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Executive Producer Holly Longdale teased some upcoming experimental PvE-focused content that Blizzard will soon reveal to the community.

It appears that Plunderstorm isn't the only new mode Blizzard plans to add to WoW this year.

Holly Longdale today teased an upcoming PvE-oriented event that will soon be revealed to us. Holly might be talking about the "Timerunning Pandamonium," expected in Patch 10.2.7.

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Greetings Citizens of Azeroth,

It’s been great seeing so many players taking the plunge into Plunderstorm and we’ve loved seeing all of the stories and feedback as this experimental event evolves. It will be exciting to see some of the community content creators going head-to-head as duos during the Plunderstorm Creator Royale on March 30!  This isn’t the end of the things we want to try in World of Warcraft, however, and we have more in store we can’t wait to show you.

Dragonflight Season 4 is in route as testing begins on the PTR and we’ll have more news to share soon™ on the next experiment we have up our sleeves. We hope those of you who are looking for PvE focused content will enjoy what we’re planning, all while we continue to press forward on development of our next expansion for World of Warcraft— The War Within.

We can’t wait to share with you all the many things the team has been hard at work on.

With gratitude and excitement for what we’ll do together next,

Holly Longdale

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32 minutes ago, Prophet001 said:

They really are pouring into this game. It's kinda amazing.

after the disappointment that was SL, it's expected

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I am in full fear of this being more FOMO, and stress.
Too many people are beginning to excuse FOMO and put value in that, when its just driving people like me away.

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Wait they ARE making more PvE content? I thought they were canceling all production on WoW and putting it into maientnce mode, thank god for this clarification. 

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Plunderstorm had reused BfA assets, so in this new minigame we are going back to Pandaria? I guess the map used for it will be new, but they might use some MoP assets for it.

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2 hours ago, Arcling said:

Plunderstorm had reused BfA assets, so in this new minigame we are going back to Pandaria? I guess the map used for it will be new, but they might use some MoP assets for it.

Using old assets are common practice even in AAA games. Take for example, Resident Evil 7 they decided to use photogrametry to scan assets in to save a ton of time with really good quality. Resident Evil Villiage actually used Quixel Megascans along with their own assets. FFXIV has a bunch of enemy models that were clearly lifted directly from earlier games, like FFXII.

Point is creating adding this free funny small games and events like Plunderstorm is cool and save players from being bored specially this late into expansion and it helps to attract new players to the game.

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3 hours ago, TheCake said:

I am in full fear of this being more FOMO, and stress.
Too many people are beginning to excuse FOMO and put value in that, when its just driving people like me away.

I don't get it honestly. Do you want all rewards for free? Yes? well you can't have them. Nothing is free in life and you can't have rewards from Plunderstorm for free. Sorry

No? you think it is FOMO because it takes lots of time and you may not to be able to get all rewards in time.

Well all you need to do is playing for 10 minutes per day! 3-4 minutes per game.

If you get 1 renown per day you will be reach renown 40 before events end. It takes literally 10 minutes. I'm at renown 31 right now and i play Plunderstorm for 30 minutes each day. Just log in queue for event and start plundering gold and killing creatures. After recent buffs to plunder gain it is super easy to get 1k plunder. There are loads of guides on youtube,reddit,whead and icyveins to how to do it.

If you have time and play more like 1 hour or more you will reach renown 40 in way sooner then events end.

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15 minutes ago, Dreamcatcher said:

Using old assets are common practice even in AAA games. Take for example, Resident Evil 7 they decided to use photogrametry to scan assets in to save a ton of time with really good quality. Resident Evil Villiage actually used Quixel Megascans along with their own assets. FFXIV has a bunch of enemy models that were clearly lifted directly from earlier games, like FFXII.

Point is creating adding this free funny small games and events like Plunderstorm is cool and save players from being bored specially this late into expansion and it helps to attract new players to the game.

Plunderstorm seems like it was being worked on a while ago, reused BfA assets and Dracthyr aren't even available there. Perhaps it was originally intended to be released much earlier. These are test modes, they are trying what they could implement from them later on. After all, Plunderstorm won't be there in a month or so.

As for attracting new players, I think there are barely any new players. I doubt a lot of people would sign up for subscription just to try some small game mode with one map. Maybe if they made this f2p. Most people playing it are existing players who just want a cool pirate transmog.

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3 hours ago, Arcling said:

Plunderstorm had reused BfA assets

 

18 minutes ago, Arcling said:

Plunderstorm seems like it was being worked on a while ago, reused BfA assets and Dracthyr aren't even available there.

 

18 minutes ago, Arcling said:

As for attracting new players, I think there are barely any new players. I doubt a lot of people would sign up for subscription just to try some small game mode with one map. Maybe if they made this f2p. Most people playing it are existing players who just want a cool pirate transmog.

Well it (Plunderstorm) is making a lot of news , publicity and hype. Those are tools for attracting new customers in any industry and market. Thats how entire marketing thing works.

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9 hours ago, Dreamcatcher said:

I don't get it honestly. Do you want all rewards for free? Yes? well you can't have them. Nothing is free in life and you can't have rewards from Plunderstorm for free. Sorry

No? you think it is FOMO because it takes lots of time and you may not to be able to get all rewards in time.

Well all you need to do is playing for 10 minutes per day! 3-4 minutes per game.

If you get 1 renown per day you will be reach renown 40 before events end. It takes literally 10 minutes. I'm at renown 31 right now and i play Plunderstorm for 30 minutes each day. Just log in queue for event and start plundering gold and killing creatures. After recent buffs to plunder gain it is super easy to get 1k plunder. There are loads of guides on youtube,reddit,whead and icyveins to how to do it.

If you have time and play more like 1 hour or more you will reach renown 40 in way sooner then events end.

No on both.
FOMO = Things disappear /  get removed.
It's digital scarcity, it's idiotic.

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