Actually I agree with updating old content and landscape to reflect enhanced engine capabilities. I suppose they had to package the expansion in something shiny and new (besides new graphics), but subjectively, I dread buying the game only to be exposed to one blasted apocalyptic region after another. As a potential customer of the MMO, it's a valid worry. However, if you're saying that the game still has a wide enough variety of terrain to compensate for this, then I'll rescind the complaint.Uzique wrote:
i'm not saying you're hating... i'm just saying your (uninformed) opinion is categorically wrong, basically.
there's nothing advantageous or desirable about adding yet another continent of new, fresh, graphically-superior content whilst leaving all of the old content neglected in its 2004-era state. think about it: all of the new customers, return players and fresh re-rolls that your exciting new expansion pack encourages then have to level through the necessary 1-60 content... which is 6 years old. "hey! buy this new £30 expansion pack! great graphics! fantastic engine! amazingly intricate content! we've spent 2 years developing it!"... "oh, but first! go through this 1-60 shitpile with old fashioned graphics, low-polygon gear/mobs/buildings, and none of the later-expansion's functionality and features!". no. just no. i think it was very important, around now (considering blizzard want to extend WoW to lvl100, cataclysm's 85 is a nice point), to fill out all of the old content with, for example, flying-mount functionality and updated graphics.
not to mention the redesign of all the old zones is genius... they look gorgeous.
Almost bought the collector box at Fred Meyer today.
