I never cared about anyone but Arthas and Thrall same as 99% of us who like the game but arent deep into the comics.  They are the only 2 characters recognized by people outside of gaming.

I didnt care about what went on with Deathwing, imo if they wanted to redo the vanilla experience to keep new players they should have done that on thier own dime, not charge me 50 extra bucks.

I REALLY dont care about a panda race, my little sister saw me looking at the page and started yelling kung fu panda.

I cant be the only one that just isnt interested in what they are doing with story....

P A N D A S A N D P O K E M O N

edit, naw, I guess they might add a story about transcendance, considering they're adding monks.  What's left at level 90 but fighting gods or getting elevated to the status of one.

Originally posted by Thanes

P A N D A S A N D P O K E M O N

 

edit, naw, I guess they might add a story about transcendance, considering they're adding monks.  What's left at level 90 but fighting gods or getting elevated to the status of one.

Whoa whoa, whats this about becoming a god? Dont remember ever seeing anything like that lol, would rock though. Im not saying im an RP nerd but I get turned off by an aimless game that isnt really fighting any kind of hardcore antagonist....I might as well play a sandbox if im done caring about that stuff....

Originally posted by alexanys1982

I never cared about anyone but Arthas and Thrall same as 99% of us who like the game but arent deep into the comics.  They are the only 2 characters recognized by people outside of gaming.

 

I didnt care about what went on with Deathwing, imo if they wanted to redo the vanilla experience to keep new players they should have done that on thier own dime, not charge me 50 extra bucks.

 

I REALLY dont care about a panda race, my little sister saw me looking at the page and started yelling kung fu panda.

 

I cant be the only one that just isnt interested in what they are doing with story....

 

 

i care for all those things you dont, because i play WoW for the Lore, not for the end game raids and epic gears ;) pretty casual i am

I watched this and........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhDFsGLjOlk.... and laughed and laughed.

 as to the op's question, which is a good one, I really don't know. For me, the best thing about WoW is the story/lore. That's about my most favorite part of any rpg, mmo or not. I always followed the lore of wow with great interest but not sure where they can go from here on in. I am sure they will think of something though, though now I will be busy with sw:tor  and there is a ton of lore there :)

I was going to throw in the fact that TOR has alot of story in the op but I decided to just go ahead and omit it...I just remember being captivated by the whole Arthas thing, now its like who the hell cares?

what ever metzen and blizzard creates is whats left, they can go anywhere they want with their story from this point.

i'm glad they have closed up old story lines even though they can go back to them, now i can't wait to see what the future holds.

not sure why people feel so threatened by panda's but whatever i guess, i just don't see how its different then playing a stupid looking gnome, a cow, a spacegoat, or any of the other silly races that are put into MMORPGS or RPGS in general.

There's still The Emerald Dream to be visited in full (not the phasing version of it in some quests now). There's been the rough layout for an entire Emerald Dream area, complete with some world geometry that you could explore. I remember checking it out some time back in one of those world viewer programs.

The giants who created/terraformed Azeroth also created other worlds (you can see the holograms of them in one of the "Halls" up in Storm Peaks). 

The Warcraft lore goes a lot farther than I think a lot of people realize. They simply haven't used it all yet. 

So I guess it's really a question of how far do they want to take it?

Originally posted by WSIMike

There's still The Emerald Dream to be visited in full (not the phasing version of it in some quests now).

The giants who created/terraformed Azeroth also created other worlds (you can see the holograms of them in one of the instances up in Ulduar). 

The Warcraft lore goes a lot farther than I think a lot of people realize. They simply haven't used it all yet. 

So I guess it's really a question of how far do they want to take it?

 

Most of the lore is used up, if you know the story the old gods are behind pretty much everything and are the only enemies left standing.  Any other villian from now on will simply be made up instead of taken from the story.

Originally posted by alexanys1982

I never cared about anyone but Arthas and Thrall same as 99% of us who like the game but arent deep into the comics.  They are the only 2 characters recognized by people outside of gaming.

 

I didnt care about what went on with Deathwing, imo if they wanted to redo the vanilla experience to keep new players they should have done that on thier own dime, not charge me 50 extra bucks.

 

I REALLY dont care about a panda race, my little sister saw me looking at the page and started yelling kung fu panda.

 

I cant be the only one that just isnt interested in what they are doing with story....

 

 

Mmmmh. Cata revamp was not done on your dime. It was free. You are free to not buy Cata and you still get the revamped world. Cata is for Worgen/goblin races, level 80-85 areas, archaeology, the new raids/dungeons and so on.

Get your facts straight before bashing.

As for Story.... Deathwing existed long before Thrall or Arthas ever were born (even in terms of Warcraft games). Also so nice of you to put everyone that disagree with you in the 1%.

We do not know where the Pandaria story is going to go. I'm interested of the asian themes, I love Dynasty Warriors after all and Shogun1/2 : Total War :3

Then again, they say the story is going to go toward Warcraft: Total war. And you tell me you do not want THAT?

oooook.... then.

Blizzard has dimensions they can pluck from anytime

http://www.wowwiki.com/Twisting_Nether

http://www.wowwiki.com/Great_Dark_Beyond

and theres always Sargeras  (the creator of the Lich King)

He's likely the greatest evil in WOW lore

http://www.wowwiki.com/Sargeras

Brann Bronzebeard is fairly confident that the real Sargeras never actually set foot on Azeroth, implying the real Sargeras is still around in the Twisting Nether.^[10] Lending this theory further credibility is in War of the Ancients, the power of the Well of Eternity was needed to create a portal strong enough for Sargeras to attempt to enter Azeroth, the creation of which took a long time to be completed. The portal used to bring the Sargeras that Aegwynn fought was powered by a handful of demons and was created in only a few minutes.

In an interview to Chris Metzen and Micky Neilson they said that "he's out there somewhere", that "you can’t put him down" and "he’s not going to stay down for long". At last Metzen said: I'd be very disappointed in us if we didn’t leverage him fully.^[12]

If only WoW would have progressed like this:

classic -> wotlk -> cataclysm -> burning crusade -> ?

Will be an Old god next, most likely taking main stage rather than being a side story.

Then after that will be the return of the Burning Legion I'd say.

The Burning Legion, headed by Sargeras, is one of two main remaining threats in the Warcraft Universe. There's Argus, there Eredar (and Draenei) homeworld that could potentially liberated from the Legion, amongst countless other worlds that were conquered by them. They could also incorporate the Titans as allies to the players. Old gods would be the second biggest threat (possibly even equal to the Legion).

Which in my opinion would have made for an infinitely more interesting storyline and expansion... but no... Blizzard went with Kung-fu Pandas and Pokemon instead... it just boggles my mind.

I thought there are still problems in the Emerald Dream

It's a Blizzard owned IP so they can still do whatever they want!  They don't have the same problems that games like LOTRO, WAR or SWTOR have since they aren't restricted using somebody else's story.

Fantasy has no limits. This goes for the Warcraft franchise, but also WAR, LotRo, SWTOR. The Stories can be endless and are only limited by the developers fantasy.

Simple huh?

I would like to see more Old Gods & Titans lore.  Cataclysm sort of had it, with the whole Twilights Hammer / Shadow Council & Deathwing... but didn't have the same feel that Ulduar (one of my favorite raids ever) had.

Hopefully Blizzard will feel the need to step up their game with the upcoming expansion, I want to see what Blizzard might actually be able to do when they have a serious competitor in the same market.  Maybe brings some of the "A team" back onto WoW and make it interesting again?