How does a deserted Shattrah make you feel?

#0 - Jan. 15, 2010, 10:05 a.m.

Hey guys.

I was leveling my troll today, and at vl 60 I flew to Shattrah city.
I must confess that I am one of the people, who took tbc kinda for granted, and after the release of wotlk I am starting to miss tbc.

It gave me a unpleasant and sad feeling to stand in a completely deserted Shattrah. A city that was known in tbc as one of the most lagging places in wow, because of the amount of players who were there.

I am kinda curious to know, if you (like me) also miss tbc, or loved that particular expansion.
How does it make you feel to stand in a empty Shattrah today? If you even think about it.

Wryxian

#15 - Jan. 15, 2010, 10:30 a.m.

I think it's a bit like returning to a house you lived in years ago that's now empty -- perhaps a childhood home. It still has the same structure and layout, and maybe even the same furniture. You see places you remember passing, or places where you used to just hang around at. But the only life that's there now is completely in your mind. And in your mind, the events of the past overlay these old familiar places with memories that seem to haunt you like ghosts. It looks the same as it ever did, but you have changed, and you and those who used to spend time there are now doing something else, somewhere else instead.

Wryxian

#49 - Jan. 15, 2010, 3:13 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Personally I think the way Blizzard have abandoned the old cities is a crying shame and it just means that Daralan is lagged to death (like Shattrath was before) and the old cities are empty relics of a bygone age. I am sure if they put a portal room in each city similar to the one in Daralan - more people would set their HS to somewhere else just to be free of the lag and some might get to like the quiet reverence of Darnasus or the quirky-where-the-hell-is-that-trainer-ness of Exodar...

Then you might like what's coming in Cataclysm, because unlike our first two expansions we won't be adding another new Sanctuary city. Instead we'll be placing the emphasis back on the faction capitals, since we are wanting in general to focus more on the Alliance, Horde and the friction between the two.