Vaniir

Warcraft enjoyer

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@Casey_willowww @KristaStreams Nah, wowf is gunna be great I can't wait to play

[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.

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@cydristrasz Here's to hoping they add RP-PvP and RP-PvE variants

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@xerwo Or crazy thought, people don't want randoms coming by, smacking the target and fucking off to the next one and not actually putting any effort into killing anything

[Thotticus @LibramThumper]

I hope there's an RP-PvP server for WoW: Forever. There's nothing else like it.

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@Skoll_Shorties Not getting tuskar or vrykul in TLT is crazy

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@BwuhMG GDKP is to make gold lol. It only sucks when blizzard doesn't enforce their ToS. It's literally pugging a raid except you bid with gold on items and everyone splits the gold at the end of the run, literally everyone wins. The problem is blizzard allowing people to buy gold

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@Smolderon GDKP is goated if blizzard actually enforced their ToS on gold buying. It's only ruined when someone comes in and bids 50,000g that they bought with their credit card. If blizzard doesn't enforce their ToS it'll ruin the economy and hurt the game

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@Neeko2loTV Dripped out

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@Caleina_Lore Literally no one wants to see Alleria

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@Warcraft Skyborne L, please remove them. Either make blood elves neutral or just don't add them. These blue elves are retail coded not classic. We wants VANILLA races not some made up bs that doesn't appeal to anyone

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@QueldoreiCEO This belongs in retail not classic. All they had to do was make blood elves neutral and call it a day

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@Wowhead Skyborne are a huge L

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@MrGMYT Skyborne is a huge L. Literally just make blood elves neutral, wtf is this blue elf shit this isn't classic. Out of all the OG races to add they do this

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@EsfandTV Skyborn are dumb, they should've just added blood/high elves as a neutral race like wtf are we doing

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@yudovico The Iliad is about the Trojan war, which was in fact a real historical event based on real geography and civilizations, so there is a highly likely that Agamemnon was a real king. We're talking about 1000 years before Christ,over 3000 years ago today, so yea information gets lost

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@that_kind_oforc Could we add beefy blood elf body types too lol 🙏🏻

[chrissy ✨ @chrissyxchi]

thinking about her

[Vaniir @VaniirDK]

@BlizzardCS @ayyyyluhmao Is there not a language filter for a reason?