I think the biggest shock for me was adding flying to the Old World. The Blizzard store certainly was a shock, especially looking at the prices on there, but it wasn't something I thought they'd never do. When the profits of WOW gold Shop interfere in game and enjoyment, I believe that's the surest sign of a game in decline. I keep hoping that a Scroll of Recall will become something that's actually useful. Consumable is fine, but I'd love for the Scroll of Recall to take me back to wherever I was when I "activated" it, rather than just being an additional hearthstone.
You shouldn't be too surprised by WoW's lifespan. Successful MMOs take a long, long time to wind down. In fact, I can only think of one to have shut down: City of Heroes. Ultima Online, Everquest and even Asheron's Call are still going. Most MMOs that do shut down were never successful to begin with. New classes, transmog, a faction-neutral race, both faction and race changes, and flying mounts. Agree with most things on this list. One I haven't seen yet though is the final raid we're getting in this expansion. I mean did anyone really expect a raid in one of our main citys to remove a major faction in order to get more WOW gold? I can't wait to see how it all turns out.
Over the last 4 years I have heard, "Blizzard will never do..." so many times, I know there is really nothing that they "won't do". I guess the one thing would be server merges, because this has meant the death of all other MMO's. I don't know that I have a list of "things they'll never do", but there were a few things I'd never imagined before they were announced as upcoming features. Transmog stands out in particular. While I'm not a transmog junkie, I'm glad to have the option, and I think it's responsible for the wealth of prior-expansion raids happening on my realm every weekend.
While lines have slowly been drawn though many of the items on the list of Things That Will Never Happen there's still one thing I'm waiting for ... some type of shared character banking. When the news broke about void banks I thought it was my dream come true, but it wasn't. Now Blizz has done all this other "impossible" stuff to get WOW gold and I'm still playing musical mailboxes all the time.
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