouldn't have mass appeal and therefore wouldn't get funded.

>>714085487
DOS
SEMANAS
SEÑOR

>>714085359
>Levelling IS the content, retard. WoW at its height was about levelling
Levelling has always been trivial content designed for skilless retards. You're objectively incorrect.

>>714085443
Sadly, this. WoW got evergreened in the most idiotic of ways. The literal addicts, who have been playing and farming mounts and cheevos and pets and transmog gear and shit for ten, fifteen, or even twenty years, are not going to quit now for any reason. No matter how bad the game gets, they are sticking with it and just hope it will "get better". There is just a psychological inertia to it, habits form over the years and you just can't walk away from a game you have played for so long.

>>714085509
MMOs are dead and half of what you've said is just flat out impossible. Besides, people spend their entire lives online now, have their friends online, do their business online, shop online etc. Doing it a video game is is quite not as novel or exciting in 2025 than it was in 1999 or 2004

Get rid of chat censorship and encourage player interaction by having WORLD events instead of shitty instances.

>>714085816
>muh skill

You play WoW, you shouldnt even use that word. And yes, WoW has always been about casual levelling, exploring the world, dicking around, making friends, doing a few instances and capping it off with a 40 man raid which keyboard turners could beat. The whole concept of an "endgame" was bizarre.

Federally enforce sex offender laws against people pretending to be women online.

>>714085982
>You play WoW, you shouldnt even use that word.
M+ is objectively more challenging than levelling. Sorry your brain is broken.
>WoW has always been about casual levelling, exploring the world, dicking around, making friends, doing a few instances
If you want infinite zero-skill leveling go play Albion you disabled retard

>>714085982
Name a co-op game more challenging than M+ (You are incapable)

>>714081412
This should always have been the case. People don't socialize in large groups. 2-3 max. If they were smart about it raids would have been 5 mans a patch or 2 later than soloable another patch or 2 later.
Instead they decided to repeatedly fuck up scaling so old content was never available and often didn't even work.

>>714080945 (OP)
Dunno, I'm playing classic with my friends on a private server and we're having a good time.

>>714085121
it could use more body types and portraits of fruit, also it needs a boost, a wow token, and so on, but yeah.

>>714082381
>respond to feedback
People wanted player housing more than a decade ago. It still does not exist.

>>714081412
They're already moving towards that with the ai teammates in dungeons and whatever. You will eventually just have to join a dungeon or raid in the finder and play it with ai, if you want to bring a friend or two you can just join the ai raid as a group, that will be the future of WoW and the retail community will love it

>>714080945 (OP)
>Fire the jew game director
>Fire everyone with pronouns in their bios
>Fire everyone who endorsed BLM
>Fire everyone who isn't a White Man
>Change "Body Type A & B" back to Male and Female
>Remove faggot and tranny characters from the game
>IP rangeban third-worlders from signing up/playing the game

There you go. Game fixed.

You would actually need to make a World of Warcraft 2. The problem with that is a lot of players would be butthurt that they poopsocked every achievement and spent their entire paychecks on cosmetics. Such a shock could risk losing some whales, the true target customer for Blizzard, which is why I doubt they'd ever do it. That leaves us with the problem that WoW will never get better without significantly changing and removing parts of the game. Best bet is Classic players get a bone thrown to them like TBC Season of Discovery.

>>714080945 (OP)
- Remove it
- Approach GW using the statistics of WoW's popularity over time to prove it would be an actual financial success.
- Make the WHF MMO we actually wanted while also drawing in some of the influence from RR pvp system
- Rake in fat stacks of cash while finally playing a decent whf game that isn't another mobile game slop.

>>714080945 (OP)
revert the californication

>>714080945 (OP)
Fire the tranny devs and roll back all "inclusivity" crap.

>>714080945 (OP)
Ask Blizz to delete your Blizz account

>>714080945 (OP)
>How would you save World of Warcraft?
Wow doesn't need saving, especially not by people who don't play it anymore. There is plenty of shit to do if you like raids, dungeons, playing PvP, or collecting shit.
>but i don't like doing that shit
well i guess it's time for you to forget about wow

>>714080945 (OP)
go back in time and turn it into a singleplayer RPG
internet communities were a mistake

>>714084440
wow is kept aloat by whales buying gold and the player base is now comprised of south americans and other third worlders selling their gold and trying to sell runs to dad gamers that don't have time to learn shit for themselves.

it's legitimately a service economy where third worlders do digital jobs for dad gamers. they farm their gold, they kill the boss, etc. even if no one wants to buy their actual wow gold, they can exchange it for tokens which give them $15 blizzard balance which they can stockpile to sell copies of games like call of duty, diablo, avowed(lmao), etc. there's always a yearly call of duty for them to turn their blizzard shop cash into real cash with.

>>714080945 (OP)
Legion Remix is going to do this.
>All Legion pros with no Legion cons
>Proper talent trees with most of the legendary effects already baked in

This is going to be kino of epic proportions.

>>714091615
Oh, they are removing the legendary weapon grind and mythic+ and keeping PvP servers?

half-naked anime girls, is this easy to squeeze money from coomers

>>714080945 (OP)
- throw out the rainbow brigade
- make WoW2
- reset the lore and start again after the events of Warcraft 3

>>714080945 (OP)
Return the class design to Mists of Pandaria. Remove Hero Classes. So DH, Evoker, DK. Monk gets to stay thanks to the technicality it's not a hero class.
Nerf Shadowmeld into the ground so majority of end game content isn't dominated by Nig Elves.
Sack the current writing staff and replace them with people who actually have an idea of what they want to do with the Horde other than be the Alliances cheerleaders who then appear on all the advertising also.
Ban any Elf and Void plots for at least 6 years. The game's gone long past the point of fatigue with both of them.
Add Ogres.
Nerf the loot gain from Mythic+ so Raiding returns to being the true PVE end game progression.
Kill off the last remaining remnants of Kn-ACKs shitty storytelling and his OCs that have caused way more damage than good to this franchise.

>>714088472
You retards asking for WoW 2 needs to kys. In what fucking world would the same people currently developing the current game, be able to make an entire new game from scratch? You can't be this braindead

>>714080945 (OP)
>fire their current writing team
>get some good writers from 40k black library
>ignore all the current useless shit that is happening in the current lore
>go full on army of the light invasion expansion
>make it so a huge part of arthas's soul was severed when he took up frostmourne and the light jews immediately grabbed that.
>Arthas is the face of the expansion

Make Arthas an anti hero and follow him.

>>714080945 (OP)
As Microsoft, I'd shut down blizzard and quietly finance turtle wow. It would release as a paid for boxed product in the style of the original boxed release of WoW.

It would release with the option of playing the game single player as was intended at one point in WoWs development. Using your other toons as recruit-able computer controlled allies at inns. Alliance and Horde could only recruit toons from their respective factions.

Traditional mmo realms would also exist with different rule sets. Single player realms would be hosted locally, multiplayer realms obviously not.

>>714093812
>>get some good writers from 40k black library
>>40k Black Library
>>Good Writers.
I'd rather take the AoS writers or what ever Fantasy Battle writers they can find.

>>714093864
The ability to rent multiplayer realms within the client. With modifiable perimeters including nearly everything you can imagine, essentially bringing the private server community in house. Mod kit designed to compete feature wise with Bethesdas creation kit. For use with both single player & multiplayer mmo realms. Mod edits being held host side for sp or streamed server side for mp. Did I mention no subscription? $80 boxed product with substantial expansion pack releases a few years later, designed with horizontal progression with little vertical progress power creep; always keeping vanilla zones relevant.

Too much to write bored now.

>>714080945 (OP)
>only allow white biological men to work on the game
>fire everyone else
There, I fixed literally everything.

>>714080945 (OP)
Nuke it to hell, fire all the wokies, hire new talent and make WoW2.

>>714080945 (OP)
build it again from scratch
put in a backdoor script that nukes the office if it suspects WoW was taken by troons again

>>714081283
Has this ever worked out successfully?

>>714080945 (OP)
>How would you save World of Warcraft?
Nuke the playerbase. No, really. That's the biggest problem with WoW: Its fucking playerbase.

From what? It’s still going strong after 20 years.

>>714080945 (OP)
Give the IP to Bethesda and do a collab with ESO or Fallout 76

>>714080945 (OP)
SHUT
IT
DOWN!

>>714097803
Especially Fallout 76 to add extra salt into the wound

>>714080945 (OP)
It doesn't need saving. It already lived and had way more glory than most games. It's time is over and that's okay.