The Death of Azeroth

I liked warcraft 3, and warcraft 1 and 2 before that. I liked what they did, I liked where the story was when Frozen Throne ended, I liked where it was going.

They announced WoW, and I was under the impression that it was going to be very similar to SWG in the fact that the player really could not effect anything Canon. You cant go kill Darth Vader and save Palpatine from Dying on the 2nd Death Star, because the movies were LAW and you were some insignificant shit running around in their Fictional universe - but they had Set storyline in stone that a player could not effect.

You should be able to go From Warcraft 3 to Warcraft 4, without missing anything. No major characters should have randomly just up and died, no major wars, etc.

So WoW Comes out, and its cool, we're insignificant little shits running around doing trivial quests to help completely new and unheard of characters do assinine things in places we'd heard about in previous warcraft games! Awesome!

Beta starts coming to a close, they add Onyxia and MC, the first raid places, with bosses nobody had ever heard of in any lore, and it didnt matter how much we killed them because they werent major in the grand scheme of Azeroth. - And yes, you can go in and kill the major storyline guys in the various cities, but there is no Quest or Event directly telling you to go kill Thrall or Tyrande, so as far as my assumption, you arent -really- supposed to, and its nice that you can, if you get bored.

So this scheme of things continues, BWL and ZG gets added and you are still killing people nobody ever gave a shit about (Deathwing people would care about, Ony and Nef - no).

Then came the turning point in my respect for the game - Naxxramas

They make Kel'thuzad and Sapphiron killable - these are actual figures from the Lore.. and theres a Quest from Kel'thuzad that basically says, yea i killed him, wtfpwn. So now its in the Lore that Kelthuzad gets to die to a random group of idiots who managed to work together.

Sapphiron sure, whatever, he wasnt huge in the storyline anyway. but Kel'thuzad? Come the fuck on.

So this bugged me a good amount, then they announce burning crusade, and you get to go to outland, no big woop right? but then i remembered that book in Stratholme that said Illidan and his minions fled back to outland.

now.. Killing illidan doesnt really effect anything, since as far as Warcraft Canon is concerned, he got his ass cleaved in two on Icecrown Glacier. So if they want to add him as a killable boss, it doesnt effect anything. Kael'thas doesnt die (You Monkies Failed shout after you turn in the quest item), and Vashj was gay anyway. So the expansion really didnt add anything that would F up story anyway.

Except the raised the Level Cap.

This implies that Kel'thuzad is significantly weaker than Lady Vashj.

Now, when i was playing Wc3, kel'thuzad and arthas were basically equal pre-arthas putting on the crown, and Arthas was equally matched vs Illidan, so this means that somehow Lady Vashj > Illidan AMIRITE, ok

Now they are talking about raising the level cap again, and making the Continent that the Icecrown Glacier is on.. which in my head means they will more than likely fuck up and make Arthas killable, which means they cant make a Warcraft 4. Which means the series ends with WoW. WoW is aging now, coming up on its 3rd year, EQ only lasted for like 4 years before the exodus began, how much more life do they think they can get from the game? maybe another 3 years, but why burn your bridges and kill one of the best series' in RTS history for some more cash now, christ, are you people retarded? Continue the storyline, preserve some game history, make Wacraft4 and maybe a WoW2, shit. its so Simple.

Make some encounters like Majordomo, except have heroes flee at the end, or something similar, you dont have to kill Historic Characters to make the game better. You dont have to fuck up the history you wrote in the games to make your mmo sell more copies.

Please dont ruin Wacraft Lore
-Rei