Pre-expansion expectations

The players that have been with WoW for more than 2 years knows that there usually is an pre-expansion event, such as earthquakes before Cataclysm and zombie invasion before Wrath of the Lich King.

Knowing this and looking forward to the next expansion coming out in just a couple of weeks I started to wonder where it had gone, so I google'd and voila! This time there is no real event, it is a scenario that you have to queue for. Just like random dungeon finder. The effort put in to that Blizzard!

I must say I am extremely disappointed, I was expecting some sort of event, possibly not as big as before Wrath, but something atleast, not having to queue up for something that will then be available in level 90 aswell!

A world event is suppose to be a one time thing, never to come again, this will always be there and there is nothing special about it.

I specifically remember the pre-Wrath event, the gear, which was back then amazing with cool undead set bonuses and funky looks. Having got a level 70 rogue, that is still sitting there in gear from that event and weapons from Karazhan makes me nostalgic and hoping that Blizzard will do something special for this expansion, because as I see it now, they do less and less to keep their customers happy and expect us to be happy with whatever they decide to give us.

Unfortunately this seems to be the case, more and more young players come on to the scene and everything being new and shiny they don't know how the game used to be, what the game's soul was like before someone baby-fied it. I had my little brother play the game several years ago, he got his own little blood elf paladin and ran around killing wyrms and ghosts, never dying and not needing my help apart from with the english words. He was 8 back then. If he could do it at 8 in the Wrath expansion I have no doubt that a 7 year old, easily impressed, can handle Cataclysm and most probably MoP.

What to do about it? Only ones that can fix this is Blizzard, and we all know they are not going to limit their customerbase by making it a little bit more like BC, with keys and attunements. We all miss it, but we just have to accept the fact that we will never get it back.