World of Warcraft: Classic

Most RPG's don't do seasons. Rain, snow, are definitely in the game. Just need to be in the right zone. It's not gonna rain in the Badlands. Snows all the time in Winterspring and Northrend. Night time can be really annoying in the new areas where it can get too dark (but not as obnoxiously dark as The Division 2, even with brightness turned up you can't see shiiiiit at night).

They wouldn't have to completely change art assets to make seasons work. Just a transition between current texture and pull that seasonal texture from the other areas. Might not mesh up perfectly, and implementing it in the current wow code would probably suck balls for developers, but they've been enhancing the engine on nearly every expac so who knows... Water, mists, lightning, fire, smoke, fog, poison... Compare that shit to the textured water surface of vanilla wow and short animated flat texture fires, no lightning, no mist, no smoke, no fog. And trees. Holy shit has the quality of trees ramped up, too. It's so glaring when you fly through darkshore or unguro compared to zandalar.

I really don't understand why they don't refresh old content and out new quests in it. There's so much of the world everyone hasn't spent time in unless they're veterans, and even still, I wouldn't mind tracking assholes down old areas. Like they're doing with Darkshore and Hinterlands, but on a much more expansive scale, as in, fill some old zone with as much content as they out into Broken Shore...as long as it doesn't replace new areas entirely, but if you made an old area look fresh and new, I wouldn't give a fuck if I was doing quests in an area I'd been 100 times before if it looked completely refreshed or changed based on the current world environment/story.

Problem with seasons in wow is that it breaks their environment "motifs"... Imagine it snowing everywhere because it's winter, so every environment except tropical is snowy.... Not the best for leveling, but fuck leveling. It'd be cool if that went into place at max level, and bonus world quests popped up everywhere depending on the season. Rewards could even be generic, or give seasonal based tokens like time walking or some shit.

People who level a bunch of characters gave a shit. New players gave a shit. Also being able to fly in the old world was a huge plus. The problem with revamping was that it was tied entirely to the original 1-60 leveling experience, and had fuck all to do with endgame, which is where 98% of the player base is concentrated. Having zero influence on endgame, other than cosmetic aspect relating to Deathwing (who, on a side note, could have been handled 100x better - no one wants to fight slimes or tentacles when the boss is a fucking huge, lore heavy dragon), meant it was a ton of wasted dev effort if it, just like it was originally, goes mostly deserted because there are no players utilizing the regions...