Ranger-General Aeythyr Skyborne

The Shield.

📯 Sonnez le tocsin ! Une nouvelle feature majeure arrive dans Overlord : le classement des kills de guildes ! Alors, quelle guilde sera la plus puissante ? Sera-t-elle Horde ou Alliance ? @Warcraft @TheWindstalker @ElliottVenczel @Pilavpowa @Rextroy3

@AlterTimeSK This is what BFA should have been. Troma over here doing the Sunwell's work! @Blizzard_Ent @WoWDevs @WoW4PvP

¡La comunidad se encuentra usando un addon que transforma algunas ubicaciones antiguas en campos de batalla de mundo abierto! altertime.es/article/los-ju…

@AlterTimeSK And it's amazing!

LETS GOOOOOOO!

LA BETA DU LOCH MODAN dans Overlord arrive très bientôt ! Les Nains vont pouvoir défendre leur terres ancestrales contre la Horde ⚔️

Envie d'avoir le RvR de GW2/Daoc/Eso/Warhammer Online dans WoW, façon Horde vs Alliance ? Découvrez Overlord ! Trailer et tutoriel par @soullscape 🔥 Full video sur youtube.com/watch?v=xWhitB…

@gothburz Based

I am a senior vice president at a $68.7 billion gaming company. Activision-Blizzard. We have a 30-year-old franchise. Warcraft. Millions of players. A subscription model that prints $15 a month per user. A cash shop on top of the subscription. Paid expansions on top of the cash shop. Our former creative director just told the press he wishes we hadn't called it "Warcraft." He said the name sounds intimidating. He helped create the name. We ran focus groups. The focus groups said the brand needed to be "more approachable." We asked the focus groups if they played the game. They did not. We took their advice anyway. Our VP told an interviewer we want players to experience "weddings, raids, and new adventures." She listed weddings first. Before raids. In a game called Warcraft. Nobody in the room flinched. She also said "No one thinks the same about Warhammer." She compared our franchise unfavorably to a competitor. On the record. As a defense of the franchise. The forums are on fire. Twenty-year veterans are writing goodbye posts. One thread is titled "Think I'm done with WoW." Another calls our pre-patch a "player purge." We called our GDKP raiders "delusional." We timed a cash shop bundle to launch during the Trading Post anniversary -- the one event where players earn free cosmetics. We offered 200 discounted items but kept the monthly currency cap at 1,000. The math doesn't work unless you open your wallet. The community noticed. We described their concerns as "feedback we're monitoring." We are always monitoring. We have never once changed course because of monitoring. The players say we're "Disneyfying" the game. Turning gritty into cute. War into weddings. Orcs into mascots. They're not wrong. The data says approachable properties have wider TAM. Total addressable market. That's the metric now. Not "subscribers who love the game." Not "community that built this franchise." TAM. TAM doesn't post on forums. TAM doesn't write goodbye letters. TAM doesn't have 20 years of muscle memory and lore knowledge and raid nights that turned into real friendships. TAM is a number in a slide deck that makes a board feel comfortable. We added player housing. Players have asked for it since 2004. We launched it in 2026. Twenty-two years. We described this as "listening to our community." We are very good at listening. Eventually. When the feature aligns with a monetization roadmap. Here is what I know and cannot say in a meeting: The name was never the problem. The name built this. The name survived server crashes and subscription drops and an activision merger and a harassment scandal and a $68.7 billion acquisition. The name is "Warcraft" and for 30 years nobody was confused about what it meant. The problem is not that new players find the name intimidating. The problem is that old players are starting to find us unrecognizable. And we don't have a focus group for that.

Hey @blizzard_ent @warcraft warglaives are really cool but is there anyway you guys could get rid of them as a weapon classification and roll them into swords like they always should have been and just admit the Legion one class only gimmick was dumb?

Hey @Blizzard_Ent @Warcraft it's really cool that we're getting the blood elf guard's glaive appearance after all these years (it even has green gems!) but is there anyway it could be a 1h sword transmog instead of a warglaive transmog so a wider variety of classes can use it?

@Portergauge My biggest beef with the storytelling in this game. The blatant Alliance favoritism is exhausting.

I think a lot of it comes back to some of the issues that have been plaguing WoW for the past decade: the morality of the narrative is dictated by the Alliance. Midnight, even as an expansion centering around Silvermoon, focuses on Alliance protagonists delivering the themes.

After a few days and another reread, time to share my thoughts on the new short story, The Void Between. Thread will be long, but tl;dr: This is a *great* character piece for Rommath and Umbric, but a frustrating continuation of ongoing worldbuilding issues for the elves. 🧵

@Portergauge No

Someone sent me this image from the class survey that is currently on the Battlenet launcher, it looks like Blizzard is now testing the waters for more new specializations to existing classes like Devourer.

@AliceThePurple LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

Something that I hope gets mentioned amongst all the Elf Unity stuff. Ren'dorei aren't just exiles, but also literally traitors. They went and joined the direct political war adversaries of Quel'thalas, the Alliance. Then almost immediately went to war against the Sin'dorei.

@MeesRp @cydristrasz Any alliance races want to come to a Horde capital, let me know what time so I can have a welcoming committee ready....

@cydristrasz There’s been a flood of literal humans hanging out in Orgrimmar too, it is absurd to the point of comedy. People just do not care about the setting they engage creatively with lol

>oh yeah I'm just a night elf in Orgrimmar ICly hehe This shit is so unacceptable We get it you didn't get any attention on MG-A That is not an excuse to farm attention on WRA-H. I see this kind of thing constantly and it is so disgusting. Go back to moon guard!

@Portergauge WARcraft!

Faction war is BACK ON THE MENU in Voidstorm, seems like they're going the route of people going against the leadership of the Horde and Alliance to fight each other here

@Ainastrasza It's blue's turn to have a beloved hero villain batted.

Can we just kill Turalyon already and be done with it? I didn't want this dude villain batted but he's so obviously going to fall into the pit of being an antagonist that I cba with the waiting for it. I really dislike how they have written this dude recently.

@BaalTheWarlock YES and may I suggest... for your consideration... BLOOD ELF DRUIDS???? @Warcraft @Blizzard_Ent @WarcraftDevs

Void Elf DH and Paladin + KT Paladin = 3 new Alliance race class combos So we need 3 new Horde race class combos

@xOscuro_4 No.

VOID ELF PALADINS!? ❤️😭❤️😭 KNIGHTS OF THE ECLIPSE ITS TIME TO SHINE!

I want this also as 1 handed sword! #warcraft