The Next Steps for Blizzard? (WoW Expansions and Next MMO)

[DrumsofWar]

This Old God crap must stop. It's such a blatant C'thullhu ripoff, it's not even funny. -_-

A Maelstrom expansion would be really sweet.

I'd say it's tolerable.  Lots of shows, games, and books have included mentions or allusions to them in everything from Angel to Justice League.

[UntamedLoli]

Ulduar

For countless millennia, Ulduar has remained undisturbed by mortals, far away from their concerns and their struggles. But since its recent discovery, many have wondered what the structure's original purpose may have been. Some thought it a city, built to herald the glory of its makers; some thought it a vault containing innumerable treasures, perhaps even relics of the mighty Titans themselves. They were wrong. Beyond its gates lies no city, no treasure vault, no final answer to the Titan's mysteries. All that awaits those who dare set foot in Ulduar is a horror even the Titans could not, would not destroy, an evil they merely... contained.

Beneath ancient Ulduar, the Old God of death lies, whispering.... Tread carefully, or his prison will become your tomb.

http://www.wow-europe.com/en/info/under ... ulduar.xml

[IskatuMesk]

WHISPERING

OLD GODS OF DEATH


Oh geez, I can't get enough of that.

[tipereth]

It's not a Lovecraftian ripoff at all. It just sort of borrows vague elements of the mythos. Cthulu and lovecraftian old gods are subversive, passive entities that really don't give a flying fuck about anything on earth. The whole 'insanity and whispers' thing is just a side effect of them being like, extradimensional entities that normal people simply cannot comprehend. The real monsters in the cthulu mythos are the people who worship them. The WoW old gods have almost nothing in common with the Lovecraftian ones, save the fact that they are old and evil. They're really more of an extension of the burning legion than anything else, given their penchant for 'evil for evil's sake'.  If it were a Cthulu ripoff we would never see an old god, and Twilight's Hammer would be the big bad wolf (instead of being generic enemy group number 17). Not that that would be a bad thing.

[RazorclawX]

I'm pretty disappointed in what I read. Thorim was a given, but having an Old God down there doesn't make any sense.

[Maglok]

People should really stop saying that Blizz should not borrow from Cthulhu, Lovecraft HIMSELF wanted people to develop his mythos and use it in their works. Wiki it, I am right.

[Meta]

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/misc/wcc ... kpeek.html

Interesting stuff there: the Emerald Dream, Ahn-Qiraj, Garona and... Cho'gall!

[Whiplash!]

Lv 90 expansion: sea mounts underwater stuff and the maelstrom and final boss is queen azshara. Lv 100 expansion: Elemental plateau and Emerald Dream. Cure emerald dream stuff and kill the elementals at the height of their power and in their domain, Ragnaros 2.0 is not going to be happy to see us again. Prob get to kill thunderean and all the other cool elementals. Game winds down as SC MMO is released half-way/close to the end of the lv 90 expansion and everyone plays SC2 the end