Re-invent the whole thing. A total Remake. This already happened with Warcraft 3. I already don't see anything that fighting against night elves in Ashenvale has to do with the battle between humans and orcs in Azeroth from Warcraft 1. The "rich" lore of Warcraft already derailed a lot after the events of Beyond the Dark Portal, so, why don't they derail it even more?
WC4 is entierly possible, what makes you think that the storyline MUST be directly related to that of WC3? it can be a hundred years later, plenty of time for change, and even the events of lategame WOW belong in the past.
So many races are yet to revive a full spotlight, and there is much room for maneuvering with them to create new, exciting stories.
The faceless rise from the caverns with twisted dreams of conquest through mutating everyone into faceless? (not sure if WOW explored that path, but who the hell ARE the faceless, what do they want? where did they come from?)
The gnoll clans uniting into a massive army (and warcraft lore outright states that they will probably be the strongest force in the world if they unite because there are so freaking many of them, everywhere. how on earth did they spread all over the world without inventing any transportation methonds we KNOW of? there is stuff to see there...)
New leaders make new alliances that turns the old obsolete? (The elven union? The "Black Legion", an army of paladins and death knights marching as one?, Gnomes and goblins unite to make a mechanized menace?)
So many possibilities, and I'm sure blizzard's writers can think of better stuff then this...
Or Valve could work together with Blizzard for Dota 2 in later development (To work on the copyright stuff), then Blizzard could continue work on Warcraft IV.
The main core of Warcraft has been the fantasy setting, story, editor, and custom gaming. The melee isnt capable of competing with other games that much.
The main core of starcraft has been sci-fi setting, story, editor, and MOST of all, ladder. The ladder is incredible.
Please read the Warcraft lore and then please comment.Re-invent the whole thing. A total Remake. This already happened with Warcraft 3. I already don't see anything that fighting against night elves in Ashenvale has to do with the battle between humans and orcs in Azeroth from Warcraft 1. The "rich" lore of Warcraft already derailed a lot after the events of Beyond the Dark Portal, so, why don't they derail it even more?
Wc3 was popular but quite imbalanced as a competitive game.
Here is a very simple situation of imbalance in Wc3... Night Elf vs Orc situation... Night Elf has archers... Orc has Blademaster... if Blademaster is lucky and does Windwalk hit + melee crit = dead archer... if Blademaster is unlucky, it's Windwalk hit + meele hit + meele hit = dead archer. Furthermore all wc3 units have a range of damage values, e.g.: 10-20. Also the item drops from creeps... you are playing Human, you have an Archmage and you found a tome of agility... oh yeah!
3 Reasons why Warcraft IV isn't coming anytime soon:
1.) Warcraft 3 is still kicking and fansites like this one is still alive.
2.) There so many Blizzard games announced like the endless expansions of WoW, Starcraft 2: HoS, Diablo 3, and the new annouced Project Titan.
3.) It takes centuries for Blizzard to create a game.
Whoa, 80%? Where does that figure come from? By that reckoning Blizzard has been working on D3 since 1999. Diablo II came out in 2000. Something tells me that can't be right.4.) Blizzard often makes games without announcing them until they are 80% done. there might be a warcraft IV in making for a while already.
Mass dotts with Cyclone spam were the most imbashit ever vs Orc but they lost if they didnt do that or get enough bears. t_t
na, you needed enough spirit walkers and with enough disenchants and some wolves, hex and critical the orc could win. But was very dependant on who has higher level heros.
they do 55-60% of the game than announcements the game.
They are making Warcraft IV secretly who knows...
The day WC IV comes out is when Blizzard runs out of ideas. It'll prolly be a while, maybe 20 years or so, but it's possible.
They could expand the lore a little from WoW
WC IV could very well be in the works. Blizzard had said that after SC2 shipped the idea of working on another Warcraft game would be "on the table".
Really?They already have like, fifty other projects going already.
Really?
They have...
- WoW (patches)
- WoW expansion (various)
- Titan (unknown MMORPG)
- Diablo III
- StarCraft II expansion (various)
- Diablo III Console Ports (360/PS3 being attempted)
That does not seem like 50 to me... It does not even seem close to 10 to me...
I don't see why you're so convinced there won't be a WC IV. Seems extremely plausible to me. Might take a while, but it'll come.