You're not alone, even World of Warcraft's production director is excited about cross-character transmog arriving in The War Within
Nov. 4, 2023Warbands may seem like a small improvement in the grand scheme of the Worldsoul Saga, but it could have a massive impact
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The World of Warcraft community has quickly fallen in love with Warbands, and for good reason. It’s one of those key quality-of-life improvements that seems impossibly small on the surface, particularly whenannounced alongside the towering Worldsoul Saga– three incoming expansions that are designed to drive the future of one of thebest MMORPGsof all-time.
“A lot of times when we roll out a feature, we’re like: ‘This is a feature and it’s a whole new thing, and here’s the package of it.’ But the way I think about Warbands is that it’s more of a value shift. We’re communicating to players that, in the past, it was all about a single character on a realm, but with Warbands and some of the other changes we’re making, we’re removing barriers and committing to a set of features for the future.”
Blizzard is being unusually transparent with the future of World of Warcraft, outlining the shape of the next three expansions. The key for the community, Bybee explains, is that by knowing the future direction of the franchise means that you should better trust that features like Warbands will be supported (and improved upon) for years to come. “That value shift is, I think, the most important thing. Because it means that players will understand that, as we continue to do stuff in the future, that this is going to continue to be a thing. That we as a team are saying that this is how we want World of Warcraft to work in the future, and that is exciting.”
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