DeadManWithShoes

Yep 🕛

[Cornfed Nebraska Boy @Marmstrongwow]

I'm seeing a lot of discourse about who WoW Forever is being made for and while I cannot speak for anyone else on the team I can speak for myself. I am making WoW forever for the classic gamer and for the millions of people who have had their accounts lapse over the years because they were not satisfied with changes that were made to the game. Whether those changes were to the art style, the story, social aspects, game design, or changes to their favorite class.

I did not spend the last year of my life relearning and mastering how to do things like we did it 20+ years ago for retail players. I could have taken it easy and just kept doing things like I had done for the past 8 years on retail...because I was much more familiar with it and it actually takes a lot less time to do (height maps on textures do a ton of heavy lifting). Because the reality is that the majority of retail players wouldn't care and would probably actually prefer it. But I felt I had a duty to uphold an artistic vision and integrity that millions of people expect from us. But not just for our players, but for my co-workers past and present who worked on it over 20 years ago. If I could not create something that resembled their work then I failed not only them...but myself.

Please do not take this as me throwing any shade at retail players or the retail team because I am one myself...but I wanted to make Forever as authentic of a Vanilla experience as possible. This involves making decisions wildly different than retail. It means holding the line against changes that create a domino affect down the road. It means keeping friction and inconveniences in the game. It means finding friends and forming groups with strangers and being social!! Because WoWs social aspects have always been the pillar of the game and over the years it has slowly been chiseled away at with changes that allow you play alone.

Since the day I started working on the Riverglades I have lived by three sayings.

"Convenience is the death of the journey."

"If you're making a game for everyone then you're making it for no one."

"Every change we make incurs a debt to the authenticity of the game and sooner or later that debt will be paid."

These are my core beliefs and I had a specific group of people I was targeting with my work. These beliefs cannot be shaken and I will try to hold the line against anything that goes against them and will continue to pester the team about things that feel out of place.

That being said, my hope is that Forever will pull in as many people as possible, whether you are a retail gamer, a classic gamer, someone who hasn't played in years, or even a new player. I hope you can all remember what made this game so special in the first place and that starts with understanding why we are so passionate about keeping it authentic.

[SivHD @sivhades]

I hate that retail 'fans' are posting like we are debating some kind of complete middle ground between classic and retail when its called "classic+".
there is no middle ground. you have no idea how quickly classic becomes retail. its not some nice gradient.
this is like discussing the middle ground between me enjoying some nice yoghurt and you spitting in my yoghurt. if you spit less in it its still fucked.

[J1mmy @J1mmyRS]

BEHOLD. THE STAFF OF ORGRIMMAR!

[DeadManWithShoes @Jhirim]

@Linkus7 Vodcheck for linkus vods? 👀

[Tom Vian @SFBTom]

announcing: THE MERMAID'S TONGUE

Detective Grimoire and Sally have been summoned to investigate the mysterious murder of Magnus Mortuga, captain of the world's strangest submarine…

Coming 2024 to Steam & consoles!

Play the demo & wishlist on Steam now, links below:

[Lauren🎃🍂 @MetLauren]

Summoning Tomodachi Life in the Nintendo Direct. (again, again.)

[Aaron Schmit @theaaronschmit]

Power says NO to vegetables! #chainsawman

[DeadManWithShoes @Jhirim]

@dragumagu Lovely artwork as usual but am I blind or is Dathea missing? 😄

[DeadManWithShoes @Jhirim]

@Merryweatherey @aptx9522 @Merrydawg Was this the end?

[DeadManWithShoes @Jhirim]

Everything is temporary

[Zack @Asmongold]

Let's cut the bullshit-- excessive ads are killing Twitch.

You go to a stream and it says 1/6 ads played, you go to another tab then come back and the video player has crashed.

Like if you've ever clicked off a stream because of too many ads

[DeadManWithShoes @Jhirim]

@oniisuna I support this message 🤠👍

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

what the hell is going on in Florida

[Project Brawl Busters @ProjectBusters]

ITS HAPPENING!!!1!11

[DeadManWithShoes @Jhirim]

@EchoGuild 🔥🗡🌌

[Jesse Cox @JesseCox]

MORE SEX SCENES IN VIDEO GAMES.

THE MORE UNNECESSARY THE BETTER.

[FeFe 🫦 @CovfefeChan]

Pancakes are superior to Waffles

[Zepla 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 @Xepla]

My house is (was?) here. This is my local supermarket where I bought beyond burgers for summertime cookouts, the bridge we used to go to Kyiv on weekends or on late nights to bring back takeout

[DeadManWithShoes @Jhirim]

Gunshop in gen 9 let's gooooo #PokemonScarletViolet